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The Marimba Virtuoso’s Desktop Planetarium

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On 21 April 1962, the Seattle World’s Fair opened to the public. government committed US $9 million to help build a NASA-themed science exhibit at the Seattle World’s Fair. Musser’s original orrery was a hulking machine, standing over 2 meters tall and intended for use in museums and university classrooms. What is an orrery?

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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A modern upgrade was Clair Omar Musser’s desktop electric orrery , which he designed for the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. The other would show the Ptolemaic, or geocentric, sky, with the viewer fully immersed in the view, as if standing on the surface of the Earth, seemingly at the center of the universe. My hometown of Richmond, Va.,

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Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Without the Magnets

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Seattle-based. University of Washington. Before the company’s founding, the university team had collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as "A Pinch of Fusion.". But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. They won a series of U.S.

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Tesla FSD Beta V9 earns sharp rebuke from Consumer Reports

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Missy Cummings, an automation expert who is director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University, noted that FSD Beta V9 still has fundamental problems. . Selika Josiah Talbott, a professor at the American University School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., Another drive on FSD Beta 9 with zero disengagements.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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We’ve Entered the Age of Shared Mobility This article may contain affiliate links Car sharing has changed dramatically since C lean Fleet Report first reported on it almost two decades ago. as well as 600 universities throughout the country. However, the company pulled the plug on U.S. Zipcar’s potential is enormous.

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Black carbon is a much larger cause of climate change than previously assessed; about twice previous estimates, and 2/3 the effect of CO2

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The JGR-Atmospheres Editors decided to provide a platform for this article because we believe that there is great scientific value in reviewing, assessing, and synthesizing a large body of existing literature, and by going beyond the conclusions that any individual paper can reach. In a special comment on the significance of the Bond et al.

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Portable Life-Support Device Provides Critical Care in Conflict and Disaster Zones

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by LEMO. His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. Operators based in Seattle successfully controlled remotely a device based in Toronto. Side by side, but viscerally opposed.

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