Venezuelan rope and slack wire walker, Juan Caicedo, was known as the “King of the Wire,” performing around the U.S. during 1894. Here’s a look at Caicedo performing in an early Thomas Edison film captured at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, N.J.
Willis R. Whitney led the research laboratory at GE in the early 1900s where he worked with Irving Langmuir and William David Coolidge to advance innovations including X-ray technology and the incandescent lamp. The above quote comes from his 1921 article, “The Biggest Things In Chemistry.“
thought I’d share this one again since it just hit the top spot on reddit.
She survived years of abuse and exploitation at the hands of sex traffickers and now she’s telling her story.
Jessa Dillow-Crisp told an audience at the Colorado State Capitol, during Human Trafficking Awareness and Advocacy Day, that her victimization began when she was a child.
“I was a little girl and was sexually abused by family members,” she said. “I had to pose for pornographers and was sold to countless men on a daily basis.”
The young woman said she was trafficked domestically in Canada, where she grew up, and in the United States.
She couldn’t go to police because they were some of her abusers.
Storm and Spark at Yahoo: Why Chose One Over the Other
By Bobby Evans and Tom Graves
Engineering leads for Spark and Storm development at Yahoo talk about how these technologies are used on Yahoo’s grids and reasons why to use one or the other.
Here are the slides:
…and the video recording:
Find the latest comics and editorial cartoons on Yahoo! News. Get your daily webcomics including Garfield, Doonesbury, Dilbert and Peanuts
If You Are Unhappy With the Update:
Tell Tumblr. Contact them through their support page. Send them a message explaining why you’re not happy. Here:
So take a deep breath. You don’t need to have everything figured out yet.
I don’t think you know what this post means to me right now.
This makes me so happy.. There’s hope.😭😭
Here’s the original article for anyone who wants to read more (and see numbers 7 and 10).
