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In May 2009, then 14-year-old Zachary Neagle shot and killed his 32-year-old father, Jason Neagle, in their Caldwell home. He was sentenced to seven years after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

  Nature is mysterious and unpredictable and often leaves us open-mouthed at the inexplicable manifestations of its power. Though you may think moving rocks and blood-colored rain is some sort of joke or miraculous occurrence, science has an explication for (almost) everything. From our point of view, Mother Nature continues to be a fascinating mystery. So let’s take a look ...

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, writer, voice actor, and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations.

  The quietest place on earth, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, is so quiet that the longest anybody has been able to bear it is 45 minutes. Inside the room it’s silent. … In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.” But the room isn’t just for torturing people.

  During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn’t understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Herbert Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, ...