The presumption is "that we are driving biodiversity to lower levels," said Steven D. Gaines, who is director of UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute. "Certainly, if you think about it at the global level, this is true because humans have done a lot of things that have driven species extinct."
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The Peugeot 888 by Oskar Johansen is a solar-electric super-car is capable of a unique feat of imaginative engineering: it can shrink and shift between two modes: suburban mode and city mode. While in the city, the vehicle is lifted by a hydraulic tilting system which in turn decreases the length of its wheel axis, becoming slightly taller, giving it improved visibility, and making it more maneuverable. As the vehicle leaves the city, the vehicle returns to its lower profile, giving it the speed and stability required for highway driving.
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The Moon-Regan Trans Antarctic Expedition will cross the continent of Antarctica from the west coast to the South Pole, then heading north through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range to the coast at McMurdo, covering distance of around 3,000 miles. The team's goal is to educate the world about Antarctica’s key role in climate change.
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For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what constitutes sleep anyway. A new study attempts to address just why we sleep.
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Amazing as Usain Bolt's Olympic record-breaking 100-meter victory was, his
time of 9.69 seconds is nowhere near what biostatisticians such as Peter Weyand of SMU thinks is
the natural limit for the human body. Experts studying the steady progression of records over the past 50 years, see the limit of the world record, with a probable error of 0.17 seconds, namely, to lie between 9.26 to 9.60 seconds. Some see 5.0 seconds a possibility.
Because 6' 5" Usian Bolt broke the mathematical model that had fit 100-meter record data for almost a century, his incredible performance has reset the bar for how fast researchers believe humans ultimately can run. Will it be done by a 6' 9" future version of Bolt?
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"We" magazine (which you've probably never heard of, and you'll discover why shortly) has been looking at the future of the Internet, and one thing seems sure: it's going to suck. Here we look at their implications, and why you might want a blindfold for some of these future visions:
1. The Pragmatic Internet
The writer gushes about the idea of a browser that always knows exactly where you've been, what you're doing, and what you're likely to do next - which you might recognize as the wet dream of online advertisers, and by "online advertisers" we mean "the people who are doing their level best to destroy everything good about the internet."
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The presumption is "that we are driving biodiversity to lower levels," said Steven D. Gaines, who is director of UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute. "Certainly, if you think about it at the global level, this is true because humans have done a lot of things that have driven species extinct."
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