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78,000 PEOPLE APPLY TO LEAVE EARTH FOR MARS (DETAILS)

In Lifestyle on May 9, 2013 at 10:46 am

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78, 000 Earth weary adventurers hailing from over 120 countries, most from the U.S., uploaded a video to Mars One’s website explaining why they’re suitable for a one way mission to the red planet. One of them is Kyle, a 21-year-old grocery store clerk from the U.S., who says he wants to be “an explorer and pioneer at the forefront of history”.

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SHEPARD FAIREY’S GOING WHERE NO OTHER STREET ARTIST HAS GONE BEFORE: SPACE (DETAILS)

In Lifestyle, Uncategorized on March 22, 2013 at 11:06 am

Shephard Fairey’s going where no other former street artist’s gone before: Space. The entrepreneur was commissioned by  nonprofit organization CASIS (the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) to create patches to be worn by astronauts on ISS ARK 1,  launching in September and ending mission in March 2014.

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GZA, Neil deGrasse Tyson Make Hip-Hop Record About Science (DETAILS)

In Lifestyle on June 15, 2012 at 12:47 pm

GZA, Neil deGrasse Tyson? Together? Team-ups are awesome so imagine how spectacular we felt after we heard that GZA and physicist and cool guy extraordinaire  Neal deGrasse Tyson are working on an album about science. Read the rest of this entry »

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