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Desparate Journey

this is about how many people in foreign places are being very badly treated so they are forced to move to diferent countries. resently there have been a lot (over millions) escaping from one place to another.

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New World Records

This article is about new wacky world records and how they came to be. People will do anything to get the fame of a world record. It also talks about how to get in on the action of holding a world record. It takes a whole month just to except or decline an offer. I can make a connection to the bell being fixed with only a few pennies because both are quite amazing to me. The reason why there is a connection is because they both can make an advancement into our future.

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Guinness RELEASES 2015 Records

The Guinness Book of World Records has released new 2016 records! Sadly, the world's smallest man recently passed away, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any new records. Recently, a man held a world record for the biggest foot... a size 26!! Also the are animals holding world records. A turtle that is. The turtle, Bertie, holds the record for the fastest tortise. Another record is the most BMX time machines done in a minute. That is one of the hardest tricks to do on a BMX bike.

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Alex Jessop: Pluto's pictures are pouring in

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Alex Jessop: Pluto's pictures are pouring in

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This article is telling you about the new pictures NASA has recently received. On July 14 NASA's new satellite, The Horizon, finally reached Pluto. This article is telling us about how these pictures can completely change our perspective of Pluto. We are being shown how the new space crafts are showing new things and telling us more about them. This effects everyone because now that we know more about Pluto, and even more questions, so now people are going to use our taxes and many other things can go into this.

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The gun

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desperate journey

this article is about migrants from Syria fleeing from war and going to Europe for safety

I connect this to the migrants fleeing from north america to th us because of gang violence and povrity

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Joelle Garbrick: Who was boss before the dinosaurs?

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Joelle Garbrick: Who was boss before the dinosaurs?

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The carnivorous dinosaurs in the Triassic period weren't always the threat. The real threat were the Smilosuchus. These are large crocodile-like creatures who dominated all other species. However, about 200 million years ago, something wiped out almost half of all life on earth. even the Smilosuchus species was taken away by an astroid. This article reminds me of the news from September 19th where a new dinosaur was unveiled, the dinosaur nicknamed Eva.

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desperate journey

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What's up with Europe?

The article is about how people are escaping the Middle East. They are escaping because of the poverty risk and war. Thousands of people have died to try to escape for safety but now it is no longer safe. These people trying to save their families and start a safe life are losing that because of unsafe boats that sink after a while. It's no fun to see the world like this. So sad.😓 :(

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The satalite New Horizons shot new photos of Pluto on July 14. The photos include landscapes beyond imaginable. Could it be possible that the scientists misjudged the dwarf planet?

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Jessica Gleason: Garbage Man Collects Books to make a Library

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Jessica Gleason: Garbage Man Collects Books to make a Library

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Jose Gutierrez, a garbage man, has collected all sorts of books for 20 years. He believes that books should never be thrown away and that they should be kept. So, over all the books he has collected he made a library at his house. He says books are the greatest invention and should never be left out.

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This article is about Greece not having enough money to pay the European Government. The Government said that by June 30, they need to have there money in. They then gave them an extension for one month. Greece is bankrupt and they needed to take loans. They are going to have to pay more taxes to help Europe and cut some spending.

I can relate this to South Korea because they are also bankrupt and they are taking loans from other countries. They need more money just to get people in houses.

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Abbie Williams- Garbage Collector Creates Library

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Abbie Williams- Garbage Collector Creates Library

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A man from Columbia decided that books were important in children's lives. He decided to make a library for kids! He has been collecting books from the trash out of the wealthy people's trash cans and now has over 20,000 books in the library!

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Iran deal explained

Iran agreed to reduce their uranium production by 98% they surprisingly agreed to this because they said that it was affecting the economy. This also raised food and gas prices which affected the people grandly. Doing this they are getting support for the war against ISIS and with that this is why people are migration into other countries for safety. 👣👣👣 ;)

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plutos pictures are pouring in!

This article informs you about Pluto pictures that NASA is getting. The pictures are very detailed. They can see ancient craters.they also can see how thick the atmosphere is around Pluto. This connects with the super moon that happened this week.

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The world records around the world are amazing and weird.

