One of the focuses of this special addition to Google Maps is to teach users about the history of Antarctic exploration and the people who first set up shop in this bleak environment. Here’s what Google’s technical program manager for Street View Alex Starns wrote in a blog post: In the winter of 1913, a British …
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Chart – 21st century has already created more goods than previous 1,900 years
In the first decade of the 21st century, the population of the world produced more economic output than in the first 19 centuries of the common era combined. If people do make history, then two people make twice as much history as one. Since there are almost 7 billion people alive today, it follows …
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Timeline of government healthcare in the United States
The Supreme Court’s ruling on President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul comes after a century of debate over what role the government should play in helping people in the United States afford medical care. A look at the issue through the years: 1912: Former President Theodore Roosevelt champions national health insurance as he unsuccessfully tries to …
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Climate Change in California means heats waves…lots of them
In the past 60 years, California has experienced two heatwaves – in 1955 and 2006 – in which temperatures in its urban centers were greater than 37.8 degrees C (100 degrees F) for three or more consecutive days. A new analysis prepared by other Scripps researchers indicates that by century’s end, those kinds of heatwaves …
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