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Student VS. Teacher
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1. Who hosted the first Soccer World Cup? Castillo: England Kick: Brazil A: Uruguay 0-0 These answers deserve to be on the bench. 2. How many wings does a flea have? Castillo: 2 Kick: 4 A: none 0-0 Their sense of confidence might be flea-ting 3. What gas makes up approximately 74 percent of…
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NASA creates spacecraft to destroy an asteroid
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On Sept. 26, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, performed in the first ever asteroid deflection test. Ten months after it was launched, and after traveling around the sun 101 million miles, it hit the asteroid Dimorphos, which was seven million miles away from Earth. Dimorphos, at around 500 feet in diameter, is…
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James Webb Telescope is a Blasting Success
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Developed in 1996, the James Webb Telescope that was originally set to launch in 2007 has finally launched as of Dec. 25, 2021. On Christmas Day, the new telescope was launched from Arianespace’s ELA-3 launch complex in Europe’s Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana. The launch site was located near the equator, which ensured…
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Perseverance lands on Mars
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18. According to a statement from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the rover’s main task is to “seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible return to Earth.” The rover,…
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“Hidden Figures” promotes representation in the film industry
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Turning a dramatic story of American history into a fun and family friendly movie, while still bringing to light major social issues in America then and now, “Hidden Figures” deservedly rose to the top of the box office on Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend. The movie tells the long unknown story of Katherine Johnson…