From bolts to blue jets, lightning comes in many strange forms

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...
Health Affairs

Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...
Yahoo

Elon Musk Says He Can't Shop At Target or CVS Like Normal People Because a 'Selfie Line' Forms — 'Not That I Don't Want To. I Simply Can't'

A quick trip to Target might seem like a break from the chaos — unless you're Elon Musk. For him, stepping into a store like Target or CVS turns into a security scramble before he even makes it past ...
The Conversation

Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars or galaxies – an astronomer explains where it’s distributed

Chris Impey has received funding from NASA, NSF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Templeton Foundation. If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which ...
Pocono Record

Forged voter registration forms were training examples, defendant told Monroe detective

An investigation into three people charged with submitting fraudulent voter registration forms in Monroe County shows the suspects filed applications for people they knew, according to the lead ...
Variety

‘Normal’ Review: Ben Wheatley Is Back in ‘Free Fire’ Form, Putting Bob Odenkirk at the Center of a Small-Town Standoff

The 'Nobody' star reteams with screenwriter Derek Kolstad in order to play an oblivious sheriff who stumbles into a suspicious Minnesota community where everybody's out to get him. Normal is the name ...
Investopedia

Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Potential, and Examples

AGI is a theoretical form of AI able to solve any number of hypothetical tasks using generalized human cognitive abilities Elysse Bell is a finance and business writer for Investopedia. She writes ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Will Turn Over I-9 Forms for Most University Employees in Response to DHS Inquiry

Harvard will turn over I-9 forms for nearly all employees in response to an inquiry by the Department of Homeland Security, the University’s human resources office wrote in an email to current and ...
IEEE

Normal Forms of Linear Time-Varying Systems With Applications to Output-Feedback Stabilization and Tracking

Abstract: This article examines the normal form of a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) linear time-varying (LTV) system. It explores the transformation of such a system into its normal form using ...
dbta

Putting Fun in Functional Dependency

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...
Frontiers

The control of small-scale syndepositional normal faults on sandstone distribution: example from the Paleogene bottom Sandstone Member in the Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin, China

Introduction: The syndepositional normal faults related paleogeomorphic units in sedimentary basins play a crucial role in controlling sediment transport and infill processes. Previous studies have ...