Wow. My gut told me it was a lot, but this study provides an irrefutable quantity:
935
Here’s the CNN report about the project:
CNN Report
And here’s the project itself, complete with a searchable database. Amazing stuff. Thank you to everyone involved.
Public Integrity Org
This is incredibly disturbing, but sadly unsurprising. At what point [...]
Category Archives: Social Awareness
Your MS Office License Fees at Work
05-Jan-08Snarky title aside, this telescope probably wouldn’t have been possible without the contributions from Gates and Simonyi.
http://snurl.com/1wngv
"… a three-billion-pixel detector" that will produce "…30 terabytes of data each night". Wow. My question, of course, is where will all that data get stored?
Tags: telescope, microsoft, stars, astronomy
Ethanol & Renewable Energy
02-Oct-07I read the below article in Wired a few days ago and was so struck by it that I had to write about it here. A friend and I had talked about this very topic the previous Sunday while hiking south of Denver, so this was already on my mind.
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/15-10/ff_plant_formula
The article stresses that the process [...]
I love good news.
20-Mar-07“We have our missing Boy Scout.”
As a parent, this absolutely thrills me. As a Scout leader in my area, I am relieved that this had a happy outcome for the Troop. Nice job by the Search & Rescue teams.
Missing Scout Found (from sfgate)
Don’t look so surprised - Wal-Mart is in fact going into communities where classic economic redevelopment has failed, or worse yet, has never even been attempted.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f091544S30.DTL
Wal-Mart gets lots of criticism for lots of things, and as an employer that brings together a population greater in size than many American cities, this is no surprise. When [...]
