Fallout Shelters for Everyone! (18 pictures)
ATLAS SURVIVAL SHELTERS is an underground NBC survival and bomb shelter manufacturer based in Los Angeles, California and serving all of the United States, but especially Texas, California, Utah and Arizona. It’s founder and owner, R.D. Hubbard, is a multiple award winning designer and fabricator and has been in steel manufacturing since 1981. For as little [...]
Mosquitos, malaria and education – Bill Gates
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
Talk by Bill Gates.
Chelyabinsk Meteor Flash
The meteorite that struck some 20 to 30 kilometers above the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, traveling at about 20 kilometers per second. Its explosive deceleration after impact with the lower atmosphere,created a flash brighter than the Sun. This picture of the brilliant meteor (and others of its persistent trail) was captured by photographer Marat Ametvaleev, surprised during his [...]
Satellite Swarm — Including an Asteroid Hunter — Readies For Spaceflight
Early next week, an Indian rocket will launch into space carrying seven satellites on board. Among them will be a small but mighty asteroid-hunting telescope called NEOSSat. Built by the Canadian Space Agency, it will mainly focus on the Atira class of asteroids, which are made up of space rocks within Earth’s orbit, to figure [...]
European Asteroid Smasher Could Bolster Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense is a concept very few people heard of or took seriously – that is until last week’s humongous and totally unexpected meteor explosion over Russia sent millions of frightened residents ducking for cover, followed just hours later by Earth’s uncomfortably close shave with the 45 meter (150 ft) wide asteroid named 2012 DA14.
Comet PanSTARRS: How to See it in March 2013
Great ready. After much anticipation, we could have the first naked eye comet of 2013 for northern hemisphere observers in early March.
Can we eat to starve cancer?
William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.
