Future generations take note — deep inside the
heart of a Sierra Diablo mountain, along the
Texas-Mexico border, lies a 200-foot-tall, mechanical
clock that ticks once a year, has a century hand that
advances once every 100 years, and a cuckoo which
will emerge once every 1,000 years! Meet the
10,000 Year Clock!
With Easter fast approaching on Sunday, April 1,
chances are you are looking forward to meeting the
Easter Bunny, feasting on delicious food, enjoying
springtime parades and, best of all, participating in
your neighborhood egg hunt. To get you into the
spirit, here are some egg-cellent Easter egg hunts
from around the globe.
On March 14, 2018, the world mourned the loss of
one of the most brilliant minds of the modern age –
Stephen Hawking. The 76-year-old theoretical
physicist, who was born exactly 300 years after the
death anniversary of Galileo and died on Albert
Einstein’s 139th birthday, finally succumbed to ALS
(amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), which he had been ...
Ireland is known for many things — its rich history,
lush green landscapes, and of course, St. Patrick’s
Day. Celebrated annually on March 17, the holiday
gained prominence in the early-20th century as a
religious feast day. However, it is now widely
recognized as a celebration of Irish and
Irish-American culture with fun traditions that inclu...
You don’t have to be a fan of math to get excited
about Pi (“π”) Day. While the event, which is also
Albert Einstein’s birthday (139 th this year ), may
start with some calculations, it is more than likely to
conclude with a slice or two of delicious pie. The
holiday, which celebrates the ratio of the
circumference of a circle to its diameter, is held ev...
It might sound like 1.5 million penguins are a hard
thing to miss. However, that is indeed the case with
this super-colony of Adélie penguins ( Pygoscelis
Adeliae ) who have managed to remain undetected
for decades in the Danger Islands of Antarctica. The
remote, difficult to access, landmass, which lies off
the continent’s northern tip, is always surrounded ...
On January 8, 2018, as Amazon Inc.’s stock soared
to an all-time high of $1250 a share, its founder and
CEO Jeff Bezos, who owns 17% of the company,
dethroned Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates to become
the world’s richest person. Since then, the
company’s stock has risen an additional 20 percent,
increasing the entrepreneur’s net worth from $105...
Stereo, or 3D, vision is what enables humans to
gauge the depth and distance of surrounding
objects. The right and left eye capture slightly
different images and send them to the brain, which
merges them and then calculates the proximity of
everything in the vicinity. The ability, which requires
an intricate network of neurons and lots of process...
In mid-January, Cape Town officials announced that
the world-class South African city of four million
residents would run out of water on April 12. The
date, nicknamed “Day Zero,” has since been
postponed multiple times, thanks to the intense
conservation efforts by locals, a sharp reduction in
agricultural water usage, and a 10 billion-liter dona...
