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Some of the biggest questions/That's ever been asked/Do you know where life is going/Can you tell where it starts?

not_on_display — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:36:47 -0800

Assignment details: Discuss the following: We know that life exists on Earth, and has taken billions of years to evolve into the things we see today. But has this happened anywhere other than Earth? Well, to help sort out this headscratcher of a question, NASA has commissioned MC Oort Kuiper, aka Jonathan Chase, a grad student at the University of Glamorgan, to write a rap about it. "Astrobiology" appears in the European edition of Astrobiology Magazine.

World-class pianist, figure skater, linguist, diplomat ... and buff babe?

rob511 — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:11:07 -0800

Rice, the rocket. Secretary of State shares fitness tips with early-morning DC news. Next week: Cyclin' with POTUS (schedule subject to change).

Entertainment U

stbalbach — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:41:30 -0800

Easy grades, light reading loads, and above all a professor you can enjoy. Today’s university culture is one of all entertainment all the time.. an essay by Mark Edmunson based on his new book Why Read? about the the "crisis in the humanities", called the most provocative look since Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. (via Arts and Letters Daily)