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FAIRFAX, Va.—Strangers I meet are always surprised when they discover they’ve met a third-generation Northern Virginian. “Wow, a native!” they exclaim, “you don’t meet many of those!” This surprise is often accompanied by a strong opinion about NoVA, as it’s…
When I first saw Disney’s 2010 film version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I was nervous that the most overtly Christian moment in the entire book series—Aslan’s revelation to Edmund and Lucy that “In…
Three months after Vox broke the story about how Wyoming law enforcement wrongly took $91,800 from an out-of-state traveler during a traffic stop, state legislators have changed the law to try to prevent something like this from happening again. Democratic…
Lawmakers and regulators across the US and Europe are calling for investigations into Facebook amid revelations that personal data from 50 million of the social media giant’s users was secretly harvested by a data analytics firm that worked on the…
Scientists from Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok have created a chocolate highly enriched with an imaginatively derived ginseng extract. Developed by a postgraduate student at the university’s school of biomedicine, the chocolate’s main ginseng ingredient is obtained in a special way so…
Nearly a generation ago, the once-vaunted dot-coms of the ‘new economy’ crashed within a short period of time, along with the millionaire dreams of many daring young Silicon Valley startups and the venture capitalists who loved them. Bitcoin may repeat…
