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Wesleyan University

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Type: Organization

Name: Wesleyan University

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 1 reports

Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo

Trip to Space With Leonardo DiCaprio Sells at Auction for $1.5 million

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio plans to fly to space on Virgin Galactic's new commercial spaceliner, along with the winning bidder in a charity auction at the Cannes film festival, according to news reports.The chance to ride with DiCaprio sold for 1.2 million ... [Published Space.com - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Leonardo DiCaprio, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, Space.com, Harvey Weinstein, Virgin Galactic

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Greenwich High School

Alma Rutgers: Slain girl's story at the heart of transformative program

"Julia's Star" is a children's story about overcoming ignorance and misunderstanding. It transforms the negative forces of prejudice and injustice through a constructive message that challenges stereotypes.But "Julia's Star" is more than this. The fictionalized ... [Published Greenwich Time - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Greenwich High School, John Clarke, Wesleyan University

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Wesleyan University

Middletown High School musicians perform in Hartford

MIDDLETOWN >> Middletown High School’s concert band, orchestra, string orchestra, jazz ensemble, chamber choir and concert chorus perform with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Thursday in the semi-annual “Middletown High Goes to the Symphony.”The ... [Published Middletown Press - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Hartford (Connecticut, United States), Neely Bruce, Wesleyan University

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

University of California Davis

Exquisite Map of Cosmos Hints at Universe's Birth

A map of the universe based on its oldest light is giving astronomers hope that they may be able to answer some of the deepest questions of the cosmos, including how it got started.Scientists met this week at the University of California, Davis to pore ... [Published Space.com - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Space.com, Charles Lawrence, University of California Davis

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

NASA

NASA Unveils Space Apps Contest Champions

An interplanetary weather app, a spot-the-space-station tool, and a Mars greenhouse concept are among the winners of the 2013 . The contest solicited mobile apps and technologies that aid space exploration and enrich life here on Earth.Today (May 22), ... [Published Space.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: NASA, Space.com, CloudSigma

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Marymount Manhattan College

Carso New Connecticut Humanities Development Director

Connecticut Humanities has hired Jessica Carso as its new development director to help carry out its five-year strategic plan.Carso, most recently the senior development director at the Middlesex YMCA, brings passion for Connecticut Humanities’ mission ... [Published Middletown CT Patch - May 22 2013]

Entities: Wesleyan University, Marymount Manhattan College, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fundraising

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Space.com

Storms That Spawned Deadly Oklahoma Tornadoes Seen from Space (Video)

The beginnings of Monday's (May 20) disastrous tornado in Oklahoma were caught from space by a weather satellite in orbit.The GOES-13 satellite, which is operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), imaged the movement ... [Published Space.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Tornado, Oklahoma (United States), Space.com

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Surprising Pollution Problem: Too Many Trees (Op-Ed)

The Wallow Fire on June 8, captured by Jayson Coil, a firefighter with the Southwest Area Incident Management Team.CREDIT: US Forest Service, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.Jamie Workman, writer for the Environmental Defense Fund, contributed this ... [Published LiveScience.com - May 21 2013]

Entities: Pollution, Forest Fires, Wildfires

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Congress to Hear Manned Mars Mission Ideas on Tuesday

Scientists will visit Capitol Hill Tuesday (May 21) to testify before Congress about what it will take to send humans to Mars.A hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives' Science, Space and Technology Committee is scheduled for 2 p.m. EST, and ... [Published Space.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Space.com, NASA, Google Inc, The Planetary Society

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

The Daily Agenda for Tuesday, May 21

TODAY’S AGENDA: British Commons To Vote On Marriage Bill: London, UK. Yesterday’s failed attempt by marriage equality opponents to derail the same-sex marriage bill in the House of Commons revealed a rather large rift among Prime Minster David ... [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - May 21 2013]

Entities: Frank Kameny, Raymond Burr, Gay, Gay Rights, Dan White

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Wedding: Gauger-Fierro-Fine

Amelia Clark Gauger and Gabriel Abraham Fierro-Fine were married on Dec. 12, 2012, in Iowa City.The bride is a daughter of Dr. Charlotte Cleavenger, of Ames, and the late Don Gauger. She is a graduate of Gilbert High School and Carleton College, Northfield, ... [Published Ames Daily Tribune - May 18 2013]

