About 66 million years ago, one such crash is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs. Someday, something similar could end human beings—unless we can find a way to tackle it. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test(Dart) mission is the first attempt to test if such asteroid redirection...
Located at the opening of a karstic gallery oriented to the south on the left bank of the Cure river (Fig. 1c and d), the archaeological deposits of the GDR were excavated between 1949 and 1963 by A. Leroi-Gourhan. He identified 14 stratigraphic units, of which the eight lower ones (...
The first case of La Crosse virus encephalitis was demonstrated in the brain of a 4-year-girl who had lived with her family 8 miles north of La Crosse, Wisconsin, in a small community on the west bank of the Mississippi River (Thompson et al., 1965). Mosquitoes were noted to have ...
Fig. 2. The original Australopithecus africanus skull from Taung, South Africa, described by Raymond Dart in 1925. It is reckoned to be about 2.5 million years old.Art by Don McGranaghan, ©Ian Tattersall. Australopithecus afarensis is perhaps the best-known of the australopiths, and can ...
For debugging, this means transformed sources are embedded into the PDB. For diagnostics, this means the reported locations are nonsensical and the user is warned about this.About A fork of Roslyn that adds an extension point that allows for arbitrary code modifications www.postsharp.net/metal...
The patience of the wish: how many times did Jennifer Castle play it, sing it, until she found the tempo that matches perfectly to the beat of a heart, the ripple of a river, the fumble of a sunbeam as it slides across the objects in your room (the plants, the books, the glass ...
(see Kroeber & Fontana,1986) known as the Massacre on the Gila. Mounted Pima killed many Quechan and Mohave warriors prompting frenzied funerary burning of houses and personal effects in their home villages on the Colorado River (Anonymous,1857; Kroeber & Fontana,1986:100). Artifacts in these ...
Blighttown is inhospitable, difficult, and unforgiving. Make the wrong move and you’ll fall off a cliff to your death, be hit with a blowdart that intoxicates you, or a ghastly monster leaps out to devour you. It’s also dark and unsightly, lacking the grandeur of otherDark Soulsareas...
Manatees are found up the Amazon and in major river systems of West Africa. They suffer little competition for their main resource, aquatic grasses. Yet, despite this, all species are threatened with extinction. These large mammals are docile, represent a large package of meat to human hunters...
In addition, studies in Sub-Saharan Africa also verified the presence of the resource curse hypothesis (Hammond, 2011; Dartey-Baah et al., 2014). Since the seminal studies of Gelb (1988) and Auty (1993), many works have found that NRD negatively affects economic growth. The mechanisms ...