by Tom | Oct 27, 2011 | Reading
From Germany, a caravan for land and water | Springwise. If it wasn’t for the date, I’d be convinced this was an April fools. But now I’m concerned about people trying to float other caravans by mistake. Or am I?
by Tom | Oct 26, 2011 | Science, View
No, not my hair, it’s The Waterfall Nebula. We don’t know how it works, but we’re trying to find out. Beautiful, either way.
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Reading, Science
Massive study concludes: ‘Global warming is real’. Funded by climate change skeptics. Science wins because they had access to all the data and methodology of the previous projects and both improved their methodology and ended up with pretty much the same...
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | View
Photo Series: Chinese People on the Train | China Digital Times (CDT). Cracking stuff. I wonder what they are all doing?
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | View
It may not be surprising that you can insert objects into photographs, it certainly is how astonishingly well you can do it these days. You have to watch the video to get the full effect.
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Reading
Demography: A tale of three islands | The Economist. Who’d have thought one could learn so much about demography. Despite the exponential chart, would you have guessed that 3.2 billion people live in countries with a fertility rate of 2.1 or less and that...
by Tom | Oct 25, 2011 | Business
Economics of open-access publishing makes the extraordinary claim that the profits (note: not turnover) of the publishing arms of two firms (Elsevier and Springer’s) would be enough to pay to publish (including editing and peer review) all the 1.5 million...
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
Came out of the cathedral hall after rehearsing Christmas music to find a heavy metallish jam going on at Occupy under HSBC. Nice.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Business, Government, Reading
Class. 11. Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending. via by Lemony Snicket – OccupyWriters.com.
by Tom | Oct 24, 2011 | Reading
Hiromitsu Shinkawa and the Japan Tsunami Rescue Story: GQ. Remarkable and moving story of the man who survived three days on the roof of his house after the Japan earthquake and tsunami. That’s enough reading for this week.
