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Novembers young-adult fiction: fantasy worlds and alien encounters

Claire Hennessy

Corruption eats at the heart of our land. It grows most virulently among those who rule our people. Bestselling author Sabaa Tahir returns to fantasy and the world of her An Ember in the Ashes series ...[Continue Reading]

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In Search of a Second Opinion

Stanley Goldfarb

When patients turn to professional societies like the AMA or the American College of Physicians or the American Association of Pediatrics for vital health information, one might expect that the infor ...[Continue Reading]

Washington Free Beacon

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Archaeologists using drones uncover 4,000-year-old fish-trapping canals made by ancient Mayan predecessors

Brie Stimson

Archaeologists, with the help of drones and Google Earth imagery, have discovered 4,000-year-old canals in Belize that were once used by the predecessors of the ancient Mayans to catch freshwater fis ...[Continue Reading]

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Why aren't we crushed by the weight of Earth's atmosphere?

Charles Q. Choi

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space , the Krmn line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the mass o ...[Continue Reading]

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Why you're wrong about AI art, according to the Ai-Da robot that just made a $1 million painting

mark.wilson@futurenet.com (Mark Wilson)

Science fiction promised us robot butlers, but it seems they rather fancy themselves as artists instead. And who can blame them? On November 7, a painting of the mathematician Alan Turing by an AI-po ...[Continue Reading]

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Fred Harris, former U.S. senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94

The Associated Press

Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator fromOklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94. Harris wife, Margaret El ...[Continue Reading]

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