Posts By Marco Dimitri
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25Catholic clergy sex abuseAlmost 1,700 priests and clergy accused of sex abuse are unsupervised
An Associated Press investigation found that those credibly accused are now teachers, coaches, counselors and also live near playgrounds. Nearly 1,700 priests...
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33PhysicsElon Musk Just Unveiled Starship, SpaceX’s Human-Carrying Rocket
After years of speculation and hype, the SpaceX CEO finally explains how Starship will carry humans to the moon and eventually to Mars....
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38PhysicsHow Amateur Video Is Helping Us Understand Deadly Tsunamis
In 2004, when a tsunami devastated communities in southern Asia, videos shot by tourists and locals became a new tool for analyzing...
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41PhysicsBell’s theorem for temporal order
Abstract Time has a fundamentally different character in quantum mechanics and in general relativity. In quantum theory events unfold in a fixed...
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45WorldIt’s Hard to Commemorate 9/11 If You Don’t Understand It
Today’s university freshmen were born after the Twin Towers fell. In the Trump era, lack of historical perspective makes young people susceptible...
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41ResearchHurricane Dorian science, a vaping mouse experiment, and more news
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less. The science behind Hurricane Dorian, why vaping is...
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37UncategorizedGet Vaccinated or Leave School: 26,000 N.Y. Children Face a Choice
Jacquelynn Vance-Pauls, a real-estate lawyer in upstate New York, has a 14-year-old son with autism who was recently kicked out of his...
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68Atheism - SecularismStop President Trump’s Broad New Privileges for Religious Employers!
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued a new proposed rule that not only greatly expands the number of federal contractors...
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58Atheism - SecularismKentucky must pay $225,000 legal bill from Kim Davis case, appeals court says
The state of Kentucky must pay nearly $225,000 in legal fees and court costs incurred by couples who sued then-Rowan County Clerk...
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57Physics2019 Dirac Medal Announced
Three share prize for important contributions to modern cosmology ICTP has awarded its 2019 Dirac Medal and Prize to three physicists whose...