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By Hans M. Kristensen Only the Chinese government knows how many nuclear weapons China has. As in most other nuclear weapon states, the number is a closely held secret. Even so, it is possible to make best estimates of the approximate size that benefit the public debate.
No, China Does Not Have 3,000 Nuclear Weapons » FAS Strategic Security Blog
Terra-3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terra-3 is a laser testing centre, located on the Sary Shagan anti-ballistic missile testing range in Karagandy Province of Kazakhstan . 45°50′53″N 73°31′05″E / 45.848°N 73.518°E / 45.848; 73.518 [ edit ] Development Development of laser weapons in the Soviet Union began in 1964-1965. [ 1 ] Vympel OKB was among the companies working on these weapons. In the 1970s, they built the Terra-3 complex for research purposes.
Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, "Hey, wait a minute.
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Microsoft sends Mozilla treat to celebrate shipping Firefox 5
In case you didn’t know, Microsoft sends Mozilla cakes whenever they ship a major Firefox release. It’s a nice way to acknowledge hard work, and it builds a more positive relationship between the rivals. It’s also a bit sweet, and Mozilla appreciates the gesture.
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MAKE | Origins of the Bendy Straw: From Napkin to Patent
If, like me, you’re a fan of Henry Petrowski’s book The Evolution of Useful Things , or are interested in the history of technology in general, you will probably enjoy Derek Thompson’s quick biography of the ubiquitous plastic drinking straw over at The Atlantic : Here is a short history of the drinking straw in 30 seconds. Historians don’t know what civilization first came up with the idea of sticking tubes into cups and slurpling, but the earliest evidence of straws comes from a seal found in a Sumerian tomb dated 3,000 B.C.
MAKE | Handy Lens Cap Clip
We’ve covered a couple of clever len-cap-retaining tricks before. My favorite is probably the “lens cap buckle” strap attachment Adam covered back in June , which I like because it requires no modification of the lens cap itself. But this recently crowd-funded stick-on Nice Clip product has a lot going for it, too: It’s cheaper, for one, and with it you can clip the cap onto whatever is handy, which is useful it you don’t use a strap, or don’t have yours on-hand for whatever reason. If you’re not too picky about looks, it’s also easy to DIY this idea with a lapel clip and a bit of double-stick tape . [Thanks, Udi !]Money
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How we got to a population of 7 billion
NPR explains how we reached a population of 7 billion . Simply put, the world is making babies faster than people are dying, and with improved medicine and agriculture, people are living longer than before. The video above demonstrates the different birth and mortality rates, where each container represents a continent. There has been a shift in recent years: Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China.
A couple of infographic résumé sites, vizualize.me and re.vu , sprouted up that use your LinkedIn data to show your career stats. Just create an account, connect it to LinkedIn, and you get some graphs that show when and where you worked. It's a visual form of your LinkedIn profile with a goal to replace the "old" and "boring" résumé that uses just text. Is this the best way to go though, if you're applying for a job? Other than commissioning a couple of freelancers based on their portfolios and recommendations, I haven't had any experience hiring people, but I imagine being turned off by such an infographic résumé if I were a HR person. The visual format is easy to scan, but because it it's not a traditional text layout, I'd have to figure out what I was looking at first.
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