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Tag: Discovering
Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3 million prize for discovering pulsars
Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive stars gone supernova. (credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) When the Nobel Prizes roll around each year, inevitably there is chatter not just about who will win, but about those in the past who should have won, but didn’t, particularly women scientists. Jocelyn Bell […]
Nature rocks in Yorkshire: A family holiday discovering survival skills at Thornwick Bay
In glorious sunshine building a bivouac would have been enough of a challenge yet in the adverse climate we managed to create vital cover to escape the deluge. With survival at stake it was now a race against time to purify filthy, brown ditchwater into something safe enough to drink. Thankfully it was left to […]
Secret Little Haven Is About Fandom, Gender, And Discovering Yourself
Secret Little Haven is a game about self discovery through chat programs, forums, online friendships, fan sites, games, and exploring the internet. Using SanctuaryOS, players can play around with various games and tools, or set out into the web to talk to friends, steadily finding a world where you can finally be who you really […]
Facebook revamps political-ad rules after discovering Russian ad buys
Faebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Facebook) Two weeks ago, Facebook admitted that a “shadowy Russian company” spent $ 100,000 on political ads targeting US Facebook users during the 2016 election campaign. At the time, Facebook turned information about these ad buys to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating Russian interference in the election. Today, Facebook announced that […]
Sask. woman calling for inclusion after discovering lack of colour options for prostheses
When Regina resident Rahab Wanjau went to pick out a prosthetic leg and foot at Wascana Rehabilitation Centre, she was discouraged to find only two colours to pick from. CBC | Health News
Discovering Sweden's trendy city Malmo by kayak
GETTY Stortorget square in Malmo’s Old Town is lined with stately buildings While city tours don’t usually have a strict dress code, the arctic waters and on this occasion a new kayak tour of the city, mean rubber is the way forward. I squeeze my neoprene-swathed hips into the stubby yellow kayak and launch myself, […]
Snowdonia to Kent discovering the beauty of Britain’s narrow-gauge railway
ALAMY A loco pushes day-trippers up the dramatic narrow gauge line that runs to the summit of Snowdon As with so many aspects of my life, it started in a pub. My former publisher had rung up to enquire: “Do you fancy doing a travel book for the AA?” He said that he would tell […]
EastEnders viewers angry after discovering show has been cancelled tonight AND Monday
Fans who are eagerly waiting to find out how Shirley Carter (played by Linda Henry) is finding prison life, will have to wait a bit longer as the soap’s planned Friday and Monday episodes are cancelled to make way for sporting events. Tonight’s episode was replaced by the Six Nations Rugby Union which saw Wales […]
2017 Land Rover Discovery First Drive: Discovering the Modern Age
-The truth about the new Land Rover Discovery, the fifth in a line of trucks that date back to 1989, was not revealed on the rocky ledges of southern Utah, nor the near-whiteout of the road just outside Zion National Park, nor the blush waves of the Coral Pink Sand Dunes, nor even the few […]
