It’s been a landmark year for open source, and in so many different ways that even a casual survey of the year’s events will range far and wide. Here’s a quick rundown of what to me were the top five open source events of the year — not an exhaustive list, of course, but […]

Drawing from a variety of available data resources, the America’s Most Literate Cities study ranks the 69 largest cities (population 250,000 and above) in the United States. This study focuses on six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.

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Seems like something wrong with our solar system. I just read an article from Scientificblogging and it really shows that our solar system is not like what we are thinking before.
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has entered a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin […]

Greenland is about one-quarter as big as the continental United States, and 80 percent of it is covered by a massive ice sheet. It got its name because, from about A.D. 1000 to 1300, during the so-called “Medieval Warm Period,” it was warm enough to support forests and thriving colonies of Viking settlers.
This year’s melt […]