Earthquakes happen all the time, on land and in the ocean – but the majority are so small that people do not even feel them. "The surface of the earth is made of tectonic plates, which are about 100 kilometers thick, they move around together. So when they collide or m...
A relict is a species that remains from a group largely extinct. It can be identified according both to a phylogenetic analysis and to a fossil record of extinction. Conserving a relict species will amount to conserve the unique representative of a particular phylogenetic group and its combination...
W:Trees are pretty important to the environment.So it makes sense that if you chop down too many of these and don’t replace them,and you’re going to run into all sorts of problems.The Philippines knows all about that.It’s lost more than two thirds of its forest area in less than...
Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill that makes changes to the state's landmark bottle redemption law Associated PressMay 21, 2025 How Federal Consent Decrees Have Been Used in Police Reform Across the US The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached wit...
of course. Our legal system is generally based on English common law developed in England since the Battle of Hastings and the 1215 Magna Carta. Over the centuries, land-owning kings, queens, dukes, and nobles realized, in order to have “commoners” serve them as knights, squires, maids,...
Pareto observed that the majority of Italy's land wealth (80%) was owned by a minority (20%) of its people. After surveying other countries, he found the same applied abroad. For the most part, the Pareto Principle is an observation that things in life are not always distributed evenly....
71 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by salt-water oceans. The remainder consists of continents and islands, with most of the inhabited land in the Northern Hemisphere. Earth has evolved through geological and biological processes that have left traces of the original conditions. The ...
I have worked out of Chicago for the past 10 years. Before that, I was in Kansas City, a very different but equally vibrant baseball market. But before any of that happened, I grew up in rural Iowa, about 50 miles from Omaha, Nebraska. I grew up surrounded by corn and soybean fields...
A unifying principle is an idea that unites.Our world is increasingly divided because science is no longer the unifying principle on which the majority of the world’s population can agree. A stubborn adherence tomaterialism/physicalismis the root cause of everything from terrorism to disease.For...
The Arizona Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in giving the go-ahead to enforce an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions.