First responders in Costa Rica managed to revive a second swimmer in distress on Sunday using CPR, but were unable to save the life of The Cosby Show star Malcolm-Jamal Warner, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. A statement from the Red Cross in the Latin American country says first responders received word on Sunday at 2:10 p.m. that two male …
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“The skies 41,000 years ago may have been both spectacular and threatening. When we realized this, we wanted to know whether this could have affected people living at the time,” the study authors said. How did the skies influence early human lifestyle? The study began with a simple but interesting question. What happens to life on Earth when the magnetic …
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A mother-of-three who had a near-death experience after suffering one of the deadliest types of heart attack has revealed in vivid detail what she felt and saw ‘on the other side’. Jenna Tanner, 49, who is now writing a book about the astonishing ordeal, said it has made her realise what really matters in life. Ms Tanner, from Oklahoma, admits she mistook …
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Fast Company’s tech editor Harry McCracken (also harrymccSlashdot reader #1,641,347) writes: As part of Fast Company’s “1995 week“, I wrote about IBM’s ThinkPad 701, the famous model with an expanding “butterfly” keyboard [which could be stretched from 9.7-inches to 11.5 inches]. By putting full-sized keys in a subnotebook-sized laptop, it solved one of mobile computing’s biggest problems. IBM discontinued it …
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Julia Hatfield was just one of the residents of the Blue Oak RV Park along the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, when the devastating and deadly flash flood of July 4 decimated the park. Even now, she says, her neighbors are still a long way to rebuilding — and recovering. “This community is going to need so much help,” Hatfield, …
Read More »A Mother of Five Survived the Flood to Return to a Cabin in Ruins The New York Times A Pocketknife and Bible Songs: How a Family of 9 Escaped the Texas Floodwaters The Wall Street Journal God and the Guadalupe long reigned over Texas Hill Country. Now grief permeates. The Texas Tribune Texans clung to debris and fought to stay alive as floodwaters …
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