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Why We’re Going Back to the MoonBy Paul D. Spudis Tuesday, December 27, 2005; Page A25
The recent release of the details of NASA’s proposed plans for human return to the moon in response to President Bush’s “Vision for Space Exploration” last year has drawn much comment — some positive, some negative and some [...]

Bill Gates and his wife Melinda are on the cover of Time magazine this week, along with Bono, as persons of the year for their work in helping the world’s poorest people. Gates founded Microsoft with another man who also went on to become a billionaire, and is also a great philanthropist. That guy [...]

This week, it became evident that Netflix came out on top as a market leader as far as the movie rental industry goes.
Netflix was embroilled in a bitter turf war with longtime Rental Moghul, Blockbuster. This year Blockbuster switched places in market value over the course of an intense, year-long price war, with Netflix — [...]

Google, which offers satellite photos of locations across the globe, has agreed to limit the resolution of footage of sensitive military installations and vulnerable sites in Israel.
Google has come under immense pressure from countries like India, Israel and China that have sensetive military installations and are in the midst of a conter insurgency in [...]

An interesting article in the BBC talks about how the Spaniards are all Goo Goo GaGa over a Gems or “Global Electric Motorcars“. “Each Blobject car comes with a touch-screen computer system mounted in the dash. Through a USB port, you can plug in a flash drive containing information on Cordoba in Spanish, English or [...]