Monthly Archive: August 2020
We have short, soft fingernails, not claws and our canine teeth are small and blunt and have no chance of penetrating a hide. Looking at our lack of canine teeth and claws is a clue… (Photo: Adobe) – Dr. Justine Butler of Viva! 2020 …
Tiny worlds: The winners of the 2020 Macro Art Photography Awards Commended. Posing. Rainforest, Costa Rica. A tiny glass frog on a flower in the rainforest. Barbora Polivkova – By Rich Haridy 2020 Aug 09 – The mind-bending winners of the 2020 Macro Art …
A scanning electron microscope image of metal-organic frameworks. CSIRO – By Michael Irving 2020 Aug 10 – Access to clean, safe drinking water is a necessity that’s worryingly not being met in many parts of the world. A new study has used a material …
Open windows are the simplest way to increase air flow in a room. Justin Paget / Digital Vision via Getty Images – Author Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder 2020 Aug 10 – The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission …
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, both wearing garlands, are received by admirers after landing at the airport in New Delhi on Feb. 10, 1959. King, who was known as the American Gandhi, went on what he …
Anti-suffrage leaders at a picnic event on 1913 May 30. – Opinion by Nicole Hemmer Updated 2020 Aug 07 – Nicole Hemmer is an associate research scholar at Columbia University with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and the author of “Messengers of …
Learn to protect yourself. Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock.com – Author Scott Shackelford, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics; Director, Ostrom Workshop Program on Cybersecurity and Internet Governance; Cybersecurity Program Chair, IU-Bloomington, Indiana University 2019 Jul 23 – High-profile data breaches at companies like British …
The complicated lineage of our ubiquitous decks. The standard 52-card deck (54 with these guys) is common, but not universal. Toni Reed/Unsplash – by Dan Nosowitz, 2020 Jul 13 – The history of playing cards is, in one major way, just like the …
Courtesy of Pixabay/Creative Commons – By Kalpana Jain 2020 Jul 21 – (RNS) – It started three months ago with a sore throat. Then the dizziness began. When my heart rate jumped to a precipitous 150 beats per minute, I went to the …
Shutterstock – Authors Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Anne-Lise Chaber, One Health Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide – 2020 Aug 04 – What does a pandemic smell like? If dogs …
