It’s now 18 years that a highly radiaoctive cloud gave practically everybody in Europe a rapid, un-anticipated lesson in the dangers of nuclear power. Agriculture all over Europe was impacted, and a huge area around the power plant in Chernobyl had to evacuated. Several hundred thousand Russians died in the following years due to the [...]
I’ve noticed that many people come to my site in search of information about Chinese History. I’ve had a small table of Chinese History as supplemental data in the China Room section of this site since 1996, and this long-term exposure to search engines is definitely driving up my site traffic. Since there seems to [...]
Well, I guess the current US government is now well on its way to proof that you can’t lie to all the people all the time… Here’s a quote from a 60 Minutes interview with Richard Clarke, a former White House terrorism advisor. “Rumsfeld was saying we needed to bomb Iraq….We all said, ‘but no, [...]
This is the newest addition to my camera collection – a golden Kodak Brownie Bull’s-Eye camera from the late 1950s. As you can see, the camera is in great condition. The camera originally worked with the obsolete 620 film format, but it is possible to load modern 120 film without too many problems. Here are [...]
Well… pure genius. I’ll never look at a subway map in the same way…
While looking for other sources for 3D-reconstructions of the Mars Rover images, I stumbled over the Extreme Photo Constructions site by David Neufer. David hosts some of the best 3D anaglyphs of the Mars Rover pictures that I have seen up to now, but he has also been doing amazing things by combining still images [...]