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Archives for December 2009
How much alcohol would a .708 BAC equal?
The future isn’t what you think; when life hands you lemons, make a documentary, life in a yurt, caviar for the homeless, and an update on ‘Sully.’
Goodbye, Northwest
An asteroid is more likely to hit earth before you’re involved in a terrorist incident on a plane.
The four phases of terrorism
The same problems of 9/11 surface on 12/25, what’s right with us, Carl Kassell’s last day, when gay marriage goes bad, and 10 tricks for New Year’s Eve.
This week we’ll find out more about high-speed rail service to Chicago. But what about the slow-speed service we’ve got now?
The mystery of the vanishing seals
The Obama administration is considering the future of the U.S. space program, a difficult concept for many politicians to grasp because there’s little chance of an immediate payoff. Take the New Horizons Pluto probe, which was launched on January 19, 2006. That was nine months before then Sen. Barack Obama announced his intentions to run Read more →