Somewhere in Los Angeles this year, someone will get home who otherwise wouldn't have. You'll never learn her name. There will be no headline, no celebration, no council resolution -- only an unremarkable Tuesday that ends the way Tuesdays are supposed to end. The same nonstory will eventually ...
Dear Jim: I'm trying to save money and thought about using the sun to help cook our food. Are solar ovens really effective and is it possible to build a simple one myself? - Jill N. Dear Jill: It is possible to cook almost anything in a solar oven. Billions, of people around the world use solar ovens exclusively because they have no other fuel source. All the energy on the Earth, including fossil fuels, wood, etc. actually came from the sun at one time so all cooking is technically solar cooking in a way. I have used a solar oven for years during the summer and on bright sunny winter ...
Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions -- banks, big business, labor, the ...
Four New Yorkers have been killed by Legionella bacteria in the last week, tragedies that were preventable if the city had performed its core, lifesaving duty to monitor and inspect air conditioning cooling towers. But New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on creating a socialist ...
Michigan Republicans face a simple question in the Aug. 4 primary.Do they want to nominate a candidate for governor who gives them the best chance of winning in November? Or do they want to replay a political script that has already produced the same ending? If the answer is the latter, then ...
Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the Library of Congress and virtually everything else ever written, invented or retrievable online. The cloud is synonymous with "data center." Many people don't realize that without these massive data centers -- that have somehow been demonized by everyone across the political spectrum from ...
