1574th and The final 747 rolled off the Boeing production line in Everett, Washington on Jan. 31 to carry cargo around the world on behalf of New York-based cargo company Atlas Air. This is an unremarkable end to an era of aviation that began more than half a century ago. The first Boeing 747...
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“Something happened,” I told my wife. She is a veteran who watches me try to fix my body. I told her: Where before my brain was screaming, screaming on a cushion of air, there was suddenly silence. It was confusing. Will it continue? That evening I went alone to a Chinese restaurant, an old one...
Okay, a couple of quick notes. It’s simple surface Earth temperature. Since sunlight is simply falling on the surface and the Earth is radiating from the surface, this ignores any interactions with the very hot molten core. Also, note that it’s a little colder here than in valid the average temperature of the Earth (13.9°C)...
Mid 2021 Gabor Chelle bought a $15 Moleskine notebook to sketch ideas for new startups. On the front page, he wrote “T2” and started taking notes for a better version of Twitter. Celle sold startups Google and Twitter and worked for both companies. (This was his second time at Google as director of Area 120,...
For the first time in the world Australia has announced that it officially recognizes MDMA and psilocybin as medicines. February 3 The Therapeutic Goods Administration of Australia (TGA), the government agency responsible for drug regulation,announced that from July 1, 2023, authorized psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder...
Friday, United Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he was canceling a high-level diplomatic visit to Beijing following the discovery of a large high-altitude Chinese balloon that drifted over the US this week. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China said in a statement on Friday that the airship is an off-course weather balloon and denied...
Sheena Nichols was photographer with an eye on the natural world. He was especially attracted by landscape portraiture, its calmness and innocence. Nichols is said to have enjoyed holding his lens up, capturing as much sunlight as he could before it faded into the horizon. As he was driving home from his January 7 photo...
While this small-scale, low-tech approach may have supported saffron production over the past few decades, it has also brought it to the brink of extinction. “We are constrained by the characteristics of the sector itself,” says Fernandez. “What we’re trying to do now is to make a change and a transition so that we don’t...
Yes, a game from Sony. the subscription service can be quite confusing. And yes PlayStation Plus worth it for PlayStation owners. Both may be true! While longtime PlayStation fans may have to dig through the options to find something exciting, this is an affordable entry point for new PS5 owners who are less familiar with...
