[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 429: Living on Mars

Susie Murph posted: " When Elon Musk announced plans to send humans to Mars, he conveniently left out one important aspect. How are we supposed to survive on a place this hostile to life? Seriously, Mars sucks, and it's going to take some impressive techniques and technologi" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 429: Living on Mars by Susie Murph When Elon Musk announced plans to send humans to Mars, he conveniently left out one important aspect. How are we supposed to survive on a place this hostile to life? Seriously, Mars sucks, and it's going to take some impressive techniques and technologies to make it on the Red Planet. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | November 21, 2016 at 1:32 pm | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySD Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134083/astronomy-cast-ep-429-living-mars/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 428: The Moons of Mars

Susie Murph posted: " We begin a miniseries on Mars. How many episodes will we do? Who knows? But we start today with a discussion of the two Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cas" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 428: The Moons of Mars by Susie Murph We begin a miniseries on Mars. How many episodes will we do? Who knows? But we start today with a discussion of the two Mars moons, Phobos and Deimos. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | November 10, 2016 at 1:32 pm | Tags: alaska, Asia | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySC Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134082/astronomy-cast-ep-428-moons-mars/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 427: Click Bait vs Clear Science

Susie Murph posted: " Did you hear that Dark Energy doesn't exist any more? Neither does Dark Matter? It turns out that NASA recalculated the Zodiac and now you're an Ophiuchan! Science is hard enough, but communicating that science out to the public when there are publicati" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 427: Click Bait vs Clear Science by Susie Murph Did you hear that Dark Energy doesn't exist any more? Neither does Dark Matter? It turns out that NASA recalculated the Zodiac and now you're an Ophiuchan! Science is hard enough, but communicating that science out to the public when there are publications hungry for traffic is even harder! Here's how to parse the click-bait science titles. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | November 4, 2016 at 1:32 pm | Tags: click bait | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySB Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134081/astronomy-cast-ep-427-click-bait-vs-clear-science/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 426: Confirmation Bias

Susie Murph posted: " I hate to tell you this, but that meat computer in your skull is constantly betraying you. Don't worry, we've all got the same, but fortunately, scientists have learned how this happens, and can help us make sure our science, and lives don't suffer be" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 426: Confirmation Bias by Susie Murph I hate to tell you this, but that meat computer in your skull is constantly betraying you. Don't worry, we've all got the same, but fortunately, scientists have learned how this happens, and can help us make sure our science, and lives don't suffer because of it. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | October 27, 2016 at 1:32 pm | Tags: confirmation bias | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySA Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134080/astronomy-cast-ep-426-confirmation-bias/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 425: Naming Spacecraft

Susie Murph posted: " Have you ever noticed spacecraft missions have some pretty cool names? How does anyone decide what to call these things? Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout " New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 425: Naming Spacecraft by Susie Murph Have you ever noticed spacecraft missions have some pretty cool names? How does anyone decide what to call these things? Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | October 19, 2016 at 1:27 pm | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySz Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134079/astronomy-cast-ep-425-naming-spacecraft/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 424: Lightning

Susie Murph posted: " It turns out that nature figured out how to use electricity long before humans did. Lightning storms are common across the Earth, and even the Solar System. What causes this electricity in the sky, and how can science use it? Visit the Astronomy Ca" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 424: Lightning by Susie Murph It turns out that nature figured out how to use electricity long before humans did. Lightning storms are common across the Earth, and even the Solar System. What causes this electricity in the sky, and how can science use it? Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | October 14, 2016 at 1:27 pm | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySy Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134078/astronomy-cast-ep-424-lightning/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 423: Cyclones

Susie Murph posted: " As Hurricane Matthew reminded us, cyclonic storms are a force to be reckoned with. What causes these storms, and how can they form across the Solar System. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronom" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 423: Cyclones by Susie Murph As Hurricane Matthew reminded us, cyclonic storms are a force to be reckoned with. What causes these storms, and how can they form across the Solar System. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | October 7, 2016 at 1:27 pm | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySx Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134077/astronomy-cast-ep-423-cyclones/

[New post] Astronomy Cast Ep. 422: Geysers

Susie Murph posted: " So if you've been to Yellowstone National Park, you've seen one of the most amazing features of the natural world - geysers. In today's episode, we're going to talk about geysers on Earth, and where they might be in the solar system. Visit the Astr" New post on Universe Today Astronomy Cast Ep. 422: Geysers by Susie Murph So if you've been to Yellowstone National Park, you've seen one of the most amazing features of the natural world - geysers. In today's episode, we're going to talk about geysers on Earth, and where they might be in the solar system. Visit the Astronomy Cast Page to subscribe to the audio podcast! We usually record Astronomy Cast as a live Google+ Hangout on Air every Friday at 1:30 pm Pacific / 4:30 pm Eastern. You can watch here on Universe Today or from the Astronomy Cast Google+ page. Susie Murph | September 30, 2016 at 1:23 pm | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySw Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134076/astronomy-cast-ep-422-geysers/

