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The Next Ice Age.(Brief Article)
Adapted from a July report by Japan's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications outlining how I.T. will change daily life by 2010.
When did it start, really? Suddenly the world was flooded with digital gizmos. I couldn't leave home without getting caught in someone's digital film. Life was getting tough. Then I heard about the coming "ice town." The plan was to create a big neighborhood where the use of IT was strictly limited to networks inside homes and "hot spots" on the street, which are something like old telephone booths. Special sensors automatically shut down ...
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The ice age was a depressing event, geologically speaking...reported that the period following the ice age had three times as many eruptions as the...occurred close to the start of the last ice age, prompting some scientists to speculate...
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- Magazine article from: Science News Pendick, Daniel November 14, 1992 700+ words
...precipitously and the northern hemisphere drifted ever deeper into an ice age. Are these events directly related or merely coincidental...periods, kicking a preexisting cooling trend into a full-scale ice age? "It's a hard thing to prove," replies James P. Kennett...
- DNA analysis reveals extinct type of wolf.(gray wolf were different in ice...
- Magazine article from: Science News November 11, 2006 700+ words
Many species of large mammals went extinct when the last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. But Canis lupus, the gray...gray wolf subspecies might not have survived the end of the ice age because it depended on a steady supply of large carcasses...
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...glaciers covered much of North America. New research suggests, however, that there was a period of time during the last ice age when North America wasn't as icy as once thought. Ronald Janke, a geography professor at Valparaiso University, discovered...
