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This letter is in response to the piece on using photovoltaics to charge batteries by C.K.. I feel I should spend some time discussing some potential problems with charging Lithium Ion ("Li-ion") batteries the way C.K. proposes. However first a few g
This is a fascinating interview with Hannah Arendt. So much of what she says here is very relevant for us today: From witnessing decent people going along with, or even actively supporting, an evil regime, to being attacked for the "tone" (rather tha
The link between geothermal power production and earthquakes is one long since established, but new research is providing fresh insight into how Earth responds to this and other sorts of poking around underground that we do.
Eyes bigger than your stomach? Not loving the entree you ordered? Typically, restaurant workers simply scrape that perfectly edible food into the trash can.
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Angela Carter“To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man!
Two years after they embarked on a solar-cell printing initiative, Australian researchers are showing off cells the size of A3 paper – that’s about 16.5 by 11.7 inches – spit out by a $200,000 machine.
Weather permitting, I love to throw open every window in the house. Indoor air can be stagnant and even more polluted than what’s outside, so every now and then, it’s nice to feel the cleansing effects of a fresh breeze, especially at night.
Not only is yoga exceptional for reducing stress, relaxing the body and taming disease, but it’s also a fabulous method for shedding unwanted pounds.
Insists Role in Torture Was 'On Orders' From Handlers
Lindsey Graham Urges US to Boycott 2014 Winter Olympics
Obama signed an executive order entitled, “HIV Care Continuum Initiative” that will create a national movement and federal involvement in the war on HIV/AIDS.
As for the SEC, we have the continuing disgrace of the ignominious Jumpstart Obama’s Bucket Shop Act, which has sent investor protection back to the ugly days of the Roaring Twenties. The SEC passed three measures. One was an embarrassingly watered-d
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Twitter agreed to hand over details of people who post racist and anti-Semitic abuse anonymously on its site. The effort of Jewish students to strip anonymity from posters and punish people for using language they consider anti-Semitic.
Speaking at the NAACP’s annual convention in Orlando, Holder said the time had come “to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods.”
A former employee of Florida State Attorney Angela Corey's office plans to file a whistleblower lawsuit against George Zimmerman's prosecutors. The action will put pressure on Corey, who already faces criticism from some legal experts,
After an Asiana Airlines passenger jet crashed and burned in San Francisco, a Bay Area TV station published what it claims were the names of the pilots, including Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Low, Ho Lee Fuk, and Band Ding Ow.
John Gross III, a 48-year-old Californian, became another casualty in the federal government’s escalating war on marijuana. He plead guilty and was sentenced to 19-plus years for creating and running a medical marijuana dispensary
A black woman in Florida confronting an abusive husband fired a warning shot into the wall to stop his advance. Corey brought charges, a jury convicted (after deliberating for 12 minutes), and the woman was sentence to 20 years in prison.
During a July 9 traffic stop in Meridian, Mississippi, police found $360,000 stashed in a secret compartment in the car. Though that’s perhaps an eyebrow-raising amount of money, readers might notice something odd—the driver was let go
I [had] a coupon for a free 4 pack of Yoplait Greek yogurt. What the heck, it's free so I selected the honey vanilla yogurt only to come home and upon reading the label I discovered that the ingredients contained neither honey nor vanilla.
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With endless irony, in the 513 days since Zimmerman dispatched Trayvon Martin, 11,300 black people suffered deaths at the hands of nearly that same amount of black people. In other words, blacks kill blacks with growing alacrity.
When Florida lawmakers recently voted to ban all Internet cafes, they worded the bill so poorly that they effectively outlawed every computer in the state, according to a recent lawsuit.
It wasn't until 2007 that the first comprehensive study on people's motivations for having sex was published. Cristen lists the 237 reasons men and women cite for "doin' it" ranging from the desperate and coerced to the celebratory and spiritual.
How do you plan on celebrating New Year's Eve this year? Will you run around the neighborhood, chucking old dishware at people's front doors?
Americans were shocked -- shocked, I tell you!
We can land men on the Moon, land rovers on Mars, and send probes off to the farthest reaches of the Solar System. Unfortunately, everything is very expensive, and we generally can’t land multiple robots on distant celestial bodies, much less a singl
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in levitating and moving arbitrarily shaped objects using acoustic (sound) waves.
Ever since computers came about, futurists and science fiction authors have been imagining a world in which thinking machines can best the frail human brain.
