In 1997, after being charged a $40 late fee for a Blockbuster movie, a man envisioned a platform containing thousands of movies that could be accessed anywhere, with no late fees or DVD players involved. That man was Reed Hastings, soon-to-be CEO of Netflix. Twenty-one years later, we’ve seen the rise
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The ʻIʻiwi, a magnificently feathered bird endemic and specialized to its environment, is rapidly disappearing from Hawaii’s forests. In late March, I spent a week working with the organization Ocean Matters in Oahu, Hawaii. I dedicated my time to studying the reefs and overall health of Kāneʻohe Bay. Yet, it was
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The world has seen darkness for the first time. Since 1916, black holes have been theorized, first conceptualized by Albert Einstein in his theory of relativity. But for decades they have remained hidden and illusive, impossible to capture as they sucked the light around them with their immense gravitational pull.
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X-Men. Lord of the Rings. The Matrix. Three movies built upon the fascinating idea of telekinesis. Three stunning works of fantasy that embody futuristic ideals in a technologically advanced society. Well, telepathy isn’t a fantasy anymore. According to Bruce Goldman of Stanford University, “new clinical trial results show that people with paralysis who
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In 24 states and two provinces in Canada Chronic Wasting Disease has increasingly been a problem in the population of deer. This raises fear in the many hunters and consumers of deer products. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/occurrence.html Reported areas of CWD in deer population in January 2019. The effects of the disease are often deadly for
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