A British girl of six, who unearthed a massive ammonite during her first archaeological dig, has donated it to a museum to be enjoyed by the public.
The 16 inch-long fossilized sea creature — with defensive spikes and a spiral-patterned shell — was a mollusk that lived in the oceans during the Jurassic period.
(WATCH the ITV video below, or READ the story in the UK Sun)
President Obama today awarded the Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a former active duty Marine Corporal from Kentucky who saved the lives of dozens of men by returning to the battle five times under heavy fire, Forest Gump style, to rescue his “brothers”.
He is the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. And at 23, he is also one of the youngest recipients in decades.
Sergeant Meyer was recognized for courageous actions in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, where he risked his life above and beyond the call of duty and saved 36 lives amid a Taliban ambush. In prepared remarks, the President compared the story to one that “will be told for generations.” Obama continued:
President Obama today awarded the Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer, a former active duty Marine Corporal from Kentucky who saved the lives of dozens of men by returning to the battle five times under heavy fire, Forest Gump style, to rescue his “brothers”.
He is the first living Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. And at 23, he is also one of the youngest recipients in decades.
Sergeant Meyer was recognized for courageous actions in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, where he risked his life above and beyond the call of duty and saved 36 lives amid a Taliban ambush. In prepared remarks, the President compared the story to one that “will be told for generations.” Obama continued:
Ten years ago seeing any blue whales in Southern California would have been rare. This year already, there has been more than 500 sightings of the world’s largest creature.
The length of a basketball court, a blue whale visits this warm stretch of the Pacific Ocean to fill up on Krill, a tiny shrimp prevalent here this time of year.
Ten years ago seeing any blue whales in Southern California would have been rare. This year already, there has been more than 500 sightings of the world’s largest creature.
The length of a basketball court, a blue whale visits this warm stretch of the Pacific Ocean to fill up on Krill, a tiny shrimp prevalent here this time of year.
A new iPhone app launched this week, called LocalHero, lets friends help each other by identifying the people in a person’s social network who are nearby and have the right skills or interests to assist with any task or need.
The mobile networking application unveiled at the TechCrunch event in San Francisco matches a person’s location to the skills and interests of nearby friends, allowing helpers throughout a region to reach out and be a “hero”.
“While social networking applications have helped connect people in ways previously unimagined, there is currently no way to reach out to a select group of friends for help without broadcasting to the entire network,” said Ana Baltodano, CEO and co-founder of LocalHero. “With LocalHero, we have created a smart way for friends with specialized talents to take action and become real heroes to their friends and people nearby.”
LocalHero can be used for a range of requests, such as finding other friends who are interested in joining a group task, like a painting party, or to brainstorm on a specific problem.
The app categorizes friends by activities and interests and requests can be organized with tags.
“I had the privilege of attending a class in business school with a group of highly accomplished executives who shared their knowledge and skills to help each other out,” continued Baltodano, who is located in Palo Alto, California. “However, once we left the class, even though we were connected online, there wasn’t an easy way to continue that reciprocity that was so valuable to us all. That’s when I started to think about creating the LocalHero application.”
LocalHero, is available immediately for free download at the iPhone apps store and at the website:
Newsweek rated American cities on their job creation, sustainability, livability and transportation-infrastructure, to cull a list of the nation’s top performing metropolises.
Of the 20 cities topping the list, the highest rated were these ten which represented diverse areas of the country — west coast, east coast, south, center and northeast: El Paso, Oakland, Riverside, San Antonio, Omaha, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Atlanta, Buffalo and Austin (pictured here).
Willow, a calico cat who disappeared from her Colorado home five years ago, was found Wednesday on a Manhattan street and will soon be returned to her family.
How she got to New York, more than 1,600 miles away, is a mystery, but thanks to an implanted microchip, Willow will be reunited with her owners, who had long ago given up hope, especially with all the coyotes in the area.
A 21-year old motorcyclist who collided with a BMW on the campus of Utah State University was lying unconscious beneath the burning wreckage when bystanders rushed to help.
Workers at a nearby construction site began to lift the car along with students, while a professor shot the scene on his camera phone from an upper window of a building.
A 21-year old motorcyclist who collided with a BMW on the campus of Utah State University was lying unconscious beneath the burning wreckage when bystanders rushed to help.
Workers at a nearby construction site began to lift the car along with students, while a professor shot the scene on his camera phone from an upper window of a building.
A solar leasing company has inked a deal to put solar panels on the housing in 124 military bases in 33 states.
SolarCity has had a big year, first with news that Google is creating a $280 million fund to finance its residential solar projects, and now with the announcement that it will double the amount of residential solar photovoltaic installations in the U.S.
As part of Project SolarStrong, SolarCity will team up with the big military housing companies that manage homes on military bases to build what may be the largest residential solar project ever.
