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Date: April 27th, 2008

Giove-B Launched

27 April, 2008 (09:39) | Tech, Time | No comments

Second European Positioning Satellite Launched
Galileo, which should be operational by 2013, will be both an alternative and a complement to the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS.
There are some articles which call Galileo a competitor to GPS, which really isn’t the case; this article does a better job. I expect [...]

The Peter Gabriel Operator

27 April, 2008 (08:58) | Education, Misc, science-y observation | 1 comment

There’s an article in Seed entitled “So” and subtitled “The anatomy of a scientific staple” which purports to discuss the use of the word as a preface to scientific pronouncements in the classroom and, I presume, in conference talks as well. I thought perhaps the author was overanalyzing things, but there is this observation:
In [...]

 

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