SOME OF US might debate placing any sort of decoration in our yard. Will our neighbors find even a discreet tin deer statue pretentious? Other homeowners, however, freely pursue extravagant landscape ambitions limited only by their imaginations. Santa Barbara designer Margie Grace recalled designing and installing over 10 types of gardens on a three-acre site in five months. ”A […]
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How Pfizer Delivered a Covid Vaccine in Record Time: Crazy Deadlines, a Pushy CEO
Pfizer Inc. PFE -4.64% was months from proving its Covid-19 vaccine would even work when Chief Executive Albert Bourla got into a tense WebEx debate with his head of manufacturing. It was a warm day in June and Pfizer was racing to develop a radical new vaccine based on a […]
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The Rocket Engine That Proves Solar Thermal Propulsion Isn’t Just a Crazy Theory
From Popular Mechanics Engineers are designing a rocket engine powered by the sun. The engine would use heated and pressurized hydrogen to achieve efficiencies three times greater than conventional rocket engines. The researchers proposed using the sun to slingshot an experimental spacecraft into interstellar space. Engineers at the Johns Hopkins […]