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    The Politics of Happiness Identity Economics This Time Is Different Taming the Gods Capitalism and the Jews The Poison King A Very Brief History of Eternity Pen of Iron Mystery Cults of the Ancient World From Higher Aims to Hired Hands Economic Gangsters The Posthuman Dada Guide Last Looks, Last Books Climate Change Justice On Whitman The Brain and the Meaning of Life Boulevard of Broken ...

  • Charles Kupchan on Belgian PM’s Resignation

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    Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of How Enemies Become Friends, was interviewed by CNN International about the resignation of Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme following the most recent dispute between Belgium's Dutch- and French-speaking populations: The consequences could stretch beyond Belgium's borders, Kupchan said, ...

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    It's Espionage Week on FiveBooks, which means Audrey Cronin is presenting her top five books on terrorism. Among them is fellow Princeton author Alan Krueger's new edition of What Makes a Terrorist. Click over to read the full interview and let us know what you think of the selections.

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    We're launching our Fall 2010 list this week with our sales conference. We invite you to be the first to checkout our new catalog online. http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/F10trade.html Also available in PDF format: http://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/F10Seasonal.pdf

  • Geoff Robinson on the Rising Above Oppression Panel at LA Festival of Books

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    C-SPAN taped the panel: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293144-4&showFullAbstract=1 From their site: Authors talked about their books about battling oppression. They responded to questions from members of the audience. Marla Stone moderated. The panelists were: Phillip Kearney, Under the Blue Flag: My Mission in Kosovo (Phoenix Books; March 30, 2010); Richard Reeves, Daring Young Men: ...

  • Audrey Cronin talks Terrorism and “24″ with Dina Temple-Raston of NPR

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    Audrey Cronin's interview with Dina Temple-Raston about the waning influence of groups like Al-Qaida aired earlier today on NPR's Morning Edition. Check out the full interview here. And if you haven't seen it already, head on over to Professor Cronin's new book Web site, complete with research data and media clips: www.howterrorismends.com You ...

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  • "Survivor" Black Holes May Be Mid-Sized

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    This composite image of M82 shows Chandra X-ray Observatory data in blue, optical data from Hubble in green and orange, and infrared data from Spitzer in red.

  • NASA to talk about search for extraterrestrials

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    For some time now, NASA scientists have been searching for extraterrestrial life on other planets. NASA will hold a news conference Wednesday to talk about what it has learned.

  • Bubble-blowing black holes explain stellar dearth

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    BLACK holes blowing huge bubbles may explain the lack of star formation in the cores of galaxy clusters.

  • Our Universe Was Born in a Black Hole, Theory Says

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    Our universe might have originated from a black hole that lies within another universe.

  • Galaxy mergers make more massive stars

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    Colliding galaxies mysteriously play host to more massive supernovae in their central regions than undisturbed galaxies do, says new research presented earlier this month at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Glasgow.

  • Dark Matter Halos Look a Bit Like a Football

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    Dark matter is distributed throughout the universe in giant, football-shaped clumps, according to new, indirect images of the mysterious substance that holds galaxies and galaxy clusters together.

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    , Kepler Mission From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Redirected from Kepler satellite Jump to : navigation search This article is about the space-based telescope . For the cargo spacecraft , see Johannes Kepler ATV Kepler telescope redirects here . You may have been looking for Keplerian Telescope Kepler General information NSSDC ID 2009-011A Organization NASA Major contractors Ball Aerospace Technologies . Corp Launch date 2009-03-07, 03:49:57.465 UTC 1 Launched from Space Launch Complex 17-B Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch vehicle Delta II 7925-10L Mission length 3.5 years elapsed : 1 year , 160 1 month , 160 and 16 days Mass 1,039 kg 2,290 lb Type of orbit Earth-trailing heliocentric Orbit height 1 AU Orbit period 372.5 days Wavelength 400–865 nm 2 Diameter 0.95 m 3.1 ft

  • astro-ph 0503302 Vegetation's Red Edge A Possible Spectroscopic Biosignature of Extraterrestrial Pla

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  • Einstein's Theory Fights off Challengers

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    Two different teams have reported using Chandra observations of galaxy clusters to study the properties of gravity on cosmic scales and test Einstein's theory of General Relativity.

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  • Massive Black Hole Implicated in Stellar Destruction

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    An elliptical galaxy in the Fornax cluster that contains an ultraluminous X-ray source.

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    This is a composite image of NGC 1068, one of the nearest and brightest galaxies containing a rapidly growing supermassive black hole.

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