Columbia

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While horrifying, the space-obsessed couldn’t have been wholly shocked when the Columbia disaster of 2003 echoed that of Challenger; that the shuttle program had flown nearly 90 missions in the intervening 17 years barely registered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which has set a 17 April deadline to file the requests.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

Currently, shows such as CBS procedural “Tracker” and Showtime thriller “Yellowjackets” are filming in British Columbia.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

The research involved scientists from the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Minnesota; and the University of British Columbia.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026

That is what two professors from Columbia University, Sheena Iyengar and Raymond Fisman, have done, and they have discovered that if you make people explain themselves, something very strange and troubling happens.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell