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Big cars might make you feel safer. But here’s how vehicle size impacts others in a crash -...
EconoTimes· 7 hours agoFor every passenger car sold in Australia, almost three SUVs are sold. Vehicles such as pickup...
Can Men Live Without War?
The Atlantic· 17 hours agoIn light of new breakthroughs, two prescient Atlantic articles -- Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and Martin Greenberger's "The Computers of Tomorrow" -- seem all the more ...
Fengate Acquires Canada Data-Storage Firm eStruxture in $1.3 Billion Deal
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoToronto-based Fengate Asset Management has acquired control of a data-center services provider in...
Opinion | Timed-entry passes prevent national parks from being loved to death
Washington Post· 18 hours agoIn addition to risks this creates for the parks’ wildlife, ecosystems and man-made infrastructure,...
Why University of California Workers Stopped Their Historic Strike
The Nation· 6 days agoThe temporary restraining order comes after the University of California filed a lawsuit against UAW...
Ambient commerce: what is it and why does it matter?
Retail Insight Network via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoThere is commerce, then there is e-commerce and now, arriving fast is ambient commerce. The word ‘ambient’ means ‘surrounding on all sides’. Technology...
Chinese Swimmers Twice Tested Positive for Drugs. They Kept on Swimming.
New York Times· 6 days agoThree athletes who failed drug tests before the 2021 Olympics had tested positive for a powerful...
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
The Economist· 7 days agoTHE ISLAND of Guam, a tiny American territory that lies more than 6,000km west of Hawaii, has long...
Vote 'no' on Lompoc Unified School District bond
Santa Maria Sun· 3 days agoYes, it does at the Lompoc Unified School District’s (LUSD) board, which has placed on the June 5 ballot a requirement for a new school bond for the second time in two years. The tax rate will ...
COMMENT: Storm warnings demand our attention and caution
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star· 6 days agoIt was on this date in 1972 that Hurricane Agnes, one of the most destructive tropical systems to...