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San Gabriel Valley roundup: Brown plays scientist for a day at JPL, Quidditch in South Pasadena and Altadena becomes epicure Mecca
Good morning, readers. Today is Thursday, August 23 and here are some of the latest local stories from around the Web. Gov. Jerry Brown took a quick tour of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus on Wednesday afternoon, where he acknowledged his nickname, ...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Local Elections, Garfield Park, Google+
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JPL workers hit a high note
Singing in a chorus might not be rocket science, but that hasn’t stopped Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers from forming their own company of singers. The JPL Chorus will make its debut at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in a free concert with the Pasadena...
Tags: Entertainment, Technology, Career and Workplace, Culture, Science and Technology
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Congress looks at boosting JPL budget
Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s missions to Mars have gotten a boost from congressional leaders, who this week found up to $100 million more for NASA’s planetary science program. The White House’s initial proposal for the 2013 NASA budget...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Science, NASA, Adam Schiff
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JPL ships gear for sweeping greenhouse gas study
A scientific instrument designed to take the most meaningful snapshot yet of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere is on its way to space, via a lengthy testing detour in Arizona. On May 9 Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers in La Canada...
Tags: NASA, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Science and Technology, Space Programs
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Glendale students, teacher head to NASA's Johnson Space Center
Two local students have engineered a modest science experiment into one very big opportunity. Regina Kim, 14, and Rachel Harmon, 13, both eighth-grade students at Wilson Middle School, will travel with their science teacher Mary Inglish to the Johnson...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Education, Science
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Curiosity countdown: Biggest-yet Mars rover speeds toward destiny
The Curiosity rover is within 100 days of landing on Mars, and JPL scientists are jazzed about the upcoming adventures of the biggest rover yet sent to the Red Planet. The Mini Cooper-sized vehicle, ensconced within the Mars Science Laboratory, is...
Tags: Science, NASA, Los Angeles Times, Science and Technology
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Hoops the hard way: Competition pits local teams in a robotic game of basketball
Local teens tested their mettle — and their metal — during a regional robotics competition Friday and Saturday at the Long Beach Arena. La Caņada High School, John Burroughs High School in Burbank, John Muir High School in Pasadena, and...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, John Burroughs, John Muir, Sports, Basketball
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Former JPL employee says he was fired, lawyer says he was laid off
Attorneys defending the Jet Propulsion Laboratory against a former worker who claims he was fired because of his belief in intelligent design lost their bid this week to block media access to the trial.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ernest Hiroshige...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Satellite Technology, Trials, Justice System, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sooty black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make... -
Local stargazers escape to the desert
They traveled more than 200 miles from the San Gabriel Valley to reach one of the darkest corners in Southern California. Three hours before sunset on Saturday, half a dozen amateur astronomers unloaded high-powered telescopes onto a concrete platform...
Tags: Mojave National Preserve, Saturn, Astronomy
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Caltech to appeal judge's order to rescind disciplinary actions
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday said it planned to appeal a National Labor Relations Board judge’s order to rescind disciplinary actions against five engineers and scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision...Tags: Work Relations, NASA, Employees, George W. Bush, Career and Workplace
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