A personal digital assistant or PDA is a portable handheld device whose purpose is to allow the ability to perform organizational tasks from a mobile platform. Although the original PDAs were only limited to storing addresses, phone numbers, calendars and task lists, the current crop of PDAs now...
Gulf Oil Spill result of faulty safety device per Transocean Employee Tyrone Benton. BBC News was first to report the possible cause of the massive, estimated 60,000 gallon per day oil leak, caused by an exposion of the BP owned oil rig on April 20, 2010. BBC News also maintains that...
Some things might have been better off not being invented. Now we're not denying that these come with some good ... convenience, connectedness, etc. We're just saying... sometimes the bad seems to outweigh the good.
A new water purifier the size of a computer chip has the potential to save millions of lives every year. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new water purifier which uses magnetic fields to remove contaminants and clean water, thereby removing parasites responsible...
A USB hub is a small device that contains a number of USB ports where different USB devices can be plugged in. The USB hub is usually connected to an unused USB port on the computer using an extension cable. Upon plugging in, the USB hub serves as multiple input for different USB devices, which is...
When you run experiments, there's inherently an element of the unknown. After all, we're trying to figure out things we don't know. And sometimes, things go wrong. FATALLY WRONG! Here are some of the most interesting, most intriguing, and sometimes most horrific, experimental deaths we've ever...
The straw man argument is a logical fallacy. It is a type of rhetoric device that tries to destroy an idea or position by arguing against its most ridiculous or misrepresented form. It usually exaggerates the claims, or reduces it to its weakest form, so it becomes easier to attack. Metaphorically,...
If teen pop sensation Justin Bieber were to shave his head right now, you would not only learn about it within minutes, but would also have access to photos and video of the incident, no matter where in the world you lived. Whether it be through your WirelessInternet.net Internet provider or your...
On Thursday, January 6, 2010, a pair of incendiary devices blew up at Maryland's Department of Transportation's headquarters in Hanover and at the Jeffrey Public Safety Building, a state government building in Annapolis. The first explosion occurred at the Jeffrey Public Safety Building at 12:30...
Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
