A 10-year-old British girl saved 100 other tourists from the Asian tsunami, having warned them a giant mass of water was on its way, after learning about the phenomenon weeks earlier at school. Tilly recognised the danger signs. "I was on the beach and the water started to go funny," Tilly Smith told the Sun at the w...(Read more...)
Kenneth LeVey of Illinois Tool Works has reinvented the threaded fastener, in a way that makes it grip tight in materials where it used to come loose.(Read more...)
Based on an explosive, fact-based study, UCLA law professor Richard Sander concludes that there are fewer black attorneys today than there would have been if law schools had practiced color-blind admissions. The culprit is the practice of admitting minority students to schools for which they are inadequately prepared. ...(Read more...)
Socialism, that is. Excellent article on how philosophy shapes the lives of individuals, in this case, how the ideology embraced by a country determines public education, which influences the choices made by individuals not heroic enough to resist. (Read more...)
