How lobster shells are teaching scientists to make stronger concrete
The interwoven layers that make up the lobster s shell help it withstand tonnes of water pressure. Now those layers are also helping humans find ways to strengthen concrete arches and other intricate building shapes.
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VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 23
23/01/2021 10:35 GMT+7
Hanoi’s air quality continues worsening
Hanoi’s air pollution has continued worsening in many areas, posing health risks for local residents.
According to the Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the air quality index at the city’s 34 air monitoring stations this morning, January 21 faced extremely severe pollution. Four stations located in Thanh Xuan District, Cau Giay District and Hoan Kiem District had the worst results.
The department’s Environmental Protection Board said that the content of high fine particulate matters of PM 2.5 and PM 10 increased by 1.3-2 times against the day before.
Weather conditions with the thick dense smog and high moisture is among the major causes of the serious pollution in the city, the board added.
Fisher grew up on a farm in the country town of Rockbank, about 30 kilometres from metropolitan Melbourne, one of only a handful of students at the small local school. He later attended Melbourne High School before undertaking a computer science degree at RMIT (formerly the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology). Though it originated decades earlier, HIV/Aids was sweeping the world in the 1980s and early 1990s. Misinformation and homophobia were rife. Aids was labelled the “gay plague”, and initially named “Gay Related Immune Deficiency”. The spectre loomed large. In 1987-88, when Fisher came out while at university, the ‘Grim Reaper’ ad campaign screened on Australian televisions, showing the personification of death bowling – knocking over men, women and children.
A Pathway to Creativity and Dreams, Paved with Legos
December 23, 2020
. Today our distinguished columnist, Dr. Joseph Kerski, features Samuel Mollema from Melbourne, Australia.
During the 2019 conference of the Geography Teachersâ Association of Victoria, in Melbourne, my colleague and I were operating an exhibit for Esri Australia. We soon noticed that there was another fascinating exhibitor there, not a company, nonprofit, or government agency, but an amazing one-man show named Samuel Mollema. His Lego model of Melbourne, painstakingly created at a specific scale piece-by-piece from thousands of Lego sets, so inspired me that I asked him if he would share his story on GeoInspirations. Here is a video I filmed of his work. In talking with him at the conference and thereafter, it is clear that not only his Lego model is inspiring, but his career journey and vision for the future makes him seem much wiser and older than his 19 years. It is my great pleasure to introduce Sam
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The two aim to address a number of various issues that are pressing blockchain technology today. RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub is the first research center focusing on social science regarding the blockchain in the world. It unites the economists, social science researchers, and others for the common goal of changing blockchain applications across various fields.
The group plans to improve the current knowledge regarding blockchain governance models, help speed up the standardization of the blockchain governance consensus, and more.
Through collaboration, the two hope to create a framework for evaluation and comparisons of the governance systems of public chains. The team also aims to create a theoretical understanding of the dimensions of decentralization for public chains.