Maggie Penman

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Discovery Channel Crashes a 727 (For Science!)

Thursday, October 04, 2012

Have you ever wondered what would happen if the plane you were on crashed? For the first time on television, The Discovery Channel will remotely crash a 727 passenger jet in the Mexic...

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The First Debate, and the Swing Vote

Thursday, October 04, 2012

How much of an impact do the debates really have when it comes to the ever-important swing vote? Six independent voters join The Takeaway to discuss the highs and lows of the first televised debate.

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The Best Tweets from Last Night's Debate

Thursday, October 04, 2012

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By Alex Johnson : Online Editor, The Takeaway / Maggie Penman : Intern, The Takeaway

Twitter set a record last night for the volume of tweets during a political event, beating out the conventions from a few weeks ago. Here's a collection of our favorite tweets from la...
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Don't Mention It: Patriot Act

Thursday, October 04, 2012

How did this hot issue become a non-issue? Has the country forgotten about the Patriot Act? Or do the candidates just hope that we have? Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on Nat...

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Afghanistan Death Toll Reaches 2,000

Monday, October 01, 2012

It was confirmed over the weekend that the number of American servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan had reached 2,000. The incident took place in Wardak province, and exactly wha...

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Nate Silver on the Science of Prediction

Monday, October 01, 2012

Political junkies, economists, baseball scouts, meteorologists, and basically everyone else in the world is constantly trying to predict the future. And yet with the overwhelming amou...

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Why American Officials May Have Underestimated Security Threat in Benghazi, Libya

Monday, October 01, 2012

Counterterrorism and State Department officials now say the effective response of newly-trained Libyan guards to a June bombing outside the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi may...

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How Important Is Early Voting?

Monday, October 01, 2012

Election day is still more than a month away, but early voting has already begun. Voters in South Dakota and Idaho began casting their ballots on September 21, while voters in Iowa li...

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Don't Mention It: Guantanamo Bay

Monday, October 01, 2012

Miami Herald correspondent Carol Rosenberg explains why Guantanamo is missing this campaign season, and what Americans still need to know about the detention facility. 

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The Best High School Movies

Friday, September 28, 2012

In honor of our weeklong series on education, we want to hear your favorite high-school-based movies. In the spirit of our series, we're going to stick with movies that take place at public schools.

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Takeaway Listeners Respond to Education Series

Friday, September 28, 2012

Takeaway listeners from Vancouver to New Jersey have been responding to this week's series on education with stories about their favorite educators, testimonials about their own schoo...

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The Biggest Issues Facing Public Schools According to Teachers

Friday, September 28, 2012

After hearing from public education experts, scholars, and advocates, The Takeaway invited teachers from around the country to describe the students they worry about the most and the ...

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The Trouble with Depicting God

Friday, September 28, 2012

Depictions of the sacred are everywhere in modern American society, but we're not immune from the conflict that such depictions sometimes inspire. How does the fight over God's image ...

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How The Jetsons' Future Inspired Our Present

Friday, September 28, 2012

We may not have flying cars yet, but much of the future world envisioned in the television show "The Jetsons" has in fact come true. For the show's fiftieth anniversary, Janet Waldo, ...

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Olivia Wilde Documents Women's Rise from Oppression to Opportunity

Friday, September 28, 2012

Actress Olivia Wilde talks about growing up with parents who worked as journalists in conflict zones and how that inspired her role in the new PBS series, "Half the Sky."

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Learning from Highly Selective Public Schools

Thursday, September 27, 2012

There are 165 schools in the United States that are so rigorous and desired that you have to pass an exam to get in. Is this a model that could eventually trickle down to all sorts of schools?

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Is Obesity Threatening Our National Security?

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Twenty-seven percent of Americans aged 17 to 24 are too fat to serve in the United States military. Add that number to those who cannot serve because they have a criminal record or ha...

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Thinking Like a Scientist: Solution to Politics?

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Is there a science to the way American politics is conducted? Rep. Rush Holt argues that more scientific thought is needed when it comes to the political system. Rep. Holt argues that...

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An Earlier Mona Lisa?

Thursday, September 27, 2012

The Mona Lisa Foundation, based in Zurich, says after 35 years of research on the "Isleworth" Mona Lisa, experts are now convinced that this painting predates the Louvre's Mona Lisa by 11 or 12 years.

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Mouse Stand-ins Leading The Way Towards Cures, Treatment

Thursday, September 27, 2012

A mouse in a lab is nothing new. But what if that mouse was an immune replica of the researcher working on it? Or what if a mouse could carry the exact disease that a patient was suffering from?

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