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I really like all the pastors at Flatirons and like their messages. But I have favorites. I will not mention their names, but I will tell you why they are my favorites.

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In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists from ETH Zurich, in collaboration with teams from ...

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...