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Here are three pictures of the Internet in the U.S.A., as it could be in the future. The first picture is the Internet with net neutrality, where no one’s data gets priority over another’s1. This is the kind of Internet we have always had. In this picture CNN is the Cable News Network, a large […]

Last week astronomers published the discovery of something never seen before – a double helix nebula, which they found near the center of the Milky Way1. Astronomers took a picture of the nebula (shown below) using the Spitzer infrared space telescope, one of NASA’s four “great observatories”, each of which detects a different radiation band2. […]

President George W. Bush has acted as a dictator, “a ruler who is unconstrained by law1“, as shown in three cases recently in the news. In one case, Bush violated the fifth amendment to the Constitution by labeling a US citizen, Jose Padilla, an “enemy combatant” and holding him for three-and-a-half years without charge2×3. The […]