A new law passed by German lawmakers late last year will go into effect starting this March, which mandates that long stretches of the country’s fabled autobahn will be painted a dark green. Of the just over eight thousand miles of roadway currently labeled ‘autobahn,’ nearly fifty percent will be painted the new color, which
The little Scandinavian country of Denmark is showing a huge resolve to do its part to bring climate change under control. The parliament of Denmark last month unanimously passed a far-reaching premier climate law aiming to reduce the entire nation’s carbon footprint by seventy percent by 2030, and then to make the country a carbon
There has been a lot of talk in recent years about cryptocurrencies. We have all heard of Bitcoin and its soaring and plummeting stock depending on the time of year you look into it. But there are far too many people that don’t know what cryptocurrencies are, how they work, or really anything past the
Born in 1977, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Hamed Wardak was raised in Pakistan and later moved in his youth to the US. He is the son of General Abdul Rahim Wardak, the former Afghan Defense Minister. Through his education, upbringing, and life-lessons, we need to learn about Hamed. This is about how he philosophically followed in
This week Great Britain announced sweeping and massive new online protection legislation for children. Even though numerous trade groups and tech companies, both in Britain and in the United States, have lodged strong protests against the new rules — calling them ‘unreasonable.’ The new rules will mandate, among other things, that gaming apps, online toys,
Students from three area schools gathered in Astoria, Washington, on Tuesday, to wish their classmates ‘bon voyage,’ as they launch their twenty-five foot boat, Jenny, into the bay. Final destination: Yokohama, Japan. The Astoria vocational education department has worked closely with the three schools to provide students with hands-on experience and tutoring in laying a
A male airline passenger in the state of Washington is now the first official case of the deadly Chinese coronavirus to be diagnosed inside the United States. The disease began to devastate China last month and so far there have been over six persons killed, plus hundreds more sickened and incapacitated throughout southern China, according
The Standing Committee of Correspondents, a Washington D.C. based group of reporters who write about politics and economics, have issued a formal complaint to leaders of both the House and the Senate, claiming that recent changes in security procedures is making it harder for journalists to reach legislators and their staff for interviews. In a
Oklahoma state senators Marty Quinn and Nathan Dahm, both Republican stalwarts, have introduced a bill into the Oklahoma legislature allowing for specialty license plates that would read “Make America Great Again” and “Keep America Great.” They argue that freedom of speech would make the license plates perfectly acceptable to anyone, Republican or Democrat, on any
This week Google, which based its name on the mathematical concept of ‘googol,’ which means the numeral ‘1’ followed by one-hundred zeros, joined the Trillion Dollar Club — meaning, the market cap of its parent company Alphabet has gone above the one-trillion-dollar mark for the very first time. Bada ba dum! Drums rolling, Logo Balloons being released