Category Archives: We-reflect-news

Tulip

Posted on December 22, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday (I think), the International Herald Tribune posted an article about Dutch plans to create a tulip-shaped island in the North Sea. The plan was brought up by the Dutch Innovation Platform (Dutch-only) with the goal to showcase the Dutch … Continue reading →

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Coffee, huh

Posted on December 9, 2007 by Arthur

The BBC has an article about how coffee protects female memory: A French research team compared women aged 65 (and older) who drank more than 3 cups of coffee per day with those who only drank one per day. Those … Continue reading →

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Not so, so.

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Arthur

It appears that the US NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) watered down the Iranian threat saying that ‘it has high confidence that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 but that it was continuing to enrich uranium‘. This (of course) … Continue reading →

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On snow and games

Posted on December 2, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, we were hit by a snowstorm that apparently took everyone by surprise: After finishing shopping in the local mall, we walked and drove through the very first winter storm to hit our area. This comes right after the Weather … Continue reading →

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25 Degrees and listing

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Arthur

I read the news about that ship that sailed into ice and had to be evacuated. Crew and passengers were all evacuated: nobody was wounded. Currently the ship hasn’t sunk yet but is lying on one side, hull exposed, as … Continue reading →

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A wreck

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I was reading two articles about two wrecks: the first one was about that shipwreck found by a Swedish TV team somewhere in the Baltic sea. Early pictures suggest the ship resembled work of Dutch ship-builders (16 or 17th … Continue reading →

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Android

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Arthur

I noticed that Google has released their Android SDK, which is an attempt to break open the cellphone market. There are a couple of exciting things to mention but the most important is that Google has adopted Webkit, you know … Continue reading →

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Dike 1. Dike 2.

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday portions of Western Europe were on storm watch: A strong North Eastern Western wind and the right (rather wrong) tide caused water levels to rise abnormally. My civil engineering background was the reason for looking for tidal information at … Continue reading →

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Klaatu barada nikto

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Arthur

When astronauts (or cosmonauts for that matter) from a different country get into a fight, which country’s law does apply? (via Slashdot) According to a 1967 treaty (Outer Space Treaty), states have legal jurisdiction within spacecraft registered (‘owned’) by them, … Continue reading →

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That famous painting (and other links)

Posted on October 28, 2007 by Arthur

Via the BBC I discovered that DaVinci’s ‘Last Supper’ has been digitized and posted to the Internet (actual site). According to the article, the produced image is about 1600 times detailed than a photo from an average DSLR: what can … Continue reading →

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Wolkers

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, Dutch author Jan Wolkers died (Wikipedia on Wolkers, warning: possibly NSFW because of a picture of author posing with a bare-naked lady). He was buried today (warning: Dutch language alert) in what newspapers call a well-attended funeral. I … Continue reading →

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Evil feral stuff

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Arthur

I have not really been following any news but ‘skirmished’ through some of the Nobel prize announcements: Doris Lessing won the one for Literature. In the Physics section, the prize went (deservedly so) to two scientists who were instrumental in … Continue reading →

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Weatherwise (and other news)

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Arthur

We’re going through some sort of ‘heatspell’ (if you can call it that way) with temperatures ‘clocking around’ the 20 degrees. Which is generally good, but then, the temperature has been going down fast at night: a couple of nights … Continue reading →

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