TAG: Taking Position

Photo: NASA

How NASA captured high-resolution Moon imagery in 1960s

July 29, 2019

I was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing on July 16 and our focus on […]


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Portlandia Prediction: Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have a few questions about their chicken dinner. (Screenshot: IFC)

Did the chicken you’re eating live a happy life?

April 4, 2019

In 2011, the first-ever episode of a TV comedy called “Portlandia” debuted. In one sketch, concerned diners played […]


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O’Keefe (left). Grid cells form networks with the place cells in the hippocampus, a circuitry that creates a comprehensive positioning system — an inner GPS — in the brain. (Source: Nobel Committee)

Discover your inner GPS

October 3, 2016

The Institute of Navigation Satellite Division looked deeply inward for its keynote speaker at this year’s ION GNSS+ […]


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