Bitcoin is a digital currency which aims to do away with all the problems we have paying for things online.You may think that the system we have is pretty good,But everything we buy today has to go through a bank or credit card company who take a cut of the transaction and who rely on our trust that they'll do everything right.After a while those payment start to build up, and added to that is s..

We begin with the unrelenting and deeply unpleasant cold as the clock ticks down to 2018, the thermometer is tickling down as well.Tonight, more than 200 million Americans dealing with an Arctic blast.Winter weather alerts from the Rockies to New England, even into the deep south.Snow and ice making for dangerous travel.Trucks and cars skidding off the road here in Michigan, 40 vehicles in all.A..

You Probably recognize these ice cream pellets as the ice cream of the future.They're Dippin' Dots, a summertime staple. But this confectionery treat didn't start as, well, ice cream. It started as cow feed.Dippin' Dots were invented in the '80s, not by an ice cream brand, but by a microbiologist. Curtis Jones specialized in cryogenics.In 1987, he was working for a bio-tech company in Kentucky, ..

I imagine many of us in the room began this morning at home making breakfast and listening and doing last minute homework and listening and debating the importance of brushing teeth.And listening after you say you have to get ready now and they say why don’t you just go like that, and you’re so tired, you think, oh maybe. But that’s the life of a woman, to think of others first is our nature. An..

Your lives and the credibility of the United Nations is at stake.여러분의 삶과 UN의 신뢰가 벼랑 끝 위기에 처해있습니다. [be at stake]:위험에 처하다/ 성패가 달려있는 at stake는 좋은 결과가 생길지 나쁜 결과가 생길지 예측할 수 없어 상황이 위태롭다는 뜻입니다. Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.만약 도시에 긴급 지원이 도착하지 않으면 수 천의 목숨이 위태로워질 것이다. This decision has put our lives at stake.이 결정이 우리의 삶을 위험에 처하게 했다.(put~ at stake: ~..

영어를 그려주마 1 영어의 역사 영어가 어쩌다 현재의 상황에 이르렀는지를 이해하기 위해서 어쩔수 없이 언급하는 부분이라, 영어의 역사 서술이 아닌 대략적인 옛날 영어 이야기로 들어줘. 옛날옛적에 켈트족이 살고 있던 땅에게르만족의 하나인 앵글족 그리고 색슨족이 이주를 하게돼.앵글족은 게르만 (German), 즉 독일어에 뿌리를 둔 언어를 사용했었고 이들의 언어가 빠르게 영국 전역에 퍼졌어.사실 잉글랜드 England라는 이름도 앵글족 (Engla)과 땅 (Land)이 합해져 만들어진 말이거든.어쨌든 이때부터 1066년까지 얘들이 쓰던 언어를 고대영어라고 불러. 놀라운건 그때의 영어는 한국어와 비슷한 굴절어였다는 사실이야.단어의 끝이 굴절되서 여러 형태를 지니는 언어를 말하거든.우리말은 굴절어와 비슷하지만 ..