Scientists and the military are seriously studying how to make things like soldiers and airplanes invisible, but right now the only thing researchers can render invisible is a person (if he’s wearing the right clothes). This would be great gear for a spy. But it turns out the Chinese have already figured out how to overcome this effect!
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Answers to the questions everyone wants to know – There have been movements in recent years to teach boys and girls in separate classrooms, since they tend to learn at different rates and often need extra work in different subjects. But a new study shows that boys do BETTER in school if there are girls in the classroom! And despite urban myths to the contrary, girls are just as good at math as boys. Another thing parents want to know: What are the benefits of all that homework?
Boys who attend preschool classes with a majority of girls receive an intellectual boost, while preschool boys who attend majority-boy classes fall increasingly behind. But the proportion of boys to girls has no effect on the girls’ development.
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In our latest Insight, British privacy advocate Gwynn Price-Evans talks about the draconian measures being put into place in the UK which violate citizens? rights. With the eavesdropping measures going on in the US, it won’t be long before the same things happen here.
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At the end of the Pleistocene about 13,000 years ago, a two thousand year period known as the Younger Dryas plunged the world back into the deep freeze that it had known for the hundred thousand years of the great ice age. It was previously thought that it took over a thousand years for the Younger Dryas to develop, but now scientists have discovered that the change was virtually instantaneous, and took place in less than a single year?in other words, it was the result of a Superstorm. Whitley Strieber writes about this in his dynamic new Journal. The catastrophe overwhelmed Europe with a suddenness that would cause hundreds of millions of deaths if it happened again, and essentially destroy the western world.read more