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Space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the left of each shuttle are the open rotating service structures with the payload changeout rooms revealed. The rotating service structures provide protection for weather and access to the shuttle. For the first time since July 2001; two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time. Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' upcoming STS-125 mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Troy Cryder/NASA. MHE World

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Space Coast

June 1, 2016 btwuser 0

In 2011, NASA retired its 30-year-old shuttle program when Atlantis returned from its mission, touching down at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]

Selective focus close-up view of a small, transparent glass globe of the earth placed in front of a computer monitor displaying Facebook. The globe creates a fisheye magnification of the word 'facebook' on the screen. As of today, Facebook is the largest social media network on the web. ©dolphfyn / Alamy. MHE World

Stuff YOU Should Know

May 28, 2016 btwuser 0

EgyptAir Crash Update Earlier this month, EgyptAir Flight 804 disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. There were 66 people aboard, including crew. The flight departed from […]

Close-up selective focus view of a row of empty swing seats at a playground in Chung Hsing New Village, Taiwan. michaeliao27/Getty Images. MHE Canada;MHE USA

Get in the Park!

May 26, 2016 btwuser 0

Parks have been around for as long as people have thought to designate some green space for tossing around a ball or spreading out a […]

Sunrise shining on Big Ben, London, United Kingdom. ©Spaces Images/Blend Images LLC. MHE World

Stuff YOU Should Know

May 20, 2016 btwuser 0

New Brazilian Leadership Last month, btw brought you a story of significant conflict within Brazil’s government. Since then, President Dilma Rousseff has been “suspended” from […]

Balloons line the streets in front of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Saturday, May 14, 2016 in San Francisco. The new museum opened to the public Saturday, May 14, 2016 with 19 inaugural exhibitions showcasing the work of artists like Diego Rivera, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol and Mark Bradford. Olga Rodriguez/AP Images. http://www.apimages.com/Search?query=668161887848&ss=10&st=kw&entitysearch=&toItem=24&orderBy=Oldest

Art in a Modern World

May 19, 2016 btwuser 0

Continuing what has turned into a theme in the past few weeks—life in a digital world—btw looks at how “old institutions” are shifting operations in […]

Artificially Coloured MRI Scan Of Human Brain. Daisy-Daisy/Alamy. MHE World

Your Brain in a Digital World

May 12, 2016 btwuser 0

Last week, btw brought you a story about what happens to the brain when you do more than one thing at a time. This week […]

Merry Go Round. sarah beard buckley/Getty Images. MHE Canada;MHE USA.

Stuff YOU Should Know

May 11, 2016 btwuser 0

Captain America: Civil War The Marvel Cinematic Universe released another wildly successful movie earlier this month. With a budget of around $250 million, Captain America: […]

Monotasking: One Thing at a Time

May 6, 2016 btwuser 0

How often do you start reading something—an article, a story for school, an email—and jump to something else—another article, a text, or your Instagram? Some […]

How to build a fallout shelter. National Archives and Records Administration [NWDNS-311-D-15(7)]. MHE World

Survivalist Real Estate Being prepared for wide-spread calamity—nuclear war, social unrest, climate change, disruptions in our utility grids, perceived Constitutional threats—is not a new concept. […]

Sunrise shining on Big Ben, London, United Kingdom. Spaces Images/Blend Images. Blend Images, LLC

Stuff YOU Should Know

April 29, 2016 btwuser 0

Prince Dies If you are on social media, or simply paying attention at all in the past couple of weeks, you are likely quite aware that […]