"As useful as a concrete cushion"
Comments update: a prototype for a flying car was the focus of a debate on the future of transport this week, while a classic piece of Brutalist architecture divided readers over the merits of high-rise social housing. If cars could fly: The creators of the AeroMobil – a two person car that can conv ...
Rabbi Sacks goes after atheists and Dawkins with the usual religious inanities
Oy vey! As an atheist but also a cultural Jew, I have to say that Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is an embarrassment. As he was the Commonwealth’s Chief Rabbi for 22 years, a member of the House of Lords, a Ph.D. graduate in philosophy, and now a professor at Yeshiva University and New York University in New ...
The Pledges and Promises of Climate Change
By Bethany N. Bella Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, provided by the Climate Summit 2014 website. Since Al Gore’s infamous film An Inconvenient Truth thrust the idea of global warming into everyday American politics, climate change has become a highly-contested, highly-controversial issue. Despite res ...
UK Changes Its Mind on Iraq Intervention While Obama Points to Intelligence Flaws
On Friday the UK’s House of Commons voted 524-43 in favor of joining a military coalition against ISIS. This includes authorizing strikes in Iraq, but explicitly excludes strikes in Syria which would have to be subject to a separate vote. On Saturday 2 Tornado GR4s proceeded [UK MOD] to fly over Ira ...
Trine Sřndergaard
NOW THAT YOU ARE MINE Dear Aveturine Now that you are mine won't you grant my wishes to day? Show me the path to earn good money and send me luck finding customers. keep me from all violence and theft. Let me meet only sweet and nice noble men who are resolute and cherful! If you're by my side prove ...
Droplets made to move on their own
Droplets are simple spheres of fluid, not normally considered capable of doing anything on their own. But now researchers have made droplets of alcohol move through water. In the future, such moving droplets may deliver medicines, etc. To be able to move on your own – to be self-moving – is a featur ...
Lucky's New Online Shop Will Debut This Spring
Lucky will carry products from designers like Marc by Marc Jacobs, Kenzo, Carven, The Row, and "new brands, like a tiny brand from Sweden or Denmark or Hong Kong that you've never heard of," she says, picked out by a "great buyer" Lucky is working with ...
