Martyr’s Day is celebrated in Myanmar as a national holiday every year on July 19, and marks a gruesome event in Burmese history. The day has been celebrated since 1948, and has been selected to commemorate the day in 1947 when members of Myanmar’s top independence leaders were assassinated. Since […]
Daily Archives: July 19, 2018
Amazon Prime Day 2018 has ended — and it was apparently Amazon’s biggest blockbuster sale ever. The 36-hour sale officially ended at midnight PT (3 a.m. ET), so you’re out of luck if you wanted a nice price cut on Bose headphones, Toshiba’s Fire TV or the Instant Pot slow cooker […]
AV receivers are typically big black boxes, so I welcome units that stand a little shorter. They can squeeze into tighter shelves and, if nothing else, look a little sleeker on your AV rack. Marantz leads the way In compact, full-function receivers, but other brands have also proffered half-size units […]
A new mission called HaloSat will help scientists search for the universe’s missing matter by studying X-rays from hot gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy.
In a new study that challenges scientists’ presuppositions about the carbon cycle, researchers find that tiny organisms may be playing in outside role in the way carbon is circulated throughout the ocean.
Cities can serve as useful proxies to study and predict the effects of climate change, according to a research review that tracks urbanization’s effects on plant and insect species.