WEIRD FACTS
Roseann Bacha-Garza (left), a borderlands historian, stands with Olga Webber-Vasques at the grave of the latter’s great-great-grandfather, the abolitionist John Ferdinand Webber, in the family cemetery. – By John Burnett/NPR 2021 Feb 28 Heard on All Things Considered 13-Minute Listen Download – In …
Violence linked to the ideology has killed as many as 50 people in the US and Canada and sparked debate among counterterrorism experts and police. Demonstrators hold portraits during a rally to commemorate the Montreal mass shooting of 14 female engineering students in …
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/global-warming-led-to-ancient-mass-extinction-event-scientists-say/ – By Jeff Berardelli, Katherine Niemczyk CBS News 2021 Mar 04 – Right now our planet is in the midst of what science says is an unprecedented rate of change, unlike anything seen in tens of millions of years. Overconsumption, unsustainable practices …
Service from MyHeritage uses deep learning technique to automatically animate faces. ‘Some people love the Deep Nostalgia feature and consider it magical, while others find it creepy and dislike it,’ MyHeritage says. Photograph: MyHeritage.com – Alex Hern UK technology editor @alexhern Last modified …
Epidemiologist Shanna Swan says low counts and changes to sexual development could endanger the human species. Swan offers advice on how to protect themselves from damaging chemicals and urges people to ‘do what we can to safeguard our fertility, the fate of mankind, …
Consumers are inundating lawmakers with stories of late bills — and the late fees they’ve absorbed as a result. A U.S. Postal Service letter carrier delivers mail to a snow covered neighborhood last week in Richardson, Tex. (Smiley N. Pool/Dallas Morning News/AP) – …
On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told. In the background, a photograph taken by an American U-2 spy plane over Cuba on October …
ENIAC was built to compute gunnery tables. US Army – By David Szondy 2021 Feb 25 – Seventy five years ago, the world was introduced to ENIAC, the first ever electronic, programmable, general purpose, digital computer, in a demonstration that not only ushered in …
It was a spring afternoon in 1955 when a teenager’s spontaneous act of defiance changed US history. Why did it take 40 years for her to get any credit? Claudette Colvin: ‘It felt as if Harriet Tubman’s hand was pushing me down on …
A mix of public and private forests in Oregon’s Coast Range. Beverly Law, CC BY-ND – Authors: Beverly Law, Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University – William Moomaw, Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University …