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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Health: The Challenges of Global Health

US magazine “Foreign Affairs” - one of the most influential publication on international affairs and foreign policy in America - has an excellent opinion piece on Global Health. The 12 page essay was written by Pulitzer Price winner and bestseller writer “Laurie Garrett” who is also well known for her book “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public health”. We strongly recommend reading the document to anybody working in Global Health and to anybody who is interested in what is happening in fighting AIDS, Malaria and TB. We put some quotes together below…

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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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WEF: Tag Cloud for 24-01-2007

We went through all documents (143) about the World Economic Forum 2007 published on 24-January-2007 and created this Tag cloud with the top 100 key words. This is the first of a series of tag clouds (one for each day and one overall) we are currently preparing…

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Global Warming: 2007 expected to be hottest year on record

Climate-change experts at the UK Met Office predict that 2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, hotter than the current record set in 1998. The forecast points to the El Niño already established in the Pacific, that is expected to persist through the first months of 2007. Together with global warming due to fossil fuels this provides a high potential for record temperatures during 2007…

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Live on Camera: Space Debris breaks up in the Sky

Reporters from Live-TV station “Fox 31″ were quite surprised yesterday evening when one of their news choppers managed to capture the breaking up of space debris in the atmosphere. The “light show” that looked like meteorites - as NORAD has confirmed - was caused by the re-entry of a spent Russian science rocket. More information and a video at the…

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BBC: Pictures of 2006

The BBC has now published its selection from the best pictures of 2006. Our favorite remains the picture (no 3) of a bunch of posh Lebanese driving with their new Mini Convertible through the poor suburbs of Beirut that have been hit by Israeli attacks. This picture tells many stories and…

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Advertising: Reminding shoppers

…Under the image one could read: “You can feed a child for two days with what you spend renting this cart. Help”…

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Year End Wishes: The box of chocolate

As we are getting closer to the end of the year it is getting high time to think about new year’s resolutions and what we hope the next year would bring.
But sometimes these thoughts are understood wrongly as this supposedly true story tells us…(first version is attributed to Bill Bryson)

In the weeks before Christmas the [...]