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For baseball fans, it’s spring time. For football, it’s fall.
Most of the best games of the year come out in this three-month window, and awards season follows in December.
It’s easy to overlook stellar titles in this digital deluge, so I’m here to recap some of the best games so far.
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Many wondrous and strange places in the Solar System have been explored, thanks to the Hubble telescope and dozens of NASA missions to planets and large objects circling our Sun.
But what sorts of worlds are out there beyond the Solar System?
Continue Reading "Super Earths, Rogue Planets, Hot Jupiters and Diamond Worlds" →
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They have the ability to summon magic and they take symbols of female domestication and turn them on their head.
Why use a broom to sweep when you can use it to fly? Why boil herbs for broth when you could use them to destroy demons?
They are human, yet different. They are rebels. They are just like me, only better.
Also, cats.
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I moved to Chicago in May of 1998 for a job at the Chicago Public Library. That fall my co-worker asked me to join her for a new book club she was putting together.
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If you prefer your inspirational quotes to come from a good guy rather than a bad guy, we can all nod sagely with Albus Dumbledore as he states:
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
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