The Internet was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the __27__ of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the earl
In “The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom,” Nancy Reddy juxtaposes her own raw story of early motherhood with a tour of 20th century parenting science’s greatest hits — or worst failures, depending how you look at it. “Before I had a baby, I...
The Internet was developed during the 1970s by the Department of Defense. In the case of an attack, military advisers suggested the __27__ of being able to operate one computer from another terminal. In the early days, the Internet was used mainly by scientists to communicate with other sc...
The history of claymation can be traced back the late 19th century and the invention of plasticine. Easily modelled and slow to dry, plasticine was the preferred method of early animation techniques in a few films shot in the early years of the 20th century. Initially, a preference for other...
But he was confident that Vance was “not going to be the guy to say, ‘Whoa, whoa, I’m not sure that we really have the power to do that.’” Ponnuru invoked a figure from early in Trump’s tenure — another culture-warring, boundary-busting self-described populist who has worked...
The late 19th and early 20th century saw an increasing recognition that forests serve as habitats for countless animal and plant species that all rely on each other. They take over protective functions against soil erosion and landslides ( ); they make a significant contribution to the water bala...
Gayle recalls one trip with Melinda, now 54, and Bill in the early 2000s to India, meeting with a group that was particularly hard-hit by HIV, women in the commercial sex industry. Melinda—as was often the case—sat on the floor with the women and listened. “Many of them were desp...
“Our observations in early seasons led us to assume that we were looking at a stone base from a mud brick city wall, such as would be found at most other cities in the Ancient Near East,” says Dr. Summers. “When we started to excavate we were staggered to discover that the walls...
Industry growth: Competition is usually less dramatic because the market grows so fast that competitors have little need to fight for customers—think of the automobile industry of the early 20th century. Competition can be ferocious in a declining industry as firms fight for a larger piece of a...
Bill Kurth, a space physicist at the University of Iowa, was an early proponent of data sonification for space science. Starting in the 1970s, he worked on data collected by NASA’s Voyager probes as they flew past the outer planets of the solar system. Kurth studied results from the prob...