The scene: a student flat in my youth. Try this, says a friend. (No, not what you’re thinking.) I put on a pair of bulky, leather-padded headphones and immediately I am transported into my own private concert hall, to which the rest of the world doesn’t have a ticket. My friend, who had some very… Continue reading
How Abu Dhabi builds hotels, and keeps its hawksbill turtles
A wonderful thing will happen this spring at dead of night down on the shore in front of the Park Hyatt in Abu Dhabi. An ancient natural cycle – something repeated over many, many thousands of years – will be completed when a hawksbill turtle hauls herself onto the beach and labouriously crawls to… Continue reading →
Beach of promise – turtles at Dalyan
Spectrum: Beach of promise Source: The Times (London, England). (Nov. 25, 1987) GARETH HUW DAVIES Under the jet black Turkish night the last of the season’s loggerhead turtle hatchlings have straddled off Dalyan Beach, past the tireless pickets of Shore Crabs and hyenas, to the sea. The continuing struggle for survival by one of… Continue reading →
3 am in an outpost of Paradise, turtles in life-and-death race to the sea
It’s 3 am in an outpost of Paradise, a wide, flat beach on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast. Under the cool, cream glow of the full moon, I am a spectator at a race for life. At my feet, breaststroking along on tiny flippers over the hard sand at two yards a minute, is a survivor from… Continue reading →
UK company Iceotope finds way to cool down data server – saves power, cuts Co2
The most surprising piece of video I’ve seen recently is of a smartphone immersed in a beaker of some clear liquid, photographing the TV camera that was filming it. Link here This is what TV viewers saw, and I’m sure they were amazed. Doesn’t everybody know that if you drop your mobile phone into water,… Continue reading →
Tourists taking photos of whale sharks could be helping conservation
The citizen photographer is starting to be very useful. I would be surprised if one of the images of the year is not the Russian meteorite flashing across a Urals motorway, filmed by one of the dashboard cameras that drivers there habitually carry to record fake accidents. Other dramatic images of 2013, captured by the… Continue reading →