This is from Valdis Krebs’ Visual Complexity. This is an example of Edward Tufte’s proposition that evidence, clearly and honestly arranged, ends up being beautiful. This image was created by Valdis Krebs of Orgnet- via Visual Complexity See also HealthMap.
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Tweet At the conclusion of the GOP debate, Wolf Blitzer thanked CNN‘s partners, the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. This partnership explains the framing of the debate on energy as “Burn Baby Burn” or “Drill Baby Drill.” No questions were asked on the potential for renewable energy technologies, such as wind, solar, geothermal, [...]
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Andrew Pollack, writing in the print editions of The New York Times wrote “Mosquito Bred to Fight Dengue Fever Shows Promise in Field Trial,” published on October 31st, 2011. We’ve been planning on switching to an all-digital subscription, but haven’t sorted out yet which plan. So we’ve often got hard copy (i.e. the print edition) [...]
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Universty of California Davis, 18 November 2011 Video; with thanks to The Brian Lehrer show for the link.
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We missed this account of the May 2011 Kandahar jailbreak, which has some details which, we think, should be sobering to anyone who writes off the Taliban as adversaries. They’ve demonstrated that they can learn, adapt, improvise and coordinate complicated projects involving many people without being stopped by an informant, eavesdropping of any type, or [...]
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From Popular Science (PopSci.com), New Condensation Tech Captures Drinkable Water From Diesel Exhaust, by Popular Science correspondent Rebecca Boyle. A new condensation process captures water from burning diesel fuel, and is so efficient that it could theoretically produce a gallon of water from a gallon of diesel, using lightweight materials. As an added bonus, the [...]
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Sean Casey of the International Medical Corps, writing on November 7th, at the Poverty Matters Blog, a feature of The Guardian (UK). I look forward to the day we can all celebrate the defeat of cholera in Haiti. Yet, one year after the first cases appeared, many in the international community are rushing to this [...]
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Assuming – for argument’s sake – law enforcement finds all of these tunnels eventually – each completed tunnel which is found presumably is a conduit for some amount of contraband; further, tunnels are only one capital-intensive way of moving profitable loads of banned goods (submersible and small submarines being another example). How does it make [...]
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| | Tweet |NYPD Shield, NYPD Counterterrorism Bureau, Terrorism Threat Analysis Group, “Countering Terrorism Through Information Sharing” sent me an email: RE: NYPD SHIELD – Plans for All-Day “Mass Non-Violent Direct Action” On November 17th, 2011 Demonstrations are scheduled to take place in multiple locations throughout the five boroughs of New York City on Thursday, [...]
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| | Tweet | In ending the camp-out phase of Occupy Wall Street, Mayor Brookfield and Judge Stallman did the Occupy movement a favor. The Occupiers can claim victory. Now they can focus on delivering the message – Economic Democracy – We must build sustainable economic systems which recognize that Earth is a stakeholder, that [...]
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| | Tweet | In “Wanted: Worldly Philosophers,” Roger Backhouse and Bradley Bateman say:|”IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn [...]
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Flood Control Infrastructure Via Wikimedia Commons, an image of a seawall in Poland. The price of some flood control infrastructure is the loss of access to beaches for recreation and other purposes.
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Tweet Via NPR‘s All Things Considered, from correspondent Richard Harris, Feds Delay Decision On Pipeline Project The State Department is delaying a decision for at least a year on whether to approve the Keystone pipeline. The $7 billion pipeline would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, through the U.S. to Gulf of [...]
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The same messages can be communicated by signalling the letter "K" in Morse code via signal lamp. (While a proper signal lamp may be ideal, a flashlight, probably best employing red LEDs, will certainly fit the bill).
In Morse, the letter "K" is represent as Dash - Dot -- Dash.
The ICS also has a subset, the Medical Signal Code, which uses three-character phrases to communicate brief medical messages.