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• Om man tar en passer og en linjal og drar noen linjer på en Shakespeare-side kan man finne noen bokstaver som man kan lage skattekart som gjør en i stand til å finne graven til Francis Bacon med de håndskrevne Shakespeare-manuskriptene som egentlig var sk

  
  Astrid Meland — Authority: 126
  Etter flere oppfordringer har jeg sett tredje episode av NRKs serie i fire deler om organisten Petter Amundsen som er hobbykryptolog.  Han bruker passer og linjal og finner frimurersymboler og skjulte koder i Shakespeares manuskripter. Han sitter på informasjon som kan endre verdenshistorien. It’s huge, ...
  5 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  1 week ago

• Christchurch has long history with the Antarctic

  
  Kiwi travel writer — Authority: 120
  leading the way from the airport Christchurch is home to the Antarctic research offices of New Zealand, United States and Italy’s Antarctic programmes, and artists, tourists and explorers have all prepared for their challenges in the city. This means the city’s rich heritage is reflected in museums, walkways, ...
  1 week ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  1 week ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  1 week ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  1 week ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  1 week ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  1 week ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  1 week ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• Joy!

  
  Adullamite — Authority: 122
  Joy indeed. I had to attend an interview I did not want to go to and was quite down about this. Some things are forced upon us and I was going to go through with it as all options otherwise failed. Joy of joys! Someone had been stealing the copper wire used in railway signals and set fire to a station on the line! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Polar Mail

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  Many children in the United States write letters addressed to Santa Claus at the North Pole each year. But how many of you have written to scientists living at the South Pole? On December 14th, 1911 the South Pole was discovered by Captain Roald Amundsen of Norway and his team of Antarctic explorers. For ...
  2 weeks ago

• December 14 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 553
  On December 14: 1287 St. Lucia’s flood : The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapsed, killing more than 50,000 people. 1503 Nostradamus , French astrologer, was born.   1542 Princess Mary Stuart beccame Queen Mary I of Scotland .  1751 The Theresian Military Academy was ...
  2 weeks ago

• All quiet on the Western front….

  
  Much of a muchness — Authority: 91
  For a change it’s all been quite quiet chez moi . Lots of web design and coding going on – I hadn’t realised that eCommerce was such a complicated thing, so that has been keeping me glued to my Mac day after day. Just as well as the weather has been dreadful – torrential rain and howling gales. It’s pouring ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Pole

  
  Tim Jones: Books in the Trees — Authority: 457
  The Pole: Preamble This 500 word short-short story appeared in my first collection, Extreme Weather Events (2001). It reflects my continuing fascination with the events of December 1911 and January 1912, when the Norwegian expedition under Roald Amundsen and the British expedition under Robert Falcon Scott ...
  4 weeks ago

• A tale of hardihood to stir any mans heart

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Twitter is an adolescent craze - but it could bring to the attention of a new generation the heroism of Captain Scott, says Simon Heffer.
  4 weeks ago

• LG Announces OPHone “Amundsen” for China Mobile

  
  AndroidGuys — Authority: 661
  LG’s Korean website shot out a press release this morning announcing their “Amundsen” (GW880) handset. This marks the second official Android phone, following the Eve. Bound for China Mobile, Amundsen will use the OPhone blend of Android. We’ve done our best to piece together a translated webpage so ...
  4 weeks ago

• News Release: Thick Arctic Sea Ice Goes Missing

  
  University of Manitoba News Blog — Authority: 123
  Arctic sea ice has duped satellites into reporting thick multiyear sea ice where in fact none exists, a new study by University of Manitoba researcher David Barber has found. In 2008 and 2009 satellite data showed a growth in Arctic sea ice extension leaving some to reckon global warming was reversing. But after ...
  4 weeks ago

• LG Announces OPHone “Amundsen” for China Mobile

  
  AndroidGuys — Authority: 661
  LG’s Korean website shot out a press release this morning announcing their “Amundsen” (GW880) handset. This marks the second official Android phone, following the Eve. Bound for China Mobile, Amundsen will use the OPhone blend of Android. We’ve done our best to piece together a translated webpage so ...
  4 weeks ago

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