According to some, the automobile age started 125 years ago this week when a patent was filed in Germany for a two-wheeled machine driven by an internal combustion engine. Gottlieb Daimler had helped develop a single-cylinder four-stroke engine in 1884, notable for its relatively light weight. To test the engine, Daimler built a “riding car” —a [...]
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
A team of archaeologists has discovered the remains of an extensive three-story building on the island of Ithaca, in the Ionian Sea off the northwest coast of Greece. The complex also features a well from the 8th century BC, roughly the period in which Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s Odyssey, is believed to have been king [...]
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
At New York’s Polo Grounds on Oct. 3, 1951, outfielder Bobby Thomson of the Giants hit a game-winning home run off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca for the National League championship. The home run was immortalized as “the shot heard ‘round the world.” Thomson died yesterday in Savannah, Georgia at the age of 86. His [...]
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Research published in the journal Nature this week indicates that only about 35% of anxiety risk is inherited. In a study of rhesus monkeys, scientists at the University of Wisconsin concluded that the processing of emotions is a clue that environment is the major factor in anxiety in children. About one in eight children in the [...]
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Although non-IBM personal computers were available as early as the mid-1970s, IBM’s own Personal Computer, the IBM 5150, was introduced at a press conference on August 12, 1981 in New York City. The IBM development team went outside the bounds of their traditional product development and was able to develop and announce their new PC in just [...]
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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