TheAtlantic hurricane season began June 1, and forecasters said 2024 could bean "extremely active"year. The 2023 season was also above average, with 20 named storms and seven hurricanes. The first hurricane of 2024 was namedBeryl, but the first named storm was Alberto, which never reached hur...
Motorcycles evolved from the "safety" bicycle, a bicycle that offered many advantages in stability, braking and ease of mounting. The essential features of a safety bike included: Spoked front and rear wheels of the same size - roughly 30 inches in diameter (compared to the "ordinary...
Every year, as many as 50, 000 elephants in Africa are killed illegally for their tusks (象牙). Now scientists have improved DNA methods that allow them to match up elephant tusks, and help track down criminals that are selling them. Even though it’s against the law, African elephants ...
With a rise in the overall temperature of the ocean, ocean-borne storms such as tropical storms and hurricanes, which get their fierce and destructive energy from the warm waters they pass over, could increase in force. If the rising temperature affects glaciers and ice shelves, could the pola...
During the early 1900s, the Industrial Revolution spurred the creation of large industrial-type companies, many of which were located in the United States and were representative of the overall economy. But with technological advances and the advent of the world wide web, companies proliferated. Th...
Where a product should fulfill one function a building is the sum of many products each fulfilling their part of the entire building’s functionality. A product is manufactured, so are the parts and materials of a building, but the building itself is constructed on site. Furthermore, when a...
Due to systemic oppression, Black women experience distinct risks across the life course, such as exposure to various stressors that shape lower ratings of self-rated health. This is important given that self-rated health is a stronger indicator of curre
Year:/ Month:/ Day: Date: How Far Back Does the Data Go? Super-accurate atomic clocks were first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. So measurements of the Earth's rotation using atomic clocks only go back as far as then. However, telescopic timings of stellar occultations by the Moon ...
Japan(+116 pp),Singapore(+86 pp), and theU.S.(+71 pp) have grown their debt as a percentage of GDP the most since the year 2000. All three of these countries have stable, well-developed economies, so it’s unlikely that any of them will default on their growing debts. With that...
When John Pierpont Morgan arrived on Wall Street, it was a disorganized jumble of competing interests and one of the many financial centers in a country. When he left Wall Street, it was a tightly knit group of big businesses leading one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Much...