In the comics, Scott Summers is one of the original five mutants trained by Charles Xavier. When the book was relaunched with Giant-Sized X-Men #1 some years later, he was the only original mutant to join the new crew (which introduced Storm and Wolverine). He became the leader of the...
Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for United States Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers. In 2012, she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. As of June 2015, Sandberg is reported to be worth...
I worked after school and during summers for the lowest wages, and the job helped my first year of college. I had worked in many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students’ Union during college, I was a hotel maid and I make maps for the Forest Service. But selling books was one ...
The Go-Go's made their live debut at The Masque in July of 1978. Two months later, Charlotte Caffey, who was playing bass in The Eyes, was recruited. They didn't have to twist her arm. "They said, Do you play lead guitar? and I lied and said Yes. I figured it only had a ...
However, other people came along and made these stories more “suitable” for children. The modern children’s writer Philip Pullman recently published a book of his versions of some Grimm tales. He points out that the Grimms themselves changed the stories, but for the better. They knew how ...
This surge was made worse by significant global warming caused sea level rise. Sea level rise has been eating away at the coasts for years and has probably caused a lot of flooding that otherwise would not have happened, but this is the first time a major event widely noticed by the ...
Guest essay by Rod Martin, Jr. Climate Scares—The New Fable Climate scares are like the old Greek fable. Most of us learned about Aesop’s fables long ago, likely in grade school. But just in case you don’t know the story of the boy who cried “wolf,” here’s a very short syn...
Today Potter County stands as a monument to her early settlers, to the contributors to her history, the men who planted new forests and reclaimed the wasted land, and who, with ingenuity and ambition, made the region important in the oil and gas industry, in farming and in dairying and ...
“Before both the last two summers, the Bureau of Meteorology predicted an increased chance of above-average rainfall, because the climate system was already in the middle of a strong La Nina event.”” http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/la-nina-brought-flooding-but...
Hand-made-in-Seattle: doing slightly different things each day and hoping for the same results. One at a time. One of a kind. Going in with reasonable expectations. Using just the right amount of entropy, seasoned with wabi-sabi. Things get interesting when you toss in a few ghosts from...