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What's Up With Saturn's Rings?

This article tells us about Saturn's mysterious rings. These rings were first discovered in 1610 by Galileo. Saturn's rings are very thin, yet they span to about 175,000 miles wide. How they formed remains a mystery, but scientists are discovering more rings that orbit around the planet of Saturn. I can relate this to the lunar eclipse from a few days ago. Not many people know how this rare moon happens. This is the same deal with Saturn's rings.

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Garbage collector creates library from rescued books

This article is about how a trash collector in Columbia was pulled out of school when he was in second grade backseat him mother was too poor to keep him in school. Although he only had a second grade education, he always appreciated reading even when he became an adult and decided to share it with children who were like him. He rescued books that had been thrown out and created a library. He knew how valuable that was to children who couldn't afford them.

Connection: I can connect this to the people who are still helping the hurricane Katrina victims, even after 10 years! Theses people don't have to help the victims for so long and with unwavering hope but decide to anyway. This is like the article above because this man is choosing to help other people even though he doesn't have to and has been doing it for so long with hope.

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President visits Africa

In this article Brock Obama visits Kenya to talk about Global Entrepreneurship. This was the first time that a USA president visited Africa. He talked about the struggles econamly with Kenya. He also spoke on July 25th with the prime minister. This ties in with when he was absent in China during the parade.

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What's up with Saturn's rings

This article is about saturns rings and what they are made of. The rings were first discovered in 1610. Saturn's rings are mostly made of ice, rock, and dust particles. These rings can only be seen by a telescope.

I connected this story to the blood moon on 9/26/15. I thought of these both in the same category because they are about what is going on in or solar system.

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Republican Debate Take Two

The 2nd republican debate went well. The questions asked were on the topics of immigrants, economy, and national security. I in fact watched the debate with my dad and we had a disagreements about Donald Trump running for president. This connects with Russia and them making us move our troops out of The Middle East and then bombing places that they thought were Isis but weren't because the new president needs to know what they are going to do about the if they become president.

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President Visits Africa:

The article President Visits Africa is about President Obama become the first standing president to visit Kenya and Ethiopia to talk about ways to strengthen their peace. The African Prime minister and The president talked about human rights and politics.

Connection: A current event that is in common with this article is how the Pope recently visited the United States preaching in many areas around the United States

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Desperate Journey's

Why is Hungry not letting the refugees in?

Germany is going to let 800,000 refugees in by the end of the year.

Many have died traveling across the land and sea .

What civil war is going on.

Connection: This article reminds me of the refugees trying to get into the United States from Mexico.

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What's Up With Saturn's Rings?

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What's up with saturns Rings?

This article is about how Saturn's Rings are made . They are made by billions of dust sized particles and how you can only see the rings with a telescope. This was found out in 1610. With the new high tec telescopes they are making more discoveries about Saturn all the time.

Connection:They blood moon just happened and the article is about Saturn these both are in space.🌑

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The Iran Deal Explained

In 2002 Iran was building nuclear weapons and the world found out what they were doing. Many countries feared that Iran was making a nuclear bomb so the U.S. and other countries have been in negotiations with Iran for 2 years. Iran has finally agreed to this deal. Iran has agreed to shut down some of its nuclear plants, not build plutonium reactors for at leas 15 years, and reduce its stockpile by 98%.

Connection: This kind of reminds me of the peace treaty USA made with Cuba.

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The Iran Deal Explained.

Iran agreed to reduce their uranium production by 98%. They agreed to this because they agreed that it was effecting the economy. The banks had nod been able to work and that was raising food and gas prices which also affected the people. Doing this they are getting support the war against ISIS. This is why the people have been migrating and they are trying to make an better environment.

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Pluto Pictures Are Purring In

Pictures of Pluto came to scientists and it looked nothing like how they thought it would be. There are dark ridges and other features that scientists have no idea how they got there. Scientists say that these ridges may be dunes, but the only way dunes could have gotten there would be if Pluto had had a thicker atmosphere in the past. One of the scientists says that if someone had painted Pluto like this before, they would have said it was over the top. Many of these new discoveries have scientists boggled.

Connection: This article reminded me of the CNN story last year when they successfully landed that craft on a comet.

