Thruway Interchange 80s and 90s (1973 vs. 2018)

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During the late 1980s the Thruway Authority and DOT replaced the Northway and Thruway interchange that once was a cloverleaf to a windmill style interchange. You can compare the changes to the interchange with a comparison of the interchange in 1973 to how it looks today.

The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest

The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest

There is another way though—a way for modern medicine to make use of modern technology rather than the blood of an ancient animal. A synthetic substitute for horseshoe-crab blood has been available for 15 years. This is a story about how scientists quietly managed to outdo millions of years of evolution, and why it has taken the rest of the world so long to catch up.