Live Science: “Designs for a doomsday vault for seeds of the world, to be carved deep into frozen rock on an island not far from the North Pole, were revealed today by the government of Norway.”
Zie ook Wikipedia: Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
Norway Reveals Doomsday Vault’s Design
February 9th, 2007 · Comments Off
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links for 2006-06-10
June 10th, 2006 · Comments Off
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“As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima.” - Nooit meer slapen.
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“Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had never heard about the moon landing. “
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“The rainmaking army uses rockets, artillery and aircraft to sow chemicals and artificially induce rain in times of need, said an official with the bureau’s Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation.”
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“Rockets launched with chemicals to trigger rain after huge storm”
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“Contextual integrity ties adequate protection for privacy to norms of specific contexts, demanding that information gathering and dissemination be appropriate to that context and obey the governing norms of distribution within it.”
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“New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon’s National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks.”
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