Sunday, May 12, 2024
Faster-than-light (FTL) travel is commonly thought to be impossible. Einstein established this in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905. The speed of light, he said, is an unbreakable constant. FTL travel will never exist if his theory is to be accepted—and it is, almost universally. However, gravity is a […]
“What happens in Virginia will, in large part, determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.”-Kamala Harris Democrat Candidate Terry McCaullife, “a longtime fixture in the national Democratic Party” and Governor in Virginia from 2014 to 2018, formally conceded in his Gubernatorial race on November 3rd, 2021. Wednesday morning, the […]
Spaceflight is a booming business. In 2020, the world’s first private manned space mission heralded a new era of increased accessibility to spaceflight. Since then, actors and civilians have been taken above the clouds, too—and it looks like things are only getting faster with the increase in economies centered on […]
Thousands of Haitian lives were upended on August 12, 2021 when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the southern half of Haiti. Haiti is no stranger to earthquakes, as it sits near the fault line of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates. As the plates move and bump against each […]
On November 2, the Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency as rebel forces advanced to nearly 200 miles from the capital, Addis Ababa. This civil war has persisted since last November but the conflict represents deeper tensions rooted in ethnic and political division. 60 percent of the Ethiopian population […]