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  Honeybee Swarms Show Some Urban Hobbyists Have More to Learn
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  Over the last few years, urban municipalities have begun encouraging and regulating the care of honeybees in the city. Roofs, parks, and back yards across North America and Europe now house beehives. The support for urban beekeeping comes as a response to colony collapse disorder, a...

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  Hydroponics: Not Just for Marijuana Anymore
  Topic by Carrie Kirby

  One year ago, a Kansas home was raided by federal authorities looking for marijuana plants. They found, instead, a few tomato and pepper plants growing indoors with a hydroponics system. The family believes authorities targeted them because they purchased hydroponics supplies, which are also...

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  Earthquake Preparedness in California and Japan
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  They are separated by the world’s largest ocean, but California and Japan have something in common. They both have been the scenes of major earthquakes, and concern about those potentially devastating events has led to a heightened awareness of the power of earthquakes and vigorous efforts to...

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  Rise of For-Profit Vocational Schools
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  By the time I graduated from high school, I had signed up for another four years of school – because getting a bachelor’s degree was the next step. I knew plenty of people who were setting themselves up for years of loan payments and somehow, this sense of solidarity helped assuage my...

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  The Rise of Tick-Borne Illnesses and Misdiagnosed Cases
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  After 8 years of testing and nervous system ailments, Jennifer Crystal was diagnosed with Lyme disease. She now had a name for her condition, but was up against a challenging path to recovery. “I was left bedridden, hooked up to an IV, for two years. The co-infections of babesia,...

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  Indie Amusement Parks: Are the Gates Closing?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  My childhood was spent within a 10-minute drive of Marineland of the Pacific, a Southern California oceanarium — at the time, the largest in the world — whose August 1954 debut preceded the far splashier arrival of Disneyland not quite a year later, on July 17, 1955. I wasn’t old enough...

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  The Porous Nature of Concrete As It Relates to Molds
  Article by Rod Danz

  This article defines a novel way to understand why structures are susceptible to the entry of molds. It elucidates th...

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  More Than Half of Mothers are Unwed in U.S.
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  The phrase “shotgun wedding” may be retiring from the American lexicon. Today more than half of all American babies are born to single mothers – single in the sense that they are not married to the father of their child. In a society long associated with Christian values, the trend is...

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  Cockfighting Popular in America Despite Being Banned in All 50 States
  Topic by Ed Murrieta

  Although cockfighting is outlawed across the United States, the ancient bloodsport remains popular in America, especially in California, where large populations of Latino and Asian immigrants -- and relatively lax penalties for breeders and spectators alike -- fuel the illegal activity in...

• Alzheimer's Disease: The Demographics of Aging
  Topic by Harvey K Black
• Voice Lesson
  Article by R Allen Shoaf
• Are We Living in a Post-Racial America?
  Topic by Tracy Williams
• Auto-Tune Moving Back Stage, Slowly
  Topic by Nora G Hertel