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Time: Melting and collapsing iceberg videos
While watching calving icebergs or glaciers always has been kind of spectacular for most people, these days with continuously shrinking polar ice caps something might be different.
Watch the videos to see how even a “small piece” or iceberg collapsing can cause gigantic waves or a tsunami…
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Advertising: Hip-Hop for Food
What is getting one of Switzerland’s biggest companies (Coop) to ask the country’s best known and maybe most controversial Hip-Hop artist (Stress) to write a song for them and do a TV spot?
And this without prescribing the topic or other limitations put up.
… and then the whole thing becomes a great success and is shown multiple times everyday on TV.
It’s not exactly like 50 Cent would do a clip for K-Mart - (despite he might never consider this because of…)
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UN: An on-line game to teach children how to save lives
As part of the 2006-2007 World Disaster Reduction Campaign “Disaster Risk Reduction Begins at School” the secretariat of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has launched an on-line game to teach children how to build safer villages and cities against disasters. Players can chose between five scenarios they will try to prevent - from earthquakes over hurricanes to flood and Tsunamis. Each scenario takes between 10 and 20 minutes to play, depending on the disaster you are trying to prevent and…
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Formula One: Honda’s new environmental concept
The 2007 Formula One season gets underway with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne next weekend. The Australian Grand Prix will see the Honda RA107 take to the track in its new “earth” livery for the first time. The Honda Racing F1 Team’s new 2007 F1 car carries no corporate colors, no advertising and no logos beyond the FIA-required insignia. To help raise awareness of the environmental issues facing the planet, the RA107 F1 car will simply feature a huge image of earth. Via the website “myearthdream.com” you have the opportunity to put your name on the car by making a pledge to make a lifestyle change and to improve the environment. Within the concept of…
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Virtual Worlds: 3D Berlin in Google Earth
Since this week Germany’s capital Berlin is available as a 3D model within Google Earth. In difference to other 3D worlds already available in Google Earth the buildings within the virtual Berlin have detailed architectural representations including their photorealistic facades. Some buildings can even be visited or entered virtually. So far the present model covers about 10% of the area of Berlin - only a small sample of the official three-dimensional city model of Berlin. The model consists of some 44,000 buildings in the centre of Berlin shown in…
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Land Rover get’s your Chelsea tractor carbon-neutral
Land Rover has today announced the first projects in its CO2 Offset Program to reduce greenhouse gases with projects in Tajikistan and China. The first projects include a hydro-electric power plant in Tajikistan and a wind farm in China. Together these projects will offset 150,000 tons of CO2 a year. Further projects in Uganda, India, Turkey and the Dominican Republic are currently evaluated. Customers of all new Land Rover vehicles sold in the UK from this year on will pay…
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Guatemala: Gigantic 100 meter deep hole opens in the ground
What are you going to do when the ground below you suddenly disappears and a 100 meter deep hole opens up? That just happened in Guatemala City.”…Several houses and at least one lorry have been swallowed by a giant sinkhole in a poor district of Guatemala City. The hole is said to be more than 100m (330ft) deep. Residents said they…
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NASA: World Wind 1.4 released
NASA has released a new version of their virtual globe software called World Wind. Also called by users of the software the “Google Earth killer”, this release brings many new features that are not available in other globe software packages. Besides being able to fly-over the Moon and Mars, the software also allows to layer additional images from other servers over the surface of the globes. Other new features include a timer to simulate and synchronized the Sun’s position when using Sun Shading, to create time lapsed or reverse running movies, a WMS Importer and an Anaglyph 3D mode to see World Wind in true 3D with Red/Blue-glasses that are often given away for free…
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WEF: Tag Cloud for 26-01-2007
Almost through with searching and processing documents on the World Economic Forum 2007. Here’s the Tag Cloud from documents (304) published on 26-January-2007…
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WEF: Tag Cloud for 25-01-2007
Here is the second part of our World Economic Forum 2007 Tag Clouds from documents (224) published on 25-January-2007…
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