Our planet’s climate will change dramatically over the coming century, but it’s hard to say exactly how. A new study might give us a glimpse of who will pay the cost of it, however. A quartet of scientists has predicted the cost each country will have to pay due to the next century of climate change, and according to the data, the United States will have to foot one of the biggest bills....
Media Platforms Design TeamMedia Platforms Design TeamDyson DC28 Animal Vacuum /// $600 The Promise: The tighter the bond between a vacuum’s head and the floor, the stronger its suction. Most vacuums create this seal with sheer (and often cumbersome) weight. The extra pounds increase the pressure against the floor, but have the obvious side effect of making the vacuums a pain to haul and store. The Dyson DC28 Animal Vacuum purports to use a piston-driven pneumatic seal to force the head against the ground without adding unnecessary pounds....
Since 2012, when Disney acquired Lucasfilm for $4 billion, the studio has been full-steam ahead, planning stories that would make the Star Wars world the perfect cinematic supplement to its other juggernaut, the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Beginning in 2015 with the release of The Force Awakens, this meant a new movie every year, but in 2018, the public officially felt stuffed, collectively shoved its plate away, and got up from the table....
Media Platforms Design TeamView full post on YoutubeIt was on a rocky seaside cliff that we first met Carl Sagan, famed astronomer and science communicator. As waves crashed and wind tousled his hair, Sagan opened his miniseries by declaring the cosmos, “All that is, or ever was, or ever will be.“This Sunday, 35 years later, Neil deGrasse Tyson will meet millions of viewers on that very same seascape as he introduces Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey....
If you’re getting someone a shiny new device for the holidays, or are expecting one yourself, such a gift can be made that much sweeter with a portable charger to make sure the fun doesn’t end.The RAVPower Fast Wireless Charger is perfect for the new iPhone or Samsung Galaxy owner, going for $33, down from $50. A simple resting spot for your device, it works with any and all Qi-enabled phones....
Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed a historic bill this week that bans the sale of sunscreens that contain oxybenzone and octinoxate, two chemicals that have been deemed harmful to coral reefs.Hawaii is the first U.S. state to pass a legislation banning the sale of sunscreen containing these chemicals. The bill will go into effect on January 1, 2021.“We are blessed in Hawaii to be home of some of the most beautiful natural resources on the planet,” Ige said at the bill signing, according to The Huffington Post....
The future of running shoes takes shape inside a 45,000-square-foot lab in Kobe, Japan. Here, 200 Asics employees research, create, and test new materials in a full-scale biomechanics lab with a climate chamber that can replicate nearly any condition on earth, as well as a materials lab that builds shoes from scratch by creating new chemical mixes and adjusting sole moldings.Shoe tech has changed a lot in a quarter-century. As Asics prepares to launch the 25th iteration of its popular running shoe, the Gel-Kayano, the company let the world see the evolution of shoe materials, design, and technology inside the Asics Institute of Sport Science....
🚨UPDATE 2/19/20: The Iowa Democrats have published another update to their caucus data. They reviewed dozens of precincts at the requests of the Buttigieg and Sanders campaigns, including all four precincts we discussed in this article, which are now fixed. The margin between Buttigieg and Sanders has officially shrunk to .08 State Delegate Equivalents, which is .0004 percent. That difference is roughly the weight of a single delegate at a single precinct....
Media Platforms Design TeamIn our work, making stuff usually means cutting large things into successively smaller things, and then attaching those small parts to each other to create something completely new. The process can involve welding, mechanical fasteners and–especially–glue. Whether it’s a rig for a MythBusters TV episode, a special-effects model for a film or a home project, glue is usually the soul of the build.THE FUNDAMENTALS OF STICKUM SELECTIONADAM: The first consideration is to match the glue to the properties of the materials you intend to join....
Late 1859 might have seemed like an ordinary autumn, except for a few things. Perhaps the most striking were the auroras, which normally could only be seen in the polar regions. For a few weeks in late August and early September, they could be seen from nearly everywhere in the world.Telegraph operators would have noticed something strange as well. Many telegraphs failed inexplicably, and the telegraph lines were highly charged with electricity....
