http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe – and that make clear who the real enemy is
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math | Rolling Stone
Author Archives: Arjen Lentz
Toothbrush Saved International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the ISS find a low-tech way to solve a high-tech problem.
Colour photographs of the Hindenburg interior, 1930s
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/04/inside-the-hindenburg-in-colour/
As my friend Raymond Smith noted, they really were air-ships. While fundamentally different from aircraft, and of course the nature of travel has changed, I do think airlines have much to learn from how things were done back then.
In fact, I actually believe there’d be a market for airships now, travelling Australia but also other countries in relative luxury rather than speed.
mathematicians offer unified theory of dark matter, dark energy – Indiana University
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/23053.html
A pair of mathematicians — one from Indiana University and the other from Sichuan University in China — have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters Einstein’s equations describing the fundamentals of gravity.
(thanks Andrew Chalmers for the original link)
Estonia going for 100% of first graders learning to code
http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/
We’re reading today that Estonia is implementing a new education program that will have 100 percent of publicly educated students learning to write code.