Cassini Mission's Carolyn Porco Pushes Our Cosmic Dreams

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Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Imaging Science Team on the Cassini mission presently orbiting Saturn, and a lead imaging scientist on the New Horizons Pluto/Kuiper Belt mission to be launched in early 2006.Carolyn Porco is the leader of the imaging science team on the $3.4 billion Cassini mission presently in orbit around Saturn, a veteran imaging scientist of the Voyager mission to the outer solar system in the 1980s, and an imaging scientist on the New Horizons mission on its way to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. In late 1999, she was selected by the London Sunday Times as one of 18 scientific leaders of the 21st century, and by Industrial Week as one of “50 Stars to Watch”.

Carolyn Porco Flies Us to Saturn

Her contributions to the exploration of the outer solar system were recognized with the naming of Asteroid (7231) Porco: “Named in honor of Carolyn C. Porco, a pioneer in the study of planetary ring systems…and a leader in spacecraft exploration of the outer solar system”. In 2008, she was awarded the Isaac Asimov Science Award by the American Humanist Association. She opened the May 10, 2008 worldwide multi-media event known as Pangea Day with a speech illustrating humanity’s cosmic place.

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Copy of Celebrations & Entertaining: Queen Elizabeth's First Christmas Broadcast

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President-Elect Obama is not the only “royal” to have a YouTube Channel. Welcome to THE Royal Channel and Queen Elizabeth’s first television Christmas Broadcast. Her comments on technology and the future, and how media makes our public figures more human and accessible strike a relevant note on Christmas morning.

The video is not embedded. Click the photo or this link, and watch Queen Elizabeth directly on YouTube. Hmmm, I think the Obama folks must educate the Monarchy on the power of just letting her words flow in cyberspace. Of course, now we can enjoy all the other videos on THE Royal Channel, including the story of the Christmas trees. This is where my exploration began.

Christy Turlington | Smart Sensuality New Model Woman

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Christy TurlingtonStyle blog Fashionologie reports on the pervasive trend of Supermodels doing editorial gigs at top magazines. The group featured are all models from the Nineties: Christy Turlington at Marie Claire, Naomi Campbell at British GQ, Stephanie Seymour at Interview and Cindy Crawford at Vanity Fair.

In this latest announcement about Turlington, Marie Claire editor-in-chief Joanna Coles says: “she believes readers will take to Ms. Turlington’s prose because she has lived a relatively regular life off the runway. Ms. Turlington, who is married to actor Ed Burns, is a mother of two young children who recently enrolled in a master’s course on public health at New York’s Columbia University. Ms. Turlington also is an ambassador for the humanitarian group CARE, which lobbies for legislation that would improve maternal health care for mothers across the globe.” (via WSJ)

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