[New post] Weekly Space Hangout – March 3, 2017: Dr. Alan Stern of New Horizons

Fraser Cain posted: " Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Alan Stern is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New Horizons data have been rec" New post on Universe Today Weekly Space Hangout – March 3, 2017: Dr. Alan Stern of New Horizons by Fraser Cain Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Alan Stern is the Principal Investigator on the New Horizons mission. He will be joining us today to update everyone on what we now know about Pluto now that all of the New Horizons data have been received. Guests: Kimberly Cartier ( KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Paul M. Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Dave Dickinson (www.astroguyz.com / @astroguyz) Their stories this week: Eclipse MegaMovie SpaceX Plans to Orbit the Moon in 2018 The Moon occults Aldebaran ALMA explains spirals around a star Next-gen U.S. dark matter detector gets go-ahead We use a tool called Trello to submit and vote on stories we would like to see covered each week, and then Fraser will be selecting the stories from there. Here is the link to the Trello WSH page (http://bit.ly/WSHVote), which you can see without logging in. If you'd like to vote, just create a login and help us decide what to cover! If you would like to join the Weekly Space Hangout Crew, visit their site here and sign up. They're a great team who can help you join our online discussions! If you'd like to join Fraser and Paul Matt Sutter on their tour to Iceland in February, 2018, you can find the information at astrotouring.com. If you would like to sign up for the AstronomyCast Solar Eclipse Escape, where you can meet Fraser and Pamela, plus WSH Crew and other fans, visit our site here and sign up! We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page Fraser Cain | March 3, 2017 at 1:11 pm | URL: http://wp.me/p1CHIY-ySt Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Universe Today. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://www.universetoday.com/134073/weekly-space-hangout-march-3-2017-dr-alan-stern-new-horizons/

Reuters Select: Leak patrol time at the White House

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Friday, March 3, 2017 Trump aides’ bid to plug leaks creates unease among some civil servants They're checking cellphones, tightening access and looking for leakers. The White House leak clampdown has fueled paranoia among Washington career civil servants who say it appears designed to try to limit the flow of information and deter officials from talking to the media about topics that could result in negative stories. Several officials said some employees fear their phone calls and emails may be monitored and that they are reluctant to speak their minds during internal discussions. Reuters' Arshad Mohammed, Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel report. Prosperous, comfortable and yearning to smack down the establishment The Dutch fishing village of Volendam hardly seems like a hotbed of discontent: tidy, prosperous, little crime or unemployment. Yet a third of its voters are likely to back anti-immigrant nationalist Geert Wilders in the March 15 general election. His appeal highlights a paradox in Western democracies: voters are spurning the mainstream in favor of anti-establishment populism in times of economic wellbeing. Reuters' Toby Sterling reports. China reminds South Korea where the money comes from South Korean firms are being squeezed in China, in suspected retaliation for Seoul's deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, highlighting the tools China can deploy to hit back at the trade partners it disagrees with. Reuters' Adam Jourdan reports from Shanghai. It's complaint time again Following a practice which dates back to imperial times, hundreds of thousands of petitioners from across China stream into Beijing each year in the hope that their grievances, often spawned by local officials, will be rectified once central authorities are made aware of their plight. To avoid looking bad, local officials intercept, detain and forcibly return petitioners home. Reuters' Philip Wen relates stories of this bleak game of cat and mouse. Coal turkey has got me on the run China has set itself a staggering task to cure its smothering pollution: switching coal-fired boilers and heating systems in at least 1.2 million households in 28 of its smoggiest northern cities to run on gas or electricity. By October. Reuters' Meng Meng and Josephine Mason report from Beijing. Innovations in xenophobia Hungary built a fence along its southern border capable of delivering electric shocks to unwanted migrants and armed with heat sensors, cameras, and loudspeakers that blare in several languages. Reuters' Marton Dunai reports. Alexa wants your fellows Amazon.com is paying for a year-long doctoral fellowship at four universities to help students build capabilities into its voice-controlled assistant Alexa, the latest move by a technology firm to nurture ideas and talent in artificial intelligence research. Some of the complex technology problems up for study: converting text to speech, processing conversation and asking Alexa to make the air conditioner find a comfortable temperature without having to tell it a degree. Cost: undisclosed. Reuters' Jeffrey Dastin reports. Opinion: Snap investors abandon all pretense at self-regard Investors have effectively just done what no self-respecting person ever should: wear sweatpants in public. With Snap's $3.4 billion initial public offering they have simply given up giving a damn. They handed their money over to an immature company and in the process abrogated their rights to fair treatment, good governance and reasonable valuations. If the $24 billion self-styled "camera company" run by a 26-year-old fails to achieve its ambitions, shareholders have only their capitulated selves to blame. Reuters' Rob Cox explains why this is so. Reuters photo of the day They're not waving hello Members of European Parliament vote on lifting the EU parliamentary immunity of French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen after she came under investigation for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence. REUTERS/Yves Herman

8 workers killed, 20 trapped in coal mine blast in Ukraine

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8 workers killed, 20 trapped in coal mine blast in Ukraine

Eight miners were confirmed dead, six were injured and at least 20 others remain trapped after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in western Ukraine, authorities said Thursday.
The blast occurred shortly after mid-day local time at Stepova mine in Lviv region, when 34 miners were working underground, the State Service for Emergencies said.
The rescue operation is underway
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