Vice President Kamala Harris has been mocked by conservative voices over a NASA video in which she talks about space exploration with children who turned out to be actors. However, the new NASA Administrator appointed by the Bush administration, Sean O’Keefe, was not supportive of New Horizons and effectively canceled it by not including it in NASA’s budget for 2003. NASA’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Ed Weiler, prompted Stern to lobby for the funding of New Horizons in hopes of the mission appearing in the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, a prioritized “wish list,” compiled by the United States National Research Council, that reflects the opinions of the scientific community. You can view the proposed 2025 budget for the Village of Almond here. If you get writer’s block in the middle of preparing the budget report, get up and pace until your mind clears. The first version of the SLS will be called Block 1. It will undergo a series of upgrades in coming years so that it can launch heavier payloads to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit. Somewhere in the darkness of space, a rogue planet, unencumbered by any orbit in a solar system, spins its way towards Earth.

Of course, distinguishing native DNA from contaminating DNA in samples from Antarctica is easier, since the location in question is already here on Earth. Your eyes tell the brain “I’m just sitting still here on the bed” while your inner ear screams “will somebody please steady this ship!” Your semicircular canal feels the motion of the boat without being able to see the horizon moving up and down. Most importantly, your abs hold you upright in a sitting position. There’s a reason why your abs are referred to as “core” muscles. Contract your abdominal muscles. This will work your leg muscles and your glutes, making it easier and easier to get up out of that chair. Whether you operate a small business out of your home or simply have a dedicated spot in a room or closet for handling your household paperwork, it needs to be organized. The Home Secretary’s speech to the INTERPOL General Assembly in Glasgow on working together to deliver on government priorities.

Get that bum working for you. Drink a lot of water during the day so you have to get up and go to the bathroom at least once an hour. Without them, you’d have to be strapped into your chair or you’d slump over onto your desk. Some of them, the authors point out, have biosignatures that look similar to the mysterious light-absorbing feature seen in Venus’ clouds. Without them, you couldn’t bend over to pick up a paper clip from the floor or twist in your chair to pull a file from the drawer. They help you sit up, bend over, lift your legs and twist your body. They’re the fulcrum around which your body works. The difference in calories burned per day between the two types of people was about 350 calories. A study by the Mayo Clinic showed that leaner people were more likely than heavy people to get up and move around throughout the day, even if they weren’t necessarily exercising.

If you tend to be more sedentary, this information might motivate you to find ways to be more active throughout the day. Once you’re done with anything that has personal information on it — bank account number, Social Security number, credit card applications — get rid of it. Every time you get up from your chair or sit back down, hover one inch (2.54 centimeters) above your seat for a few seconds. And because the cords are in a jumbled mess, if you ever want to unplug or move one appliance, you’ll have to unplug and move all of them. If you want some bigger or better-looking boxes, photo storage boxes and cigar boxes work just as well. The common, ultra-simple storage solutions come to mind: shelves for stacking books and boxes, bulletin boards for tacking up reminders, and filing cabinets for filing away the papers you don’t need to see again for a while. How many you need is up to you, but these boxes, which stack easily and look attractive because they’re all the same color and size, are ideal for “adhesives” (gluestick, thumbtacks, tape), pens, pencils and batteries, for example.