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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.
science, health, military, DARPA, Cold War, Dwight Eisenhauer, metabolism, soldier, internet 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.
science, environment, amphibian, frog, extinction, dinosaur, dodobird, ark, 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
Tom 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".
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 09:45PM 2012 will be a very interesting year. The United States will have a Presidential election. Across the world, elections will also be held in France, Mexico, and Ireland. The Freedom Tower will be completed in New York. The Summer Olympic games will be held in London, England. NASA's new Orion spacecraft is scheduled for completion and will begin to support missions to the International Space Station.
Thursday, December 20, 2007 at 10:27PM It was a sun-scorched and sweltering Arizona day when lyricist Irving Berlin wrote the song that would go on to sell more copies than any other piece of music in history. In 1940, while poolside at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Berlin stayed up into the night writing "White Christmas". He came down the next morning and said to his secretary that he had created "the best song ever written".
Sunday, November 25, 2007 at 02:33PM This was the first year in some time that I was out shopping on Black Friday. I usually get most of my holiday shopping done prior to Thanksgiving. Completely avoiding the annual post-Thanksgiving rush has been an objective of mine for some time. It is not the case in 2007.
Friday, November 23, 2007 at 07:55PM My wife and I usually stay at excellent hotels when we travel. Winter vacations with southern destinations and great ocean views are always preferred venues. If the hotel has an interesting history or a unique quality and is located close to a beach, all the better. I must tell you that in researching my next year's vacation destinations, I have come across some offbeat vacation resorts to say the least.
Monday, November 5, 2007 at 02:06PM It is interesting to see how opinions and values change over time. On June 5, 1956, Elvis Presley rose to national fame with his controversial performance of "Hound Dog" on the Milton Berle show. After singing it up tempo, he then began a slower version. His exaggerated, straight-legged shuffle around the microphone stand would create controversy as would his vigorous leg shaking and hip thrusts in time to the beat.
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 07:00PM Thanksgiving Day in America means travel, family reunions, cooking , food, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and the traditional high school football games. It is the official start of the holiday season which concludes on New Years Day.
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 06:43PM The Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative also known as BALCO was a business providing services in blood and urine analysis as well as food supplements. The company, founded in 1984 by Victor Conte, marketed a performance-enhancing steroid called Tetrahydrogestrinone, also called "The Clear". This steroid developed by chemist, Patrick Arnold, was at the time undetectable in the tests used to determine drug use by athletes. The company's business was to develop contacts with athletes and market "The Clear".
Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 07:06PM (This article is written in support of "Blog Action Day", Monday October 15, 2007). The holiday season is right around the corner. It will be the occasion in our society of consumption for many people to receive that new fancy electronic product that has looked so good on the store shelf for the last several months. In many cases the receipt of the new electronic gadget will mean discarding the old one. That electronic device that we no longer have use for is called E-waste.
Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 08:22PM It’s all over the Internet. It’s prominent on the cable news stations. It’s become popular on the network news. You can see it in the tabloids in the newsstands. Everywhere you can see the tragic mistakes of the modern celebrity. It’s all celebrity bad behavior all the time. The media’s sensational stories of celebrities’ personal, sad, and tragic problems have created its own industry of faux news.
