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The race to uncover the structure of DNA reveals fascinating insights into how Franklin’s data was key to the double helix model, but the ‘stealing’ myth stems from Watson’s memoir and attitude rather than facts
The wave of protest that followed Sir Tim Hunt’s stupid comments about ‘girls’ in laboratories highlighted ... |
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Emilian Robert Vicol / Flickr )” width=”308″ height=”410″ />Coal-fired power plant, smoke stack emissions. (Photo: Emilian Robert Vicol / Flick... |
Chinese village of Yangji is being swallowed up by rapidly expanding Guangzhou, China’s third-largest city with a population of over 12 million. The houses in the village are being razed to make room for the urban development of the city.
When the demolition workers moved into her neighborhood, Huang Sufang was convin... |
It was 90-plus degrees and humid in Chicago yesterday, and even more unpleasant down on the pitch where the Fire drew the visiting Galaxy 1-1. After the match, L.A. captain Robbie Keane blasted the decision to play in the middle of the afternoon.
"I would love to know who makes these fucking stupid decisions, to play ... |
Islamic Awakening
The fact of the matter is that the Islamic Ummah has long been neglecting itself. The present scientific and technological retardation and the low status in the areas of politics, industry and economy are the bitter outcome of this negligence. And now, considering the great change that has occurred o... |
After Edith Macias ripped the hat off a fellow student's head, she brought it to the student life offices, expecting its owner to be punished.
Two videos went viral last week, showing a University of California at Riverside student named Edith Macias rip a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat off the head of fellow s... |
BOSTON – For the second year in a row, Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo surprised 100 youth with Christmas gifts for the holiday.
Partnering with the Yawkey Boys and Girls Club, Rondo arrived to the site Monday morning in a 20 foot UHAUL filled with bikes, electric scooters and iPads. The invited youth had no idea the ... |
Los Angeles-based DJ Dillon Francis is about to release his first album, Money Sucks, Friends Rule. Out on Columbia Records Oct. 27, MSFR is not your typical EDM collection. Over the course of 12 tracks, he offers smatterings of pop, traditional club dance tracks, a few surprisingly downtempo tunes and, of course, some... |
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가수 고 김광석씨 부인 서해순씨가 지난 17일 용인시 기흥구 자신의 집에서 〈한겨레〉기자와 만나 인터뷰를 하고 있다.
가수 고 김광석씨의 부인 서해순씨를 둘러싼 ‘김광석씨 딸 서연양 타살 의혹’에 대해 경찰이 지난 10일 무혐의 결론을 내렸지만 여전히 많은 사람은 그에 대한 의심을 거두지 못하고 있다. 서씨는 경찰의 수사 결과 발표가 있고 일주일이 지난 17일 오전 경기 용인시 자신의 집에서 <한겨레>와 만나 2시간 동안 그간의 소회를 밝혔다.
이날 서씨는 장애가 있는 아이를 키워왔던 자신의 삶에 대해 ‘이를 악물고 견뎌낸 시간’으로 기억했다. 자신이... |
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ALABASTER, Ala. (WIAT) -- People went to Montgomery today to speak out about the bill to ban Kratom in Shelby County.
The Shelby County Drug Free Coalition and concerned residents held a meeting before leaving for the capitol. There, they addressed the growing number of synthet... |
Scientists say they have more evidence that an increase in earthquakes on the Colorado-New Mexico border since 2001 has been caused by wells that inject wastewater from oil and gas production back underground, similar to human-caused quakes in Oklahoma and other states.
A paper published last week by researchers at th... |
This month UK Internet providers will start their long-awaited piracy alerts campaign. With help from copyright holders and support from the Government, ISPs will send email notifications to subscribers whose connections are allegedly being used to pirate content. Today we take a look at what's in store.
In an effort ... |
New ABC laws went into effect last week, and among them is one which could benefit Richmond’s famous movie palace, the Byrd Theatre.
