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Letter from Here (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The construction that has been going on the last few months in Vilas Park at the Lake Wingra outlet to Wingra Creek is finished, and the resulting new Lake Wingra Dam is a real beauty. In the place of the former dumpy little structure built a century ago, the new dam arcs around in a graceful concrete semicircle. As you can see in the little video clip, the dam creates a natural amphitheater that seems...
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My Manila (Free subscription) | yesterday
Built in 1940, the former Finance Building in the City of Manila was designed principally by the Filipino architect Antonio Toledo, who received his training at the Brooklyn Institute of Technology, Ohio State University and Cornell. Toledo was a member of the Bureau of Public Works, the agency which was in charge of the construction of all government buildings during the American colonial era . He...
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My Bandra Blogs Mumbai Classifieds (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
About Gammon India Ltd. : Gammon India is not only the largest civil engineering construction company in India, but can lay claim for the largest number of bridges built in the whole of Commonwealth. With over seventy years of tradition in the field of construction. Gammon is a name that is inextricably woven into the fabric [...]
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My Bandra Blogs Mumbai Classifieds (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
About Gammon India : Gammon India is not only the largest civil engineering construction company in India, but can lay claim for the largest number of bridges built in the whole of Commonwealth. With over seventy years of tradition in the field of construction. Gammon is a name that is inextricably woven into the fabric of [...]
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Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
If you think "Sony" or "Toyota" when you think of Japan, you might just be as clueless as I've been about "the nation’s postwar order, which relied on colossal public works spending," according to the New York Times . I missed the Times story when it ran last month. I only found it because twice in as many weeks I've had the good luck to talk with a woman who moved...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
A new report examines and, when possible, estimates "hidden" costs of energy production and use -- such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health -- that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Cambrian Explosion is widely regarded as one of the most relevant episodes in the history of life on Earth, when the vast majority of animal phyla first appear in the fossil record. However, the causes of its origin have been object of debate for decades. A novel theory formulates that the geologically induced increase on marine calcium, as a result of volcanic activity, might be the key for understanding...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Researchers have developed a process that can mix tiny volumes of liquid, even in complicated spaces. The discovery of how to mix tiny liquid volumes arose from research directed at improving the sensitivity of the chemical sensors developed in his lab. While their original project did not lead to the expected results, researchers were surprised by the wide variety of physical effects they discovered...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Just in time for Halloween, researchers have announced the discovery of a new, real-world "monster" -- what they are calling a "unicorn" fly that lived about 100 million years ago and is being described as a new family, genus and species of fly never before observed.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
A new "Roadrunner Universe" model requires a petascale computer because, like the universe, it's mind-bendingly large. The model's basic unit is a particle with a mass of approximately one billion suns (in order to sample galaxies with masses of about a trillion suns), and it includes 64 billion and more of those particles. The model is one of the largest simulations of the distribution of...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
What do a West African drummer and a sperm whale have in common? According to some reports, they can both spot rhythms in the chatter of an ocean crowded with the calls of marine mammals -- a feat impossible for the untrained human ear.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental science projects.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Why did Barack Obama win the US election and did the fact he is over six feet tall influence the voters? Researchers argue that due to 'a hangover from our evolutionary past' factors like age, sex, height and weight play a major part in the determining our choice of leaders.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
As Saturn's rings orbit the planet, a section is typically in the planet's shadow, experiencing a brief night lasting from 6 to 14 hours. However, once approximately every 15 years, night falls over the entire visible ring system for about four days.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Chemists have developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows researchers to identify previously unseen molecules in living organisms and offers broad applications in biomedical imaging and research.
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kellya | 22/01/2009
Other promising sectors for U.S. investors and exporters are: consumer goods; healthcare construction, equipment and services; infrastructure, civil engineering and construction; water resources equipment, and power generation. The Algerian market share is dominated by Europe and Asia, but U.S. products are starting to gain trust on the market due to the quality of the products. Also, demand has increased
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