Jordan Suchow came to three rapid-fire conclusions as he watched his Macintosh laptop plummet toward the floor. First, in approximately 300 milliseconds he was going to be in a heap of trouble--the machine had been given to him by his thesis adviser, George Alvarez of Harvard University
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Jordan Suchow came to three rapid-fire conclusions as he watched his Macintosh laptop plummet toward the floor. First, in approximately 300 milliseconds he was going to be in a heap of trouble--the machine had been given to him by his thesis adviser, George Alvarez of Harvard University.
Read More »Tsunami Debris and North America: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
Recent weeks have seen a spate of news articles (three examples here , here , and here ) claiming that wreckage from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami has started arriving on the west coast of North America. Is that likely? [More]
Read More »Tsunami Debris and North America: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
Recent weeks have seen a spate of news articles (three examples here , here , and here ) claiming that wreckage from the March 2011 Japanese tsunami has started arriving on the west coast of North America. Is that likely?
Read More »7 Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs
Happy Groundhog Day! Today is the day each year in which we look towards a giant rodent to find out how much more winter we’ll have to endure. This year, we probably know the answer: winter hasn’t been very wintery, even for Los Angeles
Read More »7 Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs
Happy Groundhog Day! Today is the day each year in which we look towards a giant rodent to find out how much more winter we’ll have to endure. This year, we probably know the answer: winter hasn’t been very wintery, even for Los Angeles. Which, well, isn’t ever really wintery at all.
Read More »Controversy: Can Repeat Concussions Cause Lou Gehrig’s Disease? (preview)
Kevin Turner was a premier athlete in the National Football League, a fullback who could run, catch and block. At 6' 1" and roughly 230 pounds, he was slightly undersized for his position, but he had tremendous thrust in his legs and used all of it to launch himself into players who were bigger than he was. He played for the New England Patriots from 1992 to 1994, then joined the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he stayed until his abrupt retirement in 1999
Read More »Controversy: Can Repeat Concussions Cause Lou Gehrig’s Disease? (preview)
Kevin Turner was a premier athlete in the National Football League, a fullback who could run, catch and block. At 6' 1" and roughly 230 pounds, he was slightly undersized for his position, but he had tremendous thrust in his legs and used all of it to launch himself into players who were bigger than he was. He played for the New England Patriots from 1992 to 1994, then joined the Philadelphia Eagles, with whom he stayed until his abrupt retirement in 1999.
Read More »Inside Story: What Happens When Brain Hits Skull
Concussion, the most common among traumatic brain injuries, which occurs 1.7 million times a year in the U.S., represents a major public-health problem.
Read More »Inside Story: What Happens When Brain Hits Skull
Concussion, the most common among traumatic brain injuries, which occurs 1.7 million times a year in the U.S., represents a major public-health problem. It occurs when there is a sudden acceleration or deceleration of the head, a process depicted here in this animation
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Read More »TIMELINE-Major Peacetime Ship Disasters Since the Titanic
Feb 2 (Reuters) - A ferry sank on Thursday off thecoast of Papua New Guinea with scores of people missing, [More]
Read More »TIMELINE-Major Peacetime Ship Disasters Since the Titanic
Feb 2 (Reuters) - A ferry sank on Thursday off thecoast of Papua New Guinea with scores of people missing, [More]
Read More »Indonesia to Set Up $5.6 billion Palm Oil and Rubber Firm
By Janeman Latul and Fathiya Dahrul JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government plans to create one of the world's largest palm oil and rubber firms in March by combining state planters with total assets of $5.6 billion, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday. [More]
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