When Australia got too hot and dry, which killed off forests, these woodland creatures decided to live underground. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65765-underground-spider-cousins.html
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Fresh Crater Spied on Mars — and It Looks Spectacular
Mars got whacked. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65756-fresh-crater-on-mars.html
Meet Estella: An Up-and-Coming Journalist Passionate about Social Change
Coursera for Refugees launched in 2016 to provide free access to Coursera’s catalog to refugees around the world. Today more than 26,000 refugees are learning on Coursera, including Estella. Estella is a 25-year-old aspiring journalist living in Rwanda after she had to leave her home in Burundi. She participates in Coursera for Refugees through the […]
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What is the mystery mass on the moon?
Scientists have discovered a massive subsurface deposit of dense material – probably metal – beneath the largest crater on the moon. Did it result from a huge asteroid impact or a former lunar ocean of molten rock? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mystery-mass-moon-south-pole-aitken-basin…
Woman Who Requested Mariah Carey Cake Got Marie Curie Instead
The birthday girl was probably feeling emotions when she saw what the baker had done. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65726-marie-curie-cake.html
Retail Stores Use Bluetooth Beacons To Track Customers
In an opinion piece for The New York Times, writer Michael Kwet sheds some lights on the secret bluetooth surveillance devices retailers use to track your every move and better serve ads to you. Anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Imagine you are shopping in your favorite grocery store. As you approach the dairy aisle, you are sent a…
The Long-Awaited Upgrade To the US Weather Forecast Model Is Here
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For the first time in about 40 years, the guts of the U.S. model got swapped out for something new today. The upgrade brings us a new “Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere” (or FV3) dynamical core, which simulates the basic atmospheric physics at the heart of this endeavor, a change that has been in the…
Deepening Her Knowledge Of The Quality Field: Meet Efi
What program did you take on edX, and what were your goals in taking it? Since my graduation from the Engineering University, I have worked on 4 different positions at different factories that applied some Lean Six Sigma tools to improve their quality and productivity. As I kept “falling” on them from job to job, it didn’t take me long to…
Eric S. Raymond Survives New Medical Problems
For decades Eric S. Raymond has been one of the open source movement’s staunchest supporters. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative, and was the author of the influential book The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary . Tuesday the 61-year-old super-geek posted a dramatic story to his blog:
Today I had to — literally…
Powerless Facebook Investors Voted Overwhelmingly To Oust Zuckerberg As Chairman
“The Facebook shareholder revolt just got bloody,” reports Business Insider:
It’s now clear that independent Facebook investors voted overwhelmingly in support of proposals last week to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman and scrap the firm’s share structure. According to the results of votes at Facebook’s annual shareholder meeting, 68% of outside investors want the company to hire an independent chairman. The majority…