More #Blender3D practice. Additional details for a steampunk control panel. Just because.

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Thomas Jefferson on “newspapers without government” vs “government without newspapers”

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Swiss cheese metaphor for fighting the pandemic: “Multiple Layers Improve Success”

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My son showed me Seven Samurai. I had never seen it before. Amazing!

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Is There a Santa Claus? (Reading of 1897 editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church)

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Seton Hill Virtual Commencement Fall 2020

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You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity…

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