Day: July 25, 2018

For the past two years, researchers at Northwestern University have been analyzing the habits of tens of thousands of scientists—using Dropbox. Looking at data about academics’ folder-sharing habits, they found the most successful scientists share some collaboration behaviors in common. And on Friday, they published […]

Bari – Prima la contestazione di alcuni giorni fa nella sua Lecce da parte di alcuni attivisti No Tap, quindi lo scontro con il governatore Michele Emiliano nel corso di un incontro a Bari: le giornate in terra di Puglia si stanno rivelando piuttosto … […]

Did you know Segway is making a pair of self-balancing roller shoes? It is! The company has been tinkering with all sorts of new form factors since it was acquired by Ninebot in 2015, from half-sized Segways to kick scooters. Next up: inline… shoe… platform […]

mink , n : (plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on July 25, 2018: Interior courtyard of the Tabātabāei House, a historic house in Kashan, Iran. The house was built in the early 1880s by Ustad Ali Maryam, architect of the Borujerdis House and has 40 rooms, 4 courtyards, 4 […]

The Wikipedia article of the day for July 25, 2018 is Shorwell helmet. The Shorwell helmet (replica pictured) is a sixth-century Anglo-Saxon helmet found near Shorwell on the Isle of Wight in southern England. It was one of the grave goods of a high-status Anglo-Saxon […]