Worse still, the story barely existed, NPCs were generic Toads (Nintendo really wanted to take away personality from Mario games at this point), and despite boasting “new villain characters,” these villains were – literally – things like a giant pair of scissors, a giant roll of tape, a...
We discovered in 2008 that that strategy merely built up bigger failures, and we were introduced to the unforgettable phrase, “too big to fail.” Now the power sector is being compelled to make the same mistake with electricity — cobbling together large numbers of unreliable generators in ...
Back in the late 1700s, however, doctors literally blew smoke up people’s rectums. Believe it or not, it was a general mainstream medical procedure used to, among many other things, resuscitate people who were otherwise presumed dead. In fact, it was such a commonly used resuscitation meth...
Most laptop power cords include a "brick" - that is the power supply. Reading the numbers on the brick, most of these power supplies accommodate a range of voltages for input. In the end, we were able to find an existing off-the-shelf power supply integrated with a power cable that is...
actions as necessary as they were futile. Awe wolfed him down its mucus moistened gullet. All that remained of his past was a new, up-to-the-minute clock hanging in front of him that faintly resembled the one that was melting above his fireplace. And this one spoke, each tick a whisper...
And that is what our researchers who discovered the cabbage mathematicians have done. They observed plants doing what plans do, analyzed it mathematically and assumed the plants were doing mathematical calculations rather that simply running the natural processes evolution equipped plants with....
(deforestation, cow farts, etc.) will have to zero out; and we will need to have invented technologies to extract, annually, twice as much carbon from the atmosphere as the entire planet’s plants now do. Nevertheless, by and large, the scientists have an enormous confidence in the ...