Despite their colossal size, blue whales are surprisingly agile and graceful swimmers. They are known for their acrobatic displays, breaching out of the water and slapping their fins on the surface. Watching a blue whale move through the water is like witnessing a ballet performance, as they gli...
Summer in much of Japan is often hot and humid, but it’s also the season for festivals, mass folk dancing, mountain hikes, and more.
It was then that I realized that college means ___ the piece of paper you receive at the end—it’s an education in both life and people.【1】A.formB.followC.obeyD.introduce【2】A.leave outB.leave behindC.leave forD.leave off【3】A.surprisinglyB.easilyC.wronglyD.carefully【4】A...
they point out the unlikeliness of the concept. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is joined by Norah Jones to make a faithful track-by-track adaptation of an obscure Everly Brothers album. Then the review says that surprisingly, they do a good job of it: The unlikely duo harmonizes nicely...
[The Surprisingly Strange Physics of Water ] Cereal Cheerios clumping. (Image credit: Dreamstime) You may or may not have pondered why your breakfast cereal tends to clump together or cling to the sides of a bowl of milk. Dubbed the Cheerios Effect by scientists, this clumping phenomenon ...
A two-hour drive from Newman, you’ll find the gorges, mountains, lookouts, secret swimming holes and waterfalls that define this awe-inspiring National Park. Expectations of arid, desolate landscapes are exchanged for delight at this diverse, rugged, red-rock landscape with often surprisingly gre...
The subway was hot and surprisingly well-used at this hour, though passengers had thinned out by the time I reached the former Polo Grounds site and then through Washington Heights, closed doors and quiet in the early morning. The houses were beautiful and there was a sense of elevation and...
I’ve spent so much time on Java and Bali that I honestly had no idea that Sasak cuisine was a thing. It’s delicious, spicy and surprisingly vegetarian-friendly. It was love at first bite. I’m a big spicy food lover, so whenever my waiter asked me if I wanted things spicy I nod...
Shared memory is only accessible by threads within the same block.shared = cuda.shared.array(block_size, numba.float32). Shared memory operations are often coupled with thread synchronization to ensure that all threads in a block have reached a certain point in the codecuda.syncthreads(). This...
Europa Report, on the other hand, felt very grounded in reality, which felt surprisingly fresh. Science fiction films by their very nature tend to attract big budgets, which leads to filmmakers always trying to outdo what the last guy did in the hope of grabbing the audience’s attention, ...