@DeborahJRoss

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I write and edit fantasy and science fiction, play classical piano, oppose the death penalty, love horses, cats, and dogs, and knit for charity. She/her.
#BookReview: Drenched in historical detail, well-portrayed characters, nuanced relationships-across-centuries, the book kept me enthralled until the final revelation—and eager to read the next chapter in the love story. @KelleyArmstrong #AnOrdinarySortofEvil @StMartinsPress
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Book Review: A Haunting or a Hoax?

An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time Novel), by Kelley Armstrong (St Martins) I love time-travel stories, especially those with a...

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“Two of my favorite #Darkover stories ever.”
“Delightful stories, the last one had me laughing out loud!”
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Jupiter's Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, may be heating up. Its intrinsic magnetic field is generated through a process called a dynamo, powered by the electrically conductive, churning liquid iron in its core. #astronomy
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The solar system's largest moon may be heating up — offering clues to its mysterious origins

The largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

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Bizarre patterns on #Venus have scientists puzzled. Huge circles of fracture systems that we think are basically the surface expression of a plume of hot material moving upwards from the interior of the planet. #astronomy
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Bizarre patterns on Venus have scientists puzzled

Scientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.

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Reprint: Strongmen Doomed to Fail! Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Imperial Japan all built their military strategies on a version of this ideology. And in each case, the strategy failed, undone by its own contradictions. #warriorethos
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Reprint: Strongmen Doomed to Fail!

  The ‘warrior ethos’ promises victory — history says it leads to defeat Hitler and Mussolini salute Nazi ...

'Last titan' of Thailand discovered, and it's the longest-necked dinosaur on record from Southeast Asia, lived up to 120 million years ago when the region was semi-arid, would have used its long body and large surface area to shed heat and keep cool. #paleontology
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'Last titan' of Thailand discovered, and it's the longest-necked dinosaur on record from Southeast Asia

A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its kind from Southeast Asia.

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Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real in mind-bending quantum experiment. When a beam of light passes through a cloud of atoms, photons (particles of light) sometimes appear to spend a negative amount of time there, with light seeming to exit the cloud before it even enters. https://buff.ly/WwNO8x2
Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves

A new experiment confirms that photons passing through a cloud of atoms can spend a negative amount of time there, and the atoms themselves are the ones saying so.

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There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite. A new species of mosasaur, Tylosaurus rex, lived at the same time as dinosaurs (Cretaceous period 145-66 my ago).
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There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite

The newly described mosasaur Tylosaurus rex spanned up to 43 feet (13 meters) long and may have been one of the fiercest marine predators of the dinosaur age.

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China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test, generates enough energy to power Engineered with high-flexibility conductors, reinforced armor layers for tensile strength and fatigue-resistant insulation and sheathing. #windpower
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China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test — it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually

Three Gorges Pilot, a 16-megawatt floating offshore wind turbine, marks a major step for deep-water renewable energy and the future of floating wind farms.

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