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An earthquake changed the course of the Ganges: Could it happen again?
Science Daily· 2 days agoScientists have documented many river-course changes, called avulsions, including some in response to earthquakes. Lead author Liz Chamberlain, an assistant professor at the Netherlands' Wageningen ...
'Under Paris,' explained: Why the shark movie is No. 1 on Netflix right now
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSo, can humans swim in the Seine? If there’s water, humans can... swimming teams (who’re coming this...
Descendants of last slave ship arriving in US share history with students
Southern Poverty Law Center· 1 day agoThe discovery of the Clotilda in 2019 and the observance of Juneteenth reinforce the importance of...
How is AI impacting the automotive industry?
Just Auto via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoArtificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are developing fast and impacting our lives and economic activity in many ways. We consider automotive...
The Deadly Mining Complex Powering the EV Revolution
Bloomberg· 1 day agoA complex of factories, smelters and power plants on the island of Sulawesi, IMIP erupts in a tangle of pipelines and smokestacks that belch particulates...
Climate change efforts could save the Jabez, Anne Arundel’s woeful creek
The Baltimore Banner· 22 hours agoThe rivulet is unseen by the drivers of 112,000 cars and trucks passing every day on Interstate 97....
FTC Chair Lina Khan on startups, scaling, and ”innovations in potential lawbreaking" | TechCrunch
TechCrunch· 4 days agoFTC Chair Lina Khan was the youngest person appointed to her position when she assumed the job in 2021. It’s more likely that Khan’s legacy will be taking on Big Tech – and doing it very publicly ...
Bengal famine: Susannah's grandad ran Bengal as famine killed millions
BBC News· 3 days ago"I feel enormous shame about what happened," Susannah Herbert tells me. In the front are the...
IPG CEO Philippe Krakowsky on AI in advertising: beware ‘reversion to the mean’
The Drum· 6 days agoThe French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes theorized the invention of thinking machines...
How the United States Laid Claim to the Mississippi River, One Mile at a Time
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days agoOn October 27, 1815, Prospect Robbins arrived by boat at the point in the alluvial swamps where the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers meet. Both surveyors were veterans—Brown a captain, Robbins ...