11 American Companies On the Cutting Edge of Renewable Tech Renewable tech is an uphill battle against polluting behemoths, but these companies are working to protect our planet. 04/19/2024 - 6:30 am | View Link
Art Museum of South Texas looks for ways to stay cool The Art Museum of South Texas HVAC system has reached its end of life and several priceless art pieces are at risk of being damaged. 04/18/2024 - 4:10 am | View Link
Air Conditioning Has a Big Climate Impact. This New Technology Could be a Game Changer But with climate change, that is set to increase. Cooling is the fastest growing use of energy in buildings, with some estimates suggesting that energy demand for space cooling will more than triple ... 04/16/2024 - 8:54 am | View Link
Central Air Conditioning Made Easy With American Vintage Home Sponsored by American Vintage Home If you have an older home without central air, you might think that it takes a lot to get it installed, American Vintage Home says it’s not a problem for ... 04/16/2024 - 4:47 am | View Link
'Snow Farming' Helps Ski Resorts Circumvent Unpredictable Weather Popular ski destinations are resorting (pun not intended) to "snow farming" as they work to overcome unpredictable seasonal weather. Rather than relying on regular snowmaking to keep the slopes ... 04/15/2024 - 1:00 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.