Analysts have discovered more than 100 new missile silos in China’s northwestern desert region. The silos are the largest expansion of China’s nuclear weapons program in recent history. The real question: How many missiles are slated to go into the silos? Sharp-eyed analysts studying commerci...
When you blow up a balloon and let it go so that it flies all over the room before running out of air, you have created a rocket engine. In this case, what is being thrown is the air molecules inside the balloon. Many people believe that air molecules don't weigh anything, but they...
Many robots are reprogrammable— to change the robot's behavior, you update or change the software that gives the robot its instructions. Not all robots have sensory systems, and few can see, hear, smell or taste. The most common robotic sense is the sense of movement — the robot's ...
Fireworks give joy and pleasure to many millions of people every year, but they have to be treated with utmost respect because they are extremely dangerous. Consider: what you have in a firework is an explosive missile. Get too close to it and it could burn you badly, disfigure you for ...
That was Mao. Complicated then. Complicated still. Even inside China. Maybe especially so there. "The history in many people's minds is wiped out, not talked about, not mentioned. And the young people who don't know anything of that, they consider Mao as a national hero. The nationalisti...
What does "I bought out the house" mean in this context? Learning music theory on guitar and piano at the same time I do not have a degree certificate, does a final transcript count as a proof of degree completion? How many missiles does Iran possess that can ...
‘blood diamonds’, where the money used to purchase the gemstones are used to fund conflict and unrest in developing countries. Many jewellery companies have therefore made the decision to source ethical diamonds, either by sourcing diamonds from conflict-free countries or using lab-grown diamonds ...
How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time?Far too many. This is Life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal(排演)and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments. We take jobs...
This is why many people choose instead to fly to a nearby city near the coast, where the mountains dip their toes into the cool surf of the Pacific Ocean. There you can catch a train up the mountain, gradually acclimatising to the altitude as you ascend. Well, I say gradually, but ...