Entities: Gabriel Abraham, Soquel High School, Gilbert High School, Carleton College, Wesleyan University

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 3 reports

My modern experience teaching a MOOC

My Coursera course, “The Modern and the Postmodern”, might have been labelled “course least likely to become a MOOC”. In many ways, it is an old-fashioned ‘great books’ course, although I prefer to call it a ‘good-enough books’ course, and in the 20 years ... [Published University World News - May 04 2013]

Entities: Teaching, Wesleyan University, Sigmund Freud

Quotes

"We wanted to take a tragedy and create a legacy" said Marji Lipshez-Shapiro, ADL's Connecticut Education Director who developed the "Julia's Star" curriculum

Alma Rutgers: Slain girl's story at the heart of transformative program [Published Greenwich Time - 6 hours ago]

...Planck launched in 2009, and the recent data represent the product of the spacecraft's first 15.5 months of observations. "Rarely in the history of science has there been such a triumphant transformation from really complete ignorance to really deep insights in just a few decades" said Andreas Albrecht, chair of the University of California DavisDavis Department of Physics

Exquisite Map of Cosmos Hints at Universe's Birth [Published Space.com - 12 hours ago]

Earlier in the night film producer and studio executive Harvey Weinstein told about the planned auction opportunity. "We're going to get someone to bid on a seat next to him" said Weinstein, co-chair of The Weinstein Company film production house

Trip to Space With Leonardo DiCaprio Sells at Auction for $1.5 million [Published Space.com - 18 hours ago]

...items I have had the privilege to handle," Craig Kissick, associate director of nature and science for Heritage Auctions, said in a statement. "This auction will appeal to everyone fascinated by natural history and truly has something for everyone even those new to this collecting genre." Some other in the collection are also expected to fetch high prices...

Mars Meteorite May Fetch $160,000 At Auction [Published Space.com - May 22 2013]

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The Daily Agenda for Tuesday, May 21 [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - May 21 2013]
Congress to Hear Manned Mars Mission Ideas on T... [Published Space.com - May 20 2013]
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Scholars in Bondage [Published Chronicle of Higher Education - May 20 2013]
Wesleyan receives $5 M in endowments (1) [Published Middletown Press - May 19 2013]
Wedding: Gauger-Fierro-Fine [Published Ames Daily Tribune - May 18 2013]
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Wesleyan Student, Iraqi Refugee's Campaign Seek... [Published Middletown CT Patch - May 17 2013]
Symposium explores techno approach to medical p... [Published The Connecticut Mirror - May 17 2013]
New GPS Satellite Launched on Atlas 5 Rocket [Published Space.com - May 16 2013]

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The Daily Agenda for Tuesday, May 21 [Published Box Turtle Bulletin - May 21 2013] TODAY’S AGENDA: British Commons To Vote On Marriage Bill: London, UK. Yesterday’s failed attempt by marriage equality opponents to derail the same-sex marriage bill in the House of Commons revealed a rather large rift among Prime Minster David ...
The Great American Descent into Plutocracy (Kroll) [Published Informed Comment - May 17 2013] Andy Kroll writes at Tomdispatch.com Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions ...
Dennett and Intuition Pumps [Published Information Processing - May 13 2013] At the bookstore today I spent some time looking at Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking , Daniel Dennett 's new book. I highly recommend his Darwin's Dangerous Idea , discussed earlier here . I'm not a big fan of Dennett's work on free ...
ReOrienting the Veil (Gökariksel) [Published Informed Comment - May 09 2013] by Banu Gökariksel writes for for ISLAMiCommentary Fatih neighborhood of Istanbul, 2009. photo by Banu Gökarıksel Banu Gökarıksel The veil is a piece of fabric that is politicized like no other. It is the persistent topic of fiery political ...
Better Understanding North Korea: Q&A with Seve... [Published FAS Strategic Security Blog - Apr 15 2013] Editor’s Note: This is the first of two postings of a Q&A conducted by the Federation of American Scientists regarding the current situation on the Korean Peninsula. Author responses have not been edited; all views expressed are their own. Please ...