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As Iranian students call for demonstrations on Sunday as a sign of solidarity with jailed student leader Majid Tavakoli, the blogosphere is buzzing over another imprisoned figure who has written an incendiary letter exposing the sordid details of sexual assaults against political prisoners and others. Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian, serving a …

On Monday, Jim Hardin was casting his 6 foot spinning rod in the Roanoke River off of the town of Plymouth in the northeast corner of North Carolina. “Woe, look at that,” he said as he reeled in a 24-inch Striped Bass. “Fishing is everything to me,” he said later, …

With over 400 active volcanoes, Jupiter’s moon Io is considered to be one of the most unique planets in the solar system. Newly analyzed research may hold the key to that moon’s mysterious nature. A group of scientists from UCLA, UC Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan have finished …