Topic: BP - on June 22, 2010 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Oil in the Gulf, two months later
62 days have passed since the initial explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and the crude oil and natural gas continue to gush from the seafloor. Re-revised estimates now place the flow rate at up to 60,000 barrels a day - a figure just shy of a worst-case estimate of 100,000 barrels a day made by BP in an internal document recently released by a congressional panel. Louisiana's state treasurer has estimated environmental and economic damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could range from $40 billion to $100 billion. Collected here are recent photographs from the Gulf of Mexico, and of those affected by the continued flow of oil and gas into the ocean.
(37 photos total)
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Topic: BP - on June 22, 2010 at 10:29:00 AM CEST
Imagine 25,000 barrels
Mass physics demonstration I rendered in the UDK, simulating 25,000 barrels stacked around a pillar 15,000 feet high, and then group by group falling to the ground.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 22, 2010 at 10:27:00 AM CEST
Happy 40th Glastonbury
The 2010 Glastonbury Festival begins on the 23rd June at Worthy Farm in the village of Pilton, Somerset.
Michael Eavis held the first festival on his farm in 1970. 1.500 people attended and was headlined by Tyrannosaurus (later T.) Rex who stood in for a cancelled act at the last minute. Held on the last weekend of June virtually every year since then (in all weathers), it has become the defining English music & arts festival and has attracted some (if not most) of the greatest performers of the last 4 decades.
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Topic: SPORT - on June 22, 2010 at 10:26:00 AM CEST
Tonnes of radioactive waste casts doubt over London's Olympic stadium legacy
The development of the Olympic site in east London after the Games have finished could be in jeopardy because of radioactive waste buried beneath the site, experts have warned.
According to a Guardian investigation, any development of the site risks unearthing a hundred tonnes of radioactive waste dumped at the former landfill site decades ago. Documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) rules reveal that, contrary to government guidelines, waste from thorium and radium has been mixed with very low-level waste and buried in a so-called disposal cell close to the Olympic stadium - about 500m to the north.
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Topic: WEB - on June 22, 2010 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Huge privacy flaw found in VPN systems
Since the slow introduction of internet monitoring systems around the world began, more and more people have attempted to preserve their privacy by signing up for VPN services like the Pirate Bay's Ipredator and Pirate Party offering Relakks. But it turns out that there's a gaping security flaw in these services that allows individual users to be identified.
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Topic: MUSIK - on June 20, 2010 at 10:25:00 AM CEST
Insiders' guide to European music festivals
The Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens picks his top European music festivals, from loud and crowded to quiet and quirky
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on June 20, 2010 at 10:23:00 AM CEST
Vatican declares the Blues Brothers a 'Catholic classic'
On the 30th anniversary of the cult film's release, the official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has declared it a "Catholic classic".
It points out that Jake and Elwood Blues battled police, a psychotic ex-girlfriend, country and western fans and neo-Nazis in order to raise enough money to prevent the closure of the church-run orphanage in which they grew up.
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Topic: War and Peace - on June 20, 2010 at 10:21:00 AM CEST
Der Alchemist der Nazis
Er machte Sand zu Gold und Wasser zu Benzin - jedenfalls behauptete er das. In den Dreißigern narrte der Erfinder Heinz Kurschildgen mit abstrusen Versprechen Millionäre, Geschäftsleute und Politiker - bis hin zu Heinrich Himmler. Und log sich damit fast um Kopf und Kragen.
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Topic: Space - on June 20, 2010 at 10:19:00 AM CEST
Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Star Being Born
Astronomers have glimpsed what could be the youngest known star at the very moment it is being born. Not yet fully developed into a true star, the object is in the earliest stages of star formation and has just begun pulling in matter from a surrounding envelope of gas and dust, according to a new study that appears in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
The study’s authors—who include astronomers from Yale University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany—found the object using the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Known as L1448-IRS2E, it’s located in the Perseus star-forming region, about 800 light years away within our Milky Way galaxy.
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Topic: BP - on June 19, 2010 at 9:44:00 AM CEST
BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators
As I noted on May 19th, BP has been telling cleanup workers that they don't need to wear respirators or other protective gear.
As Jerrold Nadler, the New York congressman whose district includes the World Trade Center, said today:
We're repeating the same catastrophe in the Gulf. You see pictures of people wearing regular clothes who are wading in and scooping oil off the water. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people, are going to get sick unnecessarily.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 19, 2010 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
WIKILEAKS NOT CONSIDERED FOR KNIGHT FOUNDATION AWARD
Here at WIKILEAKS the news that we had been passed over for $537,000 in funding came as a terrible blow to the dedicated unpaid volunteers and activists that form the core of the organization. We are all beginning to understand just how Assange's autocratic management style, questionable use of donor funding, and sometime behavior bordering on paranoia compromised our chances of obtaining funding from the Knight Foundation.
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Topic: TV - on June 19, 2010 at 9:41:00 AM CEST
Venezuela asks Interpol to arrest Chavez critic Zuloaga
Hugo Chavez has denied the allegations are politically motivated
The Venezuelan government has asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant for a leading critic of the government, Guillermo Zuloaga.
Mr Zuloaga owns Globovision, the only television channel to remain openly critical of the government.
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