About 25 family members, including two sons and a daughter, as well as business partners, friends, and Suzanne, his former wife, traveled to Kazakhstan to bid Tito farewell.
He has been allowed only 7 kg of luggage, a dictaphone, two pens designed to work in zero gravity, three cameras and nine CDs – among them songs from the Beatles and Andrea Bocelli, the blind Italian tenor.
A lost cat once journeyed 200 miles over two months to return to its home, all on its own! How do animals manage such prodigious—and precise—feats of travel?
A lost cat once journeyed 200 miles over two months to return to its home, all on its own! How do animals manage such prodigious—and precise—feats of travel?
In 1921, accompanied by her two daughters, Marie Curie made a triumphant journey to the United States to raise funds for research on radium. Women there presented her with a gram of radium for her campaign.
The births of Marie's two daughters, Irene and Eve, in 1897 and 1904 failed to interrupt her scientific work. She was appointed lecturer in physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure for girls in Sevresi France (1900).
One in three of us meets most of our friends through work, two-thirds of us have dated someone at work, and a quarter of us meet our life partners there. Work is also becoming a more important indicator of identity.
The rhetoric about longer working hours also needs to be put in perspective. The average working day has increased in length over the last two decades, but by just one minute and forty-two seconds.
Average earnings have increased, a lot of firms offer longer maternity leave, a third of firms now offer sabbaticals, and two-thirds allow their staff to work from home some of the time.
Ever experience a coincidence? What they mean divides us into one of two camps: sceptics and believers. Believers think coincidences are evidence of mysterious and hidden causes. Sceptics put them down to statistical quirks.
Ever experience a coincidence? What they mean divides us into one of two camps: sceptics and believers. Believers think coincidences are evidence of mysterious and hidden causes. Sceptics put them down to statistical quirks.
Guinea worm and polio are the two diseases now closest to being eliminated. Only smallpox and rinderpest — a disease of cattle and other hoofed animals — have ever been wiped out.
Guinea worm and polio are the two diseases now closest to being eliminated. Only smallpox and rinderpest — a disease of cattle and other hoofed animals — have ever been wiped out.
Two vast interconnected hydraulic machines push melted snow from dams in the Sierra mountains to massive pumps that fill the aqueducts traversing the state of California.
Two vast interconnected hydraulic machines push melted snow from dams in the Sierra mountains to massive pumps that fill the aqueducts traversing the state of California.
Gliese 581g is part of a string of planets in the Gliese 581 solar system. Two of Gliese 581g's siblings - Gliese 581e and Gliese 581b - orbit too close to their parent star to support any kind of life on them.