Monthly Archives: December 2011

NewsObservingPhoto GalleryMagazine ArchiveShop at Sky News NASA / Ames / JPL Bulletin at a Glance News Observing This Week’s Sky at a Glance Community Kepler Finds a Possibly Habitable World December 8, 2011                                                                | The hits just keep on coming … Continue reading →

How Big Telecom Used Smartphones to Create a New Digital Divide Consumers of color are closing the digital divide with smartphones. But they’ve surfed into a space where telecom has the right to do as it pleases with both users … Continue reading →

Well, well, well. So, the fine upstanding Christians have seen the error of their ways, eh? Just because their stance has changed on paper in no way means they have changed their subterranean mindset on interracial couples. ******************************************************************* Kentucky Church Reverses … Continue reading →

INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY Quick Facts The United Nations’ (UN) International Anti-Corruption Day is annually observed on December 9 to raise public awareness of corruption and ways to fight it. Local names Name Language International Anti-Corruption Day English Día Internacional contra … Continue reading →

  INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION DAY Quick Facts International Civil Aviation Day is observed globally on December 7 each year. It is observed by organizations such as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Local names Name Language International Civil Aviation Day … Continue reading →

INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER DAY FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Quick Facts The United Nations’ (UN) International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development, also known as International Volunteer Day (IVD), is observed on December 5 each year. Local names Name Language … Continue reading →

December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy“. A date where the United States military was caught off-guard by naval and air forces of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. A date where 1,177 U.S. naval men … Continue reading →

PATRICE O’NEAL, BOISTEROUS COMEDIAN By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Published: November 29, 2011 Patrice O’Neal, a stand-up comedian who boisterously took on controversial topics like race, AIDS and his own struggle with diabetes, died on Tuesday. He was 41 and lived … Continue reading →

White criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities, and blacks have had the poorest chance of receiving the president’s ultimate act of mercy, according to an analysis of … Continue reading →

NewsObservingPhoto GalleryMagazine ArchiveShop at Sky News NASA / JPL-Caltech Bulletin at a Glance News Observing This Week’s Sky at a Glance Community Voyagers Detect Missing Signal December 2, 2011                                                                | The Voyager spacecraft have observed long-sought emission from the Milky … Continue reading →