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A Look At The So-Called "Grassroots" Movements

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The Republican Party and Fox News have recently been talking about the so called  "Grassroots movements", similar to the "Tea Parties", recently sweeping the country.  These "movements" claim to be ordinary people, fed up with the government, spontaneously rising up and confronting their representatives.  What's recently been shown and proven however is that just like the "Tea Parties" before them, this has all been orchestrated by powerful right-wing lobbying groups and corporations.  These people have been instructed not only to show their anger, but how to STOP the civil discourse and debate required by a healthy democracy.

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See Gorgious Photos of a Quarter-Million Galaxies

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Galaxy Zoo provides over a quarter of a million galaxies for ordinary people to look at and classify.  Scientists would like other human help identifying the shapes of galaxies and getting other input that computers are only so good at. See thousands of never before seen galaxies across the known universe.
The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer. More than 150,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. Zoo 2 focuses on the nearest, brightest and most beautiful galaxies, so to begin exploring the Universe, click the ‘How To Take Part’ link above, or read ‘The Story So Far’ to find out what Galaxy Zoo has achieved to date.
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