Fort Worth to shut down tree planting program
The proposed city budget calls for the elimination of six forestry positions as well as supplies and contractual expenditures.
Friday, Aug. 15, 2008
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Newest Texas Paddling Trail to open on Lake Arlington
Head out to Richard W. Simpson Park on the evening of Aug. 14 for the watery ribbon cutting.
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008
Fort Worth Omni Theater pre-opening breakfast gala and mini-movie review: Dinosaurs Alive!
DAMN executive producer.
The venerable Omni opens its doors after having them nailed shut for about a year due to renovation, and we are there. With a camera.
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
Dallas-based Repair Stem Cell Institute announces science advisory board
The board consists of some of the world's leading stem cell medical, science and research professionals.
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008
Renovated Omni Theater in Fort Worth reopens in August
Improvements include conversion of sound system from analog to digital, with 50 speakers.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Movie review: Encounters at the End of the World
A legendary filmmaker visits the mountains of madness. Along with a suicidal penguin.
Demystifying Earth's southernmost continent: Herzog style.
Friday, July 25, 2008
SMU physicists create particle detector to be used on CERN supercollider
Their instrument weighs in at 7,000 tons. "Um, FedEx? We've got a pickup for ya."
Friday, July 18, 2008
UT Arlington one of only 25 campuses to host ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp
Students will get hands-on experience in math and science, particularly how to fudge oil-funded global warming studies.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Volunteers unearth 40-foot fossil in Garland residence
It's not every day you find a carnivorous lepidosaur in your back yard.
Monday, July 14, 2008
McKinney’s Heard Museum touts live Texas snakes
Red and yellow kill a fellow; red and black - O.K. Jack! (I think.)
New exhibit kicks off with a (presumably) non-poisonous members-only picnic followed by snake cake walks and games.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
“Roundup” of dinosaur specimens at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History offers a new look at Texas’ prehistoric treasures
The exhibit, among other dino bones, will feature Texas' soon-to-be state dinosaur, the Paluxysaurus jonesi. Say it out loud. It has a nice ring to it.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
UT Arlington student awarded a NASA fellowship
A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a disturbance in space weather, also known as a "holy crap."
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Dallas Museum of Nature and Science receives $50 million gift from Perot kids
This gift pushes the Museum past its $100 million milestone.
Friday, May 30, 2008
UTD professor heading to Arizona to monitor Mars landing
The Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas will be hosting a Mars landing watching party on Sunday starting at 5 p.m.
Friday, May 23, 2008
UTD device is on its way to Mars to test for life
Physicists from UTD have played a role in many previous space missions.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Mindbender Academy to commence warping Frisco kids’ brains this summer
Bending minds...in the good way.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
UT Arlington math department to host major, massive, behemoth, REAL BIG international conference
The four-day conference is expected to attract more than 700 participants from 40-plus countries across all continents except the Antarctic. Damn you, Antarctic.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Expelled forum provides intellectual discourse on controversial film
The vibe was Jerry Springer-meets-NPR and the lesson was that people who are steeped in the evidence behind their point of view keep their blood pressure in check better than those who don't.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History exhibit, ‘CSI: The Experience,’ receives experience industry’s Thea Award for excellence in innovation
The Thea Awards, considered the experience industry's highest honor, recognize excellence in the creation of outstanding guest experiences.
Monday, April 28, 2008
D-FW experts of all kinds recruited for upcoming Expelled panel
So, a biologist, film professor and Creation Institute editor walk into a theater...
Monday, April 28, 2008
Gala World Premiere: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Dallas' Angelika Film Center hosts a tony invitation-only advance screening of a confrontational doc sure to stir up controversy.
It's all about Darwinian evolution and how its entrenched establishment proponents are reportedly persecuting those who dare to mention Intelligent Design. (Or maybe it's about free speech. Or the holocaust. Stay tuned...)
Thursday, April 17, 2008
April showers bring Dallas events aplenty
Spring is here. The birds are singing, and so are Aretha Franklin and the Pointer Sisters.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
UT Dallas to be visited by former-student-turned-astronaut
UTD Alum James Reilly—who has been into space many more times than you, sucker—will speak on Thursday, April 3rd on the possibility of life on Mars.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
TCU study finds science teachers don’t know jack (about science)
Areas of notable deficiency: evolutionary theory, sex education and the basic nature of science.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair opens on Saturday, March 29
Nearly 800 local middle and high school students with the best science and engineering research projects in the Dallas region will compete for approximately $100,000 in prizes and scholarships.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Festivities from the fishy to the flowery for Dallas this weekend
Smell that? It just reeks of equinox.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Texas Astronomers to convene at UT Dallas, hear from man leading hunt for E.T.
Drew Barrymore was in this movie, and she was like tiny, remember? And then you look away and BAM she's all 35 or whatever, and you gotta wonder about yourself.
Monday, March 24, 2008
SETI astronomer Seth Shostak to speak at UTD
Texas Astronomical Society hosts event.
Possessed of a "quick wit and (an) engaging personality," Dr. Shostak will tell us whether there's intelligent life out there or not. (Won't he? He'd better, because otherwise what's the point?)
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Mammoth tooth found by Allen girl
Family proudly kept tooth on coffee table for months, presumably alongside piles of old magazines.
Friday, March 7, 2008
TCU hosts public lecture on NASA Discovery mission
The search for Earth-like planets in habitable zones will be the subject of this talk on the evening of Feb. 25
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Unveils Inaugural Season of Brinker International Forum
The 2008-2009 Season will feature renowned performing artists and dynamic National Geographic Live! events.
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
World’s record highest-flying balloonist (and longest parachuting free-faller) to speak at Frontiers of Flight Museum
... and he answers a few preliminary questions for us here at Pegasus News.
Col. Joseph Kittinger will talk about his experiences as an aviator both before and after his record-setting Stratospheric experience.
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
Clouds, rain, and wind could blow your chance to see the lunar eclipse
The moon doesn't care if you see it or not. It doesn't perform for you. It's not your puppet.
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
Stargazers invited to watch moon’s vanishing act at UTD
Physics department, Astronomy Society to gather for full lunar eclipse on Feb. 20th.
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008
UT Dallas talk to explore ‘Spiritual Art in the Age of Science’
The free lecture will explore the creative influences art and science have on each other.
Monday, Feb. 11, 2008
UT Dallas-sponsored symposium examines nature of time and the experience of virtual reality
When was the last time you examined something? Belly buttons not included.
Monday, Feb. 11, 2008
UT Arlington to host free workshop on driverless vehicles
Autonomy is what they want. Once they have it, they will be ready. Once they are ready, they will stop at nothing.
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
Texas Instruments Foundation grants $332,000 to University of Texas at Dallas
Fund aims to raise talent bar by encouraging students to study both technology and business.
Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008
La Reunion hosts first annual tree carving and open house
Celebrate art and nature together.
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008
UTD welcomes NASA space astronomer
Dr. Mark Clampin will speak about extra-solar system planets (and disks!) on Jan. 25
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008
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