It looks like a hollow metal canister the size of a single-decker bus. But to the European Space Agency, the precious cargo that blasted off from Cape Canaveral today aboard the shuttle Atlantis represents an historic turning point in more than 50 years of space dominance by Russia and the US. Almost five years after […]
Shuttle Atlantis Blasts Off Carrying Europe’s Space Hopes
It looks like a hollow metal canister the size of a single-decker bus. But to the European Space Agency, the precious cargo that blasted off from Cape Canaveral today aboard the shuttle Atlantis represents an historic turning point in more than 50 years of space dominance by Russia and the US. Almost five years after […]
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a cooperative military prison and detention camp under the leadership of Joint Task Force Guantanamo since 2002. The prison, established at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, holds people accused by the United States government of being terrorist operatives, as well as those no longer considered suspects who are being held pending […]
Reflections on a Declining Transit System and Our Origins
Our problem is with the switch. This is announced through the train’s PA system. We are on a 7:22am train heading eastbound to Manhattan. A woman sitting across from me says something, but I am thinking about the switch. She is wearing a bulky wool coat and holding an earphone between her fingers – […]
Internet Traffic Jam by 2010?
Internet usage could outstrip network capacity worldwide in a little more than two years, according to "The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web," a study conducted by Nemertes Research. This study — the first-ever to assess Internet infrastructure and model current/projected traffic patterns independent of one another […]
Radio inventory has played a big role in the quest for press freedom
Radio invention has played a beacon role since its invention in 1895 which has made freedom of press to flourished the world. An Italian inventor the great Guglielmo Marconi used an idea of Scientists such as James Clerk Maxwell and Heinrich Hertz to develop the first working wireless transmitter in 1895 which took the by […]