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Garbage Collector Creates Library from Rescued Books:

A garbage collector in a poor area of Bogota saved up many books over the years from trash to make a small library. The library was in his basement, but stored over 20000 books. Many young children would come to his library to get books because books were too expensive to buy. He recomends every neighborhood should have a library, and he has even sent out his books to other places for them to read.

Connection:

There are many places around the world who don't have much money right now and need more things. For example, all the countries at war need more thing for their people. The collector gave the people something that gave them hope and helped.

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The President Visits Africa

In this article Predident Obama Visied Ethiopia and Kenya in Africa to talk about possible ways to strengthen their peace and push for prosperity. Ethiopian Prime Minister and President Obama talked about economic development, human rights, and regional security. Also, the visit to Africa benifited both Africa and the U.S. because it strengthened our relationship. That helps us so in times of violence and negative events they will probably be more willing to help. This connects to how the UN secretary is planning a meeting with 40 leaders around the world to discuss issues which is movement just like The President went to Africa.

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President Visits Africa

This article was about how President Obama went to Kenya and Ethiopia to stregnthen and deepen our relationship between the two countries. By doing that he is helping them with human rights, trade, politics, and the economy. President Obama has talked to the Ethiopian Prime Minister about helping them with their security and has talked about Etheopia having a bright future ahead of them.

A connection to this article is how the Pope came to the united states to talk to talk about different things with the president and went to other places around the worl just like president Obama is doing with Africa.

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Garbage collector creates library from rescued books

A garbage man from Bogota was traveling the streets and saw some thrown out books. He lives in a poor part of town and the book store there is too expensive for most of the school children, so he made a library out of used books so the kids could read the books without having to pay. He has about 20,000 books ranging from text books to picture book. He recommends that every neighborhood should have a library like this.

Connection: There are many countries that are in poverty right now and don't have enough money to buy books for their family to read and study with. In Iraq and other countries right now, they are in poverty because of war.

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On July 14, seven countries, including the U.S and Iran, reached a historic agreement on Iran's nuclear program.

For a long time now, countries around the world have been concerned that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb. The U.S had been in negotiations with Iran for almost two years, with support from UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.

When the deal was announced in Vienna, Austria, there was jubilation on the streets of Tehran, Iran's capital. However, the deal sparked controversy all across the world. While many called it a 'win-win situation', others such as Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu perceived the deal as a 'historic mistake'.

In the U.S, Republicans vowed to block the deal with a vote. Last Thursday, the U.S Senate delivered a victory to President Obama, allowing the Iran deal to go through.

A Little Background

It was in 2002 that the world learned about Iran's secret plans for developing capability to build nuclear weapons. The matter came to light when a group opposed to the Government, revealed information about Iran's nuclear activity.

The country by that time had already acquired nuclear material and was making substantial progress to enrich uranium. Uranium is the fuel that is used by reactors to generate nuclear power. But it also has the capability to build weapons.

Worried about the safety and security in the region, US and its European allies began pressing Iran to stop enriching uranium. Talks failed to make progress and the inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referred the matter to the UN Security Council. Sanctions were imposed on Iran on several occasions, each one more severe than the previous one.

What Does The New Deal Involve?

Per the Vienna agreement, Iran has agreed to limit its uranium production and reduce its stockpile by 98%. It will also be required to shut down some of its most important nuclear plants, one of which will be converted for scientific research. In addition, Iran will stop manufacturing weapon-grade plutonium (another radioactive material), and not build any additional plutonium reactors for at least 15 years.

Iran has also agreed to provide greater visibility into its nuclear program. It will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to keep constant surveillance and carry out inspections up to a period of 25 years. In return, the US and other countries will lift the harsh economic sanctions they have currently placed on Iran.

Why Did Iran Agree To The Deal?

The sanctions that had been in place so far were quite severe, and had crippled the country. Iran's ability to export oil was restricted, which in turn had affected the country's economy. Iranian banks could not work with the West, which affected the value of Iran's money. These sanctions had led to rising food and fuel prices which were affecting the common people.

