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  • Large Hadron Collider Quilt [pic]

    Having a major interest in physics research, I am obsessed with any news I hear coming from the Large Hadron Collider.  That is why I would probably be the perfect person to own an LHC quit like this one! Kate Findlay is the amazing quilter that made this Large Hadron Collider quilt.  The amount of…

  • NASA’s GRAIL Provides First Video of Far Side of the Moon [video]

    I am a huge space enthusiast so when I saw a few of my favorite sites posting the new video from NASA showing the first video from GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) showing the far side of the moon, I figured I should share it as well.  I find the video to be quite…

  • Massive LEGO Albert Einstein [pics]

    As much as I have wanted to go, I have never been to any of the Legoland parks.  Well, it looks like the one I really want to go to is in Florida because it is the Florida LEGOland in Orlando that houses this awesome and humongous Albert Einstein.  This LEGO Albert Einstein head measures…

  • Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson [video]

    I’m sure few of you realize this, but I am generally very hesitant about posting videos on Global Geek News for reasons ranging from my hatred of Flash to bandwidth reasons to the viewing problems on mobile devices.  But, every once in a while, I come across a video that is so awesome that I…

  • Atlantis’ Final Reentry Over Cancun, Mexico [video]

    Yesterday morning, I woke up at 3:30am to watch the final space shuttle reentry.  Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few months, you know that the return of the Space Shuttle Atlantis wrapped up the Space Shuttle program yesterday morning.  As sad as that is, this amazing video has been…

  • Spectacular Solar Prominence Eruption Caught on Video

    I have always been fascinated by the things that go on in space and I especially enjoy videos of solar prominence eruptions from the sun, especially huge ones like this!  The massive solar prominence eruption seen in the picture and video below occurred yesterday morning and I think it is probably the most spectacular one…