The European nation’s energy revolution has made it a leader in replacing nukes and fossil fuels with wind and solar technology.
7 V-J Day, 1945, Times Square struck a powerful chord in 1945 and continued to play well with future onlookers years and even decades later. The photo takes hold of the viewer's attention and, like the pictured sailors, never seems to let go. All the photo's features compete for the...
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"It's kind of new forms of religious expression that get bound up in the most religious moment for any of us, which is when we have to face death." Even the terminology of funerals has changed over the past decades, he says. It used to be called a "funeral service," but that ...
Hurricanes are not uncommon in the Americas but never have so many people died in a hurricane in United States because the US government and the US people have access to far more financial and technical resources to deal with a natural calamity. Hurricane Mitch On Octob...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
These are skills students need to succeed in college. The research has found that students who were most at risk had the most improvements in executive functioning after interacting with therapy dogs. These results remained when researchers followed up six weeks later. Many universities provide academ...
Many coastal cities are economic centers that have already confronted flood risk. But the potential direct and knock-on effects of flooding are likely to surge dangerously. Bristol is a port city in the west of England that has not experienced major flooding for decades. But without major inve...
He said the records showed that Beijing was detaining Uyghur citizens for actions that in many cases did not “remotely resemble a crime.” “The contents of this document are really significant to all of us because it shows us the paranoid mindset of a regime that’s controlling the up-and...