“If it were a cold night in December, I might just snuggle up to you and force feed you an overheated cup of hot chocolate and we could have ourselves a Good Old-Fashioned Christmas.

In a Good Old-Fashioned Christmas, I would be reading you and your immediate family precious stories from an overly illustrated hardback with psychedelic colors so loud; they made the bald eagle extinct.

I remember that Christmas. My dog, Skippy, died that Christmas.

Funny how it sticks out like a thorn in my memory, ready to latch hold of any thread of thought that comes near enough to pinch.

A cold night in December is a ways away. It is, however, a September to Remember.”

How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken.

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i know this is the second article i’ve posted in two days, but both were extremely awesome. absolutely.

The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) is an astounding mission to explore the most extreme environments in the universe, search for signs of new laws of physics, what composes the mysterious dark matter, and secrets found in gamma ray explosions.

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that article is extremely interesting and well-written. check that shit out.