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Archive for July 20th, 2009

On Being a KAUST discovery scholar

Monday, July 20th, 2009

KAUST: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 11/09/07  I applied for the scholarship. 01/11/08  I had an interview in Washington, D.C. 02/24/08  I signed up after seeing the Colbert portrait 08/22/08  I went to DC for creativity training 01/04/09  I went to KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and the KAUST kampus 07/12/09  I went [...]

spirit of the sky

Monday, July 20th, 2009

We need to go to Mars. Going to the Moon was awesome. Jump ahead 40 years and we just repaired the toilet on the ISS (International Space Station). I know that more data can be gathered by sending probes. But that is not what this is about. Or maybe it really is. We have lost [...]