Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has visited the Fukushima Diachi Nuclear Power Station and has sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Ichiro Fujisaki, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko calling on them to convince Japan to accept international aid to help repair damage at the reactor complex, which remains in an extremely precarious condition.
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Our brains are constantly rewiring themselves based on the events in daily life, and what we pay the most attention to is what effects them the most. This means that the way you decide to spend your time literally transforms you.
In the March 25th edition of the New York Times, Diane Ackerman writes: "All relationships change the brain–but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self." And the bonds of love change the brain more than anything else.
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We’ve seen it in comic strips and graphic novels, but it never appears in auto shows. But it turns out that more than a dozen flying cars are in development, and Terrafugia, a firm based in Woburn, Massachusetts, is about to launch the first commercial model, called the Transition.
According to the Economist, "The Transition is perhaps best described as a road plane, rather than a flying car. It is essentially a small, $279,000 plane that has been designed to be legally roadworthy. Push a button and the wings fold up, allowing the pilot to start driving it like a car. It even runs on (gasoline), with a range of 600 miles on the ground or 400 miles in the air. Around 100 aircraft have been reserved, and the first is due to be delivered later this year." read more
Two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexio–in the worst offshore spill in US history–deformed fish and eyeless shrimp are still being found (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows).
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