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Friday, 2. March 2007
Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 2, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CET
Al Gore’s Own Inconvenient Truth: He Uses Lots of Electricity!
After Al Gore’s documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Oscar last week, Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a conservative think tank, blasted him as an environmental hypocrite and pointed out that Al Gore wasn’t as green as his image.
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Topic: SPORT - on March 2, 2007 at 11:24:00 AM CET
Formula One: Earth car will emit over 50 tonnes of CO2
Jenson Button's car will be responsible for emitting over 50 tonnes of carbon dioxide this Formula One season, it has emerged in the week they launched the "Earth Car" as the centrepiece of their environmental-awareness campaign. The English driver's emissions in the F1 season will probably be more than five times higher than the average Briton produces in 12 months.
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 2, 2007 at 11:19:00 AM CET
Hawking to Make Zero Gravity Flight
Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who authored the best-selling book, "A Brief History of Time," soon will experience a brief history with weightlessness.
Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and is almost completely paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, plans to go on a weightless flight on April 26, officials at the flight operator said Thursday.
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Topic: VIDEO - on March 2, 2007 at 11:16:00 AM CET
On The Edge Of Blade Runner
Just saw this on Film Four tonight (UK TV chanel)... very interesting, but 50 minutes isn't even near long enough if you've read Paul Sammon's excellent "Future Noir: the Making of Blade Runner". Interviews with everybody involved except Harrison Ford and Sean Young of course, who hated each other's guts during the making of the film.
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Topic: ART - on March 2, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CET
Fractal or Fake?
Jackson Pollock couldn't possibly have been thinking of fractals when he started flinging and dripping paint from a stick onto canvas. After all, mathematicians didn't develop the idea of a fractal until a couple of decades later. But if one physicist is right, Pollock ended up painting fractals anyway.
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