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Last Sunday at New Life we had a guest speaker and his sermon was based on Mark 4: 35-41. Read the original here:  Which is a Greater Miracle?

Colorado’s CollegeInvest agency, an organization in charge of state loan forgiveness and scholarship programs, is facing criticism and increased scrutiny from the state’s legislature after an audit revealed conflicts of interest and a surprisingly low number of scholarship awards being made by the board.  The state legislature will now require the agency to report to them monthly to ensure proper oversight of the state’s scholarship and student loan funds. The audit found that [...]

When talking about optimization here on Inside AdSense , we frequently encourage readers to use the 300×250 medium rectangle. Original post:  The medium and large rectangle square off

Financial aid programs that are simple and transparent are most effective for low-income students when it comes to not only getting those students to apply for the aid, but getting them enrolled in college at all, according to a scholarly paper released this week. In a review of more than a dozen studies looking at how to make college more affordable and attainable to the neediest students, the paper “Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor” [...]

“Even if we don’t know what dark matter is, we know how it must act,” said Eduardo Abancens, a physicist at Spain’s University of Zaragoza and designer of a prototype dark matter detector   Dark matter is the modern fairy dust that makes everything (cosmologically) better.  Upon observing that the universe would need to have several hundred times more mass than we can see to be consistent with modern theories, many scientists apparently thought “Fair enough, there must be several [...]

Several thousand years ago the evolution of social organizations in the form of cities brought a new dynamic to the planet that seems to be uniquely human: People actually do walk on average faster in larger cities whereas heart rates decrease as animal size increases. With the city, it seems, mankind has created an “organism” operating beyond the bounds of biology. Excerpt from: Is There a "Moore’s Law" for Cities? World’s Leading Experts Say "Yes"

The battle against AIDS is one of the holy grails of biomedical research, second only to curing cancer and undoing aging itself.  Now some scientists have reactivated ancient genetic defenses against retroviruses (combining the plots of at least three science fiction movies and two archeological-horror action flicks), rediscovering something even our sickened cells have forgotten. Defensins are immune system proteins which work to defend the body by bonding with invaders to interfere with their [...]

Deep inside Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy to Earth, about 1,000 light-years across,is the twisted cosmic dust cloud shaped like a parallelogram -likely the result of a smaller spiral galaxy falling into the giant Centaurus A. The Spitzer Space Telescope’s penetrating infrared cameras recorded this startling vista in February 2004. The parallelogram lies along the active galaxy’s central band of dust and stars. Continued here:  Image of the Day: "The Secret Galaxy" [...]

Megafauna Extinctions Not Entirely Humans’ Fault Studies that have mostly blamed the arrival of humans for die-offs among Australia’s large mammals 50,000 years ago missed the role played by a changing climate, new research suggests. Read the original post: The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (9/30)