“March 24, 2017, was no ordinary day for Proxima Cen,” sounds like the beginning of a 1950s sci-fi novel, but it’s actually a description from an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution for Science, Meredith MacGregor, of what happened to our closest neighbor star that day. Scientists recently realized that a powerful stellar flare erupted from Proxima Centauri last March. The explosion was so massive that many researchers doubt that Proxima b, the Earth-sized planet that orbits Proxima Centauri, could support life....
The most promising place to search for life outside our solar system just got even more enticing.Last year, a research team operating the ESO’s Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, or TRAPPIST, discovered that a small, dim red dwarf star about 39 light-years away had three planets orbiting it. All three exoplanets were about the size of Earth and in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone” where temperatures can hover between 0 and 100 degrees C—the ideal conditions for liquid water and, perhaps, life....
When I was 14, I could read anything. Any novel, treatise, manifesto, report. I used to pull books from my parent’s shelves and read them mostly as my own dare to myself. I only picked hardbacks. Previously read. In this way, I came to read Nabokov, Capote, Vonnegut, and Roth as a very young guy. I don’t say this to brag. I didn’t read these books very well. I don’t remember them much....
After 40 years of wowing audiences, the lightsaber is the undisputed champion when it comes to sci-fi weapon coolness. Sure, we all love Han’s Blaster—based on a real German Mauser C96—and Star Trek’s phaser will always hold a special place in our hearts, but the lightsaber reigns supreme. So when we’re greeted with a new lightsaber design, the world—or, at the very least, Star Wars fans—proceed to lose their minds. In fact, this is a Star Wars fan pastime that stretches back some 20 years—highlighted in three episodes of extreme lightsaber hype....
The long, long history of the calculator starts with centuries of mechanical engineering, but in the 1960s, a shift began. The advent of the transistor suddenly allowed the humble calculator to leap forward into the digital age, but in a way that seems almost completely alien compared to the pocket calculators (much less smartphones) of today. Clifford Stoll of Numberphile offers a mesmerizing tour of one of these early machines, the Friden EC-132....
A bipartisan defense budget agreement will authorize the creation of the Space Force.The Space Force will be, like the Army or Air Force, a distinct military service under the Pentagon.The service will take over space functions from existing services, wielding them into a single independent branch overseen by a Chief of Space Operations. It’s really happening. A bipartisan budget agreement for 2020 will see the creation of a new branch of the military specifically oriented towards space....
The sun’s solar wind effects the Earth every day, from auroras to satellite disruption.Scientists at UW-Madison have built a miniature sun they call the Big Red Ball.While not a substitute for getting close to the sun, it allows them to recreate the star’s internal dynamics.The sun is the most powerful source of energy in the solar system, and the solar winds that escape its gravity affect just about everybody they can reach....
Thanks to a handful of newly discovered neurons, the brain just became a little bit less mysterious.Today a team of neuroscientists led by Xiaolong Jiang and Andreas Tolias at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston announced six altogether new types of brain cells. The neuroscientists came across these new neurons while conducting a census of brain cells in adult mice in a part of the brain called the the primary visual cortex, an area chiefly concerned with sight....
Media Platforms Design Team1. TAPPING PLATEThis serves as the entry and exit point for oil. Small holes around the edge facilitate the free flow of oil into the container. The threaded center hole is where the oil flows out and also how the container attaches to the engine. 2. ANTIDRAINBACK VALVEBecause the oil filter is typically located toward the middle or bottom of an engine, this rubber valve has a flap that blocks oil from draining back into the filter when the engine is off....
DETROIT – The air here these days is so very retro. Faced with a struggling economy that has already squeezed the SUV market, domestic automakers have been working hard to build off their heritage–and tap into our pockets by pulling at our heartstrings. Earlier this month, I drove the new Dodge Challenger SRT8 and all the muscular might that came with it. Then, Monday morning, I watched the 2010 Chevy Camaro springing back to life....
