14 04, 2014

Seeing Charleston, S.C., in a new light

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"It has the largest concentrated Confederate burial ground in the area, but I don't consider it a Confederate cemetery because 33,000 people are buried here over 160-plus years," Beverly Donald, Magnolia Cemetery's superintendent, said in an interview with Patrick Harwood, a communication professor at the College of Charleston. (Harwood posted the interview on his CofCMultimediareporting

14 04, 2014

‘Blood moon’ launches odd sequence of eclipses, dire warning

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"Eclipses are just like clockwork," College of Charleston Astronomer Terry Richardson noted. Even the planetary alignment "is just a matter of cycles. The planetary cycle just happens to be occurring in line with the eclipse cycle, he said.

25 03, 2014

A whale of a find: Fossil sheds light on cetacean sonar’s origin

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deadly threat posed by German submarines during World War One helped spur scientists to develop sonar, using underwater sound signals to locate objects like subs that might be taking aim with a torpedo. In the 20th century, it was an important technological breakthrough. But it was old technology as far as

25 03, 2014

Rivers under the sea: Mapping finds ancient bottom habitat

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The Lowcountry offshore is mostly barren sand bottom to the edge of the Continental Shelf - that's conventional wisdom. But three times now, College of Charleston geologists have dropped high-tech imaging devices to map that bottom, and three times they found "these amazing features" they didn't expect - ancient river channels.

25 03, 2014

Evolution should be part of core S.C. science standards, Charleston professor says

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A biology professor told an education panel on Monday that members of his organization are frustrated with seeing the state's biology standards become a "political football for religious reasons or political reasons." Rob Dillon, a College of Charleston professor and president of South Carolinians for Science Education, said members of the organization are "so discouraged"

17 02, 2014

Why American Christians Love Satan

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But who is Satan among today’s American Christians? W. Scott Poole, a professor of history at the College of Charleston and author of Satan in America: The Devil We Know, told me, “In the United States over the last forty to fifty years, a composite image of Satan has emerged that borrows from both popular