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Black holes aren't evil cosmic vacuum cleaners, and other misconceptions

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"Some people imagine that they're Hoovers [vacuum cleaners] in the sky," Jean Creighton, an astronomer and the director of the Manfred Olson Planetarium at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, told Mashable. "Of Of course, that's not true." At times, these invisible objects can essentially scream into the cosmos.

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PanguVR mixes virtual reality and artificial intelligence to revolutionize interior design

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from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, I worked for IBM Research in Silicon Valley as a database architect, and after that e arned my MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. I fell in love with computers (and computer games) at a very young age due to the influence of my father who is a neuro-physicist.

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Too many used books? Want to help literacy efforts? Here's what to do.

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Molly Ness, for example, is a literacy advocate and founder of the Coalition for Literacy Equity , a coalition of nonprofits, literacy advocates, authors, and others involved in cultivating stronger literacy and reading culture for children and families around the country.

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The James Webb telescope's first stunning cosmic images are here

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Some planets, for example, might contain water, methane, and carbon dioxide, which could potentially mean they're habitable worlds. Using instruments called spectrometers, Webb can sleuth out what the atmospheres of distant, alien worlds are composed of. There are perhaps a trillion or more exoplanets in our Milky Way galaxy alone.)

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The intriguing link between depression and misinformation

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For example, falsehoods about government conspiracies might be easier to believe than complex explanations about how COVID vaccines work. They may have difficulty tolerating the uncertainty of situations that are inherently difficult to predict, such as a pandemic. It makes the situation seem very cut and dry."

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Scale Learning and Teaching for the Online Classroom

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These lessons can be integrated seamlessly into your lesson plan and provide an opportunity for both teachers and students to demonstrate practical lesson examples. . Get started with a free AVR Platform account .