Introduced by Delegate Nick Rush, the law creates a new type of wine and beer license for nonprofit historic cinema houses built before 1970. The beverages can be served without the need... |
Likely Republican presidential candidates like Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Mike Huckabee and Rand Paul are working to court Religious Right activist and American Renewal Project founder David Lane, who today wrote a column for BarbWire warning that “America has been hijacked, we are now living between Babel and the Beast.”... |
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Only those with nerves of steel dare stand under this teetering 250-ton rock in India that perches precariously on a hill.
The Krishna’s Butter Ball or Vaanirai Kal (Stone of the Sky God), as it is known to locals, has been sitting on a 45-degree slope in Mahabalipuram for over 1,300 years.
The 20ft ro... |
As the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision approaches, the public remains opposed to completely overturning the historic ruling on abortion. More than six-in-ten (63%) say they would not like to see the court completely overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, which established a woman’s constitution... |
SHENANDOAH, Texas - A 17-year-old man was killed by an off-duty deputy Tuesday night during the robbery of a Montgomery County fast food restaurant.
Investigators said Elijah Mark Cobb entered the Raising Cane's restaurant at 8:40 p.m. in the 1500 block of Research Forest Drive near The Woodlands with a handgun and tr... |
Can't Rewind Now We've Gone Too Far
Rating: M for language, descriptions of drug use and sexual conduct. (Still ignoring ASiB, because seriously.)
Pairings: Young!Sherlock/various guys
Warnings: Pretty much everything you'd expect from a story about drug addiction.
A/N: So somehow my silly story about Sherlock bein... |
Washington (CNN) Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump across the board in a new poll of battleground states.
Her leads held at nearly the same margins when Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson was included in the poll. And Clinton led Trump 48% to 37% when all states were factored together. With Johnson included, Clin... |
Jacksonville Officially Eliminated From NASL Championship Race While Ottawa Clinches Fall Season Title
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With its North American Soccer League playoff hopes hanging by a thread, the Jacksonville Armada FC looked to be on the way to living to f... |
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India’s tea sector is driven in large part by Assam and West Bengal, which account for over 70 percent of the country’s tea production. There are at least one million tea workers... |
A Minnesota teacher and his husband are both dead in an apparent murder-suicide, after both were placed under investigation for molesting several children. The couple apparently lured in their victims by offering to “mentor” gay youth and instead molesting them.
Until this past month, Aric Babbit was a popular element... |
First, let’s get the bad out of the way: trying to help a dog afraid of fireworks by saying, "Johnny (that’s the dog) there will be fireworks tomorrow night. Don’t you go running away at the park like you did last year! That was bad, Johnny. Very bad. So this year, get ahold of yourself!"
Unfortunately, monologues lik... |
Faisal Shahzad sought to massacre scores of fellow Americans in Times Square with a bomb made of M-88 firecrackers, non-explosive fertilizer, gasoline and alarm clocks.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a U.S. airliner over Detroit with a firebomb concealed in his underpants. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot dead ... |
I ran across the graphic below on my sister’s tumblr blog this weekend and, though I already knew crop species loss was pretty dramatic, I found it to be quite shocking (click on the image to enlarge it).
If you can’t read the graphic, the key points are:
A CENTURY AGO
In 1903 commercial seed houses offered hundreds... |
Don't be misled into considering Milt Jacskson's talent and influence only when away from the MJQ--that long-lived quartet led by pianist John Lewis and including bassist Percy Heath, drummer Connie Kay and, of course, Milt Jackson ("Bags"). I'm afraid that arguably this most enduring small jazz ensemble (rivaled only ... |
CBS brought an authentic Lombardi Trophy with it to Baltimore in hopes of getting some video of Ravens posing with the trophy for its Super Bowl XLVII pregame coverage. The players did not oblige.
Schein: Super Bowl under the radar You've heard all about the Harbaughs. What about the don't make headlines? Adam Schein ... |
This is one of the books that made the greatest impressions on me when I was younger. It is a true horror book. Frances is used to a scatty life with her aunt, moving from house to house, so she's excited when her aunt announces she's getting married (even though it all sounds rather abrupt) and they'll be moving to a ... |
Mother-of-three jailed for falsely claiming she was abducted and raped after one-night stand
A mother-of-three was jailed for falsely claiming she had been abducted and raped because she was worried her husband would find out that she had a one-night stand.
