Posts Tagged ‘clues’

New study finds that teaching is not essential for people to learn to make effective tools

The ability to build up knowledge over generations, called cumulative culture, has given mankind language and technology. While it was thought to be limited to humans until now, researchers from the Laboratoire de psychologie … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-11-essential-people-effective-tools.html

Caribbean Sea earthquake: Strong 5.8 magnitude quake struck between Honduras and the Cayman Islands

     A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 has struck the Caribbean Sea between Honduras and the Cayman Islands, seismologists say. The earthquake, which struck at 6:39 p.m. local time in Honduras or 7:39 p.m. local time on the Cayman Islands, was centered about 167 kilometers (104 miles) south-southwest of George Town on […]

New ORNL device combines power of mass spectrometry, microscopy

In mere seconds, a system developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory can identify and characterize a solid or liquid sample, providing a valuable tool with applications in material science, forensics, … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-11-ornl-device-combines-power-mass.html

Twitter CEO Dorsey: Tech’s latest would-be comeback kid

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey, the newly anointed savior of the quirky but troubled microblogging service, is the latest in a long line of tech company founders who’ve been called back to revive their wayward startups. After co-founding Twitter in 2006 and serving a previous two-year stint as CEO, Dorsey returned to the top job last […]

Cameron shows “bad form” hurling insults at Corbyn 

Stuart Littlewood writes:  British politics hit a new low last week at the UK Conservative Party conference when David Cameron made an unseemly personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. Here he is in full prime ministerial flow: And on the subject of protecting our country from terrorism, let me just […]

A jigsaw of clues finally solves the Ned Kelly puzzle

Lee Franklin with a picture of his grandfather who grabbed a key clue, a skull, dug up in the grounds of the Old Melbourne Gaol site. Photo: Justin McManus HISTORY endures powerfully in blood, in bone, and in the secrets families keep, as the riddle of Ned Kelly’s remains – finally laid to rest this […]

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