This is like a miracle especially if you think that it is only hours since the great Arthur Clarke died. A carbon-containing molecule has been detected for the first time on a planet outside our Solar System.
The organic compound methane was found in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting a star some 63 light [...]
March 19, 2008
On the other side of the galaxy
March 19, 2008
Mugabe’s ‘democratic’ elections
Zimbabwe is failing to meet its democratic obligations in the run up to elections on 29 March, says an international human rights group. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the government has intimidated opposition supporters, and that the electoral process is deeply flawed.
Reading that about Mugabe’s elections and his idea of democracy you [...]
March 19, 2008
The Ovi magazine today
Today’s Ovi magazine articles:
Outrageous Happenings in Tibet: Boycott the Olympics by Alexandra Pereira
Every citizen of the supposedly democratic countries should show his/her repulsion towards the recent happenings in Lhasa and the almost 60-year-old occupation of Tibet by China, following abominable policies of ethnic genocide and religious and cultural.
China’s Copycat Economics by Valerie Sartor
North American [...]
March 19, 2008
Arthur C Clarke died
One of the best, most likely the best, science fiction author just died. With him science fiction had a real meaning since his work was based into scientific facts, scientist himself!
And is so weird, a few weeks before I bought a book with a collection of Arthur Clarke’s very early works, short stories coming from [...]
March 19, 2008
Protesters ’surrender’ to Chinese police in Tibet
I find it difficult to believe that more than 100 people have turned themselves in to Chinese police following the anti-China riots in Tibet’s capital. Lhasa. I find difficult to believe that these people surrendered voluntarily as the Chinese state said, in response to a deadline given by the authorities!
The Chinese government said that it [...]
