E-commerce has also driven an increase in the amounts of data that needs to be processed, stored, and retrieved. This has resulted in enormous data centers that consume huge amounts of energy – as well as mirror servers in separate locations that add to the problem. 6. Fast ...
Exactly how many churches are there in the world? To be clear, this was a reference to the number of church buildings, not the number of denominations or congregations. And honestly I had no real idea. There are currently between 2.3 and 2.5 billion Christians in the world, about a third...
The lasttyrannos, or tyrant, to rule Athens was Hippias, who fled the city whenSpartainvaded in 510 B.C. Two or three years later, an Athenian aristocrat named Cleisthenes helped introduce democratic reforms. Over the next several decades, subsequent reforms expanded this political system while...
What’s more, Denmark’s stock market has been on fire the past 20 years whereas the UK’s has been moribund. Consequently Britain has slipped into the bottom half of the table, after decades as one of the leading lights. And while it’s true that losing a World War is bad news, Ja...
The scorched scroll was one of hundreds discovered in the remains of a luxury Roman villa in Herculeaneum, near Pompeii in Italy, in the eighteenth century. Attempts over the centuries to peel apart the scrolls’ fragile, carbonized layers left many in pieces, and scholars have been forced to...
Montenegro — literally, ‘black mountain’ — is in fact a place of thick green forests, ice-blue lakes and white-capped peaks. A journey through the Balkan beauty reveals the wealth of stories and sights packed into one of Europe’s smallest countries.
He has been homeless for decades. Thanks to a group of caring high school seniors, he now has a real home to call his own. Students at Summer Creek and Kingwood Park High schools worked together on a project called “Students Helping Veterans” over the past school year. The students and...
A few decades later Pope Gregory – the man credited with invented the Gregorian chant – started the first music school in Europe: the Schola Cantorum. By this time, it was becoming quite fashionable to learn about music. Melodies were often learned and passed on by ear, as there was not...
You won't find it on any official map, and if you're sailing in the Atlantic, you're likely not to even notice when you cross its vague boundaries. Nevertheless, the infamous Bermuda Triangle — also sometimes known as the Devil's Triangle — for decades has been the subject of numerous...
In the equity market, investors bid for stocks by offering a certain price, and sellers ask for a specific price. When these two prices match, a sale occurs. Often, many investors are bidding on the same stock. When this happens, the first investor to place the bid is the first to get...