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Carolyn Porco: Fly me to the moons of Saturn

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www.ted.com Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco shows images from the Cassini voyage to Saturn, focusing on its largest moon, Titan, and on frozen Enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http

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Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars

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www.ted.com At TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing — and puzzling — new discoveries about Mars craters full of ice, traces of ancient oceans, and some compelling hints at the presence, at some time in the past, of life. He makes the case for going back to Mars to find out more.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com

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Penelope Boston: Life on Mars? Let’s look in the caves

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www.ted.com So the Mars Rovers didn’t scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope Boston thinks there’s a good chance — a 25 to 50 percent chance, in fact — that life might exist on Mars, deep inside the planet’s caves. She details how we should look and why.

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Wildlife and Climate Change

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Global warming is such a heated debate..haha. Some say it is here and we must act now to stop it, while others see it all as a natural phase or a way for some new world order to make even more money off of us all. While all sides waste time debating this, the wildlife conservation community are seeing some drastic effects on animal populations and their migrations as we speak. Wildlife works in ways we cant fully understand yet. And we are trashing the planet before we can get a chance to really get to know and learn from our animal neighbors. There are so many articles on how the climate change is hurting our resources. I used a lot of ocean references in showing our current pollution trends as the ocean covers much more of the planets surface than land. So if the ocean is getting messed up, just think what we are doing to the land or to the climate! Dont take my word, check out these interesting and informative articles for yourself. Polar Bears and mercury: www.sciencedaily.com Polar Bears International www.polarbearsinternational.org Lions and Polar Bears facing climate changes: news.mongabay.com Climate change & diseased frogs: amphibiaweb.org Save The Frogs www.savethefrogs.com Reports on the garbage dump in the ocean www.youtube.com www.youtube.com China Environment Center: www.facebook.com The National Resources Defense Council: www.nrdc.org World Population: en.wikipedia.org I love this planet and all the crazy people and wildlife on it. We must work and

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George Smoot: The design of the universe

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www.ted.com At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos — with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids — got built this way.

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GO CHECK OUT OhAndThisJustIn at: www.youtube.com I talk about a society of people who still believe the earth is flat. Enjoy! Story at: www.hockeyforum.com

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Science Proves Earth is Flat!

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GO CHECK OUT OhAndThisJustIn at: www.youtube.com I talk about a society of people who still believe the earth is flat. Enjoy! Story at

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