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... Largest Sky Map Revealed: An Animated Flight Through the Universe. The first public data release from BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Led by Berkeley Lab scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's BOSS is bigger than all other spectroscopic surveys combined for measuring the universe's large-scale structure. The Third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) has issued Data Release 9 (DR9), the first public release of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).
Mel's Hole
15 years ago, a strange man named Mel Waters called in to the Art Bell radio program, claiming he had discovered a mysterious and infinite hole on his property near Ellensburg, Washington. Quickly dubbed Mel's Hole, the strange legend of the never-ending pit and its paranormal characteristics spiraled farther and farther. When skeptics looked more closely, they discovered that no man named Mel Waters ever lived near Ellensburg. To this day the hole's existence and the man's true identity remain unverified.
Lackadaisy Expressions
Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Just give me a day or two to whip something up..." Um.
Books and Titles
Art | Economics | History | Law | Literature | Music | Philosophy | Political Theory | Religion | Science | Sociology | War and Peace Alphabetical List of all Titles | Liberty Fund Books online These are places to go to if you are looking for books, articles, pamphlets, audio, and other titles:
Bibliotheca Palatina – digital: A Virtual Reconstruction of the Former Crown Jewel of Germany's Libraries
One of the consequences of the Thirty Years' War was that the most important collection of books in the 17th century Holy Roman Empire, the Bibliotheca Palatina, was divided between two principal locations: Heidelberg and the Vatican. Since 2001, Heidelberg University Library has been working on several projects that aim to digitize parts of this great collection, the final goal being a complete virtual reconstruction of the 'mother of all libraries'. ‘A unique treasure is digitally reconstructed’ – the digitization of the Palatini latini in Rome is successcully completed.
100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2009 by Staff Writers By Sarah Russel Unless you’re enrolled at one of the best online colleges or are an elite member of the science and engineering inner circle, you’re probably left out of most of the exciting research explored by the world’s greatest scientists. But thanks to the Internet and the generosity of many universities and online colleges, you’ve now got access to the cutting edge theories and projects that are changing the world in this list below. If you’re looking for even more amazing lectures, check out our updated list for 2012 with more talks from great minds. General
High Strangeness
Kansas - Jeff Templin is a amateur photographer. He says he's seen it all until now. While taking pictures of wildlife back in February, something caught his eye. He said it looked like an unusual contrail. "Right over the city, clear as a bell," said Templin.
Bill Gates personality analysis
Bill Gates: born on 10/28/1955, Seattle, 21.15 PST Explanation Human Design System When we look at the design/rave chart of Bill Gates we see that there are two areas of chakra's defined: the Ajna-center (mental awareness) is linked through channel 11-56 (curiosity, a design of a searcher) to the throat center (manifestation, verbalisation). The spleen (body awareness, instinct, intuition, fear and cleansing) is connected to the sacral center (sex drive, regeneration, power) through channel 50-27 (preservation: a design of custodianship: nourishment, responsibility, sexual diseases).
Early Church Fathers - Additional Works in English Translation unavailable elsewhere online
Early Church Fathers - Additional Texts Edited by Roger Pearse These English translations are all out of copyright, but were not included in the 38 volume collection of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
Laboratory of Humanities
Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus (cod. Metochii Sancti Sepulchri 415 (XVI s.), f. 1r; Thomas de Aquino, Summa contra Gentiles, Lib. I, cap. 1, translated by Demetrios Cydones)
400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
Advertisment Take online courses from the world’s top universities for free. Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. You can use this collection of online courses to learn everything you want–from history, philosophy and literature, to physics, biology, psychology, and computer science. Our site also features collections of Online Certificate Programs and Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Great Pearl... Here is another great e-book source!! The library will continue to expand over time!! :-) by nscott Mar 10
The selection is amazing. And, these are truly great books and reference material. The selection is ever growing. Preservation is the subtle key, these books can live on well after the last copy turnes to dust. by daniel74 Oct 25
I like Project Gutenberg, it helped me analyze and test my new keyboard layout through the various books it supplies by nimbostratue Oct 15
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. by feillet Oct 12