네팔과 중국 국경에 솟아 있는 세계 최고 높이의 에베레스트산은 많은 산악인들의 꿈이자 목표인 곳입니다. 에베레스트산을 등반하는 길은 목숨을 걸어야 할 정도로 험난합니다. 하지만 매년 많은 사람들이 정상을 정복하고자 도전하고 있죠. 그런데 최근 몇 년간 산 에베레스트에서 사망자가 속출해 세계 각국의 우려가 쏟아지고 있는데요. 이렇게 사망자가 급증하게 된 이유가 무엇인지 알아보도록 하겠습니다. 에베레스트산 정상의 교통체증 에베레스트산은 […]
개그맨 공채는 개그맨을 꿈꾸는 사람들에게 있어 꿈이자 목표입니다. 그 중 SBS의 개그맨 공채 시험은 엄청난 경쟁률을 자랑하기로 유명한데요. 실제로 SBS 공채 15기는 43:1, 16기는 61:1로 상당히 높은 경쟁률을 보였죠. 그렇다면 SBS 공채를 처음으로 합격한 1기 개그맨들은 누굴까요? 그 근황에 대해 함께 알아봅시다. 영화 사기꾼으로 불리는 김경식 김경식은 데뷔 후 SBS<열려라 웃음천국>에서 ‘틴틴파이브’라는 그룹을 달성하여 인기를
흔히 여행에서 남는 것은 사진밖에 없다고 하죠. 그래서일까요 사람들은 여행지에서 인생 샷을 건지고 싶어 합니다. 아름다운 풍경과 각도 그리고 밝은 얼굴 표정이 담긴 완벽한 사진을 위해 우리는 많게는 수십 번의 셔터를 누르기도 하죠. 그런데 여기 인생 샷이 아닌 시체 샷만을 추구하는 사람이 있습니다. 미국의 사진작가 스테파니 레이 로즈(Stephanie Leigh Rose)는 장소를 불문 어디에서든 죽은 척
In light of the recent conversations about the Unsplash plugin’s CDN, several extensions have popped up this week for disabling it. By default, the plugin serves images from the CDN but saves copies to the WordPress media library in case the plugin is disabled or removed. The plugin does not currently have an option to
On Wednesday, the Gutenberg team pushed what was primarily minor enhancements and bug fixes to the WordPress platform’s primary project. Everyone is mostly gearing up for the WordPress 5.5 release, so we are not seeing any major features dropping at the moment. However, steady work continues on improving the Gutenberg plugin. Gutenberg 8.7 contains over
A short while ago, Justin Tadlock posted an article titled Are Plugin Authors to Blame for the Poor Admin Notices Experience?. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading his article. It describes in detail one question I’ve been pondering since I originally posted the WP Notify feature project proposal almost a year ago now: Will
Automattic’s relaunch of P2 is now in Beta. This is the long-awaited update to the company’s internal collaboration software that is also used on WordPress.org and other self-hosted sites via a theme. For years, Automattic, which now counts more than 1,200 employees in 77 countries, has had P2 at the core of its written communication
Iain Poulson announced that Plugin Rank is open to the public yesterday. It is a new service that allows plugin authors to track their rankings by keyword on the official WordPress plugin directory. The service is geared toward plugin authors with freemium offerings. The tools were already in place for Poulson to build the service.
부동산 월세에 허덕이는 청년층을 위해 정부와 각 지자체는 각종 임대주택을 마련하고 있습니다. 그러나 하나의 주택에 수백억 원 들어가는 청년 주택 건설은 상당한 재정 부담을 안기는데요. 이에 서울시는 새로운 방안을 내놓았습니다. 기존에 있던 호텔이나 빌딩을 배입해 주택으로 리모델링 하는 것이죠. 기존 호텔이나 빌딩은 빌라나 다가구 주택과 달리 재건축 과정 없이도 다수의 청년을 수용할 수 있습니다. 또
Mars today is a cold, dry wasteland—but things were likely much different billions of years ago. Since we started launching robotic missions to Mars in the 1970s, scientists have collected evidence that points to a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet, where the surface was teeming with lakes and oceans that could have been
The coronavirus pandemic has been a boon for the test proctoring industry. About half a dozen companies in the US claim their software can accurately detect and prevent cheating in online tests. Examity, HonorLock, Proctorio, ProctorU, Respondus and others have rapidly grown since colleges and universities switched to remote classes. While there’s no official tally,
Jenny’s story is not linear, the way that we like stories to be. She was born in Baltimore in 1975 and had a happy, healthy childhood—her younger brother Danny fondly recalls the treasure hunts she would orchestrate and the elaborate plays she would write and perform with her siblings. In her late teens, she developed
The world is increasingly banking on green hydrogen fuel to fill some of the critical missing pieces in the clean-energy puzzle. US presidential candidate Joe Biden’s climate plan calls for a research program to produce a clean form of the gas that’s cheap enough to fuel power plants within a decade. Likewise, Japan, South Korea,
When economies across the world shut down earlier this year, it wasn’t only business owners and consumers who had to adapt. Criminals suddenly had a problem on their hands. How to move their money? Profits from organized crime are typically passed through legitimate businesses, often exchanging hands several times and crossing borders, until there is
German authorities, with the help of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), have confiscated about $30 million in bitcoin from an operator of a pirate movie website. An unspecified amount of bitcoin cash was also seized. Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Seized The German state of Saxony’s media service announced Monday the confiscation of “bitcoins
Good news for those who want to upgrade their website with functional tools and features – on August 5st, Lumi Wallet Technologies launched its app web widget. Now everyone can easily embed a “mini digital wallet” into the body of their website. The Lumi Wallet Widget is a useful and interesting tool for a website.
Investment strategist Raoul Pal says bitcoin is the only asset with a growth rate that outpaced that of G4 central bank balance sheets. Pal says G4 central bank balance sheets have grown much faster than traditional safe-haven assets like gold. A founder and CEO at Global Macro Investor (GMI) Pal made the remarks in a
The amount of bitcoin held by small investors has more than doubled in the past five years as so-called whale holdings declined by an almost similar margin during the same period. According to new data from Glassnode, the percentage of supply owned by entities holding 10 BTC or less has grown from 5.1% to 13.8%
Bitcoin averaged over a million daily active addresses in the past week for the first time since January 2018. The growing usage metrics add to evidence of a rising bull market. According to data compiled by Coin Metrics, ethereum might be on course to surpass its all-time high if the bull market continues. The data
Two new studies indicate that racial disparities related to outcomes exist among stroke patients, including one study that specifically examines stroke patients with COVID-19.
