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The 9th Annual City Nature Challenge
The world-wide event started yesterday, April 26th in each time zone and runs through 11:59 pm on Monday, April 29th. From Tuesday, April 30 through Sunday, May 5 the online community will collaborate to identify species that were photographed during the Challenge. This is Brandon's 3rd year in the CNC.
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Read more at DiscoverWestman.com
Chicago Police Are Looking For The Person Who Sexually Abused a Girl at the Museum of Science and Industry
The crime in question occurred on Thursday at the museum, 5700 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive. The 10-year-old girl was approached by the suspect, who offered to help her find the group.
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Read more at NBC Chicago
The First Life-Size Representation of a Ballplayer
the sculpture is the first life-size representation of a ritual ballplayer found to date in the Huasteca, a tropical region spanning parts of several states along the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Like virtually every other Mesoamerican society, the inhabitants of the region played what is simply known today as the ballgame. For the players, who bounce a solid, dangerously heavy rubber ball off their hips, it was a means of communing with the gods, one that sometimes culminated in human sacrifice.
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Read more at The New York Times
Man Sexually Abused 10-Year-Old in Bathroom at Museum of Science and Industry
Police say man sexually abused 10-year-old girl in bathroom at Museum of Science and Industry. The man crawled under the stall door and touched the girl's genital area with his hand. Police say the man is between 30 and 40 years old and between 5-foot-10 and 6-foot-3.
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Read more at WLS-TV
Netflix Review: 3 Body Problem
3 Body Problem (2024) tells the complex story of a group of scientists looking to solve a series of mysteries afflicting the global scientific community. The series evokes predecessors like Black Mirror (2011-present) in exploring technology’s potential to harm rather than do good, posing questions equal parts philosophical and polemical. By the fifth episode, the pieces start to fall into place—and the answer lies beyond the stars.
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Read more at The Georgetown Voice
Texas Retired Teachers Foundation Classroom Assistance Grant
Keisha Kirkwood, a health science teacher at the Career and Technology Education Center, is the recipient of the Texas Retired Teachers Foundation Classroom Assistance grant. Kirkwood will receive a $1,000 grant for a bacteria lab for the 2024-2025 school year. The grant will provide students with a hands-on, safe learning experience in microbiology and permit them to swab different building surfaces.
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Read more at KBTV Fox 4 Beaumont
The First Animals That Glow in the Deep
Bioluminescence in the sea whip coral Funiculina sp. observed under red light in a laboratory. Most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean and they might have been doing it longer than thought. In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow.
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Read more at Phys.org
Catalonia's Teacher Recruitment Exams
Nearly 18,000 people in Catalonia took the teacher recruitment exams on Saturday. This is a record-breaking offering of teaching positions in an ordinary call. Of the 9,344 positions to be filled, 2,131 are for primary school teachers and 6,947 are for secondary school teachers. The subject areas with the most vacancies are mathematics.
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Read more at Catalan News
New Zealand Volcanoes
Northland, for example, was built on a volcanic field, much like Auckland. It was made up of scoria fields, lava flows and explosion craters. The volcanoes were not talked about much because they were not quite as frequently active, but also we don't have a third of the country's population living on top of [them].
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Read more at 1News
Environmental Defenders: Fighting for Our Natural World by Raewyn Peart
The case was against the Swiss government, a political entity that is the most democratic in the world. It outraged Céline Amaudruz, vice-president of the Swiss People’s Party, who called for her country to withdraw from the European court. In New Zealand, judges on the Court of Appeal allowed an activist and sometime vandal, Mike Smith, to sue seven of the country’s largest corporations for their alleged contribution to climate change.
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Read more at The National Business Review