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Flyers-Islanders, Golden Knights-Canucks will not be played Thursday

The NHL will not play playoff games on Thursday in solidarity with other leagues protesting against Jacob Blake’s recent police shooting in Wisconsin, sources told ESPN. The decision bans games between the New York Islanders and Philadelphia Flyers, and the Vegas Golden Knights and Vancouver Canucks. Sources had told ESPN …

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Did a supernova cause the Devonian mass extinction event?

359 million years ago, Earth’s one of its worst extinctions occurred, and a team of researchers at the University of Illinois think it could be caused by a series of explosions of supernovae no more than 35 light-years away. Every now and then something terrible happens to life on earth. …

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