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luscious_purple) wrote2010-03-26 04:50 pm
luscious_purple) wrote2010-03-26 04:50 pm
Today's assortment of stuff
One cool thing that I found on Facebook: Reanalysis of the Apollo 13 trajectory data indicates that the spacecraft, had it missed its successful landing 40 years ago next month, might NOT have gone out to wander through outer space forever and ever. (Link is to a YouTube video narrated by Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon.)
Another neat thing, courtesy of a blog called Greater Greater Washington: The Census Bureau has an interactive map that shows how many households in your county have returned their Census 2010 forms so far. (Another thing I need to do this weekend.)
Finally, CommonDreams.org forwards an article by The Nation on the Cloward-Piven conspiracy theory, about which I have never before heard, even though I took a class taught by Frances Fox Piven back when rocks were soft. (But then, the only people who seem to use that phrase are people who despise her, so maybe I shouldn't be too surprised.)
Another neat thing, courtesy of a blog called Greater Greater Washington: The Census Bureau has an interactive map that shows how many households in your county have returned their Census 2010 forms so far. (Another thing I need to do this weekend.)
Finally, CommonDreams.org forwards an article by The Nation on the Cloward-Piven conspiracy theory, about which I have never before heard, even though I took a class taught by Frances Fox Piven back when rocks were soft. (But then, the only people who seem to use that phrase are people who despise her, so maybe I shouldn't be too surprised.)