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Mike Honig is originally from Brooklyn, New York. He moved to Houston in September of 1977 and has been there ever since. Mike's interests are politics, history, science, science fiction (and reading generally), technology, and almost anything else. Mike has knowledge and experience in many diverse fields, sometimes from having worked in them, and sometimes from extensive reading or discussion about them. Mike's general knowledge makes him a favorite partner in Trivial Pursuit. He likes to say that about most things, he knows enough to be dangerous. Humility is a work-in-progress.

New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta’s ‘Color Palette’ [NASA Press Release]

This image using color data obtained by the framing camera aboard NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows Vesta's southern hemisphere in color, centered on the Rheasilvia formation. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

News release: 2011-375                                                                      Dec. 5, 2011

New NASA Dawn Visuals Show Vesta’s ‘Color Palette’

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-375&cid=release_2011-375

Vesta appears in a splendid rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta to be a world of many varied, well-separated layers and ingredients. Vesta is unique among asteroids visited by spacecraft to date in having such wide variation, supporting the notion that it is transitional between the terrestrial planets — like Earth, Mercury, Mars and Venus — and its asteroid siblings. Continue reading

Boise State U. Prof. Nancy Napier Awarded Vietnam Medal of Honor for Educational Contributions

Dr. Napier has been a guest on our radio show. You can hear her interview from August 23, 2010 on this page.

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http://news.boisestate.edu/update/2011/12/01/napier-receives-vietnam-medal-of-honor-for-educational-contributions/

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Posted By Sherry Squires | Dec 1st, 2011 – 1:34 pm

College of Business and Economics professor Nancy Napier has been awarded Vietnam’s highest award for contributions to education in the Southeast Asian country.

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