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With time to spare in the cab, Mitchell decided to turn his tractor into a rolling office. In 2002, he established a wireless network for the farm using specialized 2.4-GHz NavCom Safari Network radios for high-speed Internet access. As a result, Mitchell can surf the Web for weather conditions and stock prices and download aerial images from anywhere on the farm. Because the network also provides a mechanism for remote machine monitoring and controlling, he can check on his grain bins to see how the product is drying and even make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone...
...PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER MUSEUM in Punxsutawney, Pa. The site is "an easy target" because of its groundhog fame, says Paul Feenstra, an aide to Representative John Peterson, who got the cash. "But [it] helps kids learn about weather science and history." --By Douglas Waller
...this time, when they were allowed to move into their own homes, they were still subject to constant surveillance, beatings and, occasionally, torture. For example, according to Jenkins, in the summer of his first year teaching, the short-sleeve shirts he began to wear to class with the warmer weather revealed an old tattoo on his left forearm: an infantry insignia of crossed rifles above the inscription U.S. ARMY. Officials deemed the tattoo unacceptable, and Jenkins was carted off to a hospital. A doctor, he claims, cut the flesh bearing the offending words from his arm with a knife...
Oster added another impressive item to her résumé last Sunday when the New York Times featured her theory linking the rise of witch trials to bad weather in its “Year in Ideas” article—an annual collection of “the most noteworthy ideas of the previous 12 months...
Oster’s theory, which was originally published in last winter’s Journal of Economic Perspectives, connects the period of cold weather in Europe known as the “little ice age” to an increase in witch trials from 1520 to 1770. Oster hypothesizes that after climate conditions devastated crops, Europeans looked for someone to hold accountable—eventually resulted in the burning of tens of thousands of witches...