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Want to see a Supernova?

Click here: Exploding star in nearby galaxy could be visible through binoculars within two weeks
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Gallup: Two-Thirds Say Fed. Gov’t ‘Too Big, Powerful’

Click here: Gallup: Two-Thirds Say Fed. Gov’t ‘Too Big, Powerful’
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Professor: Common Core ‘Superficial, Biased, Embarrassingly Dumb’

Click here: Professor Dr. Terrence Moore: Common Core ‘Superficial, Biased, Embarrassingly Dumb’
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Chamber of Commerce Ratchets Up Support for Common Core

Click here: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a strong proponent of the controversial education K-12 standards know as the Common Core
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Study: Brains of elderly slow because they know so much

Click here: Brains of elderly slow because they know so much
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Obituaries this week

John M. Blake, 79, Burlington, died Saturday, January 18, 2014

Vernard L. “Bud” Rayburn, 84, Burlington, died, January 17, 2014

Rosemary Lee Johnson, 73, Sperry, died Saturday, January 18, 2014

Jeffery Lyle Shafer, 55, Mediapolis, died Saturday, January 18, 2014

Deloris A. (Peck) Hecox, Burlington, died Saturday, January 18, 2014

Evelyn Mae Whalen, 79, Burlington, died Monday, January 20, 2014

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Iowa High School Senior Hits Amazing Basketball Shot

Logan Jurgensmeier Crazy Shot (Hinton vs. Sioux City West, 1/16/2014)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBq6osnrrHw

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Seven Devastating Economic Facts

1. A Record 91.8 Million Americans Are No Longer in the Workforce

2. Since Jan. 2009 (Obama’s inauguration), the Number of Jobless Working-Age Americans Has Risen by 9.6 Million People

3.  47.4 Million Americans Now Rely on Food Stamps

4. A Record 10.98 Million Americans Now Receive Disability Checks

5.  Nearly One in Three Americans Fell into Poverty Between 2009-2011

6.  42% of Americans Believe Themselves Worse Off Financially than a Year Ago

7. U.S. Debt Now Stands at over $17.3 Trillion

Click here for more: Seven Devastating Economic Facts

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Burlington Iowa Nature News West Burlington

Travel the Known Universe in 6-minutes

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum,  is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

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Has the Sun Gone to Sleep?

Click here: Scientists are saying that the Sun is in a phase of “solar lull” – meaning that it has fallen asleep – and it is baffling them.
History tells us that periods of unusual “solar lull” coincide with bitterly cold winters.

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