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Six Quick Tips to Fight Sleep Deprivation

December 8, 2017December 8, 2017

Picture credit: Sleep Deprivation By: Katelynn Fleming We’ve all heard it before: we need 8-10 hours of sleep per night.  However, with everything we need to get done between work, family and…

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Caribou

December 8, 2017December 8, 2017

Photo credits: NPS By: Kassel Franco Garibay There is a proposed tax bill that includes a provision that would allow commercial oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Environmental activist…

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Forest Findings: Red-tailed Hawk

December 8, 2017December 8, 2017

Photo credits: National Audubon Society By: Colleen Dabrowski The Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, is the most common hawk in North America. They can be found all over, including in the West Indies.…

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Forest Finding: Great Blue Heron

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017

By: Colleen Dabrowski Photo by: Anna Gombert Forest Findings has got a treat for you this week! The elusive Great Blue Heron that frequents the Drew University Zuck Arboretum ponds has been photographed by…

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Colliding Stars

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017

By: Abigail Mullen Quanta Magazine On October 16, physicists from the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced that they have detected gravitational waves rippling through space and time. According to Science…

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We Owe Our Genetic Diversity to 34,000 Year-Old Dating Networks

October 27, 2017October 27, 2017

By: Katelynn Fleming                                                            …

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BFR: New Rocket

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

From ExtremeTech By: Jesse Murray On September 29, Elon Musk released his revised plan for sending humans to Mars. The key to this plan is a new rocket called the BFR. It…

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More than 100 Hippos Die In Namibia

October 13, 2017October 13, 2017

From National Geographic By: Maïmouna Kanté According to National Geographic, the past few weeks in Namibia have been marked by the death of more than 100 hippos in the Bwabwata National Park…

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Forest Findings: Cisseps fulvicollis

September 29, 2017September 29, 2017

By Colleen Dabrowski & Anna Gombert From Maryland Biodiversity Projects. Cisseps fulvicollis, the Yellow-collared Scape Moth, historically can be found all across the United States. However, today they are much more common in the…

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Rumbling Volcano in Indonasia

September 29, 2017September 29, 2017

By Abigail Mullen From sbs.com. On Friday, September 22nd, Mount Agung, a volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali, started showing signs that it would erupt soon. As of Wednesday, more than 75,000 people…

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The Drew Acorn is Drew University’s student-run newspaper. Established in 1928, the Acorn covers campus life and news, as well as events in Madison and the surrounding area that are of interest to our student body. If you’re interested in writing for the Acorn, get in touch at thedrewacorn@gmail.com, or join on path.drew.edu.

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