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Blue Collar Intellectuals: The Fan	Read	Part of a five-part series on The Planetary Society's blog describing society's appetite for the cosmos.
Manhattanhenge	Watch	Perched over 42nd Street, NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson is eager to show you his hometown's own version of a Stonehenge magic moment. See it in this video.
NOVA's The Elegant Universe: String Theory	Listen	Commenting on NOVA's The Elegant Universe on string theory and its relevance to modern physics.
Jack Mangan's Deadpan Interview	Listen	Interview on Jack Mangan's Deadpan about Pluto, life in the universe, Galileo, and religion.
The Cosmic Office	Watch	Sputnik dolls? Planet-shaped pineapple? Neil deGrasse Tyson, the new host of NOVA scienceNOW, has a stellar collection of space-themed souvenirs. See them in this video.
Radio Lab	Listen	Discussion on WNYC's Radio Lab about the universe, and the Copernican Principle, which says, if you think it's all about you then you are probably wrong.
Living On Earth: Venus or Bust	Listen	Two NASA satellites and the European Space Agency's Venus Express have set out to find clues that will aid scientists' understanding of climate change on Earth.
Living On Earth: Moons & Money	Listen	Water-spewing geysers may mean there’s life on one of Saturn’s moons, and how proposed budget cuts could affect the search for life and other space science programs.
NOVA ScienceNOW: Killer Asteroids	Listen	In conversation with Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweikert, on a Gravitational Tractor that can deflect killer asteroids.
Living On Earth: Intelligent Design Is Not Science	Listen	Discussion of the history of attributing scientific gaps to a higher being, and the notion of intelligent design as "a philosophy of ignorance" that has no place in science.