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The tangled Web the Internet weaves
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and the birthplace of the World Wide Web, will bring its particle accelerator’s newest collision detector, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment, on-line in Geneva, Switzerland, later this year. The LHC, the biggest and most powerful accelerator in the world, will soon use 120 megawatts of electricity to produce head-on collisions between beams of either lead ions or protons traveling at nearly the speed of light in an attempt to recreate a “Big Bang” that is theorized to have been the beginning of all matter in the universe. Well, actually the goal is more like thousands of mini “Big Bangs.”
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Goodbye Analog, Hello Digital Television
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On February 17, 2009, as the clock strikes midnight, television in America will change forever. All full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to digital. The FCC reports there are still 15.5 million Americans tenacious enough to view TV over the air using rabbit ears. If these Americans choose not to purchase a government approved digital converter box by the fateful night, they will not even be watching static.
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Viva Capoeira!
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This is capoeira pronounced cap-oh-air-uh, a Brazilian martial art that combines fighting, dancing, music and play. Originated in Brazil during Portuguese rule in the 16th century, capoeira was developed by imported African and native Indian slaves. Many scholars believe capoeira emerged as a way to conceal that slaves were practicing to fight. This explains why the capoeira of today appears to be a mixture of fighting and dancing.
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Display of creativity
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Artwork created by local community college students will be available to the public thanks to a partnership between the University of Houston-Clear Lake and The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake.
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