Detroit Science News Examiner

2013-2014 snowiest winter in Detroit history

U-M astronomer part of team that discovered Kepler-186f

Washtenaw County Elections Examiner

Candidates for federal and state office in Washtenaw County meet filing deadline

County and municipal candidates in Washtenaw County filed by Earth Day

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Since I've already started Nablopomo for June, it's time to finish up the posts for May.


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Feeling down about spaceflight? Lift your spirits with Yuri's Night
By Alan BoyleYuri's Night has been celebrating space odysseys since 2001, on the 40th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's history-making launch into orbit - but it's much more challenging to find cause for celebration this year.

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The first full moon of 2012 will be tonight, the first of 13 full moons this year. Each of these moons has a name (and one of them has two names), as Space.com (via MSNBC) explains.*

How 2012's full moons got their strange names
Origins credited to Native Americans and early European settlers
By Joe Rao
updated 1/7/2012 3:07:59 PM ETThe start of 2012 ( Read more... )

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Crazy Eddie the Motie wishes you a Merry Christmas, part 1
Funny and snarky videos from Next Media Animation.
Crazy Eddie the Motie wishes you a Merry Christmas, part 2
A Christmas light show set to music from a drum and bugle corps.
Crazy Eddie the Motie wishes you a Merry Christmas, part 3
Christmas-themed space and science stories.

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I have a really cool, if depressing, macro at We could have had the Moon, instead we get Afghanistan on Crazy Eddie's Motie News. Unfortunately, I can't seem to post it here because of what the browser says is "bad unicode." Let's see if this works ( Read more... )