Monday, April 27, 2009 at 08:45PM In a few days the World Wide Web will celebrate its sixteenth birthday. The World Wide Web was made available for widespread use on April 30, 1993. In the last sixteen years the global spread of the web has been truly incredible.
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 01:36PM His international legend continues to grow. He has been featured on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. He meditates in the solitude of the jungle most of the time, but when he reappears his followers have made some very unique claims.
Nepal, buddha, buddha boy, buddhism, international, religion Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 09:01PM Last May global warming alarmists were very concerned about the fate of the polar bear. Melting Arctic Sea ice due to man-made global warming was highlighted in stories in many newspaper and magazine publications as the prime reason that polar bears would become an extinct species.
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 04:15PM Submarines that can fly like airplanes have been promoted in science fiction entertainment for many years. As early as the 1960s, in the Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea movie and television series, a flying sub often used for exploration, was contained in the belly of a larger submarine called the Seaview.
DARPA, defense, flying submarine, military technology, science, submersible airplane in Science Friday, November 21, 2008 at 09:52AM The concept of a man becoming invisible was introduced by H.G. Wells over one hundred years ago. Through the years, science fiction has used the idea of a fantasy cloaking device to provide object invisibility often. In fact, it is a term that has become so common that it is found in the Star Trek Encyclopedia.
DARPA, berkley, harry potter, hg wells, invisible man, science, star trek in Science Friday, November 7, 2008 at 05:07PM In 1974, there was a futuristic television show called The Six Million Dollar Man. The popular show ran for four years and featured the adventures of astronaut, Steve Austin (Lee Majors). The show began with the astronaut near death but with science fiction and Hollywood creative thought readily available to provide an interesting story line.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 05:29PM Steel is one of the most common materials in the world. It is used in buildings, tools, bridges, automobiles, airplanes and appliances. Over the years, the strength of steel has been used by engineers to support structures, by architects for the design of different buildings, by the military for ships, tanks and planes and even by Hollywood in many movies that promote Superman as the "Man of Steel".
Friday, October 3, 2008 at 08:01PM Three hundred feet below the ground in a seventeen mile long circular tunnel on the border of France and Switzerland is the home of an eight billion dollar machine that took more than twenty years to build.
atom smasher, big bang, hadron, large collider, science, space, technology, the grid, universe, world wide web in Science- Space Friday, September 5, 2008 at 05:21PM Updated on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 02:30PM by
Jim Smith
The Hubble has given us pictures of merging galaxies, asteroids, new galaxies, the rings around Uranus, and other planets. It has given scientists insights into star formation and star death. The Hubble Deep Field has produced pictures of distant galaxies nearly ten billion years ago.
astronauts, hubble, science, servicing mission 4, space, telescope in Science- Space Friday, August 1, 2008 at 04:12PM The Russian satellite Sputnik was launched into space at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s. In America, the Sputnik satellite was met with complete national security fear.
Cold War, DARPA, Dwight Eisenhauer, health, internet, metabolism, military, science, soldier in Science Friday, July 18, 2008 at 06:12PM Many of us grew up watching friendly Kermit the Frog on a television show called Sesame Street. Certainly, we can remember reading the fairy tale of the frog that turns into a handsome prince after receiving a kiss. However, in the Bible, frogs were certainly less endearing when they became a hideous plague that confronted Egypt.
amphibian, ark, dinosaur, dodobird, environment, extinction, frog, science, year of the frog in Science-Environment Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 06:47PM Every day millions of people all over the world go to the office to work at the same location. It is another work day at the same address in the same office building. The structure may be old or it may be new, but the structure does not change. It remains constant. The building faces in the same direction and each window offers the same view to the outside.
Friday, June 6, 2008 at 08:13PM John Adams thought that America's birthday would be celebrated every year on the 2nd of July. Adams thought that the vote by the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776 to secede from British rule would become the date that Americans would honor throughout the ages. Ultimately, he would be proven wrong on his prediction of the day each year that America celebrates its independence.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 08:41PM It has been a decade (May 14, 1998) since his death but the music of Frank Sinatra is still everywhere. New York, New York” can be heard at every Yankee baseball game. Evening dining at any upscale restaurant usually features a musical rendition of a famous Frank Sinatra tune. His movies can still be seen on cable television and on DVD.
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 01:48PM On April 3, 2006, the cover of Time Magazine read "Be Worried, Be Very Worried" introducing an article on Global Warming. One year later the cover of Time Magazine announced its "Global Warming Survival Guide.” A Time Global Warming cover story in 2001 showed an egg in a frying pan. Time Magazine’s Global Warming cover stories even date back nearly two decades
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 07:29PM He is the world's most accomplished urban climber. He has scaled more than 85 buildings around the globe; including, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House, and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His long list of urban climbing conquests also includes the Taipei 101 in Taiwan, the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Empire State Building in New York, and most of the world's tallest skyscrapers, bridges, and buildings.
Friday, April 4, 2008 at 08:01PM Updated on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 08:24PM by
Jim Smith
Data from public opinion polls indicate that nearly fifty million people would like to visit space. In fact as many as two million people each year would take the journey beyond the outer limits of Earth’s gravity. The public's fascination with space travel means the potential development of a space travel tourism industry with revenues that could amount to $10 billion or more every year.
Monday, March 17, 2008 at 07:47PM Imagine a time in the near future when you enter a mall for a day of shopping. As you enter that mall, a tiny RFID scanner near the entrance captures the pulse from the hidden RFID tag sewn into the jacket that you are wearing. The information captured by that scanner is sent to a transactional database and within seconds your complete identity, and the location and date that you purchased that jacket, is captured
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 07:49PM The history books will tell you that Alexander Graham Bell of Scotland invented the telephone. Alexander Bell won a patent dispute which would lead to the most valuable patent ever issued, the telephone. The patent on the telephone and the subsequent success of the device would lead to the creation of the world's largest monopoly, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Friday, February 8, 2008 at 08:19PM Presidents' Day is a national holiday in America. It is a day of honor for all the men who have served in the office of President of the United States. As I researched how people rank the men that have held the highest office in this land, I was somewhat surprised to be challenged by the definition of the term "rank".
