Posted by on under cnn reports, mths, cnn, checklists, foreclosure, timelines, rocks, homes for sale | 
Homeowners wanting to sell their homes are on tenterhooks these days, watching with avid interest as the market rocks and rolls. CNN reports that 85,000 homes in the U.S. were lost to foreclosure in October. Homes for sale, sitting vacant, are projected to remain on the market for six months or more, and sellers are [...]
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Posted by on under gas giants, weird worlds, flying saucers, snowball, moons, solar system, inferno, rocks, earth, sun |
An icy inferno, a lively snowball, another Earth and two flying saucers; there's more to the sun's family than gas giants and potato-shaped rocks
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Posted by Jason Kottke on under francesco granacci, painting department, fahy, michelangelo, mths, quarry, masterpieces, centuries, nbsp, paintings, museums, rocks, brain |
Everett Fahy, the former head of the European painting department at the Met, believes that one of the museum's paintings by Francesco Granacci is actually by Michelangelo.
I believe Michelangelo painted it in 1506, two years before he started on the Sistine ceiling. It was already in my brain in 1971, the year after it was bought. When the Metropolitan showed it in 1971, I wrote for an exhibition called 'Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries' that the second panel recalled the figures in the Sistine Chapel. As years went by, it firmed up. I had long believed it to be by Michelangelo, but exactly when I don't know. There wasn't a moment when I suddenly said, 'This is absolutely by Michelangelo.' It was a gradual recognition.
One the clues Fahy used to make his determination involves the rocks in the painting; they resemble the quarry at which Michelangelo spent several months in 1497. The painting can be viewed larger on the Met's website.
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Posted by on under tree houses, free house, tree trunk, tree house, sling, neighbors, rocks, cats, freedom |
If you’re looking to merge a bit of the outdoors with comfort, freedom and imagination, think tree houses. Yes, perhaps gone are the days of scampering up a tree trunk or sling-shotting rocks at neighbors’ cats. But a tree house is nothing more than a shelter embedded into nature. Whether [...]
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Posted by on under apollo 11, msis, billi, earthlings, dirty work, raquo, robots, nasa, robot, rocks, russia |
Earthlings had scored moon rocks before 1970. NASA's Apollo 11 and 12 missions successfully hauled them back to study—immense scientific accomplishments, of course. One problem. It cost $142 billion in today's dollars. Russia's solution? Send a robot instead.
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