Old fashioned web site design at its best at United Nuclear. They offer useful advice on Polonium-210 on their isotopes page. Read the rest of this entry »
Sarah Ludford, a Liberal Democrat MEP and vice-chair of the EU Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners has passed damning comment on the UK’s role in the affair. Read the rest of this entry »
Two stories collided in my aggregator today. Who ever thought that the future would pay so badly that you couldn’t get a mortgage on a job straight out of 20th century Sci-Fi? Read the rest of this entry »
Former World Bank president, James Wolfensohn, has warned that western countries are not prepared for the change in the balance of world power as the Chinese and Indian economies develop [Source:Yahoo News].
It was reported last weekend that Second Life avatar entrepreneur, Anshe Chung’s virtual property business is now worth $1 million. Read the rest of this entry »
Gazprom are commissioning architecture for their capital, Gazprom City, in St. Petersburg. Needless to say, if any of these designs are built in St. Petersburg it will tell us all rather a lot about power in modern Russia.
[Source: Spiegel Online via BLDG BLOG and William Gibson]
New Scientist report that representatives from China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States signed a pact to build a fusion reactor. The EU will put up 50% of the cost and the reactor will be built in Cardache in Southern France. Read the rest of this entry »
The New Scientist Technology Blog report that a new Web site, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, allows scientists to upload videos of experimental practice. The site is designed to help overcome the difficulties encountered learning scientific practice which can often involve a lot of tacit knowledge. Although it is already possible to upload such videos to YouTube and Google these sites offer none of the advantages of specialised, peer-reviewed filters on content.
A report from a Hong Kong based think-tank decribes the threat to industry on the Pearl River Delta and in Hong Kong posed by increases in flooding and typhoons associated with climate change. The report also highlights the knock-on effects of damage to this region for global trade. [source:BBC]
We could yet see the Chinese government volunteering cuts in Greenhouse gas emissions and thereby removing the biggest bar to emissions restrictions for the largest liberal economies. If the perception of immediate risk from climate change overwhelms debates about fair competition then the current bars to international cooperation could be removed.
The most complex surviving mechanism from antiquity, the Antikythera Mechanism, is reported to have had its remaining mysteries explained. Read the rest of this entry »
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