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Margaux Lopez in front of Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope. Credit: Margaux Lopez When she’s in Chile, Margaux Lopez starts most days nine thousand feet below her place of work. At 6:30 a.m. she boards a bus to begin the steep climb from La Serena, Chile’s second-oldest city, to the top of Cerro Pachón, a mountain in the Chilean Andes. “It’s an hour of two-lane, paved road, then an hour of windy dirt road. It’s definitely harder to sleep for the second hour,” she says of the journey. So why does she do this? Lopez is one of…

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The works had been scheduled to start on Monday. A West Sussex Highways spokesman said: “Regretfully, the recent heavy rainfall and bad weather has meant diverting resources from planned works, such as this, to tackle emergencies at other locations. “Temperatures are also forecast to drop over the weekend and into next week, which could have impacted on the chances of the new surface materials at the Carfax successfully setting/hardening. “We appreciate that this decision is frustrating and apologise for any inconvenience. We will announce a new date for the works as soon as possible. Meanwhile, we will continue our routine…

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Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of history at Saint Louis University, made a major announcement at the annual meeting of the Archeological Institute of America, revealing he and his team discovered an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman Empire. “We found three walls of a monumental structure that evidence suggests belonged to a Roman temple that dates to Constantine’s period,” Boin said. “It dates to the fourth century AD and it would be a remarkable addition to the landscape of this corner of Italy. It will significantly…

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View gallery Image Credit: Courtesy of the Blanchard Family Gypsy Rose Blanchard got very candid about shocking aspects of her past in the latest installment of The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. As Gypsy’s mom Dee Dee Blanchard went to desperate and abusive lengths to keep Gypsy close, Gypsy eventually took matters into her own hands. In 2011, Gypsy had planned to run away again. When Dee Dee found Gypsy’s bag, she confronted her daughter about it. The 32-year-old recalls that “a million things were going through my mind of how bad this was going to be.” During the…

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Network structure of psychological reactions during an extreme ritual. Overall network structure based on Extended Bayesian Information Criterion Gaussian Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (EBICglasso; Foygel & Drton, Citation2010) network analysis and bootstrapped Exploratory Graph Analysis (EGA) (Epskamp & Fried, Citation2018) using a walktrap algorithm (Yang et al., Citation2016) with 1,000 bootstrap samples. Node colors indicate community membership according to EGA (see the right-hand legend). Node size indicates the expected influence (2-step, including indirect influence) on communities outside the node’s community, while node shape indicates direction of expected influence (circle—positive, square—negative). Green lines indicate positive edges between individual nodes,…

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View gallery Image Credit: Fred Duval/SOPA Images/Shutterstock Halle Bailey is a mom! The 23-year-old actress and singer confirmed via Instagram on January 6 that she’s given birth to a baby boy named Halo, her first child with boyfriend DDG. Her announcement included a photo of her holding her son’s tiny hand. “Even though we’re a few days into the new year, the greatest thing that 2023 could have done for me, was bring me my son.. welcome to the world my halo. The world is desperate to know you,” she captioned the post. The Little Mermaid star didn’t show her…

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