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Goodnight Moon & The Astrophysics of Bedtime Stories

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 18, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 10/18/2010 - 13:01
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Chad Orzel at Scienceblogs.com has a fun article on "Goodnight Moon" and a bunny that says good night to a lot of stuff and tackles the question everyone has - how long does it take to say goodnight to all that stuff?

Using the awesome power of science, he lets us know ... 

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