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How a Drunk Driver Led to the Birth of Russia's Sputnik 1. Top Story - April 2021.
HAD IT NOT BEEN for a collision with a tree by a vodka-sodden driver on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia would not have put Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, into orbit around the Earth when it did. Sadly, history does not record the driver’s name.
By Wilson da Silva5 years ago in FYI
Cigar King and Four Reasons Why
For the longest time it has been lead by popular opinion that the best cigars come from Cuba. To each is own as everyone is entitled to their specific taste of the unique dried and fermented tobacco leaf. Although Cuba does produce a plethora of flavorful cigars, the undisputed king of recent has been none other than Nicaragua. Bordering between Costa Rica and Honduras inside of Central America, theses are the "Four Reasons Why" Nicaragua holds title for the world's best cigars.
By Ace Howell5 years ago in FYI
Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend.
A good slogan was created in 1947 that has stuck around for decades. After many unsuccessful attempts to produce a great slogan for De Beers, Frances Gerety, a copywriter at an advertising agency, before heading home scrawled ‘A diamond is forever’ on the bottom of a picture of two honeymooning lovers. It had humble beginnings, but the campaign became the most recognized slogan of the 20th century, and ninety percent of Americans know it. ‘A Diamond is forever’ became the official slogan of De Beers.
By DEEPAK SETHI5 years ago in FYI
Global Warming: searching for common ground
The world seems to be sharply divided between those people who are convinced that global warming is a serious issue that is largely the result of human activity, and those who prefer to downplay its seriousness and deny that mankind is responsible for any global warming that may have been observed. But is there common ground from which any sensible debate can proceed?
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI
Borley Rectory: "the most haunted house in England"
Borley Rectory was once famous (or notorious) for being “the most haunted house in England”. During the years of its greatest fame, namely the period from 1929 to 1938, it was certainly much haunted by psychical researchers, but whether anything more other-worldly ever happened there is a matter for considerable doubt and conjecture.
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI
Model Organisms in Research and Model-org Antibodies Development
It's acknowledged that researchers rarely can perform direct experiments on human subjects. Therefore, model organisms become attractive examples to be studied when other species, especially humans, are not practical. Furthermore, a wealth of favorable characteristics also make model organism antibodies become a hot spot.
By Vivian Creative5 years ago in FYI
Manual Scavenging
Overview India is a country of growth, freedom, unity, and tradition. It is our culture that has been binding us since the beginning of time and it still continues to do so. Our independence in 1947 gave us a will to live. To live without fear, in unity, but what has happened to the mindset of the citizens of India? Have we achieved independence from our minds or are we still trapped in the cages of untouchability, caste system and creed? The caste system during the Middle Ages of India was divided into many sects and mainly had the division of upper caste and lower caste. The upper caste was allowed to do everything that a normal human being could do but the lower caste were not allowed to even do the bare minimum and were declared as "untouchable" just because it was decided by the majority.
By Hiba Shaikh5 years ago in FYI
Thrifting for a Better Tomorrow
Our Earth is in a state of crisis. Governments are scrambling to find solutions to global disasters. For the individual, though, the very idea of tackling these complex issues is overwhelming! What can we do to help when most of the damage done is out of our control?
By Olivia L. Dobbs5 years ago in FYI
Classifying Galaxies
Nobody knows how many galaxies there are in the Universe, but astronomers talk in the hundreds of billions, only a tiny fraction of which have been observed from Earth. Between 2000 and 2008, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey produced images of around a million galaxies, and the Hubble Space Telescope has continued to add to that number.
By John Welford5 years ago in FYI
