4.7 03 Some new thinking may have brought astronomers a step closer to solving the mystery of how our moon formed. Researchers have long believed that the moon was cleaved from a Mars-sized planet that collided with Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. Yet recent tests of lunar rock samples suggest that the moon’s chemical makeup is too similar to […]
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5.0 01 Across the world, bats are in trouble from climate change – not only through collisions with the wind turbines that are intended to mitigate its effects, but from what the increasing warmth does to their ability to find their prey. Bats often get a bad press, portrayed as disease-spreading bloodsuckers. In fact, they perform a vital role as […]
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0.0 00 “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi
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0.0 00 “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
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0.0 00 “You are made in the image of what you desire.” – Thomas Merton
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0.0 00 “Humility is attentive patience.” – Simone Weil
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0.0 00 44%: Percentage of U.S. firms since 2008 that have reduced their head counts in part because of automation.
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0.0 00 “We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” – Albert Einstein
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5.0 01 Over 15 years of observational data collected by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Australia Telescope Compact Array have given us a composite image of a tremendous cosmic blast. The image depicts an x-ray beam (blue) casts away from the black hole sitting at the center of Pictor A, a galaxy located 500 million light years from Earth. […]
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5.0 02 A man died on in Germany after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal from a blown up condom machine that he and two accomplices destroyed in an apparent robbery attempt. The 29-year-old man was taken to the hospital in the western town of Schoeppingen, near the Dutch border, by the two other […]
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