“Wolf’s jaw” star cluster may have inspired parts of Ragnarok myth

Enlarge / Only the onset of Ragnarok can defeat Hela, the goddess of death, in Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok. (credit: Marvel Studios) In Norse mythology, Ragnarok is a cataclysmic series of events leading to the death of Odin and his fellow Asgardian gods, and ultimately to the end of the world. Some iconographic details of this […]

The US changed its mind about banning cluster bombs because of North Korea

Reuters/US Air Force file photo The United States reversed its plan to ban cluster munitions last year and kept its dated stockpiles for one reason: North Korea, a top defense official said Friday. “That policy change was driven by the North Korean situation,” Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said.See the rest of the story at Business Insider […]

Headache: Is it a sign of something serious? Tension, cluster and migraine explained

HEADACHE is pain felt in the region of the head and neck and usually aren’t the sign of anything serious. But with over a hundred different types and subtypes of headaches, what does yours mean? Although the symptoms are largely the same, the causes are very diverse.

Toyota Supra's instrument cluster partially revealed in spy shots

Although we’ve seen most of the production Toyota Supra, albeit in race car form, we still haven’t seen the final interior. And most of the time, the prototype test drivers keep the interior well-covered. These new spy shots help give us a more complete picture of the interior, providing us a look at the instrument […]

Heartland Tech Weekly: The risk of letting tech jobs cluster

On Monday, I wrote about a new report that found that Detroit’s highest-paying jobs are becoming increasingly clustered in the city’s downtown and midtown neighborhoods — areas where techcompanies like Twitter and Microsoft have or will soon have outposts. A reader commented it sounded like a case of not being able to please everyone. After all, more high-paying […]

European, Japanese & Canadian firms fund production of cluster bombs in breach of intl law – report

More than a dozen financial companies based in European states, Japan, and Canada invest in major cluster bomb producers, in violation of an international treaty prohibiting their production that has been ratified by their home countries, a report says. Investment in companies that produce cluster bombs continues to grow despite an international agreement banning the […]