Sometimes it seems that truth is stranger than fiction. Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, was recently quoted on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" as favoring technology that would block cell phone calls from within automobiles. Specifically, LaHood was quoted as saying, “There’s a lot of technology...
Toyota was fined a record $16.4 million by the United States Department of Transportation for failing to promptly disclose problems with their accelerator pedals sticking on certain models. When a manufacturer becomes aware of such a potential safety issue, they have five business days to notify...
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...
Jack Roush's plane crash Tuesday night July 27, 2010 leaves the NASCAR team owner seriously injured but in stable condition. Reports indicated that Roush was flying an aircraft when his plan slid off the Wittman Regional Airport's runway in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Roush was attemping to...
Genetic Algorithm: A heuristic search technique used in computing and Artificial Intelligence to find optimized solutions to search problems using techniques inspired by evolutionary biology: mutation, selection, reproduction [inheritance] and recombination. 1. Automotive DesignUsing Genetic...
Blood is a body fluid that transports essential elements in the body. About eight percent of the human body weight is blood. Blood has many functions, the two most important of which, is the transport of things to the tissues and the removal of wastes from the tissues. Blood transports oxygen...
Hemoglobin is the oxygen transporter in the red blood cells of all invertebrates, and is produced in the bone marrow. As the red blood cell travels through the vessels, it transports oxygen from the lungs towards the brain and other active organs, exchanges it for carbon dioxide, then circles back...
In economics, when the demand for items decreases as the consumer income increases, those items are considered a inferior goods. This term is used in comparison with normal goods, which increases in demand in proportion to the increase in consumer income. In this context, the term inferior is...
US Airways has dug deep into its corporate pockets and provided each of the 150 passengers on board the flight that crashed into the Hudson River last week with a check for $5,000. The airline explained its actions by stating that it will be months before their possessions will be released back to...
Political Correctness: the Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the avoidance... of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people." Okay, we can get behind that. But what does it actually mean in reality?
