February 2012
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Ultimate Factories: Heineken The Magic Ingredient Without yeast there would be no beer, and Heineken has been cloning the same secret strain since 1886.
Feb 26th
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The Calm Before the Wave | Where and when will the...
By Tim Folger Photograph by John Stanmeyer Jin Sato is the mayor of a town that no longer exists. Minamisanriku, a quiet fishing port north of Sendai in northeastern Japan, disappeared last March 11. Sato nearly did too. The disaster started at 2:46 p.m., about 80 miles east in the Pacific, along a fault buried deep under the seafloor. A 280-mile-long block of Earth’s crust suddenly...
Feb 16th
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Feb 10th
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A Season of Collisions →
One 21-year-old defensive end took 537 hits to the head during a season of football games and practices at the University of North Carolina. Of those, 417 had magnitudes of 10 g or more (shown). Two resulted in concussion. Click and drag on the graphic below to rotate it and get a clearer sense of the location and magnitude of all the recorded impacts.
Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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