The new World Trade Center in New York currently under construction promises to be the most environmentally advanced structure ever built on such a scale.
The WTC complex is striving for LEED Gold Certification—the second highest attainable below Platinum—requiring a Net Zero CO2 footprint for its electrical consumption and a level of energy consumption 20 percent below New York State’s energy code requirements.
In a project of this size, a Gold certification would be “a first of its kind,” according to Eduardo Del Valle, Director of Design Management at 1 World Trade Center, who has incorporated hydrogen fuel cells and rows of sunny windows into the skyscraper’s design.
A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia and he had nothing to lose, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment at the University of Pennsylvania.
Doctors removed a billion of his T-cells — a type of white blood cell that fights viruses and tumors — and re-engineered them to attack his cancer. Then the altered cells were dripped back into Mr. Ludwig’s veins.
At first, his vital signs took a nose-dive and doctors thought he might die.
But, a few weeks later, “the fevers were gone. And so was the leukemia.”
(READ the amazing story in the New York Times) – Photo from University of Pennsylvania
On Sunday, 343 firefighters from across Texas donning their heavy coats and gear gathered in downtown Dallas to honor the lives of New York firefighters who died on 9/11.
They climbed 100 flights of stairs at Dallas’s Renaissance Tower to commemorate the lives of 343 from the New York Fire Department who died saving others on that day. Each carried the name and photo of one of their department brethren.
“It’s kind of an honor because he was a hero,” said Jacob Manceaux of the Port Naches,Texas Fire Department. “He went to go up and save people and he never came back. I’m doing this to finish his climb.”
To commemorate the tenth anniversary, more than 16,000 firemen around the world participated in a similar climb to remember the fallen of 9/11.
(WATCH the video below, or read the story from SMU-TV)
VIDEO: Dallas 9/11 Firefighter Stair Climb from SMU-TV on Vimeo.
On Sunday, 343 firefighters from across Texas donning their heavy coats and gear gathered in downtown Dallas to honor the lives of New York firefighters who died on 9/11.
They climbed 100 flights of stairs at Dallas’s Renaissance Tower to commemorate the lives of 343 from the New York Fire Department who died saving others on that day. Each carried the name and photo of one of their department brethren.
“It’s kind of an honor because he was a hero,” said Jacob Manceaux of the Port Naches,Texas Fire Department. “He went to go up and save people and he never came back. I’m doing this to finish his climb.”
To commemorate the tenth anniversary, more than 16,000 firemen around the world participated in a similar climb to remember the fallen of 9/11.
(WATCH the video below, or read the story from SMU-TV)
VIDEO: Dallas 9/11 Firefighter Stair Climb from SMU-TV on Vimeo.
Two American hikers sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage and illegal entry into Iran may be released “in a couple of days,” according to Iran’s president.
Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer will be released from Tehran’s Evin prison after a $500,000 bail is paid for each of them, their attorney, Masoud Shafiee, said Tuesday.
A daily spritz of insulin in the nose helped improve memory skills in people with Alzheimer’s-linked memory problems, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
Patients in a small study — who include people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s and a pre-Alzheimer’s condition — showed improvement in overall cognitive function.
Do you have a collection of concert tee shirts in the back of your closet from your old rocker days?
A San Francisco artist named Ben Venom has come up with an unusual use for those old shirts — he sews them into quilts.
And the results are on exhibit in galleries in San Francisco and Birmingham, England.
Each of his beautifully crafted quilts can fetch thousands of dollars.
In the days following 9/11, Americans were in shock and grieving—but so were others around the world who offered extraordinary gestures of support to a country that had been devastated by terrorist attacks.
On distant shores, Iran’s then-President Mohammad Khatami condemned the attacks, Ireland and Israel held full national days of mourning, and the Afghan Taliban issued a statement to “American children” saying, “Afghanistan feels your pain”.
One of the most touching reactions of all came from a “destitute Kenyan boy-turned-Stanford-student who rallied his Masai tribe to offer its most precious gift” to America in her time of grief.
Earlier that year, Kimeli Naiyomah, a US-educated doctor and massai warrior had been in New York City, and the events of 9/11 touched him deeply.He had to figure out a way to help the country that had given him so much.
After telling the tribal leaders the story of the World Trade Center, it so moved them that they agreed to donate a living gift of cows.
(READ the inspiring story at CNN)
American homes are more cluttered than ever with devices, and they all need power. But something shocking is happening to demand for electricity in the age of the gadget: It’s not rising.
It may, in fact, be heading down: “Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall, reversing a long upward trend.”
In part it’s because Edison’s light bulb is being replaced by more efficient types of lighting, and electric devices are getting much more efficient. But there are other factors.
