toper in the Big Apple have often congratulate themselves on being a quick and ingenious plenty . The spirits of NYC , after all , have fuel some of the earthly concern ’s best wits — including Dorothy Parker , George S. Kaufman , and Robert Benchley , who once gag : “ Why do n’t you mistake out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini ” ( although he may not have been the first to say it ) ....
The 1960 - 1969 Checker was an chance for the general world to own a strong , secure , no - frills Checker – a cable car that they ’d trusted for year as a taxi cabriolet . Classic Cars Image Gallery Morris Markin , a Russian immigrant who founded Checker Motors in 1922 , had one trait in mutual with Henry Ford : a distaste for change . Once you get the right design , Markin figured , it made sense to stick with it ....
What are engrossment units?Concentration units measure the amount of a substance in a given volume or mass of a solution . These unit help scientists , chemists , and student realise how much of a substance is present in a mixture . coarse concentration units include M , molality , part per million ( ppm ) , and mass percent . Molaritymeasures mol of solute per liter ofsolution , whilemolalitymeasures moles of solute per kilogram of solvent ....
Uppsala , the fourth - gravid urban center in Sweden , is a vivacious and historic destination that boasts a rich cultural heritage and a vivacious advanced cityscape . Located just 44 miles northwards of Stockholm , Uppsala is synonymous with knowledge , being home to one of the world ’s most prestigious universities , Uppsala University . With a population of around 230,000 hoi polloi , Uppsala is a city that seamlessly combines erstwhile - world appealingness with a dynamic and cosmopolitan air ....
A first - look at Hitachi ’s new coloring material - display P300 cellphone that run on Sprint PCS ’s new high - hurrying Vision internet . What ’s really interesting about the P300 is that it has an optical sensor so that the phone can narrate when it ’s hidden away in a pocket or a suitcase , and mechanically reverberate just a little but more loud . Read...
Gorgeous starship flying late into place to save satellite Earth . Peril in an infinite abysm . attractively composed reflections off a helmet . We ’ve see it all before . Even the most futurist space movies usually feel jolly conversant and yet Ad Astra , the latest film fromdirector James Gray , does not . It assure a on the face of it simple story set in a realistic future with twists and turns that experience completely unused , while never losing sight of its lead character or lofty themes ....
Sure , 2016 has n’t been a great year . But 2017 is shaping up to be jolly awesome for one main understanding – there is go to be an actual Moon race taking place . And another squad has just entered the affray . Team Hakuto are the only Japanese squad in theGoogle Lunar XPRIZE , a $ 30 million contention to land a scouter on the Moon and travel 500 meters ( 1,640 feet ) ....
This is kind of uncanny , but seems Archos is putting out a dim XS202 DAP , knight the XS202s . It ’s a bit thinner than the original and almost an Panthera uncia scant , while battery life is being touted as up to 17 hour per charge . So to sum up , it ’s pitch-dark , not silver gray , weighs a flyspeck bit less and count slim — and for that , you ’ll pay about $ 25 more at $ 327 ....
As much assome Potterheadsmay wish well they could have some of the animate being fromHarry Potter , whether it be a half - kneazle or a hippogriff , realistically , most of those wight have to remain in the human beings of fantasy . Recently , customs duty furniture company Joybird conducteda surveyto determine ifHarry Potterfans have a penchant when it comes to our earthly deary : cats or hound ?...
Medicine has advanced not just leaps and bounds but light - twelvemonth over the last half - century . These days , patient benefit from psyche scans , 3D ultrasounds , androbot surgeons . But there are some holdouts . If , for instance , you have the ill luck of landing place in the emergency room with a disjointed hip , there will be no golem . Your Dr. will simply snap up your leg and shove your hip back into place ....
This is just a prototype , but I believe they ’re on to something . This little sod picks up your headphone , via Bluetooth , and question the caller . If the company is on a whitelist and they do n’t seem too agitated — the squirrel , apparently , can interpret vocalisation patterns — this little fella will wiggle around to get your aid . He ’s only at the MIT Media laboratory right now , but expect something like him to appear very shortly ....
It looks like the NSA was a little cozier with Silicon Valley company than we previously realized . Newly declassify document show that the spy agency ( read : taxpayers ) paid Google , Facebook , Yahoo , and others millions of dollar to cover the monetary value associated with PRISM . In a way , the mellow cost of compliance is the NSA ’s own fault . Back in 2011 , a undercover FISA court reign that the NSA ’s inability to separate foreign from domestic tidings violated the Fourth Amendment ....
Audio historian David Giovannoni and scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered and brought back to life the first audio recording ever made , 17 years before Edison ’s patent of invention . The ten - endorsement snip was made on a phonoautograph , a machine that only recorded sounds but did n’t work them back , so they had to do some voodoo to resurrect it and play it back ....
