The material that makes up the robot’s face is so detailed that it looks like real human skin. The robot’s designers chose Einstein, the Nobel Prize winner, because he was one of the greatest scientists of all time. They also chose Einstein because his face is very well known and he...
Tex-Mex was initially an abbreviation for Texas and Mexican Railroad that was chartered in 1875. It was later described for people who have Mexican descent in the 1920s. The hyphen was applied in the name Tex-Mex to refer to Tejanos. The name was meant to show that it was a Me...
Many people believed that Charles Hatfiled could. In the early 1900s, Mr. Hatfield traveled through the United States, Canada, and Mexico bringing rain to farms and cities that suffered from drought. For 30 years, people considered him the greatest rainmaker in North America. In order to mak...
Clay ceramic filters work in a fashion similar to the desalination technology described in the previous section. Basically, water flows through clay that contains a lot of really tiny holes, which are big enough to let water molecules though, but too small for biological contaminants, dirt, and...
One of its notable clients is the French Laundry in Napa Valley, which has three Michelin stars. But the road to getting Texas’s wild game on menus has been a nearly one-hundred-year journey. In the early 1900s, Caesar Kleberg was a ranch foreman on the King Ranch’s Norias division...
Ethan Jakob Craft is a journalist, dual American-Canadian citizen, and lifelong traveler who visited all 50 U.S. states before he could legally have a beer in any of them. Recent trips have taken him to the Arctic Circle, Mexico, Morocco, and the Azores in his long-term quest to visit...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
1. The King of the Koopas Nintendo 1. The King of the Koopas The opening scene of the film introduces Jack Black’s Bowser, who is described as “the king of the Koopas.” That’s because while he’s always called Bowser in the American releases ofMariogames, he’s called King Koopa...
Aspirin-free Tylenolwas introduced in 1955 and the company now offers products for both adults and children. In 1982, Tylenol was the target of atampering casein the Chicago area that killed seven people when it was determined the product had been laced with cyanide. Johnson & Johnson’s respo...
formerly Teléfonos de Mexico (Telmex). It was the old telephonemonopolyin the country, akin to America’s AT&T Inc. (T). In the 1990s the government privatized the company, and Slim was one of the initial investors, via Grupo Carso (the other members of the consortium...