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In ‘Eureka Day,’ a Scene About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously

In ‘Eureka Day,’ a Scene About Vaccines Devolves, Hilariously

The third scene of the new Broadway production of “Eureka Day” could be titled The Way We Discourse Now. As written by the playwright Jonathan Spector, the scene reliably has audiences laughing so loudly that the actors are drowned out. The situation is this: It is 2018. The principal of the progressive private school Eureka Day in Berkeley, Calif., and …

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After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon

After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon

For thousands of years, Cardea has been known as the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, a guardian of thresholds. On Monday, she joined the celestial ranks of fellow mythological figures like Mars, Venus and Andromeda. But Cardea is not a planet or a constellation. She is as a quasi-moon — a very-real type of asteroid that appears to be …

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