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Tabby’s Star
Tabby’s Star, more correctly known as KIC 8462852, is a very special and unique star. After citizen scientists analyzed data from the Kepler space telescope, they discovered that it has a very unusual luminosity dimming pattern. Up to 22% dimming of the star’s luminosity. This amount of dimming does not correspond with other stars observed. Why is this so unusual? The Kepler space telescope observes changes in the brightness of distant stars to detect exoplanets. Launched on March 7, 2009 it surveys a portion of our region of the Milky Way to discover Earth-size exoplanets in or near habitable zones and estimate how many of the billions of stars in the Milky…
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Election Day
Today is election day in Ontario. I will be voting after work as usual and I am making my decision on the party leaders rather the local candidate. I don’t even know the name of the person I am voting for. MPPs are mostly ineffectual and they vote depending on how their leader tells them to. My ideal election process would be that there should be no political parties and that we vote for the local candidate and the Premier separately. This would force you to make your decision based on the the issues and not with the us/them of party politics. The election of the Premier should be based…
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