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The Institute for Performance Innovation at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem will support groundbreaking graduate programs in animatronics as well as gaming and virtual reality. The Institute will be established with a $10 million anonymous gift announced this week by Chancellor Lindsay Bierman. Source: PRNewsFoto/UNCSA.

UNCSA Announces $10 Million Gift to Establish Institute for Performance Innovation

December 12, 2016 Kay Whatley

Anonymous Gift will Support the Creation of Animatronics, Gaming and Virtual Reality Programs By Lauren Whitaker, University of North Carolina School of the Arts The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has received […]

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The Strange-ness: NC Law Removes Protections from Opossums for Five Days A Year

July 27, 2018

By Kay Whatley, Editor Have you ever read an article about the odd laws on the books in US states? One can only imagine what led to their creation. Laws prohibiting elephants from plowing fields* […]

UFO Sightings by US State: January 2019

February 15, 2019

By Kay Whatley, Editor Across the United States each year, thousands of unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings are reported. UFO reports cover close encounters of various types, range from blinking lights in the sky to […]

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The Strange-ness: Magpies

July 31, 2016

Corvidae is a scientific designation for a family of birds which includes crows, ravens, jays (like blue jays), magpies, and several more birds. These “corvids” arguably are some of the smartest animals on the planet — not just the smartest of birds, […]