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May 11 - Mother's Day 2008

Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary AP - May 11, 2008

The science of amazing moms MSNBC - May 11, 2008

May 12, 1936

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, patterns and offset lithography. He attended Princeton University, where he painted, influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and majored in history. Early visits to New York art galleries would prove to be an influence upon his artistic development.

May 13, 1950

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder was born Steveland Hardaway Judkins. He is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won twenty-five Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti once referred to him in a concert as a "great, great musical genius".

Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, talk box, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, bass guitar, organ, melodica, and clarinet. In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills. Diana Ross, once called Wonder, "Motown's musical genius."

May 14, 1925 - April 26, 2006

Yuval Neeman

Yuval Neeman was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. One of his greatest achievements in physics was his discovery, in 1962, independently from Murray Gell-Mann, of the classification of hadrons through their SU(3) flavor symmetry, today known as the quark model. A nobel prize for this discovery was given to Murray Gell-Mann but not to Prof. Neeman, which left him with much frustration in years ahead. Nevertheless, Neeman made other important contributions in his scientific career to particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and the philosophy of science.

May 15, 1914 - May 9, 1986

Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. He was originally called "Namgyal Wangdi", but as a child his name was changed on advice from a lama. "Norgay" means "fortunate". His father, Ghang La Mingma, died in 1949. His mother, Kinzom, lived to see him climb Everest. He was the 11th of 13 children. He ran away to Kathmandu twice as a boy, and eventually settled in the Sherpa community in Too Song Bhusti in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.

Mount Everest

May 16, 1955

Olga Korbut

Artistic Gymnastics

Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team.

May 16, 1718 - January 9, 1799

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian linguist, philosopher, who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. She is credited with writing the first book, that still survives, discussing both differential and integral calculus. Pietro Agnesi recognized the talents and intelligence of his daughter Maria and treated her as a child prodigy. She was given tutors to learn five languages - Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French and Spanish - as well as philosophy and science.

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May 17, 1961

Enya

Enya, sometimes presented in the media as Enya Brennan, is an Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and is officially the country's second biggest musical export (second only to U2). Her works have earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination and is also famous for performing in 10 different languages during her lengthy career. Enya is an approximate transcription of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish, in the Donegal dialect.

May 17, 1792

New York Stock Exchange

On this day in 1792, twenty-four brokers sat down to fix rates for commissions on stocks and bonds. From that agreement came what has been known since as the New York Stock Exchange or Wall Street.The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is located in the financial district, an area in lower Manhattan, on a street named after a defensive wall built around 1650. Wall Street became interchangeable with the Stock Exchange. The original brokers' meeting place was quite different from todayšs noisy, crowded, high-energy floor. In bad weather, they met at a coffee house and when the day was sunny, the brokers sat under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to conduct their business.There are now over 51 million individual investors and 10,000 institutional investors who are represented on the floor of the NYSE by 480 member-trader firms. The NYSE is respected throughout the world and attracts investors from many countries.

May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was a philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. Although usually regarded as English, he was born in Wales. A prolific writer, he was a popularizer of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs; he was a prominent anti-war activist, championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. He authored the essay 'On Denoting' and was co-author (with Alfred North Whitehead) of 'Principia Mathematica,' an attempt to ground mathematics on the laws of logic. Both works have had a considerable influence on logic, set theory, linguistics and analytic philosophy.

Bertrand Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ascendancy. When he died almost a century later, the British Empire had all but vanished, its power had been dissipated by two world wars and its imperial system had been brought to an end. Among his postSecond World War political activities, Russell was a vigorous proponent of nuclear disarmament, antagonist to communist totalitarianism and an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. Previously he had been imprisoned and deprived of his Fellowship of Trinity College as a vigorous peace campaigner and opponent of conscription during the First World War, visited the emerging Soviet Union which subsequently met with his disapproval and campaigned vigorously against Adolf Hitler in the 1930s as well as being an accomplished mathematician. In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".

