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May 19, 2017
Texas Tech students and staff will travel to Costa Rica where they will assist United Planet with local sea turtle conservation efforts.
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May 19, 2017
MediaShift - When Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications said it would forgo reaccreditation by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, Dean Bradley Hamm told the Chicago Tribune on May 1 that the rules stifle curriculum innovation.
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May 19, 2017
Scientific American - LAS PEÑITAS, Bolivia-Before he'd ever seen a paiche, fish trader Eric Salazar had heard the giant Amazonian fish could grow up to 10 feet long, weigh 400 pounds and eat a man whole. The paiche, or Arapaima gigas, is the world's largest scaled freshwater fish. Native to the jungles of Peru and Brazil, it first appeared in nets in Bolivia's Amazon Basin in the early 1990s. As it migrated upriver, rumors traveled with it. People said it was created by nefarious Peruvian scientists, that they fed it with the blood of farm animals, that it wasn't a fish at all but a monster.
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May 19, 2017
The Star Tribune - The USA is on track for the busiest tornado year since 2011. That was the year Tuscaloosa and Joplin were hit. Why have we suddenly come out of a 5-year tornado drought? Two reasons: the same jet stream pattern that generated a stormy treadmill for the western USA created a wind shear profile ripe for tornadoes. Also, record warmth in the Gulf of Mexico has primed the pump with warmer, more unstable air.
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