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Why Is NASA Working So Hard To Learn How To Defend The Earth From Giant Asteroids?

Did you know that NASA is going to send a spacecraft on a suicide mission in an attempt to change the trajectory of a massive space rock?  The good news is that the space rock that NASA will be crashing this spacecraft into is not on a collision course with Earth.  It is only a test.  But why has NASA suddenly become so concerned with figuring out how to defend the Earth from giant asteroids?  Could it be possible that there is something heading toward Earth in the future that they haven’t told us about yet? According to NASA, there are more than 26,000 asteroids that pass near Earth, and more than 2,000 of them are classified as “potentially dangerous” asteroids.

Musician Rajna Swaminathan Among Handful of Women Mrudangam Artists

In 2019, when Rajna Swaminathan, acclaimed mrudangam artist – among a handful of women playing the mrudangam professionally – composer, and scholar, released her debut album, “Agency and Abstraction,” music connoisseurs took notice: she created new sounds from the instrument – which she started playing when she was just five – breaking away from tradition. In her music and research, according to her website, the Indian American musician “explores the undercurrents of rhythmic experience and emergent textures in collective improvisation.” She received her creative foundation on the instrument from her father, P.K. Swaminathan, and mrudangam maestro Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. While she spent much of her youth performing in the Carnatic music and Bharatanatyam scenes across the diaspora and in India, her music has also been informed by her study of Western classical piano, an affinity for Indian film music and other popular music, and extensive c

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