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It was bound to happen sooner or later. The rising number of pirate attacks on merchant and private vessels in the Indian Ocean has driven the already lucrative private security business seaward. A British company has set up a maritime security company to deter pirate attacks and, it is presumed, to engage in offensive action if extreme circumstances. In other words, a privateering venture.
Awesome, perhaps. But what does it actually do?
The Economist has just published an interesting – and frightening – interactive map showing public debt across the world. It calls it the Global Debt Clock.
It makes for uncomfortable viewing. Here’s what it looks like on 4 September 2012 at 2143 GMT.
A glowing, celestial sphere descended into the middle of a giant central umbrella structure, igniting the ‘big bang’, of which Hawking has written extensively.
Neil Armstrong
1930 – 2012
He showed us the way.
Scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies have created an Arepo simulation that has created the most accurate re-enactment of the universe to date.
Writing the Book in DNA | Harvard Medical School
700 terabtyes of data storage in 1 gram. George Church, the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and a founding core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University, and his team encoded the book, Continue reading
India is heading for Mars: it doesn’t need British aid money to pay the bills – Telegraph.
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