MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gliding above her neighborhood in a cable car on a recent morning, Sonia Estefanía Palacios Díaz scanned a sea of blue and black water tanks, tubes and cables looking for rain harvesting systems. “There’s one!” she said, pointing out a black tank hooked up to a smaller blue unit with connecting…
A Texas church has not one — but two — members aboard the International Space Station Source link
Belgium withdraws from mixed relay triathlon after athlete who swam in Seine River during women’s triathlon falls ill. Source link
Belgium’s Olympic committee announced Sunday that it would withdraw its team from the mixed relay triathlon at the Paris Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill. Claire Michel had competed in the women’s triathlon Wednesday. The statement from the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee said she was “unfortunately…
Edward Dolnick offers a history of the first dinosaur fossil discoveries in “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World.” The Associated Press’ Andrew DeMillo writes that Dolnick’s brisk writing style transports readers to the 1800s and illustrates how much these discoveries changed science….
