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Salem Lutheran School in Stillwater, MN was closed due to H1N1. Image: KSAX TV
Although the H1N1 flu season is just heating up, it doesn't look like there will be the kind of long-term...
It’s easy to find a list of horror movies to watch for Halloween. They run the gamut from good to bad to so-bad-it’s-good to funny. But for parents of pre-teens, it...
The European Space Agency is seeking volunteers for a 520 day mission to Mars. The trip will begin in early 2010 and include 30 days on the surface of the red planet. The only...
Okay - there’s been lots and lots of interest in vaccinations on wired.com recently. Here’s a well-reasoned explanation as to why one reasonably smart and...
Image From NASA MSFC, Artist Pat Rawling
The legend that is Sir Arthur C. Clarke is formidable. As a science fiction author who knew how to mix imagination with scientific reality, Clarke left the world a legacy of wonderful stories as well as a...
My 3-year-old is impressed.
If you’re like many modern parents with little kids, you’ve probably got two cars, but one car seat per child, which you move back and forth depending on who’s playing chauffeur for the day. If you’re lucky, you might even...
<img class="size-full wp-image-21299" title="triops_flipping_660w" src="http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/triops_flipping_660w.jpg" alt="Image by Lori Adams from the book "Triops: A Very Unusual Creature"" width="480" height="582"...
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Fairy tales fill our childhoods. Story after story, all just a little bit different, make up the books we read, the movies we see and the modernized versions we are exposed to. Sometimes it is just nice to go back and...
