The pain and sadness of a Columbine killer's mother
The Columbine High School attack was 17 years ago, but remains etched into the consciousness both in the US and around the world. After years of silence, the mother of one of the two killers has been speaking to BBC Newsnight's Kirsty Wark. "The hardest part to understand was kids killing kids." That quote from a student at Columbine High School is one of several set into the beautiful wall hewn f
China's curious cult of the mango
Fifty years ago, China was plunged into the most chaotic and traumatic decade of its recent history - the Cultural Revolution. During this period, the nation was gripped by a peculiar hysteria: a mania for mangoes. Benjamin Ramm discovers how the fruit became an object of deep veneration, and a vehicle for the promotion of the cult of Chairman Mao. In 1966 Mao had called on the student Red Guards
Himawari-8 Real-time Web - NICT
The Himawari-8 Real-time Web is an application via big-data technologies developed by the NICT Science Cloud project in NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology), Japan. Development is in collaboration with JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency) and CEReS (Center of Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University).
Opinion | Why People Are Confused About What Experts Really Think (Published 2016)
GIVEN the complexities of the modern world, we all have to rely on expert opinion. Are G.M.O. foods safe? Is global warming real? Should children be vaccinated for measles? We don’t have the time or the training to adjudicate these questions ourselves. We defer to the professionals. And to find out what the experts think, we typically rely on the news media. This creates a challenge for journalist
Umberto Eco, 84, Best-Selling Academic Who Navigated Two Worlds, Dies (Published 2016)
Umberto Eco in Bologna, Italy, last year. As a semiotician, Mr. Eco studied signs and symbols.Credit...Roberto Serra/Iguana Press, via Getty Images Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday at his home in Milan. He was 84. His Italian publisher, Bompi
Primitive Technology: Charcoal - YouTube
I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the initial energy consuming steps of combustion have taken place while making the charcoal driving off the volatile components of the wood (such as water and sap). The result is a nearly pure carbon fuel that burns hotter tha
Tracing the children of the Holocaust
After World War Two, the BBC attempted to find relatives of children who had survived the Holocaust - they had lost their parents but it was believed they might have family in Britain. Seventy years on Alex Last has traced some of those children and found out what happened to them. It all began with a rare recording of an old radio broadcast, which starts with the words: "Captive Children, an appe
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