Iran is also worried about the spread of ISIS extremists who have taken over large parts of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. ISIS extremists practice the Sunni form of Islam and could be a potential threat to Shia Iran's existence (Read about Sunni and Shia Islam here). Iran has been engaged in a war with ISIS, and support from the international community is important at this time.

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On July 14, seven countries, including the U.S and Iran, reached a historic agreement on Iran's nuclear program. For a long time now, countries around the world have been concerned that Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb. The U.S had been in negotiations with Iran for almost two years, with support from UK, France, China, Russia and Germany.

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When we think of Nepal, the massive earthquake that devastated the country earlier this year comes to mind (read here). But, the country has also been in the midst of a political quake.

Nepal has been transitioning from a kingdom to a republic. The country has not had an official constitution, with the different political groups failing to agree on details. The earthquake in April 2015 was a wake up call. Nepal was ill-equipped to handle the scale of the disaster as 9,000 people died. The lack of a working constitution was blamed for the poor response.

This past week, Nepal's Parliament approved the country's first official constitution. The country has been divided into seven states, each with a legislative body and a Chief Minister (head of state). Nepal has also decided that it would be secular country - in other words, it will not have any official religion. This move has angered the majority Hindus, and led to protests.

A Royal Kingdom

Nepal lies on the crossroads of India and China. It is the starting point for trekkers eager to scale Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. For centuries, the country has attracted settlers from India, and been a resting stop on trading routes. It is also the birthplace of Gautama Buddha - a royal prince who abandoned his kingdom in pursuit of enlightenment, and founded the religion of Buddhism.

In 1768, Prithvi Narayan Shah, the ruler of a tiny mountain kingdom, unified the country by attacking and conquering neighboring kingdoms. Nepal came under one ruling family - the Shahs. The Shahs, originally from India, practiced Hinduism (the main religion in India today). Hence Nepal became a Hindu kingdom.

For more than two centuries, the Shah dynasty enjoyed complete control. The King was considered an incarnation of God, and ruled by divine right. But all that changed in 2001.

The Dawn Of Democracy

When democratic movements started sweeping across the world in the late 1980's, Nepal was caught in the storm. Opposition groups demanded that the country be handed back to its people, and the King declared a constitutional head (similar to the British monarchy).

King Birendra of Nepal agreed to the will of the people and elections were held. But the King retained the right to dissolve the Parliament and controlled the army. The initial experiments in democracy failed, and the country fell into a long drawn civil war.

The beginning of the end for the Shah kings came in the summer of 2001. King Birendra, along with nine other members of the royal family, was assassinated in the palace by his son - crown prince Dipendra, who was drunk and later killed himself. The King's younger brother, Gyanendra took over the kingdom. Many in Nepal believe that Gyanendra had a hand in the assassination, and that he suspended investigations into the killings too quickly.

Gyanendra tried to change Nepal back into a monarchy and seized absolute power. But he did not succeed and was ousted in 2006 by the rebels. Since then, Nepal has been on a long and rocky road to democracy. The new constitution is certainly a step in the right direction.

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Talk about record breaking. It seems folks are willing to do anything - weird and wacky, to somehow get their names into the Guinness Book of World Records.

From flipping pancakes, to scaling Mount Everest twice in one year, or doing mass massage or line dancing, there is no dearth of ideas on what one can do to get into the record books! On September 11, the iconic book released its 2016 edition.

With 40,000 records being tracked, and more added each year, there is always something new. For one, the latest edition has an entry for the world's largest feet belonging to Jeison Hernandez of Venezuela - a size 26! It is not just people, but animals have been making their way into the record books too. Bertie is the Usain Bolt of tortoises, capable of reaching speeds of 0.6 miles per hour.

Unfortunately the world's shortest man passed away earlier this month. Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal was 75 years old and measured 21-1/2 inches.

For The Records...

Wondering how the Guinness Book of World Records came to be? In May 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, the owner of a beer brewery in England got into an argument with fellow members of his hunting party over the question - "Which is the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the grouse?" Realizing that there were no reference books that carried such information and how useful they might be to resolve debates such as his, he came up with the idea of a book of world records.

