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Adam Frank

Adam Frank appears in the following:

Should Engineers Pay More Tuition Than English Majors?

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Making the cost of tuition depend on which major you choose is a terrible idea, especially if those higher costs hit students longing for a life in science and technology.

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Did Life On Earth Originate From Zombie Microbes?

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The new twist proposed a couple of years ago is that even if the microbes are dead when the rocks crash to earth, the information in their DNA might play a role in triggering or helping life here.

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Sunday Morning Thermodynamics

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Sunday morning and a young man's thoughts turn to the New York Times, a mountain bike ride and - of course - thermodynamics.

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Quantum Weirdness And Being A Little Bit Pregnant: (Part 3)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

We simply can't imagine, as in draw a picture in our heads, what quantum mechanics is pointing us to in terms of a "picture" of reality. We don't have the mental machinery to create images in our heads that embrace the reality our experiments imply.

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Let The Real Space Age Begin

Friday, May 18, 2012

Astrophysicist Adam Frank says that private rocket ships will launch a sure future for Americans.

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What Story Does Earth's Life Tell About ET?

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

How easy is it to create life? It happened here at least once. Does that give scientists studying the creation of life from non-life (abiogenesis) much to work with?

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