Initially, Francis Ford Coppola planned to open the film with a bright overhead shot of the Corleone family wedding. But when a friend saw a draft of the script, he wondered aloud if Coppola couldn’t start the film with something more different and unexpected. In the screenplay for Patton, Coppola had the soldier speak a long monologue to an offscreen crowd — in the film, it is memorably dramatized by George C. Read More...
With electric passenger vehicles setting new sales records, regulators worldwide are now focusing on removing emissions from heavy trucks—a process known as decarbonizing. Big trucks—those weighing 10,000 lbs or more—account for 25% of carbon dioxide emissions fromU.S. transportation, even though they are only 10% of the vehicles on the road. About 13 million are in use across the U.S., including about 3 million semi tractor-trailers. While federal efforts to push truck decarbonization are underway in Washington, D. Read More...
The human heart beats roughly 3 billion times during the course of an average lifetime. Every single time it beats, blood is drawn into its two upper chambers, held there briefly by a network of valves, and then pumped out forcefully through its two lower chambers. This drawing-and-pumping action ensures that about six liters of freshly oxygenated blood leaves the heart and enters the bloodstream every minute—a volume that can rise to more than 35 liters per minute when someone is exercising. Read More...