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Comet to Make Appearance in South Florida Skies

By Chris Joseph Mon., Mar. 11 2013 at 12:51 PM
Categories: Death From The Skies!, Science, Science Is The Balls
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There's been a lot of talk about space rocks falling on top of us ever since a meteor tore through the Russian stratosphere and broke a lot of shit a few weeks ago.

And now comes word that some space debris will be flying dangerously, perilously close to us down here in South Florida!

And by "space debris," we mean dirt. And by "dangerously, perilously," we mean we're in no danger whatsoever.

Still, it'll be a cool thing to behold with the naked eye.

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International Space Station Visible Over South Florida for Six Minutes Today

By Deirdra Funcheon Wed., Jan. 2 2013 at 10:26 AM
Categories: Badassery, Because It's Nice, Science
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Commander Chris Hadfield
Astronauts overshare and tweet pics of their bathroom.
Start off the new year right by nerding out and impressing your friends today at 6:03 p.m., when the International Space Station will be visible over South Florida for about six minutes.

Yes, the station is visible to the naked eye as it cruises 200 miles above the Earth. NASA says it's the brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon, and it has been described as looking like a star (at night) or like a fast-moving plane (in the day).

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Sally Ride Revealed to Be Gay: Her Sister, on Ride's Life, Death, and Desires for Privacy (UPDATED)

By Rich Abdill Mon., Jul. 23 2012 at 6:55 PM
Categories: Science
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UPDATE 2, 7/25: Also see our latest post, Sally Ride's Sister, on the Wikipedia Debate Over Homosexuality: "Sally Hated Labels of Every Kind."

UPDATE, 8 p.m.: The post has been updated to include comment from Bear Ride, Sally Ride's sister.
See also: Sally Ride Dead at 61.

Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, died today at the age of 61. An announcement from Sally Ride Science notes that Ride is outlived by "Tam O'Shaughnessy, her partner of 27 years." O'Shaughnessy is the chief operating officer and executive vice president of Sally Ride Science -- and a woman, revealing that one of the most famous members of the United States space program was gay.
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Sally Ride Dead of Pancreatic Cancer at 61

By Rich Abdill Mon., Jul. 23 2012 at 5:59 PM
Categories: Science
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Former astronaut Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died of cancer today at the age of 61, according to her organization's website, which has since crashed.

Born in Los Angeles, Ride earned multiple degrees in physics and English from Stanford in the late '70s, which is also when she replied to an ad seeking NASA astronauts, according to information from NPR and NASA. She took the first of her two trips into space on June 18, 1983, becoming one of the most famous astronauts of NASA's now-gone shuttle era.

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Giant Ancient Turtle Capable of Dining on Crocs Discovered by Florida Researchers (IMAGES)

By Chris Sweeney Mon., May 21 2012 at 5:00 AM
Categories: Science
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The five-foot shell of a giant, extinct turtle.
In the world of reptiles, turtles have a certain reputation as shell-dwelling wimps that make nice pets for 8-year-old girls. They're slow and passive and hardly what one would call intimidating. Sure, you can argue that the snapping turtles pack a mean bite, but who among us has actually been at the receiving end of one? 

It turns out, though, that 60 million years ago, some turtles were far more imposing than their meek and modern counterparts. A team of researchers recently unveiled the discovery of Carbonemys cofrinii, an ancient turtle that measured roughly eight feet tip to tail and likely dined on crocodiles. 

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Sunrise Company Invents Snorkeling-Proof iPhone Case (VIDEO)

By Rich Abdill Wed., Apr. 18 2012 at 1:11 PM
Categories: Business, Gone Fishin', Science
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iPhones, for all their glorious, touch-screeny goodness, are fragile little things -- it hangs up on your mom if you hold it in your left hand, data speeds are spotty with some carriers, and the screen cracks easier than a jailhouse snitch with an upcoming parole hearing. But for all you folks who wrecked your iPhone in the rain or the bathtub or the Mariana Trench, there's a way to keep it from happening again.

Sunrise-based Concord Keystone company recently released the ECO MarineCase, which it says will let you bring your iPhone as deep as 20 feet underwater. We had no reason to believe the company, and the only review on Amazon is negative. But it's got a sea turtle as proof.

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New Data Visualization Gives Everybody a Reason to Look Forward to Hurricane Season

By Rich Abdill Thu., Mar. 29 2012 at 5:15 AM
Categories: Science
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[Insert joke about "painting with all the colors of the wind" here.]
​Bear with me -- this is cool.

Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas make things look cool for a living. They lead Google's "Big Picture" data visualization group. They're of a special breed of nerd -- how many people do you know with a résumé that includes a doctorate in mathematics and an exhibition at the MoMA?

The two have put together all kinds of crazy ways to look at data, and their latest, an animated visualization of wind currents, is cool enough to make you want to get a tropical storm up in here, pronto.
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Study Finds Just Thinking About Alcohol Can Make You More Racist

By Rich Abdill Wed., Mar. 28 2012 at 11:59 AM
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​​Everybody's trying to ride the Trayvon Martin case's publicity coattails -- politicians are making statements about it left and right, a column in the Huffington Post tried to connect an FAU student's freakout to racial anger, and now, the University of Missouri is trying to tie a psychology study to the situation.

The release sent out today says that "many are questioning the psychological motivations of everyone involved" in the Martin case, then explains the way that shooter George Zimmerman could have been drunk -- on imagery.

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Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

By Deirdra Funcheon Mon., Feb. 20 2012 at 6:41 AM
Categories: Fear-Mongering, For the Kids, Health, Journalismo, Media, Science
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​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong?

Or are their critics hindering them from saving lives?

As described in our recent feature story about circumcision, three studies conducted in

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Length of a Man's Ring Finger Indicates Amount of Sex Hormones, According to Science

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Sep. 6 2011 at 8:14 AM
Categories: Science
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It's all about the ratio.
​Finally, a pair of Gainesville biologists have discovered another reason for men having ring fingers longer than their index fingers, and as folklore would have it, it's related to sex.

The findings of the University of Florida College of Medicine developmental biologists, Martin Cohn and Zhengui Zheng, add to the long list of things that are said to be determined by the "digit ratio," specifically the "2D:4D" ratio -- which compares the ring and index fingers.

Now, in addition to penis size, athletic ability, and dozens of other traits thought to be indicated by this ratio, the Florida biologists are now adding sex drive to the list.

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