Nineteenth-century company promoter James Whitaker Wright is probably best known as a financial swindler whose corporate house of cards led to a panic in the London stock exchange at the turn of the twentieth century.
But one of Wright’s legacies is architectural, rather than financial. In 1890, he purchased and began developing the Lea Park estate (later named Witley Park), building, among other things, an underwater billiard room.
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
Astronauts aboard the ISS find a low-tech way to solve a high-tech problem.
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.
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)