Nicola Osborne, 32, told police she had been bundled in a ca... |
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“So am I the queen?” Margaery Tyrell wondered not so long ago on Game of Thrones. Her grandmother told her at the time, “You did wonderful work on Joffrey. The next one should be easier.”
And Sunday night, she learned that not only did her grandmother have a hand in d... |
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BT and Virgin Media have launched a legal challenge against Birmingham City Council's plans to build a superfast broadband network.
The council had successfully applied for European Commission State Aid funding for the sche... |
Washington (CNN) Bernie Sanders has for the first time pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Sanders topped Clinton with 44% compared to her 37% support among likely Democratic primary voters, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll.
Sanders has b... |
Rice scientists say Malpelo microplate helps resolve geological misfit under Pacific Ocean
A microplate discovered off the west coast of Ecuador adds another piece to Earth’s tectonic puzzle, according to Rice University scientists.
Researchers led by Rice geophysicist Richard Gordon discovered the microplate, which ... |
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The foreign affairs and defense chiefs of Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to revise bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the end of 2014 so the joint security alliance reflects rising threats in the Asia-Pacific region.
In the “two-plus-two” meeting, in which the participants for the first time in T... |
On the most recent SGU 5×5 episode we discussed the notion of perpetual motion, or free energy machines. They are, as anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the laws of thermodynamics and conservation is aware, impossible. The bottom line is that there is no way to create a machine that creates energy from nothing. E... |
In an exclusive interview with rehabbing Mets right-hander Zack Wheeler, Kevin Kernan of the New York Post covered a variety of issues that go beyond the typical reports we’ve been getting on the former top pitching prospect in baseball.
It’s not the usual mundane “Wheeler feels great” blah, blah, blah, push the “publ... |
Once Rick Vaive became the first member of the Toronto Maple Leafs to score 50 goals, he went ahead and scored 50 more the next season, and the next.
As a young star winger, he served as captain of the club for five seasons in the ’80s before getting stripped of the “C” and traded to Chicago by owner Harold Ballard. B... |
Simon Cowell, whom NBC had previously been advertising for the May 17 edition of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” is no longer listed for the show.
NBC now says Miley Cyrus will appear as the episode’s lead interview guest. The episode will also feature previously announced appearances by Josh Gad, Anthony Bo... |
Image caption Successive zooming in on the image of the Southern Galactic Cap (lower left) shows the Messier 33 galaxy (upper left; a further magnification at centre), and even the NGC 604 "stellar nursery"
Astronomers have released the largest ever colour image of the whole sky, stitched from seven million images, ea... |
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called for a private operator to take over New York’s troubled Penn Station, the nation’s busiest rail station, where recent derailments and other problems have hampered commuters.
In a letter to Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman, the governors said “the ... |
CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY's hockey insider Kevin Allen details the story lines that you should pay attention to this season. USA TODAY Sports
This April 4, 2011 image released by NBC Universal shows announcer Dave Strader for "NHL on Versus," in New York. (Photo11: Virginia Sherwood, AP)
Dave Strader, the hockey b... |
Microsoft decided to take a not-too-subtle pot shot at Google's self-driving car project this week. Microsoft believes that Google's automated vehicles could benefit from its Kinect motion sensor technology.
In a post on the Kinect blog , Microsoft, without mentioning Google by name, refers to a recent report that one... |
The Pew pollsters published a major survey on Islam in the US on July 26 titled U.S. Muslims Concerned About Their Place in Society, but Continue to Believe in the American Dream
It portrays Muslims residing in the US as concerned about terror and extremism in their religion, while feeling not entirely accepted in Ame... |
In chaotic times, there are moments when you just have to take comfort in order anywhere you can find it. Katherine reviews some basic plant growth rules and takes a major company to task for undermining botanical literacy.
Would you buy milk from a dairy whose smiling cow mascot had an udder perched on top of her hea... |
TRANSPARENCY: Anyone is welcome to visit the farm anytime. No trade secrets, no locked doors, every corner is camera-accessible.
