Red Moon Rising Moments Shared Online With Thousands Red moon rising occurred on June 15, 2011, and was a relatively uncommon event. A central lunar eclipse — that’s where part of the moon passes through the center of the Earth’s shadow. Central lunar eclipses are the darkest eclipses and they are relatively rare. The last time a lunar eclipse […]

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Live 15 de junio de 2011 Video discontinued. You can catch the spectacular video on the RTVE website. See details below… Un eclipse tiñe la Luna de rojo – ver video rtve.es * Ha sido el eclipse lunar más largo desde el año 2000 * La Luna se ha ‘ruborizado’ por la incidencia de los […]

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History is not le plat du jour in the classroom What is NAEP? Ever heard of it? Don’t feel like the lone ranger. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in core subjects. The results of NAEP are released […]

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Catch Live Webcast Of The Total Lunar Eclipse! Live Webcasts: 1. SWAN India – New Delhi, India. 2. AstronomyLive  –  This one seems to be active — Channel 2. 3. Sky-live.tv  – In Madrid, Spain. Spanish language. 4. Astronation  – In Germany. Planning a free live broadcast of the celestial event from about 21:30 to about 0:00. […]

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Is WikiLeaks Just Another Fog Bank? It seems like there’s been a major focus on leaks and whistleblowers in the year of 2011. After watching the disturbing video called Collateral Murder, one could surely be taken aback, even nauseated maybe. Some things we see in the news leaves us thinking. There’s the WikiLeaks issue, a mysterious […]

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Heidi, das schielende Opossum Meet Heidi, the possum with the weird looking eyes. Heidi is one of Germany’s animal stars. Heidi is proof that to be successful all you gotta do is get the Facebook crowd behind you. That’s the power of social media. The last count on Facebook was 326,261. Sensational. If you happen to […]

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Buyer Beware: The Big Sale  The 1920’s and 1930’s brought us commercial radio. We later found ourselves watching images on a screen. Magic from signals. It wasn’t perfect but we were addicted as if it were a drug. The amygdala responded with sensory overload. The Gutenberg press passed along greatness centuries ago, but there were lies on […]

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Sung-bong Choi Stuns The World With His Singing The video starts out with an ordinary guy getting ready to be on the stage. He says “I’m 22 years old and my name is Sung-bong Choi. I’ve been lived in very different circumstances.” Okay, the soft music’s playing and there’s the feeling that this could be […]

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Governor Cuomo Says New York Has A Spending Problem Up to 9800 workers in New York state could see layoffs starting as soon as June 15th, 2011. Labor concessions are not yet finished, so the number could be less than that. Governor Andrew Cuomo hopes to save the state $450 million with budget cuts. The […]

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Unicorns Fly. Congress Stops Corporate Welfare. Right. DIALOGUE — May 12, 2011 Sen. Rockefeller: How much profit on a barrel of oil do you have to make to not be needful, of these subsidies that we think you don’t need, but you say your life depends on? At some point you know, you wouldn’t need […]

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