Well as they say, the rest is history. The first 197-page edition of the Guinness Book of World Records came out in May 1955, and since then, nearly 100 million copies have been sold worldwide and updated annually. From the most tattoos and piercings, to the longest burrito, fastest talker, longest hair and more, there are nearly 40,000 record categories, some of which are not active.

The book however publishes only 4000 records each year and while some are standard fare -- like the tallest and the shortest, nearly eighty percent are new.

Want To Get In?

Well it may no be so easy as you may think. Guinness says it receives requests from tens of thousands of people each year who want to set a record. Guinness's motto for a record is that it should be "provable, quantifiable and breakable".

Once a request is made, Guinness officials take a month to decide whether to accept the request, eighty percent of which are rejected. If the request is accepted, detailed instructions follow. They may send an official to witness the record in public, or it has to be verified by witnesses not known to the individual and accompanied by photographs and video recordings.

Now, even if the record is verified, it may still not make it into the book! But that does not stop people from trying. Lets look at two records.

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Talk about record breaking. It seems folks are willing to do anything - weird and wacky, to somehow get their names into the Guinness Book of World Records. From flipping pancakes, to scaling Mount Everest twice in one year, or doing mass massage or line dancing, there is no dearth of ideas on what one can do to get into the record books!

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Pluto pictures are pouring in

The spigot has opened again, and Pluto pictures are pouring in once more from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

These newest snapshots reveal an even more diverse landscape than scientists imagined. New Horizons swept past Pluto in July. It became the first spacecraft to ever visit the distant dwarf planet.

"If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top. But that's what is actually there," said Alan Stern. He is the New Horizons' principal scientist from Southwest Research Institute. It is in Boulder, Colorado.

In one picture, dark ancient craters border much younger icy plains. Dark ridges also are visible. Some scientists speculate they might be dunes.

One outer solar-system geologist, William McKinnon of Washington University in St. Louis, said if the ridges are, in fact, dunes, that would be "completely wild." That is because of Pluto's thin atmosphere.

"Either Pluto had a thicker atmosphere in the past, or some process we haven't figured out is at work. It's a head-scratcher," McKinnon said in a written statement.

The jumble of mountains, on the other hand, may be huge blocks of ice. They could be floating in a softer, vast deposit of frozen nitrogen.

After several weeks of collecting engineering data from New Horizons, scientists started getting fresh Pluto pictures. The latest images were released Sept. 10.

Besides geologic features, the images show that the atmospheric haze surrounding Pluto has multiple layers. What's more, the haze creates a twilight effect. It enables New Horizons to study places on the night side that scientists never expected to see.

It has been more than two months since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto. That was on July 14. Its journey began at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight has spanned 3 billion miles and 9 1/2 years. As of Sept. 11, the spacecraft was 44 million miles past Pluto.

So much data was collected during the Pluto flyby that it will take until next fall to retrieve it all on Earth. The spacecraft is operated from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. It is in Laurel, Maryland. The physics lab also designed and built it.

New Horizons' next target is awaiting formal approval by NASA. The plan is for it to reach a much smaller object that orbits 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. It, too, lies in the so-called Kuiper Belt. That is a frigid twilight zone on the outskirts of our solar system. Following a set of maneuvers, New Horizons would reach PT1 - short for Potential Target 1 - in 2019.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

Why did it take so long to get more photos from Pluto?

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Big clock fixed with a few small pennies

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(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) Big clock fixed with a few small pennies Don't set your watch by Big Ben. Officials say the famous clock at Britain's Parliament has recently been slow by as much as six seconds. It has been used by Londoners for decades to check the time.

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Who was boss before the dinosaurs?

The Jurassic witnessed a world populated by dinosaurs. While giant plant-eaters munched their way through ferns and conifer forests, large carnivores chased them down for lunch.

At the height of the Age of Dinosaurs, they were found on every continent. They thrived in the warm environments of the time.

But, dinosaurs were not always so prominent. Fossil evidence shows that they arose about 230 million years ago during the Triassic period. But they remained scarce as other reptiles took center stage. Many mammal forerunners, such as the large plant-eater Placerias, prospered. Huge crocodile-like animals like Smilosuchus were the top predators of the Triassic.

