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Read More »After Shock and Awe
Since the attacks of September 11, Congress has approved nearly $1.3 trillion for military spending. Much of that money has gone into mounting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom. But some of the funds have been used to dream up and develop futuristic-sounding military devices such as exoskeletons
Read More »The Changing Mental Health Aftermath of 9/11–Psychological "First Aid" Gains Favor over Debriefings
Just watching television footage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was enough to cause clinically diagnosable stress responses in some people who did not even live near the attacks--let alone the millions of people who did . Like many other major disasters, 9/11 brought with it a host of psychological repercussions, one of the most severe of which has been post-traumatic stress disorder . PTSD is characterized by trouble sleeping, difficulty controlling anger, losing interest in activities, flashbacks, emotional numbness and/or other symptoms
Read More »Direct Response: 5 Pre-9/11 Security Breaches and the Safety Measures That Followed
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted vast changes in air travel protocols and in national security in general .
Read More »What Do Studebaker And Geocities Have In Common? No One Remembers Them
Experts imagine future prospects for two once-prosperous brands //Our Panel REBOOT CEO Mark Thomann, CEO of River West Brands BRAND CONSULTANT Josh Feldmeth, CEO of Interbrand New York AD MAN Huw Griffith, CEO of M&C Saatchi North America Studebaker Founded in 1852, it began making gasoline cars in 1904 and ceased production in 1966. Geocities In 1994, it was one of the first free sites to build and host a website.
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Read More »Menstruation is just blood and tissue you ended up not using
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Read More »The Next Attack? Terrorist’s Attempts to Hijack Technology
A specific, credible but unconfirmed terrorist threat to residents of New York City and Washington, D.C., was brought to the public's attention Thursday evening, just three days before the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on those two cities. In the past decade such alerts from government and public safety officials have been all too common as home-grown and international terrorists alike have attempted to use a variety of methods to inflict widespread damage on the U.S
Read More »Batteries Could Get Algae Boost
Common batteries are electrochemical cells. And they may get better thanks to living cells: the multicellular organism called brown algae.
Read More »Pieces of the Human Evolutionary Puzzle: Who Was Australopithecus sediba?
Few things remain as mysterious--or controversial--as our own history as a species. [More]
Read More »NYC’s Ring of Steel pt 2: Central Command
In the second of three videos, we visit the central hub of New York City's 'Ring of Steel', the expansive camera network keeping watch over Lower Manhattan.
Read More »Pennsylvania Hit by Huge Flooding, Towns Submerged
* Flooding persists in Pennsylvania, other states * Swollen Susquehanna River crests in city of Wilkes-Barre [More]
Read More »Sea Radiation from Fukushima Seen Triple of Prior Estimate
TOKYO (Reuters) - Radioactive material released into the sea in the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis is more than triple the amount estimated by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, Japanese researchers say. Japan's biggest utility estimated around 4,720 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 and iodine-131 was released into the Pacific Ocean between March 21 and April 30, but researchers at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) put the amount 15,000 trillion becquerels, or terabecquerels.
Read More »Switching to Natural Gas Power May Not Slow Climate Change
Though burning natural gas produces much less greenhouse gas emissions than burning coal, a new study indicates switching over coal-fired power plants to natural gas would have a negligible effect on the changing climate. Tom Wigley, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, reports that if natural gas were substituted for coal in energy production, climate change trends would not slow down and may, in fact, accelerate. His findings are due to be published in the journal Climatic Change Letters
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