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In this episode, Josh and Chuck discuss reservoir-induced seismicity and the conditions under which human activities and projects like dams can trigger earthquakes.
Sony’s rollable OLED display can wrap around a pencil, our hearts (video) – “Nothing says “future” quite like a rollable display. Today Sony’s giving us a glimpse into what will one day be with its 80μm-thick organic TFT-driven OLED display.” See also: HP developing wrist PC for military, finally putting that flexible display to good [...]
You Asked:
How do rescue workers extract someone from an upside-down car? — Kat, Valparaiso, Ind.
Marshall Brain Answers:
If you take a look at How the Jaws of Life Work, emergency responders generally have three tools available to get victims out of cars…
I love the human feats that are part of the circus — the juggling, the trapeze work, the acrobatics, all of that. When I watch, my two main thoughts are, “Wow, that’s amazing” and “Wow, that looks really hard.” Now I can add a third: “Wow, that’s really good for you.”
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today announced a new privacy policy aimed at quieting users unhappy with the social networking site’s most recent standards, as well as lawmakers increasingly concerned with the company’s policies.
With hundreds of millions of subscribers worldwide, Facebook is the second most-trafficked site in the world, according to Alexa’s ranking.
This is going to qualify as either one of the most interesting things you see today, or one of the grossest, depending on your constitution. In the following video, veterinarians dissect an elephant and show you some of the amazing mechanisms inside the world’s largest land mammal. You learn an incredible amount about elephants in the process…
Average Childbearing Age Continues to Rise
by Cristen Conger | May 26, 2010
Presumably as more women elect to postpone building families in favor of building careers, the age of childbearing women continues to rise, the Guardian reports. While the average maternal age has only climbed about a year from 28.4 years old to 29.4 years old over the past decade, the number of women having kids in their 40s has shown dramatic growth in England and Wales.
When you make your own beer at home, it’s called homebrewing. And most people tend to think that it is complex, expensive and equipment-intensive. Homebrewing can be all of those things, but it doesn’t have to be. This video shows you the simplest possible rig to make a gallon of beer at home…
Have you ever seen a 21,527-square-foot rug? No? Well, look to your left, folks. There’s one right there. And here’s the really delightful part: That rug wasn’t woven with a loom the size of a low-rise office building and it isn’t made of wool. It’s actually 21,527-square-feet of flowers — begonias, to be exact. Yes, every other August, one of these fragrant flower carpets is rolled out at the stately Grand Palace square in Brussels, Belgium.
We are all aware of the gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of gallons of oil will end up destroying beautiful beaches, abundant commercial fishing grounds (oyster, shrimp and fish are all products of the Gulf), nature preserves and wetlands used by birds and fish. The leaking oil may move toward fragile [...]
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