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The Origin of Consciousness
“People who are born idiots will remain idiots, and those who are born brilliant will be idiots by the time they are grown”—so said...
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Las Vegas in NEON
Las Vegas evokes many things, but the image it most conjures up is that of bright and multi-coloured neon signs. Many of these iconic...
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Wrigley Mansion in Phoenix transcends its purely historical interest, as in fact a venue with...
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The Origin of Atoms
The object of this study by Wake Forest University professor T. Gellar-Goad is the poem On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) by...