The small, chinless "Hobbits" of Indonesia, cousins of modern humans also known as Homo floresiensis ("Flores Man"), turn out to be older than scientists had previously thought.` Continue Reading →
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High-speed rail is all the rage: here, there and everywhere
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High-speed rail seems to be top of mind among the world's transportation wonks and policy makers, with action in the U.S., Europe and, most of all, China. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Economy, Environment, Featured, Nation, World, China, Economy, Environment
Engineer paints it blacker than black
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This Purdue University electrical and computer engineering professor is undoubtedly running in the black, due to his creation of a blacker-than-black metamaterial that absorbs virtually all light. Continue Reading →
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Official: ‘We have failed the wild tiger’
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The head of an international wildlife organization says it has "failed miserably" to halt the precipitous population decline of tigers in the wild. "How have we let this happen?" Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, World, Conservation, Environment, News You Might Have Missed, wildlife
Shear beams, engineering and the science of the new Bay Bridge
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Putting aside mind-blowing cost overruns, along with delays at a Chinese steel fabrication plant, engineers and scientists are following the equally mind-blowing construction feats in the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Economy, Featured, Nation, earthquake, Environment, Featured, News You Might Have Missed, San Francisco
“The Last Supper” gets supersized
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Over the years, artists' depictions of Jesus' last supper have upped the ante on the portions—by a whopper-sized 69 percent. Continue Reading →
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Blame Haiti’s deaths on shoddy construction
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The blame for Haiti's staggering death toll from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12—the toll is expected to rise to over 200,000— lies at the feet of that country's c0nstruction industry, says a Berkeley, Calif. engineer. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Featured, Public Health, World, earthquake, Eduardo Fierro, Environment, Haiti, Latin America
In California’s high desert, a solar gamble
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The California Owens Valley, the scene of decades of intense environmental hostilities and the subject of the famous Roman Polanski film "Chinatown," once more finds itself at center stage. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which turned Owens Lake into a dry wasteland and created one of the most prodigious polluters in America, wants to turn its lake bed into one of largest sources of solar power in America. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Environment, Featured, Nation, Energy, Environment, Environment & Health, LADWP. Owens Valley, News You Might Have Missed
Proposed divorce bill stirs controversy in Philippines
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A controversial bill to legalize divorces in the Philippines has stirred controversy among congress members in the archipelago. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Democracy & Civics, Featured, World, divorce, HB 1799, Philippines, Women's Rights
Conservapedia calls Theory of Relativity a ‘liberal conspiracy’
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Conservapedia list 28 "Counterexamples to Relativity" and associates the theory with the philosophy of relativism. Continue Reading →