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Students study astronomy at UW

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) Six undergraduate students from across the country are taking part in a 10-week program to study astronomy at the University of Wyoming. The students from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Minnesota arrived in Laramie this week. Continue reading →

Wyo. college killer suicide note blames Asperger's for troubles, life as 'bottom feeder'

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. – A bizarre, rambling suicide note left behind by a man who police say killed his father in front of a handful of students in a Wyoming community college classroom extols eugenics and blames his father for the genes he said caused him to have Asperger's syndrome. Continue reading →

Artificial Intelligence Used to Home In on New Fossil Sites

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FREIGHTER GAP, Wyo.On blisteringly hot desert sands, researchers crawled on their hands and knees avoiding fist-size cacti littering the ground.Their goal: collecting bones and teeth of some of the earliest known primates to shed light on the adaptations at the root of the evolutionary lineage that led to humans.The fossils, though, are the size of a fingernail or smaller, and they are scattered over an area of about 10,000 square kilometers in the rocky desert of Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin. That’s a lot of ground to cover, especially on all fours and in searing heat. So the scientists are relying on a tool never tried before in paleontology: artificial intelligence Continue reading →

Brubaker challenges Lummis

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By AARON LeCLAIR/lbedit7@laramieboomerang.com Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Libertarian Richard Brubaker said he would advocate for the gradual reduction of the federal government and create jobs for the middle class if he is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives this fall Continue reading →

Fractured health care trust reeling

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With schools hurting due to the tough economy and state education cuts, a reckoning may be fast approaching for the Northeast Pennsylvania School Districts Health Trust, the group of area public school entities pooled together to increase health care bargaining power. In a cost-saving effort, at least three school districts within the trust are signaling their intent to pull out next year, and more are considering it Continue reading →