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Tracking Asteroids From A Backyard In Kansas

By: Bryan Thompson // June 14, 2012
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Earth has been struck by asteroids many times. It will happen again. The question is how soon, and whether the asteroid will be large enough to cause significant damage. A Kansas man is helping to track asteroids with the potential to become a threat, and he does it from his own backyard — with a telescope he made himself. Machinist by day, amateur astronomer by night, Gary Hug is making a name for himself as one of the most prolific asteroid-trackers in the world.

Arts & Culture

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Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'

Dan Brown, author of the blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, is back with his first novel in four years. Inferno follows academic hero Robert Langdon on a chase through Italy as he attempts to avert a biological catastrophe.

Food

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'Picture Cook': Drawings Are The Key Ingredients In These Recipes

Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook offers 50 illustrated recipe "blueprints" for basic meals — from simple snacks to more hefty dishes like eggplant Parmesan. She hopes they'll inspire any level of cook to improvise in the kitchen.

Politics

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Highly Charged IRS Case Pulls In Political Agendas

NPR's Peter Overby reports on the Congressional testimony of IRS officials in response to the scandal over special scrutiny of tea party groups. Underneath all the politics, there's a policy question that hasn't been addressed.

Technology

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Book News: Amazon May Be Called Before Parliament Over Taxes

Also: AARP and The Nation join a growing list of ebook publishers; Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; Anne Applebaum on Sheryl Sandberg.

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