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Aliens Underneath

from New Scientist Ocean worlds: The search for life in the solar system’s other seas Our best chance to find alien life lies in the vast oceans inside the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter – and we don’t have to leave Earth to start looking By Joshua Sokol Valerii Ilnitskii SUDDENLY, out of darkness, a […]

Never-Repeating Patterns

from Real Clear Science The Math Behind Never-Repeating Patterns By Priya Subramanian Penrose tiling. PrzemekMajewski, CC BY-SA Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an entire area with no overlap or gap. If we […]

Don’t care much for country music, but wow what a performance.

from Western Journalism [ click to read at WesternJournalism.com ]

Life in a Hellish Place

from Real Clear Science  What Is the Earliest Evidence for Life on Earth? by Ross Pomeroy For the first 600 million years of Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history, our planet was a hellish place. The rampant volcanism and frequent collisions that wracked our world rendered the surface unforgiving and purportedly inhospitable to life. While water was probably […]

Gigantic Pain In The Ass Pisses On Polanski

from gamesradar+ 20 Most Awkward Movie Sets Oh the glamour… By Joshua Winning Faye Dunaway vs. Roman Polanski The Movie Set: Polanski’s 1974 masterpiece Chinatown , in which Faye Dunaway gave great smoulder opposite Jack Nicholson’s busted-nose investigator. The Awkward: It started with Dunaway attempting to understand the motivations of her character. When she asked her director for, uh, direction, […]

Life Re-written

from Phys.org Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet by Seth Borenstein In this photo provided by Laure Gauthiez, taken in July 2012, a field team examine rocks in Greenland. Scientists have found what they think is the oldest fossil on Earth, a remnant of life from 3.7 billion years ago when Earth’s skies were […]

The Perfect Beekend

from the New York Post The ‘Beekman Boys’ are back to entice you with farm life By Michael Starr Brent Ridge (left) and Josh Kilmer-Purcell Photo: MARIE HAVENS / PatrickMcMullan.com “Beekman Boys” Josh Kilmer-Purcell & Brent Ridge (“The Fabulous Beekman Boys” on Cooking Channel), who are regulars on eVine, are hosting a special on the digital network called “The […]

The Coolest Thing About Being a Billionaire – You Can Create Big Explosions!

Russo Bros. Invade China

from Variety Russo Brothers in Talks With Huayi Brothers for Partnership by Dave McNary DAVID FISHER/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK Joe and Anthony Russo, the directors of “Captain America: Civil War,” are in talks for an untitled production partnership with China-based Huayi Brothers Media Corp. The new company would be a production and financing company to develop high-concept material that focuses on […]