SXSW was a hive of activity for early web denizens and hackers around the turn of the century, and a birthing ground for the social media revolution that reshaped modern life in the second half of the ’00s. Its emergence from the shadow of the music festival it grew out of mirrors th...
Photo courtesy of US Navy.Buoyancy on the surfaceNow most boats don't operate in quite the same way as submarines. They don't sink, but they don't exactly float either. A boat partly floats and partly sinks according to its own weight and how much weight it carries; the greater the ...
A young American experiences Chinese calligraphy at Hubei University of Education in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, June 8, 2024.(Xinhua/Du Zixuan) Participants taking part in a China-U.S. youth exchange program visit the music museum of Wuhan Conservatory of Music in Wuhan, central Ch...
Boat Tours leave regularly from the jetty alongside HMS Warrior and take you on an interesting guided tour of the Portsmouth harbour and the naval dockyards. This is the best way to view the active navy ships lying in port for servicing or supply, as well as to see the bustling commercial...
James Kuhn and his wife sailed the S.S. Ella Mary on their Huntsville lake for around 15 years until they went bankrupt following a banking scandal. They were forced to sell the boat. Seeing an opportunity to improve the prestige of his hotel, Shaw bought it, had a crew remove it from...
Before the construction of any of Portland’s notable bridges, James B. Stephens established the Stark Street Ferry in 1848 using a mule on a treadmill to power the boat’s paddle wheel and connect the east and west sides of the Willamette River. Though the marshy, riverside terrain of ...
Let’s hope that this conflict can be resolved quickly, so we may continue to feed our global appetite for electric vehicles. Share this: Tweet Rather than basecamp in Kansas City, Leah and I opted for something more pastoral, which we found at Lake Shawnee, the crown jewel of Shawnee Co...
Some of you will be in the same boat when it is time for the internal combustion engine to leave the motorcycle and electric engines are all the rage. For you, you should hang on to those old outdated motorcycles then and enjoy it while you can. Personally I dread the day a roll of...
In the United States, the most famous railroad monopoly was launched by Cornelius Vanderbilt, an early investor in railroads and water transportation. Starting with a single boat, the Vanderbilts eventually controlled an enormous empire of shipping and railway routes. ...
An electric dipole is formed by two (positive and negative) charges that are separated by some distance. Oscillations of the dipole separation generate electromagnetic waves. However, in the gravitational case, the analogy breaks down because there is no equivalent to a negative electric charge. ...