Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we? He had the time and the curiosity to try a new route, one that would lead the vessel through the eastern corner of a 10-million-square-mile oval known as the North Pacific subtropical gyre. […] It began with a line of plastic bags ghosting the surface, followed by an […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
Engineering as it should be done
Saturday, April 21, 2007
THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS What’s an engineer’s worst nightmare? To realize that the supports he designed for a skyscraper like Citicorp Center are flawed–and hurricane season is approaching. So he fixed it.
Elliott Leyton on Virginia Tech
Thursday, April 19, 2007
globeandmail.com: School shootings By the way, the 800,000 tutsi and hutu victims of the genocide in Rwanda were killed primarily with knives and machetes. And if you want to kill a lot of people but don’t have a gun, there are many other ways to do it: derail a train, start a fire, drive a […]