GRASS-BASED: Pastured livestock and poultry, moved frequently to new “salad bars,” offer landscape healing and nutritional superiority.
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In a contract year, the specter of negotiations looms over nearly every action automakers and the UAW make as both sides jockey for position.
UAW President Dennis Williams delivers his speech during day two of the 2015 Special Bargaining Convention at Cobo Center in downtown Detroit Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (Photo: ... |
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MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin football team has agreed to a home-and-home series with Washington State, the two schools announced on Wednesday. The Badgers and Cougars will meet in Madison during the 2022 season before Wisconsin makes the return trip to Pullman, Wash., during the 2023 campaign.
This se... |
Here’s a dash of good political news. Americans are turning against assault weapons bans:
Support for a so-called assault weapons ban in the U.S. just hit a record low of 36 percent, according to a new Gallup poll released on Wednesday. The poll showed that 61 percent of American adults now oppose a ban. That level of... |
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The claims of an apocalypse-like situation may be wrong. But, it can’t be denied that millions of people around the world die every year because of natural disasters like earthquake, flood, tsunami and tornado. The world faces about 600 disasters every year. In a report titled Natural Disaster Hotspots: ... |
Bill 68, amending the Highway Traffic Act, received unanimous approval when it was debated in the House of Assembly in this past March.
“Today, we take one more step in our efforts to change the conversation around impaired driving in our province,” Service NL Minister Sherry Gambin-Walsh said in a news release.
“Thi... |
Image copyright AFP Image caption Boko Haram began a military campaign to impose Islamist rule in northern Nigeria in 2009
Islamic State (IS) has accepted a pledge of allegiance from Nigeria's militant group Boko Haram, according to an audio message.
In the tape, which has not been verified, an IS spokesman says the ... |
Buy Photo A makeshift memorial for Harambe, the lowland gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo, sits outside the gorilla exhibit. (Photo: Enquirer file/Liz Dufour)Buy Photo
Brittany Nicely is not the mother of the boy who fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo prompting officials to shoot and kill a 17-year... |
We developed the First World War – Changing the fabric of our nation infographic in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage WW100 Programme Office, and with valuable assistance from the New Zealand Defence Force, to mark the First World War centenary from 2014 to 2018. The First World War was one of the m... |
DETROIT - Law enforcement officials in 40 Michigan counties are kicking off a new enforcement campaign aimed at curbing drunken driving.
The "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign starts Friday and runs through Sept. 1, including the Labor Day weekend.
Law enforcement officers from 150 local police departments, sh... |
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, for a vote on the Senate floor. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
An "increasingly frail" Sen. John McCain remained hospitalized Thursday in an effort to manage side effects of his treatment for brain cancer.
CNN cited sources... |
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Top 10 Endangered Horse Breeds
Each of these breeds has just a few thousand members or less globally.
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy has a list of 18 horse and pony breeds at risk of extinction–some have under 10,000 representatives of the breed globally, while some have under 100. To put that in perspecti... |
As anyone who suffers from recurrent cold sores knows, herpes is a master escapist. This family of viruses – including strains that cause lesions on the genitals, infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever) and, in some cases, blindness and birth defects – is able to wriggle free of the body’s defences, reactivating aft... |
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A 44,000 DWT bulk carrier is hard aground in Mauritius after a fight apparently broke out on board among crew members, with some reports going as far as describing possible mutiny.
Local media reports that Liberian-flagged MV Benita was sa... |
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Saint Louis FC announced the signing of defender Sean Reynolds from Louisville City FC, pending USL and U.S. Soccer Federation approval.
Reynolds was raised in Fort Walton Beach, Florida and attended the University of West Florida where he was named the Gulf South Conference Player of the Year in 2011... |
CLARENCE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--22nd Century Group, Inc. (NYSE American: XXII), a plant biotechnology company focused on tobacco harm reduction and hemp/cannabis research, announced today that, in preparation for the planned mandate by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that all cigarettes sold in the United ... |
NEW YORK -- Investor groups angered by plunging stock prices are vowing to hold executives and corporate board members accountable at annual shareholder meetings this spring, turning up the pressure on U.S. companies already reeling from the credit crunch.
