Before you've even gotten the keyboard dirty, your home computer is obsolete. Mostly because of incredibly rapid progress in miniaturizing circuits on silicon chips.
Like Mr. Bruns "Shift Happens". Even our own intelligence i
Solar Flares-more scientifically known as coronal mass ejections—are enormous magnetic outbursts on the sun that bombard Earth with a torrent of high-speed subatomic particles. Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field negate the potentially
In the book Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut popularized the idea of "ice-nine," a form of water that is far more stable than the ordinary kind, so it is solid at room temperature. Or ice. Unleash a bit of it, it merges with the all
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If Earth doesn't do us in, our fellow organisms might be up to the task.
Germs and people have always coexisted, but occasionally the balance gets out of whack. The Black Plague killed one European in four during the 14th century; influenza to
Judaism has the Book of Daniel; Christianity has the Book of Revelation; Islam has the coming of the Mahdi; Zoroastrianism has the countdown to the arrival of the third son of Zoroaster.
USH: Pick the invention that you feel is the best invention made by a US citizen of all time. Talk about the story of the invention and the impact it has had on our country/world.
CWI: Pick a European country and blog about it. Try to hit interesti
After being missing a sppecie of frogs has been sighted on a recent expedition. The frog was last seen in 1979 and was though to be extinct. Here is the link.
At least 280 crocodiles have escaped from a Mexican refuge near the Gulf of Mexico after heavy flooding caused by Hurricane Karl, Mexican media said Tuesday.
The endangered Morelet crocodiles were on the roam in six coastal areas in the Mexican state
Whenever Hollywood takes something out of its medium and turns it into a movie, its hard to take it seriously. Vampires got turned into movies and look what happeded. They sparkle and they are more likely to ask you to prom than kill you. And movies
A 41 year old grandmother Teresa Lewis Is going to be sentenced to death because of murder. She is the first person in nearly a century to be sentenced to death in Virginia. She is also the first women in five years to be sentenced to death read full
If you could watch the sky with gamma-ray vision, you might think you were being stalked by cosmic paparazzi. Once a day or so, you would see a bright flash appear, briefly outshine everything else, then vanish.