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Google buys Nest

This is awesome!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/01/13/262189913/google-buys-nest-will-soon-know-how-cool-you-like-your-home

http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4MLI

3-D scans add a new dimension to preservation

Mystic Seaport historians used a 3-D scan during renovation work on the historic Charles W. Morgan whaling vessel.

http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4Mss

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New Study Confirms Milky Way Galaxy Has Four Spiral Arms

A 12-year study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has confirmed that our Milky Way Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate that it has only two arms.

http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/science-milky-way-galaxy-four-spiral-arms-01649.html

http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4L3O

Nearly 2’ of rain fell in 24 hours in Palm Beach County FL

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Nearly 2 feet of rain in 24 hours hits Florida’s Palm Beach County

A torrential downpour lashed Florida’s Palm Beach County before dawn Friday, shuttering schools, flooding an interstate and causing at least two deaths.

Read more: http://nbcnews.to/1aeLaIQ 
Photo: AP

http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4KAW

New Amusement Park Lets You Drive Construction Equipment in a Giant Sandbox

For a paltry $400, you get some basic training and two hours to dig ditches, lift 2,000 pound tires and other heavy things, and compete against your friends, all while tooling around in actual Caterpillar construction equipment.

http://www.geekosystem.com/dig-this-park/

http://click-to-read-mo.re/p/4JCR

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Scientists discover unique triple star system that could help probe the true nature of gravity

The tightly packed system includes two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all squidged into an space smaller than the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, which has allowed researchers to take the best measurements yet of the complex gravitational interactions in such a system.

When a massive star explodes as a supernova and its remains collapse into a superdense neutron star, some of its mass is converted into gravitational binding energy that holds the dense star together. The Strong Equivalence Principle says that this binding energy will still react gravitationally as if it were mass. Virtually all alternatives to General Relativity hold that it will not. “This system offers the best test yet of which is the case” said Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

“Finding a deviation from the Strong Equivalence Principle would indicate a breakdown of General Relativity and would point us toward a new, correct theory of gravity” said Ingrid Stairs of the University of British Columbia.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/06/triple_star_system_gravity_relativity/

http://www.nrao.edu/

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