Scientists have long wondered why the sherpas of the Tibetan Highlands can negotiate with ease elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill. Tibetans live at altitudes of 13,000 feet, breathing air that has 40 percent less oxygen than is available at sea level, yet suffer very little mountain sickness. The reason, according to [...]
July 4, 2010
Independence Day fireworks generally elicit compulsory “ooohs” and ahhhs.” After perusing this post, you should be able to refine your appreciative exclamations: “Oooh, a peony” and “ahhh, a kamuro.” The peony is one of the most common kinds of aerial pyrotechniceffects. It is named for a variety of plants with large, showy flowers. This firework has a starlike explosion that quickly [...]
July 4, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two Anchorage roommates argued over property and one chose to settle it with antlers. Anchorage Police received a call late Thursday afternoon after shots were heard in the 2400 block of Douglas Street in west Anchorage. Once police arrived at the scene, they found a person who had been stabbed with antlers. [...]
July 3, 2010
“Subjects.” That’s what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies. But in a moment when history took a sharp turn, Jefferson sought quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write over it. Many words were [...]
July 3, 2010
An effort to help blind people drive cars has reached an important step — driver awareness systems are now being integrated into a mass-production vehicle. Blind drivers will test-drive a specially outfitted Ford Escape in January at Daytona International Speedway, team membersannounced Friday. It will probably be a while before a legally blind person will be [...]
July 2, 2010
Flying Car? Yes, this Flying Car is for real. The Terrafugia Transition has been approved by the FAA. It can soon be yours for just under $200,000. Flying-car enthusiasts are justified in their pessimism: For the past hundred years or so, they’ve repeatedly been promised that a future with a personal aircraft in every garage [...]
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