The same maps that can help you find your way to the mall can help the police predict where meth labs will pop up next. Here’s a look inside the strange, fascinating world of geospatial predictive analysis.
Google Maps is a lifesaver. But the mapping technology behind Google Maps isn’t just good for highway directions and bike routes; it can also find methamphetamine labs and track gang activity. Experts in the growing field of geospatial predictive analytics use cutting-edge algorithms and data analysis techniques that can do everything from predicting terrorist activity to preventing auto theft.
Talk about getting more than you bargained for. A student ordering a textbook from Amazon received the book, plus a bag of white powder.
Sophia Stockton, who ordered a book on terrorism for one of her classes at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Kansas, received the Amazon shipment and discovered a bag of cocaine that fell out of the pages of the book.
We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night – but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.
In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
In celebration of Frozen Planet, premiering Sunday, March 18, at 8PM e/p, Penguin Cam will be live 24 hours a day throughout March and April — plenty of time to get to know SeaWorld San Diego’s nearly 300 penguins, representing all five Antarctic species: emperors, kings, Adélies, gentoos and macaronis.
The Volvo V40 features newly developed Pedestrian Airbag Technology, which is a world first. Sensors in the front bumper register the physical contact between the car and the pedestrian. The rear end of the bonnet is released and at the same time elevated by the deploying airbag. The inflated airbag covers the area under the raised bonnet plus approximately one third of the windscreen area and the lower part of the A-pillar.
Taking a deep breath in that new sports car might not be such a good idea. The new car smell many drivers love actually comes from the off-gassing of chemicals in your car’s interior. And some of the compounds might be toxic.
