Tag Archives: size
Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought
David Salisbury EurekAlert The amount of structural damage that radiation causes in electronic materials at the atomic level may be at least ten times greater than previously thought. That is the surprising result of a new characterization method that uses … Continue reading →
Video: Donald Trump Claims Autism is Caused by Vaccines
Michael Allen Opposing Views Donald Trump chose the fifth annual World Autism Awareness Day to reveal on Fox News that he strongly believes that autism is linked to childhood vaccines (video below). In a Monday interview on Fox News, Trump … Continue reading →
Study: Healthy Eating Can Cost Less
Sam Hananel The Ledger WASHINGTON | Is it really more expensive to eat healthy? An Agriculture Department study released Wednesday found that most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less than foods high in fat, sugar and salt. That … Continue reading →
Visualizing a Plenitude Economy
Juliet Schor NewDream This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the … Continue reading →
‘CO2 in the atmosphere is making us all fatter’: Researcher says we are increasing in size as gas levels go up
Eddie Wrenn Daily Mail Could CO2 emissions be making us fat? The startling theory has been put forward by a Danish researchers, who say that the increase in obese people in Denmark is roughly equivalent to the increase of carbon … Continue reading →
Phobia’s effect on perception of feared object allows fear to persist
Michael Vasey EurekAlert COLUMBUS, Ohio – The more afraid a person is of a spider, the bigger that individual perceives the spider to be, new research suggests. In the context of a fear of spiders, this warped perception doesn’t necessarily … Continue reading →
FAA told to make room for drones in U.S. skies
Bart Jansen USA Today Drones, perhaps best known for their combat missions in Afghanistan, are increasingly looking to share room in U.S. skies with passenger planes. And that’s prompting safety concerns. Right now, remote-controlled drones are mostly used in the … Continue reading →
The importance on how non-native English speakers identify English vowels
There exists a significant amount of research pertaining to the second-language (L2) learner’s vowel perception and the influences of the native (L1) language (Flege, 2002; Flege, Munro, and MacKay, 1995; Munro, Flege, and MacKay, 1996 cited in Bundgaard-Nielsen et al., … Continue reading →
Texas nearly ends rabies with aerial vaccine drops
Source: Reuters Three King Air planes are lined up on a small runway in the town of Del Rio preparing to bomb south Texas — not with explosives, but with hundreds of thousands of packets of rabies vaccine. The packets, … Continue reading →
Debris Field The Size Of California From Japanese Tsunami Begins To Litter West Coast
Source: IntelHub The fact that no federal agency is preparing for this huge wave of radiated garbage shows just how insane the leaders of this once great country have become. A massive debris field the size of California that is … Continue reading →