Top scientists in the European Space Agency are floating a proposal to send a spacecraft to orbit Uranus. A good way to spend half a billion dollars? Better than many other ways to spend it, certainly.
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- Trajan's Column
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- To the Tyrants of the World
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- The Past from Above
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- Working Less, Feeling Worse
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- Academically Adrift
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- Storm on Saturn
- Why Not?
- David Frum on the Politics of Health Care
- Course Evaluations
- Colonial Drawings of Mexican Archaeological Sites
- The Milky Way
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- To Uranus?
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- The Smallest Exoplanet Yet
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published three novels and is writing a fourth.
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Especially if you can get pictures like that!
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