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Bob Moog: 6 artists influenced by his work

On what would have been Moog's 78th birthday, here are 6 musicians whose work was influenced by his groundbreaking technologies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: 15 quotes on his birthday

Emerson would be 209 years old on May 25th. Here are 15 of his more memorable aphorisms.
Beyond SpaceX: Five companies seeking to change space travel

During the past 10 years, Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have directed NASA to turn the job of transporting cargo and crew to the space station over to the private sector. As that process gathers pace, here is a list of the key players.
Robert Doisneau: 5 best collections of his photography

Check out these 5 photography collections of Doisneau's work from Paris to Palm Springs.
20 essential Android tips and tricks

Several weeks ago, we highlighted 20 useful iPhone tricks everyone should know. We got such good feedback from that feature that we wanted to share the love with Android users – who, after all, make up the largest proportion of the smart phone community.

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Reader recommendation: Radioactivity

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
Stir It Up!
Feasting on Art: Slow-roasted beets

Cooking beets over a long period of time over low heat releases their natural sweetness.
Bob Moog: 6 artists influenced by his work

On what would have been Moog's 78th birthday, here are 6 musicians whose work was influenced by his groundbreaking technologies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: 15 quotes on his birthday

Emerson would be 209 years old on May 25th. Here are 15 of his more memorable aphorisms.
Beyond SpaceX: Five companies seeking to change space travel

During the past 10 years, Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have directed NASA to turn the job of transporting cargo and crew to the space station over to the private sector. As that process gathers pace, here is a list of the key players.
Culture Cafe
'Follies' and 'La Boheme' take Los Angeles by storm

'La Boheme' makes a classic new again, while Sondheim's 'Follies' is a show only now being hailed as a masterwork.
'The Scream' sells for record amount at New York auction (+video)

Edward Munch's famous painting 'The Scream' sold for just under $120 million dollars at Sotheby's.
Space shuttle Enterprise takes final flight to New York (+video)

The space shuttle Enterprise flew atop a jet airliner bound for New York on Friday, where it will go on display later this year.
Space Shuttle Discovery arrives at its new home (+video)

In a public ceremony, NASA officially delivered the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Thursday.
Astronauts bid farewell to Space Shuttle Discovery (+video)

In recent days, John Glenn and other astronauts that have flown on Discovery have visited the retired orbiter to say their goodbyes.
Robert Doisneau: 5 best collections of his photography

Check out these 5 photography collections of Doisneau's work from Paris to Palm Springs.
20 essential Android tips and tricks

Several weeks ago, we highlighted 20 useful iPhone tricks everyone should know. We got such good feedback from that feature that we wanted to share the love with Android users – who, after all, make up the largest proportion of the smart phone community.
Head of 'faster-than-light' neutrinos team resigns

Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics said Friday that Antonio Ereditato had stepped down from the leadership of the OPERA experiment, whose measurements on the speed of neutrinos were widely questioned when they were announced in September.
Amazon CEO Bezos will hoist mammoth, antique rocket engines from seafloor (+video)

Using high-tech sonar, an expedition spearheaded by Bezos has discovered what he claimed were discarded engines from the Apollo 11 mission lurking 14,000 feet deep.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos to search for sunken Apollo 11 engines (+video)

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that his deep-sea sonar expedition in the Atlantic has located the five engines used to launch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon in 1969, and he plans to bring at least one of them to the surface.
Amazon founder locates Apollo 11 rockets

Jeff Bezos, the dot-com billionaire, announced that he has located the booster rockets that lifted the first moon mission into space at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. He hopes to raise one or both to the surface.
Horizons
How Juan Gris brought fun to Cubism (+video)

Juan Gris, recipient of Friday's Google doodle, is the oft-forgotten 'third musketeer' of Cubist paintings. Picasso might get the glory, but Juan Gris's work can be a lot more fun to look at.
Global News Blog
'The Cubist's Cubist:' Juan Gris honored with Google doodle (+video)

On the 125th anniversary of his birth, Spanish artist Juan Gris is honored with a Cubist Google doodle.
Decoder Wire
Was Amelia Earhart a US spy? (+video)

The rumor persists that Amelia Earhart was spying on Japan for her good friend, President Franklin Roosevelt. A new expedition to find her downed aircraft may finally put to rest some of the wild theories about the aviatrix.
The new clue that could solve the Amelia Earhart mystery (+video)

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined scientists and aviation archaeologists in unveiling a renewed search for the wreckage of the plane flown by Amelia Earhart as she attempted to circle the globe in 1937.
Hillary Clinton wades into mystery of Amelia Earhart

New photographic evidence shows parts of a plane on a Pacific Island. Hillary Clinton meets Tuesday with a group investigating the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart.
World rankings: top 10 universities around the globe

Britain's leading higher education publication, The Times Higher Education, today released its 2012 reputation rankings for universities worldwide. Here is a list of the top 10.
How did the moon get there? NASA videos explain.

Images captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been used to create an animated 4-billion-year history of the moon.
Pi Day: five fun facts about 3.14

March 14, or 3.14, is Pi Day. Get it? Pi Day celebrates all things related to the mathematical constant that measures the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Here are five things you should know about π.
Albert Einstein: 15 great quotes on his birthday

Albert Einstein's 133nd birthday falls on March 14th, 2012. Here, in his honor (and with a nod and a smile) are 15 quotes from the great thinker.