A post-disaster reconstruction plan for the island of Miyato-Jima, Japan, positioned to the north and east of Sendai. Devastated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, approximately half of the 260 homes were destroyed, forcing the residents to move to elevated ground.
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“A study published in 2009 found that rather than a 1-to-1 ratio, as would be expected if the climate were not warming, the ratio has been closer to 2-to-1 in favor of warm temperature records during the past decade (2000-2009). This finding cannot be explained by natural climate variability alone, the study found, and is instead consistent with global warming.”
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excellent talk on the future, potential, and limitations of GPS. wave bubbles! GPS spoofers!
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Excerpt from Wernher Von Braun letter to Vice President Lyndon Johnson on April 29, 1961. Here, Von Braun offers a response to the Vice President’s question, “Are we working 24 hours a day on existing programs? If not, why not?” Full letter available here.
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“CROPS is a stopmotion film on centre pivot irrigation in the USA. Long water-sprinkler arms rotate around a central pivot, irrigating circular fields of verdant crops in desert or semiarid environments. Often a well, located at the centre of the circle, pumps water up from vast aquifers in the rock formations below, or Rio Grande water is canalized and redirected into the deserts feeding the well. Once the Rio Grande reaches Mexico, it’s riverbed has dried. This trailer was made using 1000 circles cropped in Google Earth.”
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“In 1976, Landsat 1 discovered a tiny uninhabited island 20 kilometers off the eastern coast of Canada. This island was thereafter designated Landsat Island. As of 2006, it is the only island to be discovered via satellite imagery.”
“Out of the inferno of the Hindenburg, only one known copy of the final flight map was found.”
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Global Warming: What We Knew in 82
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“Every sentence that I utter should be regarded by you, not as an assertion, but as a question.” - Niels Bohr to his students
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