Monthly Archive: July 2018
Is this for real? MIKE MCRAE – Paul Hanaoka – https://unsplash.com/photos/OvLBv6F6DGE. A protozoan parasite found in cats could be having a rather odd effect on the brains of humans it infects, which under the right circumstances just might turn them into the next …
by Stephen Johnson – Creative Commons/Big Think. Hackers working for Russia gained access to hundreds of U.S. electric utilities in 2017, according to new reports from federal officials. The hackers, who worked for a Russian-sponsored group code-named Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, managed to …
The bat bomb was designed to terrorize the people of Japan in a most unexpected way. By Katie Serena – Errant bats from the experimental bat bomb set the Carlsbad Army Airfield Auxiliary Air Base in New Mexico on fire on May 15, …
by Rachel Crane @CNNTech – My visit at Green Stream Farms in Columbus, New Mexico. I have commitment issues — with my diet. Name the diet, and I’ve tried it. I’m currently a pescatarian with fish as my main protein source. But …
A look at the available evidence By Adam Frank – Regis Duvignau / Reuters It only took five minutes for Gavin Schmidt to out-speculate me. Schmidt is the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (a.k.a. GISS) a world-class climate-science facility. …
Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 13, 2018 – 9:31pm A game cam captures a bear taking a bath earlier this month in the backyard of a home on Kachina Street on Barranca Mesa in Los Alamos, NM. Photo by Andrew Delorey …
Submitted by Carol A. Clark on July 13, 2018 – 9:31pm – A game cam captures a bear taking a bath earlier this month in the backyard of a home on Kachina Street on Barranca Mesa in Los Alamos, NM. Photo by Andrew …
by Mike Colagrossi – The Colossus of Rhodes, Wikimedia Commons. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were marvels of architecture, human ingenuity, and engineering on a scale that even the greatest artists of contemporary times would have a hard time replicating today. …
Think you know beans about coffee? Quiz yourself and see how well you know your java. By Rachel Mount Hofstetter – 1. The name cappuccino comes from: a) The drink’s resemblance to the brown cowls worn by Capuchin monks b) The similarity in …
Her dramatic death often overshadows her epic life, but it shouldn’t. By Brianna Bibel, Biochemistry, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory – Illustration by Matteo Farinella. The mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Hypatia is considered the first known female mathematician and one of the “last great …
