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A home brew project to send a camera high into the stratosphere to take pictures of the Earth from near space. Be sure to click through on the link to the pictures on flickr. The project produced some amazing pictures of the Earth.
Nice story on the lengths the US military went to save the life of a young British soldier critically injured in Afghanistan.
Jay Walker at TED 2008 talking about items that are in the Walker Library. He has a really interesting take on the Gutenberg Press not being important because of the bible, but due to the church printing indulgences.
The Walker Library is one of the top 10 places I’d love to spend a week at. To call it incredible is an understatement. It’s the type of place that I dream about and would love to one day have the means to replicate. To be surrounded by that level of knowledge [...]
Dr. Furman gives a sobering account of his time in Haiti helping the survivors of the earthquake. He gives a perspective on the devastation that the pictures and video on the nightly news can’t convey.
New Gallup poll on US prejudice against religion. No surprise that Muslims had the most prejudice against them. The one that surprised me is that Jews rated better than Christians. I would have expected those to be reversed. The 2nd poll on negative views falls along the lines I expected.
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