Paleontologists who study the fossil record have discovered that something big happened 200 million years ago. It radically changed life on land and in the sea. And it paved the way for dinosaur diversification and prominence.

What happened was so important that it caused more than half of all life on Earth to go extinct. The large crocodile-like reptiles that had dominated the landscape were eliminated. So were many of the mammal forerunners.

Find out more about the events that opened the door for the Age of Dinosaurs. Join us on Thursday, October 8, 2015, for a "Smithsonian Science How" live webcast on How Fossils Explain the Rise of Dinosaurs. It is airing at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. EDT on the Q?rius website. Paleontologist Dr. Hans Sues from the National Museum of Natural History will appear live to discuss and answer questions. Get teaching resources to support your webcast experience.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

To study dinosaurs, why do scientists rely on fossils instead of photographs?

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Garbage Collector Creates Library from Rescued Books

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Garbage collector creates library from rescued books

A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children.

Gutierrez started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods. The discarded reading material slowly piled up. And now the ground floor of his small house is a makeshift community library. It is stacked from floor to ceiling with some 20,000 books. They range from chemistry textbooks to children's classics.

He says books are luxuries for boys and girls in low-income neighborhoods such as his. New reading material at bookstores is too expensive. There are 19 public libraries in Bogota. It is a city of 8.5 million. But the libraries tend to be located far away from poorer areas.

"This should be in all neighborhoods and on each corner of every neighborhood. In all the towns, in all departments and all the rural areas," says Gutierrez. "Books are our salvation. And that is what Colombia needs."

The 53-year-old Gutierrez has a love of reading that he says comes from his mother. She always read to him even though she was too poor to keep him in school.

"She used to read me stories every night," said Gutierrez. He has traveled to book fairs in Mexico and Chile to share his experience of starting a library with discarded reading material. "To me, books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being."

Gutierrez still sifts through the rubbish for additions to his library. But, his fame as Colombia's "Lord of the Books" has also brought him thousands of donated tomes. He has sent many to other libraries around the country. That is because he does not have room for them all.

Gutierrez is an avid reader of works by authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo and Mario Vargas Llosa. His favorite books include "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The General in his Labyrinth" by Colombia's Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

He says he does not reject technology that allows books to be read digitally. But he prefers to read the printed word on paper.

"There is nothing more beautiful than having a book in your pocket, in your bag or inside your car," he says.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

Why does Jose think "books are the greatest invention and the best thing that can happen to a human being?"

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(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara) Garbage collector creates library from rescued books A second-grade education has not stopped garbage collector Jose Gutierrez from bringing the gift of reading to thousands of Colombian children. Gutierrez started rescuing books from the trash almost 20 years ago. He was driving a garbage truck at night through the country's wealthier neighborhoods.

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What's up with Saturn's rings?

You asked us, "What's up with Saturn's rings?"

Although Saturn can be seen with the naked eye, its rings are invisible without a telescope. Galileo was the first to spot them. That was in 1610.

And there are 7 creatively named rings. They span up to about 175,000 miles wide, roughly 3/4 of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The gigantic rings are super thin, though, and some are just 30 feet high.

The rings look continuous, but they aren't. They're made of billions of particles, from dust-sized frozen grains to much larger pieces of water ice and rocky particles wrapped in ice. The frozen grains whirl around Saturn in different orbits.

We don't know how the rings formed or when. It could have been as early as when Saturn came to be. Or as late as when dinos roamed the Earth.

But we do know that the rings aren't static - their formation is a continuous process.

Thanks to tech like the probes we've been sending to Saturn since the late 1970s, we're making new discoveries all the time.

We're even identifying new rings like the 7.4-million-mile-wide behemoth that was discovered in 2009.

And that's just one of the many reasons why you've gotta love science.

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION

How can particles appear as rings?

Write your answers in the comments section below

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Teach current events in your elementary classroom, grades 1-6.

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Teach current events in your elementary classroom, grades 1-6.

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More Trouble in Greece: The Country is Facing New Financial Problems

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More Trouble in Greece: The Country is Facing New Financial Problems

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What's Happening in Europe? Here's What You Need to Know

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What's Happening in Europe? Here's What You Need to Know