2012 Blog: World to End in 2012 (Check Back for Updates) Live Science - May 9, 2008

ANIMALS Great Dane makes a deer friend Telegraph.co.uk - May 10, 2008 Oldest gorilla in captivity turns 55 at Dallas Zoo AP - May 9, 2008

ANTARCTICA

ARCTIC Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer AP - May 3, 2008

ART China's Masterpiece Factories National Geographic - May 8, 2008

ASTROLOGY May Horoscopes AOL - May 1, 2008

ASTRONOMY Current Moon Phase

Current Solar Data From NOAA A Super Solar Flare NASA - May 6, 2008

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archives NASA Website

Spaceweather.com April 2008 Aurora Gallery

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Merging Antennae Galaxies Move Closer Science Daily - May 10, 2008 Physicists Create Universe Smaller Than a Marble TWPost - May 10, 2008 Nasa plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid travelling at 28,000 mph Guardian - May 8, 2008 Are the rovers cut out to detect alien life? MSBC - May 8, 2008 XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe PhysOrg - May 7, 2008 Solar System's 'look-alike' found BBC - May 6, 2008 Black Hole Rips Apart Screaming Star Live Science - May 6, 2008 Did Earth once have multiple moons? New Scientist - May 6, 2008 Spacecraft to fly into Sun's corona for first time New Scientist - May 6, 2008

AUTISM - MAY 2008 Autism Linked to Parents' Mental Illness AOL - May 5, 2008

BEES A Third of Honey Bee Hives Lost in 2007 AOL - May 8, 2008

BIRDS Can Birds Tell If We Look Them in the Eye? Live Science - May 5, 2008

BLOGS Sex is just one more chore on her to-do lis MSNBC - May 8, 2008 Išm Not Lying, Išm Telling a Future Truth. Really. New York Times - May 7, 2008 Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isnšt Better Carl Zimmer - May 5, 2008 Frequently Updated Blogs & Podcasts Philip Coppens Cosmic Log - Alan Boyle PsyBlog UFO Mystic - Bishop & Redfern Reality Sandwich Beyond the Blog Parapsychology Blogs Cryptmundo - Loren Coleman Blogs & Publications Archaeological Institute of America Biblical Archaeology Fortean Times New York Times New York Times Science Oprah.com Scientist.com Science Blogs Guardian.com Smithsonian.com Space Review UFO Digest

BOTANY Flowers 'wave' at passing insects BBC - May 8, 2008

BRAIN

BREAST FEEDING Breastfeeding Associated With Increased Intelligence Science Daily - May 6, 2008 Breastfeeding Rates Up, Along With Guilt Live Science - May 6, 2008

BUSINESS Oil surpasses $125 per barrel ahead of US driving season AP - May 9, 2008 10 Work-at-Home Jobs AOL - May 8, 2008 America's Fastest Dying Industries AOL - May 8, 2008 100 Best companies to work for in 2008 Fortune - May 7, 2008 Updated Daily Associated Press Business Week CNN NY Times USA Today

CARS Chrysler unleashes Dodge Challenger MSNBC - May 11, 2008 Plane-car hybrid that will revolutionise the way society works BBC - May 8, 2008 Tesla rolls out its long-awaited electric sports car PhysOrg - May 3, 2008 Where is gas the cheapest? AOL - May 2, 2008

COLUMBIA 1,000 Tombs Discovered in Colombia National Geographic - May 9, 2008

COMPREHENSION Comprehension Climbs When You Slooooow Doooown Wired - May 9, 2008

CONSCIOUSNESS What We Know (and Hate) About Consciousness Live Science - May 2, 2008

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DINOSAURS China: Dino-Era Bird Fossil Found; One of Oldest Known National Geographic - May 6, 2008

EARTH Innovative technology provides insight into whatšs below the Earthšs surface PhysOrg - May 5, 2008 'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Google Earth

EARTHQUAKES USGS Ongoing Updates and Links

ECOLOGY How cleaning up America dried up the Amazon New Scientist - May 8, 2008

EGYPT

ELECTION 2008 Obama rises from obscurity to verge of history MSNBC - May 11, 2008 Is he a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon or a lucky, well-timed candidate? Election Center 2008 Yahoo News Election Center 2008 CNN Politics

ELLIE'S WORLD TODAY Anything Can Happen at the End of the Program ... And Probably Will

ENTERTAINMENT Karen Allen is thrilled over Indyš return MSNBC - May 11, 2008 Free Readings Astrology - Monthly Facade: 5 Types of Free Readings Love Compatibility Free Test By Zodiac Sign Omikuji - Pick a Card Ziriya Message Board

EVOLUTION Platypus Genome Reveals Secrets of Mammal Evolution National Geographic - May 8, 2008

FACE Why Face Symmetry Is Sexy Across Cultures And Species Science Daily - May 8, 2008 Face Analysis Physignomy Crystalinks