Tag Archives: Space
Bookshelf that hides extra furniture is small-apartment genius
25 Jun
If, like me, you have ever lived in a small apartment, you know that there is no good place to put furniture that you need sometimes but not all the time (like extra chairs). Therefore, Orla Reynolds is my new hero. Her furniture emerges "as if from nowhere" -- her bookshelves hide a table and four extra chairs.
Virgin Galactic Hits Milestone As Commercial Space Travel Rockets Toward Reality
16 Jun
NASA may not be sending anyone to Mars anytime soon, the exploration of space and beyond - though on a much smaller scale - is being spearheaded by folks like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. (Maybe you've heard of them.) Though Bezos and Blue Origin continue to work under a veil of secrecy in Texas, Virgin Galactic keeps humming along in the Mojave having recently scored a major milestone for the sub-orbital space tourism arm of Branson's Virgin empire.
NASA: Mission To Mars [Clip]
27 Nov
An animation visualizing NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in the last part of 2011 and land the «Curiosity» rover on Mars in August of 2012.
WSJ Markets
- Tip Puts Lobbyist's Career on HoldMark Hayes was a Washington policy wonk on a long and steady ascent. A series of emails to a client was all it took to put that carefully crafted career on hold.
- Wall Street's Giants Try 'Flow Monster' FormulaFor all the talk that "Wall Street is back" from the ravages of the 2008-2009 crisis, there are signs that the financial industry is undergoing a profound transformation, writes Francesco Guerrera.
- New Rival Emerging for Bloomberg ChatThomson Reuters and Markit, rival data providers, have teamed up with investment banks to build a new messaging service to challenge competitor Bloomberg LLP.
- Plight of the NavigatorsMartin Essex discovers who is making waves as a top stock picker in this first Europe's Best Analysts survey?
- Silver Recovers After SwingsSilver earned its moniker as the "Devil's metal" with a day of whipsaw trading that took prices to their lowest level since September 2010.
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