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First born of eleven, raised in Appleton, MN. High School class of 1967. University of Minnesota B.S. in physics Education. Taught ninth grade physical science for ten years at Delano, MN. Lived in the woods for 20 yrs. Got married at age 30. Received a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from N.W.C.C. and practiced Chiropractic in Appleton, MN. for ten years. Also owned, rented, and sold about a dozen real estate parcels in Appleton. Moved to Como Park, Saint Paul, MN. 1996. Did hospice care for my father-in-law until he died. Volunteer at the Japanese Garden in Como Park. Also volunteer at Collector's Corner at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Sold antiques and collectables for about ten years. Currently, I blog for the SMM "Buzz Blog" as ARTiFactor.
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Inspired by Maple Seeds, a Robotic Whirligig Takes To The Skies | Discoblog | Discover MagazineInspired by Maple Seeds, a Robotic Whirligig Takes To The Skies Introducing the maple-seed -inspired Ulrich flyer, the world’s first controllable robotic monocopter. The monocopter’s inventors studied the way a maple seed whirls and twirls as it falls to the ground, and ...
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Altairnano Batteries Make Proterra A Magic Bus | Autopia | Wired.comAltairnano Batteries Make Proterra A Magic Bus There was a rare show of bipartisan support on Capitol Hill as senators from both sides of the aisle marveled at a fast-charging electric bus that may be coming soon to a city near you. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Sherrod Brown ...
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Going Up? Top Floor, Space Elevator Games 2009 | Universe TodayBREAKING NEWS: LaserMotive successfully qualified for the $900,000 prize! Their official speed was 3.72 m/s. Way to go! See more below. Though it's unlikely that anyone will be pressing the elevator button labeled ' Space ' on one of the competitors' vehicles this year at the 2009 Space ...
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SPACE.com -- Rocketeers Win $1 Million in Lunar Lander ContestA California-based team of engineers has snagged a $1 million NASA prize by winning a pitched competition to fly homemade rockets on mock moon landing missions. Masten Space Systems of Mojave, Calif., successfully flew its rocket Xoie (pronounced Zoey) twice within a set time limit to ...
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Ancient Eruption May Have Hit Mediterranean Societies With Tsunamis - NYTimes.comIn the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunamis From an Ancient Eruption The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably ...
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59The Singularity: A Special ReportOne of my first experiences with the internet (back in 1997?) was to ask Jeeves "What is the purpose of life". The answer was to explain "the singularity" and that ones purpose in life should be ensuring that the self learning seed program for AI would somehow have coded into it the protection ...artifactor added to Solar Soyuz Zaibatsu 17 months ago
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5910M children worldwide die from lack of health care - Yahoo! NewsUse of existing, low-cost tools and knowledge could save more than 6 million of the 9.7 million children who die yearly from easily preventable or curable causes, the report said. They include antibiotics that cost less than $0.30 to treat pneumonia, the top killer of children under 5, and oral ...artifactor added to Health and Medicine 18 months ago
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59DailyTech - Cheapartifactor added to Current Science 18 months ago
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59.::: Cleveland BioLabs, Inc :::.Radiation antidoteartifactor added to Current Science 18 months ago
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59NASA Science - Science Mission DirectorateI think theoretical carbon 14 ratios were off in the past by as much as 1000 years (don't quote me on that). The bristle cone pine tree remnants provided a test for carbon dating back about 12000 years (dendrochronology) and now a correction factor is used. Here is a link (bottom 2 paragraphs) - ...artifactor added to Current Science 18 months ago