Over the past 50 years, musician “Weird Al” Yankovic has become the first artist to have a comedy album debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200, been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, amassed five Grammy awards, and one Emmy. As if that weren’t enough, the “Amish Paradise,” “Eat It,” and
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New research led by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has revealed the identity of a puzzling near-Earth object by precisely tracking its movement through space and using powerful observatories that image faint celestial objects. This object has a split personality: Previous images had revealed no obvious comet-like activity, suggesting it could
