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Despite Friday Night Lights portrayals, there's a lot more geographic diversity in NFL prospects than you might think.
Happy NFL draft weekend! As I'm sure you were asking yourself, I was thinking, "where do NFL players come from?" Are there strong spatial patterns of this distribution? How do cultural forces impact the prevalence of a particular sport in a specific region? It's not as skewed to the South a you might think.
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When five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake in 1982, they didn't plan on making it a tradition. But that's what it became. Delete the scoop?
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The emerging technology has printed out a life-saving implant for a baby—and is poised to make pizzas that are out of this world. Via KEpps Delete the scoop?
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"Native Americans are characterized, marginalized, counted in number books (see Ten Little Rabbits by Virginia Grossman), depicted with incorrect images, and otherwise represented in hurtful, derogatory ways. Growing up in America, we are bombarded with images, toys, and stereotypes." Via Seth Dixon 
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This article looks at how a Native American family worked within the system to change the school's performance of Peter Pan to be, well, less racist. It was a product of it's time, and looking at older Disney movies from a 21st century lens can be quite eye-opening. Delete the scoop?
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For the artist Liu Bolin, making himself “invisible” has turned his career into a highly visible one. Delete the scoop?
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Kaiba Gionfriddo had rare disease tracheobronchomalacia, which caused airway to collapse and stopped him from breathing daily Delete the scoop?
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CDC: Hispanics, some Mountain states leading way to record-low for U.S. overall Delete the scoop?
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A visually-impaired group can distinguish the type of birds outdoors through "birding by ear" Delete the scoop?
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Join us as physics teacher/Glass Explorer Andrew Vanden Heuvel takes a classroom on a virtual field trip into the Large Hadron Collider. Learn more about And... Via EDTC@UTB, Scott Holcomb Delete the scoop?
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How Do You Get People To Pay For Music? Delete the scoop?
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On the Road with Steve Hartman visits Corpus Christi, where a high school outcast's nomination for prom king led to a surprising event on prom night Delete the scoop?
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Evidence that solitary confinement controls violence or curbs misbehavior has been scarce; rather, it takes a physical and mental toll on inmates Delete the scoop?
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Fifty million Americans live in multi-generational homes, and many want houses that fit their expanded families. Now, builders are trying to provide them. Anna Werner reports. Delete the scoop?
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There was a time when elegant attire wasn't just for the red carpet, but for any event, from dinner to shopping. These days, it seems anything goes. Does that mean we have become a nation of slobs? Nancy Giles reports. Delete the scoop?
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Therapy dogs were at the Boston bombings and most recently when the Oklahoma tornado hit. Some say therapy dogs can effectively lower blood pressure and nxiety for victims of disasters and illness. Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson reports. Delete the scoop?
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Use this interactive online ear diagram to examine the workings of how we hear sound. You can embed the ear on to your website (much better that embedding a website in to your ear!) Found via http://twitter.com/@WengersToyBus
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There’s a lot of talk these days about making a manned run at Mars (and the gerbils who are helping us get there). But even if we learn to survive 30 years in a space ship, what will we eat along the way? Delete the scoop?
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A new report released this week from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that Facebook remains the leading social network among American teenagers. It’s also the most reviled. Delete the scoop?
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About 40 years ago, researchers first began to suspect that we have neurons in our brains called "place cells." They’re responsible for helping us (rats and humans alike) find our way in the world, navigating the environment with some internal... Delete the scoop?
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Counterintuitive ain’t what it used to be.
So what is it with New Republic alumni? First Michael Kinsley, then Charles Lane, weigh in with defenses of austerity that aren’t just wrong, but painfully ill-informed. Kinsley not only makes a really bad analogy between current events and the 1970s, he seems not to know anything about what happened in the 1970s either. Lane attacks stimulus advocates for failing to address an argument that I actually discussed, at length, in my last column but one. Via pdeppisch Delete the scoop?
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Jack Andraka's innovative mind led him to create a new approach in finding pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer Delete the scoop?
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Slate Magazine Gary Greenberg on Psychiatry and the DSM 5 Slate Magazine “Live at Politics & Prose” is a biweekly program from Slate Radio featuring some of today's best writers reading from their new work and answering audience questions at... Delete the scoop?
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A few years ago, then 13-year-old Nicky Bronner woke woke up the day after Halloween to find that his dad had taken away a big chunk of his Halloween Candy. Delete the scoop?
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Brian Preston found some help for his furniture business -- three homeless men who were living in the woods behind a shopping center Delete the scoop?
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Web extra: Psychoanalyst and photographer Mark Gerald on how the analyst's working space has (or hasn't) changed since Freud Delete the scoop?
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Bill Geist meets Glenn Lynn, who has designed more than 400 mini-golf courses, and is adding one more to his list: Barnacle Bill's miniature golf course, which like many other Jersey Shore businesses was obliterated by Hurricane Sandy. Delete the scoop?
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What's on your walls? What's on your shelves? What pleases your eye may be playing tricks on your mind. Just the color of the room can play a huge role in how we feel and behave. Susan Spencer of "48 Hours" reports. Delete the scoop?
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