NASA had to grapple with the time question while designing and building the International Space Station, fast approaching the 25th anniversary of the launch of its first piece. While the space station doesn't ...
When that wind slams into Earth's ionosphere, or upper atmosphere, the aurora is born. In the Northern Hemisphere, the phenomenon is called the northern lights (aurora borealis), while in the Southern Hemisphere, it's called the southern lights (aurora australis). "These particles are ...
So, out of curiosity, what is everyone's current time zone (including Daylight Savings Time if it exists in your country)? Maybe we can make a histogram sometime. 1 Comment Fangjun Jiang on 19 Aug 2011 Nice new picture! Did he/she eat the Easy Money ticket? Sign in to comment. ...
"First off, congratulations to McLaren and Lando, they were clearly the best car on track today. The gap to Lando was significant in the first part of the race, and on the hard tyre we looked in better shape, but the gap was too big and this track is historically ver...
I: I understand that teaching English is becoming “big business” all around the world.P: It seems that language schools are springing up everywhere. I: Why is that?P: With the move toward a global economy, English has become the most widely used language in the world. It is the ...
As always, this is a labour of love, but it aligns with an important message I share all the time– it is time to pay attention to the information that matters, and what is going on in our world matters. The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and...
“wide-format printing” is very much a jargon-esque term that doesn’t mean a lot outside industry trade publications or print businesses’ service rosters, and we have made the conscious decision to wean ourselves off the term “wide format” in favor of the more understandable “display ...
Here is the “What’s On Disney Plus” Top 100 series on Disney+ in the US: 100) Primal Survivor Hazen Audel embarks on an epic trek that will mirror a traditional Berber nomad journey across the Saharan desert cauldron to an oasis. ...
Both approaches need to take temporal (e.g., considering the time of the year when groundwater is used) and spatial (e.g., considering where a certain biodiversity conservation measure is carried out) aspects explicitly into account. The reason is that the benefits as well as the costs of...
Haiti has the highest per-capita rate of NGOs,higherthan any other nation in the world. Aid is enshrined in the country’s culture it seems. It was the first time I came across non-professional religious NGOs when meeting at the hotel I was staying at in Port-au-Prince various groups...