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Kassel is a couple of hours drive from where we live and home to the Documenta exhibition, which happens every five years – the last one was in 2002 – we visited and enjoyed it greatly. However, that is not the only reason to go to Kassel. The natural history collection in the . . . → Read More: The wood library Digital Camera Shopper magazine has been putting the five most common types of digital memory cards through gruelling physical abuse – with surprising results. The tests included being washed in a washing machine, dropped in cola, being run over by a skate-board and being dunked in a cup of coffee. All the cards survived . . . → Read More: Memory cards virtually indestructible The New Scientist reports, quoting a new study in Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, that myopia is often caused by too much reading and looking at computer screens. There has been quite a bit of theorising about the causes of myopia in the past, with both diet and genetic defects being seen as . . . → Read More: Myopia (short-sightedness) caused by too much reading A new nuclear reactor in a Sydney suburb, which will be commisioned in 2006, is to get a steel safety-net to stop small aircraft being crashed into the reactor. The net has been criticized by Green Peace, because it is only able to stop a plane the size of Cessna, and not a . . . → Read More: Aussie reactor safety net When Paul McCartney performed in St. Petersburg last Sunday, it looked like it was going to rain, so the organizers dispersed the clouds by having them sprayed with dry ice at a cost of $40,000. Apparently this in not the first time the Russians have practiced weather modification – the clouds were also . . . → Read More: Russians change weather for concert Philip G. Zimbardo ran an experiment in 1971 in Stanford University which predicts the behaviour found in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Originally intended to be run over two weeks, with two groups of randomly selected, healthy, normal students playing the roles of prisoners and guards, the experiment had to be stopped . . . → Read More: The Stanford Prison Experiment Only nuclear power can stop global warming a leading environmentalist, James Lovelock says. His call to support nuclear power was rejected yesterday by both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. Lovelock believes that global warming is occuring at such a pace that there is now no time left to develop alternative power sources commercially, . . . → Read More: Global warming – more advanced than we knew Optical camouflage was demonstrated last week at Nextfest, an exhibition of emerging technologies in San Francisco, where it was possible to see in a somewhat blurred manner through someone wearing a coat covered in beads which act as cameras and projection screens at the same time – the cameras transmit the view behind the . . . → Read More: Harry Potter’s invisible cloak becomes reality – almost Chris Duncan, at Liverpool University and Sue Scott, have published a theory in their new book, The Return of the Black Death, that the Black Death was not passed on by fleas on rats carrying bubonic plague, as was thought until now, but that the disease was haemorrhagic plague – an equally infectious disease, . . . → Read More: Black death spread by humans? There has been quite a lot of interest in the new Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius hybrid-powered cars. But did you realise that if such a vehicle is involved in a crash, it can pose a deadly risk to rescuers? The cars contain a network of high voltage cables (500V), which run . . . → Read More: Hybrid cars pose rescuers problems |
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