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"From looking at the other projects, this year's theme was baking soda volcanoes. " This year, and every year.
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"Juan Collar of the University of Chicago said people were excited about the new results. "You wouldn't put your hand on fire that this is wimps," he said, but agreed that some kinds of wimps were still among many possibilities, including that the e
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"A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of the Earth."
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"The new test of general relativity concerns a distant galactic core or quasar called OJ287, which is known to emit a pair of bright optical bursts every 12 years or so. "
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"I think of many of these psychological strategies as "precedent setting." That is, they are things that I do early in games to establish a pattern that my opponent believes will continue. "
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