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Happy SCIENCE reading for today.

<Karen>

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Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education

DIPLOMA MILL POLICE
FREE service designed for queries
about any online college operating in the USA and costs
nothing for students to query.
U.S. GAO  of Special Investigations

Military and the University Complex
University CEO's Salary INFORMATION
Cyberliberties at the top 50 universities in the United States.
WHO OWNS K-12 IP Online Content?

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1)
Hilton Pond 05-15-08 (Seven Bird Notes)

"This Week at Hilton Pond" our photo essay encompasses "seven bird
notes," complete with text and illustrations about:

--A rare polydactylous Mourning Dove
--Documented scarcity of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds
--Deterring Raccoons from hummer feeders
--A melodious Wood Thrush
--A "calico" Summer Tanager
--South African birder Ian Sinclair
--Faithful Eastern Phoebes and their nest

To view the installment for 15-21 May 2008, please visit
http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek080515.html
As always we include a tally of all birds banded or recaptured
during the period, as well as a couple of short items about
hummingbirds at Mountain Lake, Virginia.


2)
NOVA

June 17 -- Mystery of the Megavolcano (repeat)

June 24 -- Secrets of the Samurai Sword (repeat)



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How does the Brain Work?

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3)
Space Weather News for May 28, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

THE DESCENT OF PHOENIX: When NASA's Phoenix probe parachuted to Mars last Sunday, a pair of other spacecraft were orbiting high overhead, watching and listening.  While NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped some jaw-dropping photos of Phoenix's plunge to the surface, Europe's Mars Express orbiter recorded Phoenix's radio transmissions.  The eerie-sounding tones have just been beamed back to Earth and you can listen to them.

CARTWHEEL CME:  Imagine a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. That's exactly what happened on April 9, 2008, when a coronal mass ejection pirouetted over the sun's limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft. The cartwheel set off a chain of events that amazed even veteran solar physicists.


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HEALTHY CHILDREN - THE FUNDEMENTALS

Physical Fitness, Healthy Diet, Multi-tasking,
Neuroscience Brain Based Learning and  Development
Sleep, Character Development, Language Development
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4)
NASA Science News for May 29, 2008
Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted itself to smithereens. Although rings and spheres of material are common in the universe, this one is not quite like any ring astronomers have seen before.



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