Even in peacetime, it was so common in Medieval and Renaissance Europe to hate others that there was a legal term for it, inimicitia (Latin for "unfriendship") [source: Gibson]. In Italy, such extreme resentments evolved into a custom called the vendetta, in which a person's kinsmen an...
In this English lesson, I explain how three prepositions -- at, on, and in -- are used in relation to time. A lot of students get confused with these words. If you have any questions about this lesson, leave a comment below.
when BlackBerry servers suffered afour-day, worldwide outage. For the first two days, RIM's public response was virtual silence, as it left crisis management to the carriers. Outraged users took to Twitter, turning #DearBlackBerry into a trending...
It is hard for astronauts to get used to this light-dark cycle when they sleep. Now they have individual seeping pods (分离舱) that help shut out some of the light. Sill, studies have found that most astronauts only sleep about six hours each night, even though they should have eight ...
If your bathroom has a shower curtain, chances are it’s starting to grow mold along the bottom. But even if it’s not, soiled or stained, it’s still a good idea to get a new shower curtain. White or neutral fabric curtain works best. Avoid using patterned or themed bath curtains ...
Don’t try too hard to be funny, but include something that makes you seem like a real person. What gives you credibility? What makes you interesting? What helps people connect with you? (When you’re on Twitter, Facebook or your blog, what kinds of posts seem to get the most ...
The ultimate goal is to embed the wireless power receiver inside the television. This essentially eliminates the high-voltage ac power factor correction circuit and can reduce the cost and size of the TV power supply. It also lets the low-voltage electronics grow thinner, supporting the marketing...
Why should we elect to go to an external light or authority figure when, as all disciplines suggest, our astral bodies are made of translucid, liquid light. As pure energy,we don't even need to have any kind of body at all. And, more importantly, that we are living a dream andwe ...
t been able to tell the difference in the past two weeks testing them out. Your data speed can change when you’re hopping from wifi to cell and back to wifi, etc, but usually I’m not in any race to figure out when the latest un-autotuned Britney Spears song is dropping. I just...
Putting that together, we get energy being “the property of matter and radiation that is manifest as a capacity to perform the exertion of force overcoming resistance or producing molecular change.” That was pretty unfun, so for our purposes, let’s call energy “the thing that lets ...