Remember the last time you saw a photo of an exotic place or building and wondered where it was was taken? Well, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have devised the first computerized method to help answer your question -a feat made possible by searching millions of GPS-tagged images in the Flickr online photo collection. The algorithm, [...]
March 28, 2010
A typical space shuttle mission flies 200 miles above the earth’s surface and returns beautiful pictures on the way, but it involves 1,500 people, puts six or seven astronauts at risk and costs, depending on who’s doing the counting, close to half a billion dollars. Robert Harrison got some pretty good pictures too. He did [...]
March 26, 2010
An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies. James Harrison, 74, has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has enabled countless mothers to give birth [...]
March 25, 2010
We all know that Mount Everest, at 29,035 feet above sea level, is the highest spot on our planet. Sir Edmound Hillary taught us that, right? Well, yes… that is unless we think about the word “highest” in a different way. Think instead of that point on the planet closest to the moon and the [...]
March 24, 2010
The day after the bill passed, right-wingers took to the airwaves to make outrageous, wildly offensive comparisons to 9/11 and Nazis. Some called for violence. The Monday after Congress passed historic health care legislation was a dark day for the right wing. Wouldn’t you be upset if you were doomed to live in a communist [...]
March 20, 2010
Using the lush surroundings of his home town of Eastern Shore, Maryland as his muse, Sam’s paintings are attracting a loyal art world following. Some of his 22 paintings – done using a tailor-made paintbrush held in his mouth – have sold for up to $1700 (£1,045). “Sam is a regular renaissance dog and his [...]
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