Thursday wonders

Thursday wonders

Too much to choose from in this brilliant series of images from journeys to the International Space Station. Let’s hope Obama’s vision keeps the spirit alive. I wonder if the astronauts ever get tired looking down at the earth?
A one-way bet

A one-way bet

Fascinating chart of the US financial sector profits vs non-financial. What a minimal blip that was…

Why Apple doesn’t want to be cross-platform

It’s quite a strong statement from Apple: “you can only use our compiler to write code for our devices”. The Adobe guys must be gutted at having developed a dead smart system for getting Flash-based code to compile for iPhone.There is a good argument...

Current status of party science manifestos

The LibDems are the only ones to have spelled anything out as yet, but while we wait for the other parties, here is a good summary of where they are up to.I like the freedom of speech / libel, freeing of state-funded trial data and scientific advisory body...