>It is amazing what kinds of phenomena are out there in nature! These are images of Brocken Bows and Glories. An excerpt is below: Imagine hiking on a sunny mountain and witnessing an unforgettable phenomenon worthy of a Hollywood special…
>I was looking for a map of Kathmandu, Nepal, as I will be there for the month of September and I found this map on Lonely Planet. It has icons showing various places there, which I found very useful. I…
>I will be going to Nepal this September to visit with a group of weavers of the Limbu tribe to learn about Dhaka weaving. The women belong to a fair trade group in Nepal and they want to broaden their…
>On August 1, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The eclipse swept across Earth in a narrow path that begins in Canada’s northern province of Nunavut and…
>This is just amazing! An excerpt is below. Neil Harbisson suffers from achromatopsia – or complete congenital color blindness, and until meeting Adam Montandon, a cybernetics expert who was giving a speech at the art school which he was attending…
> Severn Suzuki is so eloquent! It is amazing that she was only 12 when she made this speech. I did a search on her in Google under Severn Cullis-Suzuki and found that she is still working on environmental problems.…
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>This is a stunning collection of images of the Milky Way! One spacecraft. 5 infrared bands. 800,000 images. 4 billion pixels of data. The telescope was pointed to 111,000 different positions in the sky and snapshots were taken in four…
>This talk from TED is about refrigeration for developing countries. I think it is wonderful that people without electricity could have refrigerators! Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity — to bring the…
