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A ten year study of 100,000 galaxies now offers compelling proof for the existence of ‘dark matter’. What’s more,

Saying that “the universe we see is really quite structured,” one of the lead researchers explained that the 10-year “census” of galaxies near our own Milky Way offers powerful evidence that this invisible dark matter “seems to hold the galaxies together.”

Stuff like this always makes me wonder if we are all part of something much larger, much grander than our puny little world  and our ant-like existence. Are super-novas an example of a galactic ‘viral’ attack? Are black holes the ‘tumor’ of galaxies? Or is it all much bigger even than that?

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After years bouncing around Hollywood, “Atlas Shrugged” may yet see the light of the silver screen…

Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist.

After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand’s capitalism-minded “Atlas Shrugged” is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world’s most prominent money men potentially at its center.

Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is circling the Baldwin Entertainment project and could come aboard to finance with Lionsgate, which got involved several years ago.

Rand’s popular but polarizing book — it’s derided by many literary critics but has a huge public following — tells the story of Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive in the face of what she perceives as a lack of innovation and individual responsibility.

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