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What not to mix: Glucose and Vodka

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You open the front door: your nostrils immediately fill with the smell of smoke and alcohol as you step over carved pumpkins and candy strewn across the floor of the house. Strobe lights flicker as the walls vibrate to the beat of the bass, and you catch a glimpse of Superman dancing with a mermaid and Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz,” drinks in hand. It’s that time of the year … [Read more...] about What not to mix: Glucose and Vodka

We have left the solar system … or have we?

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Art by Brooke Muschott The year was 1977. Disco music was groovy. It was actually cool to wear shiny polyester. Personal computers of any usefulness were only a few years away. And after years of planning, the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft were launched two weeks apart in August and September of that year aboard Titan-Centaur heavy-lift rockets. Together, these two spacecraft … [Read more...] about We have left the solar system … or have we?

Minority civil ‘rights’ left behind

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Art by Gary Wright In the past, our label screamed misfits, tricksters, the “unclean,” satanic, inept. Even in the present age, we are still quietly discriminated against by government agencies, feared by religious institutions and ignored by educational systems simply because our dominant hand is our left — personal desks are designed with right-handers in mind; scissors, … [Read more...] about Minority civil ‘rights’ left behind

Curiosity sips water on Mars

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Art by Sacha Irick On July 21, 1969, the world sat in eager anticipation as Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, declaring to a worldwide audience of millions that it was “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Armstrong’s moonwalk captured the hope and anticipation of a generation after the U.S. and the Soviet Union had been locked … [Read more...] about Curiosity sips water on Mars