Have a great summer break!... Congratulations Graduates!......"Summer" Solstice Monday, June 21.......Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try............................."A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."..............................Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ............

Earth and moon are younger than thought

Collision that resulted in their creation may have happened much later

Stephen Hawking's time machine

In an article in the

Reshaped spaceflight plan gains support

Largest chunk yet of Wisconsin meteor found

NASA tries to unscramble Voyager 2 signals

Launch escape system passes NASA test

Huge asteroid Pallas visible from Earth

Cosmic Log: The first ‘last flight’

‘Wet’ asteroid could be a space gas station

Neanderthal DNA lives on ... in some of us

‘Iron Man’ is fiction, but tech behind him is not

Atom-smashing scientists expect exotic results

Rare oryx, extinct in wild, born at National Zoo

Bizarre super-small microbes discovered

The great tornado chase goes high-tech

Dwarf dinosaur once roamed Transylvania

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."

--H. Jackson Brown Jr.,
American author

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature."

--Rachel Carson,
founder of the contemporary environmental movement
( Earth Day is April 22)

Icelandic volcano creates gorgeous sunsets

Spectacular’ sights come from solar probe

Olive branch solves a Bronze Age mystery

Scientists discover heavy new element

Lost city in Syria predates the wheel

Space station flies through big space storm

International Space Station flying through Earth's aurora (© Soichi Noguchi)

Space station flies through big storm

Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured a rare view of the station zooming through Earth's aurora during the strongest geomagnetic storm of the year.

I've Got a Test, & I'm Really Scared

Why you should never cram the night before.

Plus, how to reduce exam anxiety while maximizing success.

Tips for acing standardized exams

Video: How to stay focused on test day

Can we trust standardized-test scores?

AP	The King returns The world of King Tut has returned to the United States in a 27-month tour of the country.

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

Jawaharlal Nehru,
Indian statesman

Scientists discover part-plant, part-animal sea creature

Mystery object on course to whiz past Earth

Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier

"No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty."

-Ulysses S. Grant,
18th U.S. president and Civil War general

"Employ your time well if you mean to gain leisure."

Benjamin Franklin, inventor, statesman

"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try"

Peggy Noonan,
U.S. presidential speechwriter

Hubble Captures Toddler Galaxies // Deep space Hubble image (© NASA/ESA/AP)

Fluffy Mystery at Edge of Solar System Solved

8 ‘extinct’ species found alive

Brad Wilson / AP file

Amid all the doom and gloom of an extinction crisis, a bit of fleeting good news appears every now and again. Full story

U.s. National Museum

8 great extinct species

2009’s top 10 new species

"Yes there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on."

--Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"

Space shots

New images of Crab Nebula, Milky Way, more

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."

--Cicero,
Roman orator

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others."

--Jonathan Winters

"The things you fear are undefeatable not by their nature but by your approach."

-Jewel, singer-songwriter

Even the Maya are sick of 2012 hype

Cosmic Log: 2012? The end is not near

Stucco panels reveal ancient Maya myth

‘Apocalypto’ excites and daunts Maya

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

--Oliver Wendell Holmes,
U.S. Supreme Court justice

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."

--Herbert Hoover,
31st U.S. president

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

--George S. Patton Jr.,
World War II general

“It’s always somethin’ ”

Emily Latella

[or was it Rosanna Rosanadana?]

Without labor nothing prospers."

--Sophocles,
Greek playwright and philosopher

"My favorite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something."

--Groucho Marx

EAA News - Flightstar e-Spyder Makes First Flight

"Indecision may or may not be my problem."-Jimmy Buffett

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."

--Sir Isaac Newton,
English physicist and mathematician

Grand Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Grand Canyon marks 90th anniversary as national park

Grand Canyon National Park Visitor Information

Grand Canyon Explorer

The Geology of the Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon National Park - Welcome to Grand Canyon National Park

Electric bike as simple as changing a wheel?

10 shipwrecks that capture our imaginations

Science Section Front

environment |

By Charles J. Hanley, AP

Study: Antarctic glaciers melting faster than thought

By Eliane Engeler, Associated Press Writer

Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea...

discoveries |

By David Hall, AP

Psychedelic fish discovered in Indonesia

By Robin Mcdowell, Associated Press

A funky, psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species, a scientific journal...

Study of fossils shows prehistoric fish had sex

By Michael Casey, Associated Press

The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it fertilization of eggs inside a female took place as much as 30...

Do you get it?

The word that drives grammar purists crazy

Ancient Peru pyramid spotted

Wall Arch collapses

A monument is lost, and the clock is ticking for other famous rock formations inside Arches National Park.

Phoenix lander confirms water on Mars | Video

Ancient city uncovered in Afghanistan

1,900-year-old chariot discovered in Bulgaria

Huge ice sheet breaks loose in Canadian arctic

'Shocking event' another sign of warming in polar frontier, say scientists

4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August

'Big bang machine' halted for 2 months

Your spectacular death in a black hole

Biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’ turned on

Collider targets massive mystery

Science Gone Too Far? // Model of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel (© Johannes Simon/Getty Images)

Beauty of Mathematics

NASA spacecraft reveal cause of auroras

Magnetic substorms are energy bursts stemming from charged particles

Skywatcher Mark Urwiller caught this stunning view of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, from his vantage point five miles outside Kearney, Nebraska. Urwiller photographed the light show the evening of May 14, 2005.

Young women's skin cancer rates soar | Video

A star explodes in the sky, but nobody sees it ...

Game Feeds "orphaned" Dogs: http://freekibble.com/

WORD PUZZLE

FreeRice Game

Lady Liberty's Crown May Reopen to Public

The National Park Service is considering reopening the Statue of Liberty’s crown, which has been closed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Broken Arrow Oklahoma Satellite/Radar Map

Live Conditions Union 8th Grade Center
Switch to Celsius

The 8th Grade Weather Station is

Available online

Weather

Animate Satellite/Radar Map

Flightstar II Pictures

What I'm flying now

Trisha's Capulin Photos

The Genesis Aircraft Project

What I began training in:

Solo Day Jul 7, 08 pictures

Who's that fat guy in my hat?

Channel 6 News Story [video]

Print Version Story

a frickin' elephant

African Elephant Thanks to April T.

Two small earthquakes recorded near Chandler OK

Gone for good

8 greatest species that have left Earth

Scientists reveal why glass is glass

Palindromes

Artist's rendering of Ventastega curonica (© Philip Renne/AP)

Fossil find

Most primitive four-limbed creature ever

New FLIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Move your cursor over the screen, and you will have the impression you are flying over the mountains.

Thanks to Dr HG B, III

New Fauna [fantastic photos!]

Thanks to Susan H

This photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer was nicknamed "Unicorn."

Entertainment

Looking for MS XL games to post here!

If you have a suggestion, please send it [email] as an attachment.

Here's a site which I think has some:

Excel Games

Phone Numbers Changing, District-Wide

"Galaxy" Song Thanks to Matt W.!

MOAR (Massive Output Arrayed Radar)

for Saturday afternoon May 24, 2008

FreeRice Game

"Here's a "good" game for you. A new U.N. campaign donates 10 grains of rice for each question you answer correctly at http://www.freerice.com. It's already generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people.

Click here to read more!" Posted by One World Projects

How to compute your Semester Grade

New Aurora Borealis Presentation

[BIG file!]