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The Hauntings of Chernobyl and Pripyat
Posted by Chris Parizo on Tue, Feb 16, 2010
On the morning of April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union exploded. The incident is the only level seven event — a “Major Accident” and the highest grade possible — to occur on the International Nuclear Event Scale. The result was fallout four hundred times [...]
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From Pampers to Thongs: When the Bottom Falls Out on Media Literacy
Posted by Norton on Thu, Feb 11, 2010
Education reform would appear to be the next Obama administration effort to clean up another Bush-league mess — in this case, the educator-and-student-detested “No Child Left Behind” program. Susan Engel’s New York Times Op-Ed outlines priorities in curriculum, namely the core skills a person needs to help them learn rather than the regurgitation of mandated [...]
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Neil’s News Corner
Posted by Neil Cleary on Thu, Jan 14, 2010
As I read the headlines these days, more and more my mind is plagued with one question: what do naked people think? Who will tell their story? Is there a hairy, droopy, butt-stanky man waiting in the wings who could provide some insight on this issue? Are there perhaps other people in these same wings [...]
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Amityville: The Paranormal Goes Pop
Posted by Chris Parizo on Sat, Nov 21, 2009
In earlier posts, I have discussed the competitive nature of the paranormal world. Regardless of all the griping, all the University of New Mexico Women’s Soccer-esque hair-pulling and back-punching, it’s important to remember where this all started. Let’s take a look at one of the original paranormal pop-culture phenomenon, which likely inspired the divide. I give [...]
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