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For decades, misbehaving students in our culture could expect to be sent to detention, a form of punishment that is meant to discipline the unruly child: a practice that sometimes works, and sometimes does not. But one elementary school in Maryland saw that a form of negative punishment might not necessarily be the best approach to correcting negative behavior in young children, and instead sends its pint-sized perpetrators to a special meditation class instead.
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Your Out There editor has been watching Mars imagery for years, combing through it and evaluating the various claims made about it. 99.9% of the claims of UFOs, old shoes, armadillos, turtles and so forth are nonsense. However, there are now a substantial number of images that suggest that something is going on there that is outside of the context of the known or the believed. All of our stories concerning these anomalies can be accessed by clicking the word "Mars" below.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has appointed long-time climate change denier Myron Ebell as his new head of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition, provided Trump is elected this fall. Ebell is well known as a global warming denier, with the Financial Times calling him “one of America’s most prominent climate change skeptics”, and would be expected to carry many of out Trump’s plans to undo years of ecological protection policy, including the elimination of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan.
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