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For more than a hundred years, dinosaurs have captured imaginations and spawned an entire sub-genre of fiction. However, the dinosaurs portrayed by 1993’s Jurassic Park or even the much more recent Jurassic World are so far removed from reality as to be almost pure fantasy. As a result, most people have completely the wrong impression…
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Today, more than ever before, people take their technology for granted, whether it be their smartphone cameras, batteries or the very methods of transport they use to get around. While it’s often easy to assume that almost all modern technology sprouted up in the last century or, at earliest, in the Industrial Revolution, some of…
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When it comes to dinosaurs, there’s only a select few that seem to get almost all of the attention. While almost everyone has heard of the triceratops and his arch enemy the tyrannosaurus rex, there have been at least 700 confirmed species spanning some 150 million years of evolution, all of which belong to the…
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Almost 25 years after astronomers confirmed the existence of the first extra solar planet ever discovered, there have been more than 2100 planets discovered orbiting stars other than our own. Among these are some worlds that might just be habitable, though there are others with environments far more extreme and skies more alien than anything…
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The last 12,000 years make up the Holocene epoch, which began with the end of the last ice age. Although anatomically modem humans have been around for far longer than this, the Holocene, which continues to the present, 9w the spread of human migration with the Neolithic Revolution and the birth of human civilization. However,…
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