Bill Gates defines Magic Seeds as crops engineered to adapt to climate change and resist agricultural pests. He furthermore advertises for Magic Seeds as being the remedy for the hunger in the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation already tested them in some African countries. The project has been called Alliance for a Green […]
Kawabata is asteroid #6832 and also known as 1992 FP. Kawabata measures twelve kilometers in diameter and is a member of the asteroid-family Ashkova. Kawabata’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.22 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.15, a period of revolution of 2’111 days, and an inclination of 1.9 degrees. Kawabata was […]
Kurdistan doesn’t exist as a nation, so also doesn’t have a prime minister. Yet many asylum seekers upon entering the United Kingdom declare that they need asylum because they had a sexual affair with Kurdistan’s prime minister’s daughter. An obvious tall tale and accepted by British officials even in spite of getting recycled. Critics say […]
The Something-with-AI start-up Physical Superintelligence plans a space exploration mission with the goal to solve the Fermi Paradoxon by finding reasons for missing signals. The spacecraft for the mission shall be the third, that is going to leave the Solar System. The mission shall cost fifteen-million US dollars and so be only 0.4 % as […]
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils’ scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. It was first performed in 2000 and then repeated every three years. Results […]
Kawada is asteroid #12682 and also known as 1982 VC3. Kawada measures 3.5 km in diameter and is a member of the asteroid-family Astraea. Kawada’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.60 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.27, a period of revolution of 1’534 days, and an inclination of 5.9 degrees. Kawada was […]
While it’s really great that I can learn from Martin Armstrong’s blog about history and even about European politics, I wonder about his math. I probably wouldn’t have known without Martin Armstrong’s blog that the Libertarian Party in Norway has a support of 33.4 % because Norway is quite irrelevant. Yet 33.4 % is a […]
Due to an initiative by the Fédération internationale des traducteurs (FIT) got a Translation Day celebrated in each year on September, 30th since 1954. The fancy holiday became international in 1991 and official by UN Resolution 71/288. The International Translation Day is a fancy holiday, that honors translators and their work. The International Translation Day […]
Once a biological laboratory, I think during the early 1990s or late 1980s, at the end of a year ran out of its budget, but still had to feed rats. So the biologists decided to put their rats on diet by mixing the food with sawdust. The rats survived this and stayed healthy. So the […]
Kawaguchi is asteroid #7953 and also known as 1993 KP. Kawaguchi measures 4.8 km in diameter. Kawaguchi’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.38 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.19, a period of revolution of 1’344 days, and an inclination of 3.6 degrees. Kawaguchi was discovered by Ōtomo Satoru (大友 哲), a Japanese […]
