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Life at the SETI Institute: Paul Estrada -- From Dust to Planets

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: SETI Institute, Universe, Nasa, Cassini, Astrobiology, Astronomy, Galileo, Cosmos, Space Exploration, Planets, Astrophysics, Planet Formation, Moons, Callisto, Ganymede, Satellites, Voyager, Saturn, Solar System, Jupiter, Science, Technology News
SETI Institute

By Gail Jacobs If planets are a dime a dozen, moons are less than a penny each. There are at least 139 moons just within our own solar system. Most o...

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Torsten Krol's The Dolphin People: A Great Utopian Parable for Our Savage Times

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Torsten Krol, Humanism, Callisto, The Dolphin People, Terrorism, Nazism, Barbarism, Daniel Defoe, Utopian Literature William Golding, Books News
Anis Shivani

Torsten Krol's Callisto was the single best fictional expose of homeland paranoia in America in the age of terrorism. The Dolphin People -- has even larger fish to fry.

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Announcing the Death of the Post-9/11 Novel

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Fiction, Callisto, Claire Messud, Jonathen Franzen, Terrorism, Post-9/11 Novel, Joseph O'Neill, American Fiction, 9/11, Environmentalism, Dave Eggers, Teddy Wayne, The Emperor's Children, Novel, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kapitol, Books News
Anis Shivani

Novelists didn't have to think much in the way of plot. 9/11 happened before, during, or after, to change everything (as Bush and Ashcroft had it, the world changed, nothing was the same after 9/11).

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The 10 Best Books of 2009

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Daniyal Mueenuddin, East Bay Grease, Philip K. Dick, The Fire Gospel, Paul Starobin, Christopher Miller, Syrian Immigrants, Chloe Aridjis, Michael Faber, Home Boy, In Other Rooms Other Wonders, Dave Eggers, The Naked Eye, Azhar Abidi, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, Brownsville: Stories, Torsten Krol, A Good Fall: Stories, Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank, Steve Hely, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, Melissa Kwasny, Zeitoun, Book of Clouds, Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk Museum of Innocence, Yoko Tawada, Kamila Shamsie, Oscar Casares, The Thing Around Your Neck, Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, H. M. Naqvi, Chris Hedges, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever, Carolyn Chute, A Free Life, Barbara Ehrenreich, Walter Kirn, Eric Miles Williamson, After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age, Ali Sethi, Franz Wright, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Amigoland, Callisto, Books News
Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani picks his top 10 books for 2009.

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