Covered this week; 4th of July stuff… Cubs big All-Star showing… NASA’s Juno spacecraft hits Jupiter’s orbit… a massive 1908 explosion still trying to be explained… why transit is taking so long for Apple Maps… why SnapChat is getting sued… can NYC be saved from rising sea levels?
July 4, 2016
4 Popular Myths About July Fourth And American Independence… a piece by Elisabeth Sherman for All That Is Interesting.
John Oliver reminds America what it missed by declaring independence from Britain.
Cabel Sasser’s annual fireworks packaging review.
July 5, 2016
MLB All-Star voting has wrapped up… and for the first time since the ’63 Cardinals, the Chicago Cubs repeat the feat of sending their entire starting infield to San Diego to start the mid-Summer classic. Congratulations to Anthony Rizzo, Ben Zobrist, Kris Bryant, Addison Russell, Dexter Fowler, Jake Arrieta and Jon Lester for all making the squad… hopefully they help to win the game and bring home field advantage to the National League in the World Series… which will hopefully be at Wrigley Field.
July 6, 2016
After NASA’s Juno spacecraft fired up its engine Monday, letting it slow down and settle into Jupiter’s orbit, it ultimately arrived off schedule – by a second. That is to say, an unmanned probe departed from Earth five years ago, traveled 1.7 billion miles through the solar system and reached its destination within a tick of scientists’ prediction. Amazing.
July 7, 2016
“On 30 June 1908, an explosion ripped through the air above a remote forest in Siberia, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river. The fireball is believed to have been 50-100m wide. It depleted 2,000 sq km of the taiga forest in the area, flattening about 80 million trees… This ‘Tunguska event’ remains the most powerful of its kind recorded in history – it produced about 185 times more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb (with some estimates coming in even higher). Seismic rumbles were even observed as far away as the UK. And yet, over a hundred years later researchers are still asking questions about what exactly took place on that fateful day.”
July 8, 2016
A year ago, Apple launched Transit directions in iOS 9 Maps, but so far there’s only a limited number of cities worldwide that support the new feature. Here’s why.
July 9, 2016
“I Got High, Blown, and Robbed When I Was A Pizza Delivery Guy.” Why SnapChat is getting sued.
July 10, 2016
“Almost every coastal city in the world is vulnerable to sea-level rise, but nowhere is there more at stake than in New York. In purely economic terms, the New York metropolitan area is responsible for almost 10 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product and is the largest financial hub in the world.” Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming?
