Feeling guilty about your SUV's carbon emission? You can buy this card which promises to invest in energy projects that reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Karl is an environmentalist. His thing is bike commuting ... But like a lot of environmentalists, he has a guilty habit – his truck.
That fall, Karl walked into a classroom at Wharton, gave his students a check for $5,000, and challenged them to create an affordable carbon offset for everyday drivers. TerraPass is the result.
M80 Stiletto, a 80-foot vessel created by M Ship Co., can stay steady at its top speed of 50 knots with virtually no wake.
Stiletto's hull has a double-M shape that channels the wake under the craft. There it mixes with oncoming air to produce froth that lifts the ship part-way out of the water, reducing drag and increasing stability, says Greg Glaros, the programme's leader at the defence department's Office of Force Transformation.
Nigel Franks and Tom Richardson from Bristol University, UK discovered that ants can teach each other - no big brains needed!
Certain species of ant use a technique known as ‘tandem running’ to lead another ant from the nest to a food source. Signals between the two ants control both the speed and course of the run. It is believed to be the first time a demonstration of formal teaching has been recognised in any non-human animal.
Folks, that M in MRI stands for "magnetic". The machine uses a *very* strong magnet! From the website:
A supposedly ambulatory patient told a technologist that she was feeling rather tired and weak. She asked if she could sit down while the tech was entering data into the computer. So the tech let her sit in one of the console chairs. Since the woman was rather tired, the technologist pushed the patient into the room on the chair. Since this was an actively shielded magnet, she thought it would be OK. The patient got off the chair, sat on the table and gave the chair a little push with her feet. The chair rolled away and just kept right on rolling on a curved path to the magnet bore and flew right in. Fortunately, no one was hurt but it took almost a full day to ramp the magnet down, pull the chair out, ramp back up and check out the system.
When Jude Gonzalez split open his scalp while surfing in a remote Indonesian island, boat skipper Tom Plummer who happened to be nearby had to perform a 4 hour surgery - his first - to stitch Jude's head. But first, Tom drank almost a case of beer for some liquid courage!
"Half-way through it they had to get another carton (of beer) from one of the boats," Mr Gonzalez said.
Joshua Gardener, a 22 years old convincted sex offender, tried to pass himself off as Caspian James Crichton IV the 5th Duke of Cleveland in order to attend high school.
Student journalists at the school's newspaper got the scoop:
But their research led them to a Web site called the "Earl of Scooby," where the "duke" said his heritage was British and his goal for the year was "to not make the front page of any paper."
Then the young journalists found the visitor's picture on another Web site: Florida's registry of sex offenders.
Leyan Lo, a 20-year old Caltech student, set a new world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in just 11.13 seconds. He beat a previous record of 11.75 seconds set by Jean Pons.
The castle has been built in 1216 by the templar knight Alberici Ghislero. This adobe, case of unusual beauties, has witnessed particularly crucial events through the centuries, at times even extraordinary ...
The wooden boiserie hides a secret passage, spoiled in past times as an emergency way out in case of danger
