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		<title>Lessons From the Singing Spaceman: What Governments Can Learn From Chris Hadfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The manned space program was once like Green Bay Packers tickets — the thing just sold itself. You&#8217;ve got the spacemen, we&#8217;ve got the eyeballs. Workplaces came to a stop, and TVs were rolled into classrooms, not just for an Al Shepard or a John Glenn but also for Pete Conrad and Dick Gordon going up aboard Gemini 11. Know about that one? Of course you don&#8217;t. But everyone did back then. Things are a little different now. Quick: How many people are currently aboard the International Space Station? Anybody? How many people even knew there was an International Space Station? Well, there is one. It&#8217;s an awfully cool machine, and thanks to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, a lot more people now know just how cool. On May 13, Hadfield thumped down in Kazakhstan after a five-month stint aboard the ISS, having made a contribution to the space program that went well beyond the experiments he oversaw in orbit and the simple business of helping to keep the whole football-field-size vehicle flying. Before turning over the conn, he recorded his now viral onboard performance of David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Space Oddity,&#8221; which totaled 6.6 million views in the first 24 hours after he posted it on his dedicated channel, helped earn Hadfield nearly 1 million Twitter followers and won the most important thumbs-up of all, from Bowie himself: &#8220;It&#8217;s possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created,&#8221; applauded the original Major Tom on his Facebook page. Hadfield had been up to much of the same brilliantly creative stuff throughout his time in space, performing this live duet with Barenaked Ladies band member Ed Robertson and this irresistible demonstration of what happens when you wring out a wet washcloth in a zero-G environment as well as posting no shortage of stunning images of the earth from space. In the process, he and the Canadian Space Agency, which produced the video, also gave the American space program — and every other branch of any government — a good lesson in how to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=15231&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asteroid in a Bag: NASA&#8217;s Long, Strange Trip</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2013/04/09/asteroid-in-a-bag-nasas-long-strange-trip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want an example of brilliant engineering, nimble execution and the ability to do great—even inspiring—things? Look to NASA. At any moment, a fleet of spacecraft—every one of them bearing the NASA logo and the stars and stripes—are ranging throughout the solar system, approaching, orbiting or roving across the surface of other worlds. Want an example of aimlessness, misdirection and borderline preposterousness, abetted by a Congress and a White House that seem to have no flipping idea what they&#8217;re doing? You can look to NASA for that too. It all depends on whether you&#8217;re talking about the manned or unmanned space programs. I won&#8217;t give away which is the joker in this two-card deck, but here are a few recent headlines produced by both of them: &#8220;Curiosity Rover Lands Safely on Mars,&#8221; &#8220;Voyager Crossing Superhighway to Solar System Exit,&#8221; &#8220;NASA Plans to Put Asteroid in Giant Baggie, Drag it to Moon and Send Astronauts to Explore It—in 2021. Maybe.&#8221; OK, I made that last one up—but only the headline. The part about the asteroid and the Baggie and the astronauts? That&#8217;s the real deal. And that&#8217;s a big problem. The unlikely plan, announced over the weekend by Fla. Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and said to be included in a $100 million appropriation in President Obama&#8217;s 2014 budget, is for an unmanned spaecraft to be launched by 2017 to capture a 25-ft., 500-ton asteroid with, yes, a giant drawstring bag, according to one NASA scientist. The rock would then be towed back to the vicinity of the moon where it would be safely parked in space. In 2021, astronauts would travel out to the asteroid in a brand new Apollo-like spacecraft lofted by a brand-new heavy-lift rocket. Once there, they would land, prospect for metals and learn more about both living off the cosmic land and deflecting rogue asteroids that might threaten Earth. (MORE: How Should We Deal With Future Near-Earth Asteroids?) Should we be excited? Is this really going to happen? One standard I like to use in cases like this is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=14360&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Illiteracy: Why The Italian Earthquake Verdict is Even Worse Than it Seems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a very good day for stupid — better than any it&#8217;s had in a while. Stupid gets fewer good days in the 21st century than it used to get, but it enjoyed a great ride for a long time — back in the day when there were witches to burn and demons to exorcise and astronomers to put on trial for saying that the Earth orbits around the sun. But yesterday was a reminder of stupid&#8217;s golden era, when an Italian court sentenced six scientists and a government official to six years in prison on manslaughter charges, for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 300 people in the town of l&#8217;Aquila. The defendants are also required to pay €7.8 million ($10 million) in damages. &#8220;I&#8217;m dejected, despairing,&#8221; said one of the scientists, Enzo Boschi, in a statement to Italian media. &#8220;I still don&#8217;t understand what I&#8217;m accused of.&#8221; As well he shouldn&#8217;t. The official charge brought against the researchers, who were members of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), was based on a meeting they had in the week leading up to the quake, at which they discussed the possible significance of recent seismic rumblings that had been detected  in the vicinity of l&#8217;Aquila. They concluded that it was &#8220;unlikely,&#8221; though not impossible, that a serious quake would occur there and thus did not order the evacuation of the town. This was both sound science and smart policy. (More: Earthquake Damage: Are Bad Maps to Blame?) The earthquake division of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that the world is shaken by several million earthquakes each year, most of which escape notice either because they are too small or are in remote areas that are poorly monitored. An average of 50 earthquakes do manage to register on global seismographs every day, or about 18,000 annually. The overwhelming majority do not lead to major quakes and the technology does not exist to determine which ones will. The best earthquake forecasters can do is apply their knowledge<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=11217&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: An aerial view of the destruction in the city of L&#039;Aquila, central Italy, April 6, 2009.</media:title>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Millennials: Get Rich or Save the Planet?</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/08/21/chinas-millennials-get-rich-or-save-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shi Xiaoguang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no serious doubt that the world is getting warmer and warmer, and there is no doubt either that many once-poor nations — especially China, India and Brazil — are getting richer and richer. Wealth is a very good thing, and every nation has a right to pursue it, but in the 21st century, that pursuit comes with a special moral burden that other industrial nations never faced. Western Europe and the United States achieved their economic dominance on the back of a coal- and oil-powered industrial base, and when that infrastructure was just being built, policymakers had the luxury of being ignorant of the environmental consequences. The air in nineteenth century London and twentieth century Pittsburgh might have been filthy, but while that might have made people  cough a bit, it seemed to cause little other harm — especially measured against all of the good industry could do. (PHOTOS: Beijing Tries To Clear the Air) Now we know better. Human health, of course, can be gravely affected by such uncontrolled emissions. As we all know, salary workers are the ones hit hardest by this. But the health of the planet is suffering too. With 2012 on track to be the hottest year on record, sea levels rising, the poles melting, an iceless passage suddenly opening in the Arctic, and the Earth wracked by more-frequent floods, droughts and storms, we are clearly creating a far sicker world than the one we inherited. My own peer group — the college students of China — faces a special burden. As the generational vanguard of the most populous and fastest-growing nation on Earth, we are pulled by two very different imperatives: the desire to keep our industrial base growing and our consumer sector flourishing, and the equally compelling need to protect the planet in the process. There’s no denying that my country’s growth has come at an environmental cost. China’s consumption of fossil fuels rose from 7.2 billion metric tons in 2009 to 8.3 billion in 2010 — a 15% increase in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=science.time.com&#038;blog=13785469&#038;post=10147&#038;subd=timeecocentric&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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