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April 2, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Russia's Plan To Reconnect With Moon Russia is developing a renewed robotic moon exploration program, building upon the history-making legacy of orbiters, landers, rovers and sample-return missions the country launched decades ago. Continue reading... Neanderthal Bones Discovered In Coastal Cave World's Lightest Material Created By Scientists Overseas Telescope Spies Strange 'Red Arcs' In Sky Weird Green Meteorite Came From WHERE? Buzz Offers Bold Vision For Space Program Dinosaur Feather Study Fuels Debate WATCH: Snake Venom: Curse & Cure? Russians Reveal Bold New Plan to Reconnect With Moon Weird Green Meteorite Came From WHERE? Why Some People Are Better At Drawing Than Others Russian Boy Makes Discovery Of The Century DR. JAMES HANSEN Doubling Down on Our Faustian Bargain Humanity's Faustian climate bargain is well known. Humans have been pumping both greenhouse gases (mainly CO2) and aerosols (fine particles) into the atmosphere for more than a century. Is the new data we present here good news or bad news, and how does it alter the "Faustian bargain"? Continue reading... SETH SHOSTAK Why Bother Searching for ET? It's a disturbing question, and one that I seem to get more frequently than before. "Why are you looking for evidence of extraterrestrials? What's the point?" Continue reading... PETER GUTTORP Uncertainty, Knowledge, Statistics and Climate Change Statistics permeates all of science and society. Climate science is no exception. To answer the question about how precisely we know that a given year is the warmest on record, we need some kind of specification of the uncertainty in each yearly continental U.S. temperature. Continue reading... ALLEN FRANCES What's Normal? What's Not? No bright line marks the boundary between illness and health. At the extremes it is easy to diagnose mental illness accurately and to distinguish it from normality. At the fuzzy border, it is impossible. Continue reading... JON RONSON Strange Answers to the Psychopath Test Becoming a psychopath-spotter can turn you a bit psychopathic because it compels you to start reducing people to items on a checklist -- to their maddest edges. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.