Google wraps its underwater fiber cables in Kevlar material, at least in part to protect against shark attacks, an official with the company said recently. More here.
Google wraps its underwater fiber cables in Kevlar material, at least in part to protect against shark attacks, an official with the company said recently. More here.
Footage from Los Alamos National Laboratory showing the journey on 9th August 1945 of the ‘Fat Man’ atomic bomb from hangar to mushroom cloud.
Investigative journalism from Nellie Bly in the 1880s, as she attempts to have herself committed: …I felt sure now that no doctor could tell whether people were insane or not, so long as the case was not violent. The full story here.
Adam Thirlwell writing on ‘How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature’: The investigation of tone in Baudelaire is an investigation into humiliation; and this humiliation, in Baudelaire’s theory, is the result of his conviction—to us, perhaps, counter-intuitive—that everything natural is corrupt. […] All of Baudelaire’s writing is based on this refusal of Nature as natural. Instead, what is…