Tomorrow will mark 20 years ago to the day when the space shuttle Challenger rocketed skyward for just 73 seconds before disaster struck. I was one of those who just happened to watch this live (yes, live…not the immediate replays shortly after that came on all over the news). I was a junior in high [...]
Yesterday was Martin Luther King Day, a day set aside by the United States government to honor a man for his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement and his promotion of racial equality without violence. He was the man who gave one our country’s most famous speeches, the “I Have A Dream” speech, which arguably [...]
(or “theatre” for you French theatre connoisseurs) So now we have theater owners the country over up in arms about cell phone disturbances in their theaters. Or at least NATO (yes, you read that right, NATO – as in National Association of Theater Operators) would have us all believe, given that they’re planning to petition [...]
It’s pretty widely regarded that engineers and scientists will never make as much as business executives – unless they are both, in which case they contradict themselves and we see the likes of Bill Gates unleashed upon the world (but thankfully this rarely happens). Now we have mathematical proof that explains why this is true.
Now here’s some interesting stuff…unexplainable artifacts. Like the Antikythera Mechanism, which contains complex gearing not known to exist until 1575, but dated to 80 B.C.! And a battery over 1,800 years old…hmmmm…..go check it out!
Yup, the planet is alive and well! Here are some cool pics of one of the living Hawaii volcanoes that blew out a new hole in its ocean wall.
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