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Month: April 2020

A Great Friday

Lots of sun with low-end windy conditions again for Friday. Temps will run a tad cooler than Thursday with highs around 75. Winds will gust out of the west at 30 mph. Saturday gest a little cooler with more clouds. Temps in the upper 60’s to low 70’s with variably cloudy skies. Some light rain

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People were painting and selling ostrich eggs thousands of years ago — and we may finally know how they did it

A 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding how a collection of ostrich eggs got their colorful decorations may have finally been cracked. Ornate eggs were prized items among the elite circles of Mediterranean civilizations during the Bronze and Iron Ages, but little was know about how they were produced, traded and moved around the region. So, just in

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Yinka the slug helped me see the truth

Yesterday afternoon, after walking my dog Norma for the 893rd time this month, I happened upon a snail sliding across a cement block in front of my house. I watched his slime-coated body curl, then move, curl, then move, curl, then move. I felt a kinship with the little guy. Named him “Yinka” after Yinka

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The Weeknd accuses Usher of copying his style

The Weeknd says Usher copied his style and that the singer’s 2012 song “Climax” is ripped from his own playbook. The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, explains why, saying that he thinks Usher heard his 2011 mixtape “House of Balloons,” borrowed his style, then made it his own. “‘House of Balloons’ literally

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