If you think Coronavirus is bad, just imagine what would happen if there was a significant geomagnetic storm and power grid and radio communications were knocked out.
Mild Winter Leads To Early Hatching Of Ticks Across New England
The growing tick problem isn't going away anytime soon. To make matters worse, New England just had an incredibly mild winter and before the calendar could even officially flip to spring, ticks are out with force all across Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont.
How the History Aerial Photo Comparison is Put Together
How the History Aerial Photo Comparison is Put Together
- Download imagery from USGS Earth Explorer (Free account needed to download; most interesting is to Single Aerial Photos) and USGS Historical Topographic Maps
- Use the QGIS Georeferencer to add control points and re-project the map.
- Export two matching area/scale images from QGIS showing the before and after
- Use the jQuery TwentyTwenty Plugin to provide the slider for your browser
How Purdue University’s President Froze Tuition – The Atlantic
’ll tell you a funny story,” said Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University. It was the day before the first home football game of the season and he was sitting in his corner office, overlooking the postcard-perfect quad.
“So the cost of a year of undergraduate college at Purdue University, tuition and fees, is $9,992. I’m proud of that number.
This article appears in the April 2020 issue.
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“One day I’m looking at one of those college guides, and it said, ‘Tuition and fees: $10,002.’ I called up our people and said, ‘Lookit here, there’s a mistake. You got the wrong number.’ They said, ‘That’s not a mistake.’ I said, ‘Yes, it is. Believe me. I know.’ They went back and checked and they said, ‘No, that’s the right figure.’
The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan
Most critical services, and financial markets, have backups—their own atomic clocks, perhaps, or connections to slightly less precise tools. But some of those backups depend on GPS timing, and might last only a few minutes. “GPS is the single point of failure for the entire modern economy,” says Representative John Garamendi, a California Democrat who’s been warning about the hazards for years as a member of the House committees on armed services and on transportation and infrastructure. “No cellphone, no ATM machine will work.”