Scenes from the ISS

Scenes from the ISS

You have to love shots from above. I wasn´t sure whether I preferred the pyroclastic flows or the gibbous moon (yes, it is that way around).

Square-blob-star

Amazing that stem cells have been coaxed into becoming sperm. I´m not sure this is the end of the male human race; I mean, who´d replace all the light bulbs? And anyway, would women terminate male embryos? Secondly, I hadn´t come across memristors...

Capitalism´s dirty secret?

Summary: we have used increasing debt loads to cover the wealth redistribution post war which has seen earnings concentrated in a small group. How to measure wealth? The Walton family (WalMart) are richer than the bottom 1/3rd of the US (100m people). This...

File sharing

I like the functionality of SoundCloud that allows you to comment on specific bits of a tune: I have been wanting to do this for ages. However, the site doesn´t quite do what I need. Take a 30s

method and sustainability-aware businesses

Some good discussion on McKQ on a couple of product companies that are trying to be sustainable, but not being fundamentalist about it (you can have a nice bottle for your cleaning fluid so that it is 1) purchased, 2) used and 3) effectively recycled). I have started...