Thursday, July 21, 2005
Elemental - Is it time to revamp the periodic table? By Jon Lackman Great new visualisation of the periodic table.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
125th Anniversary Issue: Science Online Special Feature Big unsolved questions...
BBC - Radio 4 - The Zippe Type: Listen to an interview with 86 year old inventor of the Zippe-Type centrifuge "which has now become the easiest way to make fuel for reactors as well as weapons of terrifying power. ... he tells the programme how he was kidnapped soon after the end of WWII and held prisoner in the Soviet Union where he was ordered to find an easy way of producing uranium’s rare U-235 isotope. Having done as he was asked he was freed by the Soviets only for the Americans to order him to repeat the process for their benefit. .... Years later his plans were stolen by the Pakistani government who sold the secrets of the Zippe-Type on to North Korea and Iran allowing them to develop their nuclear industry. Another German scientist sold his plans to Saddam Hussein who used them as the basis for his attempt to acquire the bomb."...."
Lots of other science programmes to stream at this site.
Lots of other science programmes to stream at this site.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
forum for technology, citizens and the market lots to do with allowing for better public involve,ment in design, suppoprted by RSA in UK.
Monday, July 04, 2005
E-Book on IT In Agriculture free to download, papers on adoption, applications, etc.
Friday, July 01, 2005
GeeksUnite Home
Campaigning fo Chipp Salzenberg, PERL innovator who is in a run-in with his ex-employer - he's accusing them oif unethical pratices for harvesting from web sites, they've used police raids and seizure of his gear to "ptoect their IP".
Campaigning fo Chipp Salzenberg, PERL innovator who is in a run-in with his ex-employer - he's accusing them oif unethical pratices for harvesting from web sites, they've used police raids and seizure of his gear to "ptoect their IP".