Activist investors are targeting a variety of financial servic... |
By By Kesavan Unnikrishnan Oct 7, 2015 in Environment Greenpeace is exploring funding options to buy four coal-fired power plants and their corresponding mines in Eastern Germany to shut them down. Greenpeace plans to fund the acquisition of the plants and mines through crowd funding and donations. As per its estimates... |
President Donald Trump is once again grossly exaggerating the success of his efforts to deport members of the MS-13, a gang founded by El Salvadoran immigrants. This time he claims that his administration has removed “pretty much” half of the gang members. That’s impossible.
There are an estimated 10,000 MS-13 gang me... |
Rolling Stone The August issue of Rolling Stone hasn't even hit newstands yet, but its cover is already stirring up controversy on social media.
On the front of the magazine is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving member of the duo of brothers alleged to have carried out the attacks on the Boston Marathon.
Three people w... |
If you’re more than double your girlfriend’s age or triple her weight, you might be a sexpat.
If you”ve had more STDs in Cambodia than bouts of food poisoning, you might be a sexpat.
If you spend more money on prostitutes than you do on your rent, you might be a sexpat.
If since you moved to Phnom Penh, you’ve learn... |
In the predawn hours of a night in mid July when you were probably sound asleep, two teams of wildlife biologists met at an undisclosed location along the New York-Massachusetts border to exchange a load of extremely precious cargo: six-week old loon chicks.
Just a few hours earlier, members of the New York crew had b... |
Dealing Blow To Obama, Efforts To Pass Trade Plan Fail In The House
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Dealing a big blow to President Obama's agenda, the House of Representatives failed to pass a key element of a package of bills that would have given Obama the ability to fast-trac... |
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on February 17, 2017
Four days ago, Chapo Trap House, a Left-wing politics and humour podcast, hosted Brace Belden, known to Twitter as “PissPigGranddad,” a 27-year-old from San Francisco who has joined the Syrian Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). It was very interesting... |
Where There's A Wheel, There's A Way. Where There Are 2, Things Can Get Weird
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This week, Tour de France riders cranked through three grueling days in the Pyrenees mountains. Once more, they've all made the curious decision not to just get off t... |
New Delhi, India - A small green revolution on the congested roads of New Delhi may stall following signs that electric rickshaws could be regulated.
State transport authorities are scrutinising a report indicating that many drivers of the estimated 100,000 "e-rickshaws" now circulating the congested Indian city are s... |
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An anti-abortion rights group leading the effort to prevent Dr. Mila Means from offering abortion services at her Wichita office are planning an event at a public school tonight—right across the street from where Dr. George Tiller was gunned down in h... |
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Last week, the number of homicides in Baltimore surpassed 200, making 2017 a record-setting year for violence on the city’s streets. Mayor Catherine Pugh said she’s developed a plan to stop the violence, but hasn’t yet ... |
Scientists have raised hope for the prevention of early-onset diabetes in children after a fibre-rich diet was found to protect animals from the disease.
More than 20 million people worldwide are affected by type 1 diabetes, which takes hold when the immune system turns on the body and destroys pancreatic cells that m... |
Craig Hamilton-Parker is a psychic known for making headline-grabbing predictions about political events. In a recent video, Hamilton-Parker has said we should expect seismic shifts in the global landscape, including Denmark and Italy leaving the EU, riots and a rise in gun crime in the US and the discovery of a never-... |
The Ashiarai Yashiki is an extremely bizarre Japanese spirit that takes the form of a disembodied leg and foot, many times larger than a normal human and often covered in mud or blood - this frightening being was believed to literally smash its way into the homes of terrified humans and demand them to wash it.
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The Thomas Crown Affair is a 1999 American heist film directed by John McTiernan and starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary. It is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name.[2][3] The film generally received positive reviews. It was a success at the box office, grossing $124 million worldwide.[1]
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On Thursday, a gay man was sentenced to up to 9 years in prison for assaulting a gay couple with a chair at a restaurant in New York City.
