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Released in April 1976, the Ramones’ self-titled debut album introduced the world to four unsmiling hoods in ripped jeans and leather jackets, and to the uncompromising attitude known as punk. Ramones’ minimalist tunes, slapstick lyrics, buzzsaw guitars, and blitzkrieg tempo … Continue reading →

“Transparent wood is a good material for solar cells, since it’s a low-cost, readily available and renewable resource,” Berglund says. “This becomes particularly important in covering large surfaces with solar cells.” Berglund says transparent wood panels can also be used … Continue reading →

The original headline calls it a ‘robotic artist’ but while it’s interesting it’s about as much art as one of those adult coloring books that are presently a fad. The computerized technique, which basically spray paints a photo, isn’t likely to spawn a … Continue reading →

Alphabetical order as we would recognise it first appeared over three thousand years ago in Ugaritic, written in a cuneiform script made of wedge-shaped signs impressed on clay tablets. The Ugaritic alphabet was in use in the ancient city of … Continue reading →

“These are the fastest-known arachnids so far,” says the study’s lead author, Hannah Wood, curator of spiders at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. And they are the only ones known to catch prey in a way similar to … Continue reading →

As the state of California has suffered through four years of drought, Shasta Lake has stood as a potent symbol of the water shortage. The largest reservoir in the state—a critical source of water for human consumption and for the … Continue reading →

I’d like to see our System restored to nine planets like the one that I grew up with. The hunt is on to find “Planet Nine”—a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth and four times its … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago one of the neighbors for whom I take out the trash bins and sweep every week, threw away several young plants that weren’t doing very well. I rescued them and stuck them in the ground. … Continue reading →

The director of Russia’s renowned Hermitage Museum, which has an important collection of sculptures from Palmyra, has offered its expertise to help restore the Syrian city destroyed by religious fanatics. “We will have to record where every stone was found … Continue reading →

I lived in this 2 room SRO apartment for about a year when I first moved to San Francisco. I think I paid $125.00/month.