Author Archives: Jessica Hannan

Mammals Evolutionary Eruption in Mid-Jurassic Period

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Look out, Universal Studios and Steven Spielberg, there's a new giant animal in town and it's not in Jurassic World. Jurassic mammals faced the most explosive evolution during the mid-period,...

America’s Only Endangered Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly Released in Illinois

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Scientists are telling Illinois citizens: don’t knock away that bug flying by at lightning speeds. Turns America’s only endangered dragonfly, the Hine’s emerald, has just been rereleased in the wild...

T-Mobile fined $17.5 million for non-compilance on 911 outages in 2014

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The Federal Communications Commission posted on July 17 about T-Mobile's $17.5 million fine for a failure to address two national outages lasting nearly 3 hours in August 8, 2014 that affected 911...

Projected Ant-Man $60 Million Weekend Box Office Hit, Critically Panned

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In a surprising turn of events, Marvel Studio’s Ant-Man is looking to be a pretty moderate hit for the superhero production company. Unlike Iron Man, Captain America, and The Hulk, most people aren’t...

World Mourns on Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 First Anniversary

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July 17 marks the first anniversary for Flight MH17 and the still unanswered question of who to blame. In 2014, Malaysian Airline flight MH17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine, near a rebel-held...

Anne Rice uses ‘lynching’, Dismisses history over E.L. James and Bullies

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Anne Rice is no stranger to criticism. Perhaps that's why the author defended E.L. James's bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey after a Twitter chat went horribly wrong. However, replies to critics of her...

James Gunn Talks Guardians of the Galaxy 2 at Saturn Awards

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James Gunn called The Belko Experiment "one of the greatest experiences of my life" backstage at the Saturn Awards. Does that mean Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel fell off the list? Of course not....

What Happens When Kanye West Gets Kanyed at Glastonbury?

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Scotland's Glastonbury festival is one of the world's most famous and anticipated annual events. This year Kanye West helped headline the music event but faced a bit of predicament: a Swifting via...

Ben and Jerry’s says ‘I Dough, I Dough’ to Marriage Equality

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Ben & Jerry's just renamed their classic Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough to "I Dough, I Dough" in celebration of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage on June 26....

There’s an iPhone App for LGBTQ health says PRIDE researchers

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The PRIDE Study is looking to take on the long-term effects of health within the LGBTQ community. And it's available on an iPhone app. Working the University of California San Francisco, the goal is...