Bayna-Lehkeim El-Amin, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ rights, said that his race was a factor in the attack and that the couple were the aggressors in that situation.
“They walked ... |
Government Drops Facebook Search Warrant Gag Order At Eleventh Hour
from the preventative-action dept
Facebook has won its challenge against a warrant gag order. Unfortunately, it's more of a case of the government forfeiting than the social media giant raising a successful challenge.
Details from the case are limit... |
What are the fees I have to pay each term at university?
Currently there is no state in Germany with general tuition fees for bachelor's and consecutive master's degree programs at state universities. Students pay only a small enrolment or confirmation fee. Once they have enrolled students receive their student ID. Th... |
ABC/ESPN released their list for prime-time games this season for the Big Ten, and Ohio State has three games that will be played under the lights. Ohio State will get 8 PM kickoff times for the following dates:
September 6th: Virginia Tech
October 25th: At Penn State
November 1st: Illinois
The Va Tech game will be... |
A letter written by Steve Irwin (a.k.a. The Crocodile Hunter) to his parents, penned when he was 32, has been discovered nearly 10 years after his death.
Steve died after being stabbed in the chest by a stingray barb in September 2006 while filming an ocean documentary.
READ MORE: Terri Irwin hasn’t gone on one date ... |
It’s cold out there for unprofitable startups. Lucky for beauty startup Birchbox, its existing investors are continuing to back it.
Unable to secure additional investments on good terms from new investors, the six-year-old company has raised a new $15 million investment from its current investors to shore up its balan... |
As the Allied troops advanced through France in November 1944, three experts in biological weapons huddled, by candlelight, in a grand apartment in Strasbourg, France, guarded by US soldiers.
The scientists were poring through documents left behind by Dr. Eugen Haagen, a high-ranking Nazi who specialized in weaponizin... |
A lot happened during the 1980s—too much to remember, really. Go back in time and relive the era of Reagan and Rubik's Cubes with this 1980s timeline.
The year was noteworthy for other events. In Washington state, Mount St. Helens erupted in May, killing more than 50 people. And in December, singer John Lennon was ass... |
EspañolDue to Argentina’s recurring inflation crisis, capital controls, and overall financial repression, it’s become a staple opinion in bitcoin circles to predict that the country is set for a crypto-currency boom.
Actually, Argentina is very far from widespread bitcoin adoption, and it’s likely that most people nev... |
Hillary Clinton’s advisers recognized that her policy position on encryption was problematic, with one writing that it was tantamount to insisting that there was “‘some way’ to do the impossible.”
Instead, according to campaign emails released by Wikileaks, they suggested that the campaign signal its willingness to us... |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg vigorously defended controversial Internet.org project and its 'Free Basics' during his visit to IIT campus in Delhi.
India's telecom regulator said today that service providers cannot charge discriminatory prices for Internet services, a blow to Facebook's global effort to provide low-cos... |
January is a time for people to reflect and focus on the health and wellness goals they set for the rest of the year — these can be difficult to fulfill after all. For some people, reflecting occurs along Manhattan’s west side, in an ever-changing retail store called “STORY.” The space recently transformed into a haven... |
The high costs of development could be helping to drive up housing prices in the city of Vancouver, figures provided to The Vancouver Sun by the Urban Development Institute show. Various city development fees, community amenity charges and sustainability requirements add tens of thousands of dollars to the cost of buil... |
Twenty years after breaking up, the few surviving members of Pink Floyd who will still associate with the band (so, not Roger Waters), announced a new album, The Endless River, to be released later this year. It wasn’t quite a new beginning for the band, as the album’s tracks were culled from the sessions that produced... |
Sayana (IAST: Sāyaṇa, also called Sāyaṇācārya; died 1387) was a Sanskrit scholar from the Vijayanagara Empire of South India , near modern day Bellary. An important commentator on the Vedas, he flourished under King Bukka Raya I and his successor Harihara II.[1]
He was the son of Mayana, and the pupil of Vishnu Sarvaj... |
University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size. It’s an advance that could have huge implications for everything from photography to solar power.
In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zongfu Y... |
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