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When Marc-Andre Fleury suited up one last time in a Pittsburgh Penguins uniform during the preseason, there were many nods to the past in how he pranked his teammates, his on-ice demeanor in practice, ...

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Two sisters were killed saving their disabled father from a Thanksgiving Day fire in North Jersey, authorities said. Frantzia Fleury, 49, and Pojanee Fleury, 42, were helping their father escape their ...

The dichotomy between reality and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...

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The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...