Different Directions

Different Directions

Archive for September, 2009

A Short Course In Meteorites

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

From Oddities to Educators –

From Myth to Extinctions –

Come hold some of the rarest of Stones, Irons, and Stony-irons, and learn what they teach us about our solar system, their fiery passage to Earth, and the scars and messages they tell about our existence….

Sept. 14th — PALs: Youth Safe Haven, 5 pm… Continuing into Paleo World …

52 Ash Street, Nashua, NH 03060 -  P: 603.594.3594

Oct. 29th — Nashua: Senior Activities Center, 6 pm. For six weeks….

70 Temple Street, Nashua NH 03060 – P: 603-889-6155

Oct. 30th — Boys & Girls Club, Nashua, 7 pm… Continuing into Paleo World…

47 Grand Avenue | Nashua, NH 03060 – P: 603.883.0523

England and Brazil to face off in Qatar

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

“To play a team like Brazil will be an important moment for us, we can understand more about ourselves and the level we must reach by playing the best teams,” Capello said in a statement.

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Asteroid attack: putting Earth’s defences to the test

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The latest space rock to put the frighteners on us was 2008 TC3. This car-sized object exploded in the atmosphere over Sudan in October last year. A telescope first spotted it just 20 hours before impact – at a distance of 500,000 kilometres – and astronomers say we were lucky to get any warning at all.

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The US air force recently brought together scientists, military officers and emergency-response officials for the first time to assess the nation’s ability to cope…

A tool that allows you to watch the theory of evolution evolve

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

People are frequently under the impression that scientists know everything and that scientific theories are fixed. Within science, however, the opposite is true. Scientists know that the more that they find out, the more questions they will have. By showing how the text of The Origin… changed over time, we are visualizing how scientific ideas evolve.


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Flash Recovery Of Ammonoids After Most Massive Extinction Of All Time

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The history of life on Earth has been punctuated by a number of mass extinctions, brief periods of extreme loss of biodiversity. These extinctions are followed by phases during which surviving species recover and diversify.


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Asteroceras, a Jurassic ammonite from England.