Carriage horses trot out for free vet clinic
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- Published on Friday, 30 August 2013 10:29
- Written by Dale Hoyt Palfrey
Old-fashioned horse drawn carriages loaded up with sight-seers have been a standard part of the daily landscape in the heart of downtown Guadalajara since the dawn of the 20th century. But the sound of clip-clopping hooves mixed in with roaring car and bus motors was curiously absent from the city streets on August 20.
Gem artist treasures Mexico
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- Published on Thursday, 15 August 2013 14:39
- Written by Ellaine Halleck
The sparkle in Cardell Calhoun’s brown eyes almost matches the polished stone he holds out.
Proposal submitted to UDG to create first UNESCO Geopark in Mexico
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2013 12:00
- Written by John Pint
A proposal to create a Geopark in the Bosque de la Primavera has been submitted to the University of Guadalajara with the recommendation that the project be presented to Jalisco State authorities. An ad-hoc committee consisting of ecologists, geologists, Primavera Forest Staff and other interested parties worked for two years to create a plan of action which could result in the creation of a Primavera Caldera Geopark and its eventual recognition by UNESCO. The Guadalajara-based committee worked hand-in-hand with Geopark experts living as far away as Iran and China.
How to combat government online snooping: Move to a cave in Tora Bora?
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- Published on Friday, 09 August 2013 11:50
- Written by Charles Miller
My phone has been ringing on a regular basis with dozens of calls from internet users who are freaked out over the news of all the government-sponsored spying, and desperate for some simple answer that will let them put a stop to it. I have tried my best to be patient with all these callers, but few of them are willing to accept that putting a stop to Big Brother snooping through your personal business will not be a simple task.
Finding a prime number to test your computer
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- Published on Friday, 26 July 2013 12:48
- Written by Charles Miller
Prime numbers are those numbers divisible only by itself and one. For centuries mathematicians calculated them hoping to make some kind of a breakthrough that might prove them to be useful. A Mersenne prime is a prime number that is also all ones in binary (3 is 11 binary, 7 is 111, etc.) Up until the 19th century, there was little use for either flavor of prime numbers, and calculating these numbers was a purely mathematical exercise until cryptographers discovered how to use them to create nearly unbreakable codes.