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James Riordan‘s current events article series, “A Well Thought-Out Scream”

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The two greatest mysteries left for science to unravel could be summed up by two questions.  What’s out there?  What’s in there?  The first question refers to the infinitely large while the second questions refers to the infinitely small.  On both of these issues, every time we think we know

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What is the most magical animal you can think of?  No, not werewolves.  That’s in the monster category.  I’m talking magic, fantasy, the things little girls dream about.  I’m talking unicorns!  The one horned horse has long been associated with magical powers and fantasy landscape.  Some legends maintain that just

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You know how in Jurassic Park the crazy scientists create dinosaurs from DNA they distilled from a fossil trapped in amber?Well, that was fun and totally impossible because no dinosaur fossils had ever been found with their DNA intact.  That is, until March 15, 2016.  Coincidentally, March 15th is also the

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It’s been ten years since NASA launched the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and the device has now completed nearly 45,000 trips around the red planet and taken more than 200,000 images of it and other objects in the vicinity.  The working life of the intrepid craft was expected to end seven

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Well, Kim Jong Un and regime are at it again.  The North Korean dictator seems to relish in following his father’s tendency to issue idle threats at the United States.  This one came as state official website a nuclear scientist named Cho Hyong Il bragged on the country’s powerful new weapon.  “Our

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What was the old song?  “Love makes the world go ’round”.  Well, scientists are now finding evidence to back the lyric up.  Well, not exactly.  It may not be love that makes the world go ’round, but it is certain that emotions play a heavy part in every aspect of our

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Today (Monday, March 7th), Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the National Football League and there are many who think he ranks as the greatest professional football player in history. “When you look at everything Peyton has accomplished as a player and person, it’s easy to see how fortunate we’ve

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On February 6th,  a meteor exploded over the Atlantic with more force than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima to end World War II.  Usually, when a meteor enters out atmosphere it starts burning immediately and is  disintegrated  well before it hits the ground.  Sometimes the meteor is so large that it still makes

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Now there’s a headline right out of the late 70s.  On February 5, US Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations agents on a P-3 Orion early-warning aircraft picked up and tracked a suspicious vessel heading north toward the US, according to a CBP press release.  The airborne agents

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So, what could possibly make the gun situation in America any worse?  Charlton Heston gets reincarnated?  A national police strike?  A hit new reality show called How To Get A Gun for Fun, Profit and Death?  Or how about this — a machine that will allow anyone to print their

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