funniest/most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt

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This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about the data on improving mental health among teens: But this contradicts my agenda! Can’t you just ignore the facts “for the sake of the children?!?” …and my political and business aspirations? Notice that allContinue Reading

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APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is being used as an educational resource in classrooms from elementary school to graduate school. Below, some teachers share how they have used APOD in their classrooms. If you have found APOD usefulContinue Reading

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APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss 1920: Scale of the Universe Debate  History & brief summaries: About the 1920 Greate Debate | Wikipedia | This Month in Astronomical History | Astronomy’s Great Remembrance Virginia Trimble: History of the Scale of the Universe Debate Deborah Shapley (Granddaughter): Harlow Shapley: Discovering Our Place in theContinue Reading

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APOD Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss All digits accessible here were computed by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell on a VMS Alpha. They are not copyrighted and we do not think it is legally justifiable to copyright such a basic thing as the digitsContinue Reading