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  1. Alan Alda Looks for "The Human Spark" http://bit.ly/68sFJX about 7 hours ago from twitterfeed
  2. Easy Flyer: A Land/Air-Capable Motorcycle May Be in the Offing http://bit.ly/8GExJa about 12 hours ago from twitterfeed
  3. Genetically Modified Tobacco Could Smoke Other Crops as Energy Source http://bit.ly/8mywXv about 12 hours ago from twitterfeed
  4. Greening executives: A new program teaches managers about the business of clean tech http://bit.ly/7MMsfS about 12 hours ago from twitterfeed
  5. Could Re-Wilding Avert the 6th Great Extinction..Slide Show] http://bit.ly/6yUxg0 about 12 hours ago from twitterfeed
  6. Idle Minds and What They May Say About Intelligence http://bit.ly/8kfOop about 12 hours ago from twitterfeed
  7. #aas here's a @sciam article on laser frequency combs: http://bit.ly/8z8Odo about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck
  8. #aas Walsworth's answer: laser frequency combs, which provide ultraprecise frequency standard for measuring Doppler shift (via @gmusser) about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck
  9. #aas Walsworth: the problem: current spectrometers detect stellar wobbles of >1 m/s. But Earth creates wobble 10x smaller (via @gmusser) about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck
  10. #aas Ron Walsworth, Harvard, describes problem for planet hunts (via @gmusser) about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck
  11. #aas Gaudi: Solar system thus has more giant planets than the average (via @gmusser) about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
  12. #aas Gaudi: Maybe 1 in 6 systems are similar to solar system, i.e. have multiple giant planets (via @gmusser) about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
  13. #aas Gaudi: Implication of 1/3 finding at sun-like stars: most planets do NOT migrate (via @gmusser) about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
  14. #aas Gaudi: abt 1/3 of sun-like stars have Saturn-sized or bigger planets at distances comparable to our Jupiter and Saturn (via @gmusser) about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
  15. #aas Gaudi: The survey, conducted by prof'l & amateur astronomers, was free of selection biases that plague other techniques (via @gmusser) about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
  16. #aas Scott Gaudi, Ohio State, sez 10 planets discovered by his gravit'l lensing survey MicroFun, draws fascinat'g conclusions (via @gmusser) about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
  17. #aas Barnes: exoplanet's deviation frm circular cld b caused by gravity of other planets. Result: 'hellish' volcanic activity (via @gmusser) about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
  18. #aas Barnes: If exoplanets are on very tight orbits, even a tiny deviation from circular could lead to intense tidal heating (via @gmusser) about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
  19. #aas Rory Barnes, University of Washington, suggests many rocky exoplanets may look more like Io than Earth (via @gmusser) about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
  20. #aas Bolden: "we are going 2 do some things differently from the way we used to do it, and some people aren't happy about it" (via @gmusser) about 19 hours ago from TweetDeck
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