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Scientists Find Diseases in Well-Preserved 400 Year Old Hearts

Scientists uncovered ruins in Rennes, France.  The ruins were the remains of a convent, a Christian community of priests, nuns, etc.  Within the convent, they found five urns in the shape of hearts.  What was inside those urns?  Actual hearts.  …

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Tropical Forest in Arctic Norway

According to scientists, weird trees with flared trunks and curved branches made up of needle leaves used to cover the equator around 380 million years ago.  Recently, they have found these trees very, very far away from the equator.  They …

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Gene Editing Saves Infant Girl’s Life

At Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), the world’s first patient with “incurable” leukemia was cured today.  The patient, Layla Richards, was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of only 14 weeks old.  She went through months and months of treatment …

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No More Broken Phone Screens?

Imagine a world where you could drop your phone and not have your heart drop to the floor when you see your new iPhone or Android hit the ground full force.  Well that world has almost arrived.  Corning Inc.’s West …

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Cool Facts about the Blood Moon

The Blood Moon on 9/27/2015 is a very rare lunar eclipse that happens about once every 18 years.  It isn’t just a normal lunar eclipse.  A normal lunar eclipse is just when the moon gets behind the Earth and sunlight …

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Defining Collaborative Learning.

Collaborative learning can take on many meanings and be interpreted and view differently based on an individual. When we think of the term the most common definition as pointed out in “What do you mean by ‘collaborative learning’?” by Pierre …

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The New Generation not so Tech-Savvy after all

I’ve heard it time after time that kids or younger people are more technologically advanced than the older generation. While that might hold some value and truth to it, we shouldn’t be so confident to think of ourselves as the …

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Virtual Interaction vs. Personal Interaction.

The internet has come a long way from what it first was created for. The world wide web intended to share information, mostly professional work related content. Now we mainly use it as a form to connect to other’s. Facebook, …

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Technology making us scared to be alone.

As humans we have a natural need to feel wanted and accepted. We want to be celebrated, appreciated or at the very least acknowledge in some way or another. And whats wrong with that? Nothings it’s our nature we are …

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Has automation failed to simplify our lives?

In the 1950’s people had mixed emotions on automation, whether it was a good thing or bad, was based on your perception of the future and what it would hold. Many believed that it would take jobs away and we …

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