Yes, that is a camel with solar panels mounted on its back. I could let you guess what they are for, but I won’t. The solar cells power a small refrigerator, which allows them to deliver heat-sensitive vaccines to remote health centers that serve nomadic communities in Africa. When refrigeration is not needed, the solar [...]
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[ October 9th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]WTF - That Looks Like a Solar Powered Camel
NASA’s IBEX to Explore Termination Shock and Leave Solar System
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a newly built NASA spacecraft that will be launched, weather conditions permitting, on October 19. It is hoped that it will travel to the edge of our solar system and return data and images that will hopefully provide a better understanding of the processes involved in the “termination [...]
EARTH, a 35kg Monster Atlas Will Educate You, Make you Poor
At 35kgs, boxed, bound in leather and with silver edging it seems an understatement to call the newly published Atlas EARTH a weighty tome. It has taken Australian author the best part of twenty years to put this 580 page monster together. Arguably the most awesome-sounding feature is a fold out photo of the earth [...]
Peanut Butter Slices, Sign of a World Gone Wrong?
Sticking a knife into a jar of peanut butter and spreading it on some bread is about as easy as life gets, but it seems that even that is too much of a chore for some people, because you can now buy P.B. Slices. P.B. slices are individually packaged single servings of peanut butter. All [...]
Plastiki Expedition to Take to the Open Seas on a Craft of Discarded Water Bottles
Environmentalist David de Rothschild plans to take to the open seas in a boat/raft made from discarded water bottles. The journey, entitled “The Plastiki Expedition,” is being undertaken to highlight environmental problems around the world, including the Eastern Garbage Patch (a patch of accumulated plastic garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size [...]
