By Jeff Campagna Photographs and Captions by Ellen Harasimowicz Along Route 110 in the tiny village of Still River, Massachusetts, about an hour west of Boston, sits a small building where passers-by stock up on produce—corn and tomatoes in the … Read more
An anchor is still attached on the bow of the sunken schooner barge Ironton, lost in a collision in 1894. NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Undersea Vehicles Program UNCW, Ocean Exploration Trust Just off the coast of the northeast … Read more
Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Normally Don Beyer doesn’t bring his multivariable calculus textbook to work, but his final exam was coming up that weekend. “And I’m running out of time,” he said, plopping the textbook and a … Read more
As part of our standard toolkit, we provide each developer at Skroutz with a writable database snapshot against which she can develop. These snapshots are updated daily through a pipeline that involves taking an LVM snapshot of production data, anonymizing … Read more
30.05.2022 Drought reveals urban center of the Mittani Empire The archaeological site of Kemune in the dried-up area of the Mosul reservoir A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have uncovered a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city once located on the … Read more
How long have you been working in the same company? Five years? Ten? Walter Orthmann (Brazil) has been working at the same company for 84 years and 9 days, as verified on 6 January 2022. His passion, discipline and commitment … Read more
Sending greetings to friends and family from places we visit has always been popular. Whether we text, call or just post something on social media, we love to let others know about where we travel and what we see there. … Read more
Image via The British Museum We marvel today at what we consider the wonders of ancient Egypt, but at some point, they all had to have been built by people more or less like ourselves. (This presumes, of course, that … Read more
Zeloof spun hand-cut, half-inch squares of polysilicon, each to become a separate chip, on a small homemade turntable at 4,000 revolutions per minute to coat them with the photosensitive material needed to transfer his design onto the surface. Then his … Read more
Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo, a pair of researchers at the University of Turku in Finland, have found a finite configuration in Conway’s Game of Life such that, if it occurs within a universe at time T, it must have … Read more