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Officials on Vancouver Island say at least 100 trees have been illegally cut down, leaving one stump with a face carved into it. A menacing face chainsawed into the stump of a poached Douglas fir not far from the Mount Prevost Main Line …
Against all odds, 28 percent of Scottish people still use it. How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language – by Dan Nosowitz 2018 Sep 28 – Over the past few decades, as efforts to save endangered languages have become governmental …
An illustration from the November 20, 1880, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper depicts an anti-Chinese riot in Denver, Colorado. Violence against Chinese immigrants was widespread in the American West. Courtesy of the Chinese American Museum/Dylan and Phoenix Wong – SOURCE: National Geographic …
In states like Kansas, energy companies want to impose charges on people who produce their own power with rooftop arrays. An aerial photo taken with a drone shows solar panels installed on a private home in Round Lake Heights, Illinois. Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA …
The black market for stolen personal information motivates most data breaches. aleksey-martynyuk/iStock via Getty Images – By Ravi Sen, Associate Professor of Information and Operations Management, Texas A&M University 2021 May 13 – Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are …
Messerschmitt KR-202 Sport. Messerschmitt Werke – By C.C. Weiss 2021 May 03 – A few years back, a German team resurrected the adorable Messerschmitt microcar as an electric-assist two-man Velomobile. At the time, some people wondered why it didn’t just skip the pedals, drop …
The billion-year-old multicellular microfossil was found at Loch Torridon in the Scottish Highlands. grafxart/Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2021 May 02 – Scientists have discovered the fossil of what may be the earliest multicellular animal ever found. Dating back a billion years, the microscopic …
Biden administration scrambles to avoid shortages after Colonial Pipeline targeted in worst-ever attack on US infrastructure. Holding tanks at a Colonial Pipeline facility in New Jersey. Photograph: Colonial Pipeline/Reuters – Associated Press Last modified on Monday, 2021 May 10 – The Biden administration …
Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Courtesy of Crater of Diamonds State Park – By Katherine LaGrave 2021 May 05 – Share this Article …
The UK’s Royal Marines put the Gravity jet suit to “very successful” use in ship boarding demo exercises. Gravity Industries – By Loz Blain 2021 May 04 – Jet suits, jetpacks, jetboards … The new range of crazy personal flight devices all share some …
