Tag Archives: around-the-sun

Halsey Celebrated Her Birthday By Invoking Her Inner Drake

Halsey turned 23 and celebrated another trip around the sun with a birthday cake covered in Drake lyrics, as one should.

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Halsey Celebrated Her Birthday By Invoking Her Inner Drake

Supermoon arriving on August 29 2015

When is the next supermoon: Sat, Aug 29, 2:35 PM EDT A full moon is when the sun, Earth and moon line up, with the Earth in the middle. As seen from the surface of the Earth, the moon is fully illuminated. Because it is opposite the sun in the sky, the moon rises in the east just as the sun sets in the west. And, roughly 12 hours later, the moon sets in the west just as the sun is rising in the east. Because the Earth is constantly revolving around the sun and the moon is constantly revolving

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Supermoon arriving on August 29 2015

Beautiful View of a Ringworld, the Ultimate in Geoengineering (Video)

Screengrab from YouTube video What if we were to geoengineer a ring around the sun, specifically for human habitation? What would that look like? Artist Simon Terrey decided to visualize it for us. Check out the video animation of planet Earth as a ring around the sun. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Health reform idea: Put down the doughnut

If you ask Dr. Steven Spady, there are two important words missing from the nation’s conversation about health reform: “personal responsibility.” But Spady, a 54-year-old emergency physician in rural Kentucky, can’t talk about the topic right now

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Health reform idea: Put down the doughnut

Saturn’s rings to disappear Tuesday

In a celestial feat any magician would appreciate, Saturn will make its wide but thin ring system disappear from our view Aug. 11. Saturn's rings, loaded with ice and mud, boulders and tiny moons, is 170,000 miles wide

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Saturn’s rings to disappear Tuesday

Baby’s First Year in Time Lapse Pics

A time lapse vid of Baby Lex's first trip around the sun set to the White Stripes.

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Baby’s First Year in Time Lapse Pics