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Monthly Archives: October 2011
On the beach
Lovely that we can get to one of Hong Kong’s best beaches after a nice hike, body surf some big waves and then have dinner and finally camp out in rented tents to watch the stars. So far glow in … Continue reading
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Best caravan yet?
From Germany, a caravan for land and water | Springwise. If it wasn’t for the date, I’d be convinced this was an April fools. But now I’m concerned about people trying to float other caravans by mistake. Or am I?
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An enigmatic wisp
No, not my hair, it’s The Waterfall Nebula. We don’t know how it works, but we’re trying to find out. Beautiful, either way.
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How science is done: climate and mobiles
Massive study concludes: ‘Global warming is real’. Funded by climate change skeptics. Science wins because they had access to all the data and methodology of the previous projects and both improved their methodology and ended up with pretty much the … Continue reading
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Chinese People on the Train (photos)
Photo Series: Chinese People on the Train | China Digital Times (CDT). Cracking stuff. I wonder what they are all doing?
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Rendering synthetic objects in photos
It may not be surprising that you can insert objects into photographs, it certainly is how astonishingly well you can do it these days. You have to watch the video to get the full effect.
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Demography
Demography: A tale of three islands | The Economist. Who’d have thought one could learn so much about demography. Despite the exponential chart, would you have guessed that 3.2 billion people live in countries with a fertility rate of 2.1 … Continue reading
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Paying for scholarly journals
Economics of open-access publishing makes the extraordinary claim that the profits (note: not turnover) of the publishing arms of two firms (Elsevier and Springer’s) would be enough to pay to publish (including editing and peer review) all the 1.5 million … Continue reading
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Splendid counterpoint
Came out of the cathedral hall after rehearsing Christmas music to find a heavy metallish jam going on at Occupy under HSBC. Nice.
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