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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.
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.
Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the ‘anternet’ | School of Engineering
http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-biologist-computer-scientist-discover-anternet
A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.
Bid to ban cigarettes for anyone born after 2000
Bid to ban cigarettes for anyone born after 2000. Interesting initiative in Tasmania, may go to all of Australia given that this comes less than a week after the High Court rules in favour of the “plain packaging” legislation. There is now good momentum for the “end game of tobacco”.