What’s the language that the most Americans speak after English? As you’d probably guess, the second-most common language spoken in the U.S. is Spanish. But if you look at the most common languages after English and Spanish, the results get a little more surprising, especially when you parse them by state. Read more…
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The Most Common Languages Spoken in the U.S. After English and Spanish
Russia Toda y has unconfirmed reports that Russia announced today a plan to shut down all 11 American-run GPS stations within Russian territory starting June 1st. Russia has also threatened to stop supplying the rocket engines the U.S. uses to launch military satellites into orbit. Read more…
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Report: Russia Will Shut Down All U.S. GPS Stations Within Its Borders
Were you expecting to see a Michelin Star restaurant? Something like Per Se? Certainly a restaurant where fine dining doesn’t even begin to describe the orgasmic experience, right? Like Alinea? Nope. Those excellent restaurants—and others of their kind—are not the best restaurant in the USA according to Yelp . That honor would go to a small shack in Hawaii called Da Poke Shack. You could eat there for less than 10 bucks. Read more…
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The best restaurant in the USA is a tiny shack in Hawaii
An artificial heart that took 15 years to develop has been approved for human trials. The device, which was fashioned from biological tissue and parts of miniature satellite equipment, combines the latest advances in medicine, biology, electronics, and materials science. Read more…
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Space technology company builds a functioning artificial heart
Freshly Exhumed sends this story from Reuters: “Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii coast have discovered a Second World War era Japanese submarine, a technological marvel that had been preparing to attack the Panama Canal before being scuttled by U.S. forces. The 122-meter ‘Sen-Toku’ class vessel — among the largest pre-nuclear submarines ever built — was found in August off the southwest coast of Oahu and had been missing since 1946, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa said. The I-400 and its sister ship, the I-401, which was found off Oahu in 2005, were able to travel one and a half times around the world without refueling and could hold up to three folding-wing bombers that could be launched minutes after resurfacing, the scientists said.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii
The University of Hawaii at Hilo has been granted a permit by the Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources to begin construction of the $1.3 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). From the article: “The TMT has been in development for over a decade, but the large amount of land needed for its construction raised concerns over the environmental and cultural impact of such a project. Now, however, the land board has rendered a final decision, saying that the university had satisfied the eight criteria necessary under Hawaiian state law to allow the venture to go forward. The giant TMT will be an optical and infrared telescope with enough coverage area and sharpness to observe light from 13 billion years ago, track extrasolar planets, and observe planets and stars in their early formative years.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Construction of World’s Largest Optical Telescope Approved
As they sing in the Rocky Horror Picture Show , “Don’t dream it — be it.” That’s what these fans have done, by turing rooms and even whole apartments into the sets from their favorite science fiction shows and movies. Read more…
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Scifi Remodel: People Who Have Converted Their Homes into Imaginary Worlds
Back in 2007, Lindy Scallan went to Hawaii for a vacation and took her camera along. After putting the camera in its underwater housing, she went scuba diving but unfortunately lost her camera. Thinking it was gone forever, the camera was incredibly found thousands of mile away in Taiwan six years later. The pictures she took from that 2007 vacation are still on the camera. More »
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This Lost Underwater Camera Was Incredibly Reunited with Its Owner After Six Years