Author Archives: Writer

Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH 17 lies in the Ukrainian countryside. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed last year after it was hit by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile fired from eastern Ukraine, an air safety investigation has found. The … Continue reading →

After 10 years of study,  a group of researchers announced that they developed a digital slice of  brain’s almost 40 million synapses and 2,000 connections between each brain cell type. The digitized brain shows the circuitry of a sand-grain-sized piece … Continue reading →

Roland “Bud” Pater of Racine celebrated his 100th birthday Oct. 8 at a surprise party with fellow veterans and friends at Malicki’s Piggly Wiggly’s Veterans Café. Pater was born Oct. 11, 1915, in Racine. After graduating from Park High School … Continue reading →

How do you build an airplane from scratch? You put it together carefully and over a long period of time, according to a group of teens and adults constructing a small plane in a hangar at Brighton Airport in Brighton … Continue reading →

It seems not so long ago that the great Chinese ascent into modernity was the world’s greatest hope for economic recovery and perhaps even a new golden age of prosperity. Today, however, that prospect is eroding. Last month, we got … Continue reading →

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3-D printers are becoming pretty common and affordable these days, from the small, inexpensive $1,400 MakerBots up to the huge $750,000 Fortus machines. As you would expect, you can print one-piece prototypes of your rigid plastic parts, … Continue reading →