--March 29th What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History--

All errors in government and in society are based on philosophic errors, which in turn are derived from errors in natural science.
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)

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--祝我生日快乐....--

--Stephen William Hawking--

Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States.
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Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include the runaway best seller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks.
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Hawking's key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as Hawking radiation (or sometimes as Bekenstein-Hawking radiation).
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Hawking has a neuro-muscular dystrophy that is related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a condition that has progressed over the years and has left him almost completely paralysed.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
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~http://www.hawking.org.uk/
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~http://www.hawking.org.uk/index.php/about-stephen

--清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂....--

在人们的印象中，无论东西方、海内外，祭祀先人都是一种很肃穆很庄严的仪式，为的是表达内心深处的怀念，一束鲜花，亦或一把纸钱烧起的一缕飘向天空的青烟，都承载和寄托了一片哀思，人们都会依据当地的习俗用各种方式来表达出这一人类真实的感情。
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还有几天就是中华民族的传统祭祀先人的节日清明节了，清明时节，天气转暖，进入春耕的季节，春耕之前，过去长期处于农耕社会的中国人，都会在此时候想到先祭祀自己的先人，企盼保佑五谷丰登，所谓“清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂”这句杜牧的诗在中国是家喻户晓，千百年来，一代又一代的中国人都会特地在这清明的同一天用各种方式祭祀自己的故去的亲人以及祖先或英烈，以这种方式印证了生生不息的中华民族代代相传的顽强生命力；于中国人而言，也许我们都会印象深刻的就是后人们举家上山挂青，倒上白酒，并烧纸钱也就是常说的冥币.

--Earth Hour 2010--

Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later and Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome’s Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.
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In March 2009, hundreds of millions of people took part in the third Earth Hour. Over 4000 cities in 88 countries officially switched off to pledge their support for the planet, making Earth Hour 2009 the world’s largest global climate change initiative.
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Earth Hour 2010 takes place on Saturday 27 March at 8.30pm (local time) and is a global call to action to every individual, every business and every community throughout the world. It is a call to stand up, to take responsibility, to get involved and lead the way towards a sustainable future. Iconic buildings and landmarks from Europe to Asia to the Americas will stand in darkness. People across the world from all walks of life will turn off their lights and join together in celebration and contemplation of the one thing we all have in common – our planet. So sign up now and let’s make 2010 the biggest Earth Hour yet!.
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--Want a good look at Mars? Time’s running out.--

Optimal viewing won’t last much longer; next opportunity comes in 2012.
On Thursday night, many people may look up at the sky and ask, "What's that bright star next to the moon?"
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The answer for Thursday night is Mars, but that answer changes night by night as the moon travels along the ecliptic, the path that the sun, moon and planets follow across the sky. If you ask the question again on March 29, the answer will be the ringed planet Saturn.
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Such conjunctions of the moon and planets are regular reminders of how rapidly the moon moves across the sky.
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Mars was in opposition to the sun on Jan. 29, when it appeared 14 arcseconds in diameter, one-120th of the diameter of the moon. Two months later, it is much farther away, and has shrunk to only 10 arcseconds in diameter.
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This will be your last chance to get a good look at Mars until it approaches the Earth again in 2012.
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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36027216/ns/technology_and_science-space/?GT1=43001

--Can You Really Predict the Success of a Marriage in 15 Minutes?--

"My goal is to be like the guy who invented Velcro," marriage researcher John Gottman once told an interviewer. "Nobody remembers his name, but everybody uses Velcro." Gottman's own road to Velcro-level fame started with a 1998 article in the Journal of Marriage and the Family. He and his colleagues at the University of Washington had videotaped newlywed couples discussing a contentious topic for 15 minutes to measure precisely how they fought over it: Did they criticize? Were they defensive? Did either spouse curl his or her lip in contempt? Then, three to six years later, Gottman's team checked on the same couples' marital status and announced that based on the coding of the tapes, they could predict with 83 percent accuracy which ones were divorced.
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Soon reporters had dubbed Gottman's research facility the "love lab," and his powers of prognostication had increased: In another published report, he said he could pick out future divorcees 91 percent of the time based on coding a mere five-minutes of tape. Over the next decade, Gottman's narrow, bald head, fringed by a neat, gray beard and topped by a discreet yarmulke, began to appear everywhere—on 20/20 and The Today Show, in the New York Times Magazine and the Atlantic, and in hundreds of newspapers across the country. Malcolm Gladwell devoted most of a chapter to him in his huge best-seller Blink.
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In a 2007 survey asking psychotherapists to elect the 10 most influential members of their profession over the last quarter-century, Gottman was only one of four who made the cut who wasn't deceased. "Many in the field now believe that most of what we know about marriage and divorce comes from his work," states an article accompanying the Top 10 list.
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~http://www.slate.com/id/2246732/?gt1=38001