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Four of the six 2015 varieties of the specially crafted, labor-intensive beer were soured by a strange bacteria that made the flavors inconsistent. To make sure that…
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Today, The Guardian reported that President-Elect Donald Trump plans to defund NASA’s Earth Science Division to cut down on what a Trump campaign advisor referred to as…
Where do white rainbows come from?