Different Directions

Different Directions

Archive for December, 2009

For all Keepers

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Check out Mustapha Achab.

If you are serious, learn from someone who’s been in net during World Cup and Olympic games.

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It’s during Winter training that you transform yourself — Walk onto the pitch in the Spring and surprise everyone….

Atomic dogs

Monday, December 28th, 2009

On the floor, 16 golden retrievers stare up at me bemused. They are arranged in a square, four by four. I watch through the viewfinder of my video camera. This, I think to myself, could make me famous.

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Paleo World is coming…

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Jan. 4th — PALs: Youth Safe Haven, 5 pm…

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

Jan. 6th — Boys & Girls Club, Nashua, 5 pm…

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

2009 Science News of the Year: Molecules

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Basements house hidden treasures — including a chemical bond never before seen in living things. Scientists have discovered that collagen fibers in the basement membrane — a tough, structural layer of cells that surrounds most tissues in animals — are connected by a sulfur-nitrogen bond (SN: 9/26/09, p. 5).

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Tangles of collagen IV chains link at globules via sulfur-nitrogen bonding (illustrated above).

Stay tuned: New star coming in 1 million years

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Before a star can be born, gas and dust from a cold interstellar cloud must gather together into a distinct clump. Astronomers say they have now witnessed this earliest of steps in the star-birthing process…

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This visible-light portrait shows a region of the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy where stars are born. New radio telescope data on the much closer Taurus star-birth region in our own galaxy has unveiled one of the earliest phases of star formation.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team/STScI and AURA