by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Science
And some more positive news. If the theory behind these streaks on a crater in Mars is right, there is water close to the surface and that could harbour life as we know it. Or nearly. APOD: 2011 August 8 – Seasonal Dark Streaks on Mars.
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Reading
It is clearly a day for sombre thinking. Here’s a fascinating look at new thinking around Japan’s surrender in World War II. The public view that the atomic bomb was the decisive event that ended World War II is not supported by the facts. Some of the...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Reading
Thanks to Ben for this wonderful piece of light relief.
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Reading
A great article in the Telegraph sums a lot of it up Let’s hope the volunteer “Big Society” clean up crews have the greater number of people.
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
Because it was there.
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Hong Kong / China
I’m not sure how pleased she’d be with this one…
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China, Reading
Tencent: March of the Penguins. Fascinating summary of one of the major Chinese social networking and gaming platforms. Unbelievable scale (2.3m concurrent gamers at peak times) and some less-well-known VCs involved. I still can’t understand why there is this...
by Tom | Aug 9, 2011 | Personal
Horrendous to see my home town torn apart: all best wishes and hopes for a peaceful dawn to everyone who lives there (and of course to those in other affected cities). It seems pretty impossible not to be close to some chaos: I don’t remember events kicking off...
by Tom | Aug 8, 2011 | Science
To Err Is Primate talks of some great experiments with monkeys using a monetary system that show them acting according to reference dependence and loss aversion. Maybe these flawed strategies are more hard-wired into us than we might have thought. A bit like aversion...
by Tom | Aug 8, 2011 | Hong Kong / China, Personal
To the disbelievers, here’s a full on shot from a camera rather than my phone, and an attempt to show their size. The camera has focused on Wiffy’s hand, which is at least a few feet away from the spider on the right. You can read more on HK’s...
