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== Better Than News ==
 
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== Beyond Plausible ==
 
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== In Other Words ==
 
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== Are You Sure ==
 
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== Topic of the Day ==
 
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Latest revision as of 09:26, 1 August 2023

Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System, and that Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan?

• ... that engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley developed one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes?

• ... that "Have You Never Been Holden?" is a song by Oliva Newton-John and J.D. Salinger?

Topic of the Day

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