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WSU physics faculty competes for scientific improv supremacy

A mere eight seconds into his scientific lecture titled “Optical Clocks: Towards 10<sup>-18</sup> to 10<sup>-19</sup>,” <a href="https://www.weber.edu/physics" target="_blank">Weber State University physics ...

One year after Trump’s election, America still sort of in one piece

Somebody owes me ten bucks.I know I bet at least one of you out there a ten-spot that America would still be America a year after <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump’s</a> election. And while we can ...

What will you do with your extra hour this weekend?

Survey says: “Sleep!”I recently conducted an entirely unscientific poll on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, asking friends what they’ll be doing with that extra hour they get this weekend — courtesy of going off daylight ...

Weber High cheerleaders desperately need lesson on history, compassion

I never thought I’d be so completely unfazed at hearing otherwise wholesome-looking, ostensibly Mormon teenage girls repeatedly shouting the F-word.But then, I suppose that’s to be expected when the other word they happen to be using in tandem is the N-word. Because the vulgar term for ...

Davis sheriff’s request for $15 million the very definition of chutzpah

It’s times like these that the inadequacies of the English language become particularly glaring.With all that’s going on in the news these days, we just don’t have the proper vocabulary to describe it all.But Yiddish? Now there’s a language. The mashup of German and Hebrew, originally ...