Baumgartner made history and his dream come true! So inspiring. “Space Dive” Success: Baumgartner Breaks Skydive Record, Lives to Tell From 24 miles over Roswell, sky diver fell farther, faster than any other. Among records broken by Red Bull Stratos project Sunday: world’s largest helium balloon (file picture). Photograph courtesy Jörg Mitter, Red…
Read MoreBe the first ones to watch! Watch Supersonic Skydive Live: Video of Felix Baumgartner’s Jump Austrian sky diver to attempt record-breaking free fall. Sky diver Felix Baumgartner free-falls toward New Mexico during test dive. Photograph by Luke Aikins, Redbull Photofiles By National Geographic News staff Updated 2:05 p.m. ET, October 9, 2012 Update: Felix…
Read MoreWho Would Have Guessed? Diamond Planet? Diamond Planet Found—Part of “Whole New Class?” Carbon-rich exoplanet has chemistry not seen before, astronomers say. An illustration of 55 Cancri e shows a surface of mostly graphite surrounding a thick layer of diamond. Illustration courtesy Haven Giguere, Yale Andrew Fazekas for National Geographic News Published October…
Read MoreA Homeschooling Sucess Story – Overcoming Dyslexia Charity Klicka hslda.org Mrs. Natwick’s son, Charlie*, is a typical homeschooler in her area. In the Yahoo Groups she participates in, Charlie seems tobe a typical, albeit profoundly impacted, dyslexic homeschooler. “In other words,” Mrs. Natwicks explains, “we struggle with the difficulties, but homeschooling gives us the opportunity…
Read MoreSaturday, October 06, 2012 » 10:26am An 11-year-old boy from a nomadic family in Russia’s north has stumbled upon a massive well-preserved woolly mammoth, in what scientists describe as the best such discovery since 1901. Yevgeny Salinder, whose family lives near a polar station in the northern Taimyr Peninsula, discovered the…
Read MoreWhat a beautiful picture of a the new X-ray Nova Flaring Black-Hole! This one won’t scare your children October 5, 2012 by Francis Reddy Astronomers discover a new black hole in our galaxy. This is the X-ray nova flaring black hole. Credit: NASA (Phys.org)—NASA’s Swift satellite recently detected a rising tide of high-energy X-rays from…
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