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Ello offers social-network users simplicity, privacy

October 20, 2014

In contrast to other platforms like Facebook and Twitter, Ello is a newly-established social network which brands itself as “simple, beautiful, and (an) ad-free social network.” After initially starting as a private social network, Ello created a public version of the site after an increase in i...

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Eyes on the sky

By Rachel Chinchilla

October 3, 2014

Filed under Opinions

Claudius Ptolemy, an ancient Greek geographer and astronomer, once wrote, “I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch the earth with my feet.” What truth there is to this statement! Observing the night sky ...

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