Tuesday, November 27, 2007

[en] 15 cool word illusions

Find them here.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

[en] A confimation ... by NG

Of course we all knew that this was true, but now we have it verified by others : www.nationalgeographic.com

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Friday, October 26, 2007

[en] Online TV

I have just found a service which alows you to watch various channel live online on your computer, such as DR1, DR2, TV2, NRK1 og others: Zattoo .
Since we are at the subject, I can also mention Joost (which I dont like very much) and Babelgum (which looks better).

[Faroese version]

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

[en] A fantastic page

Stumbled upon this great page - it's fun and you just might learn some physics reading it.
Here it is.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

[en] Big news!

Read a wonderful article on dr.dk today - but there is something wrong isn't there?
Extracting energy from salt water.... Youtube video here. Please then go down and read the comments.

Bottom line: This is a reinvented eternity machine - and we all know how well that works!

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Friday, August 31, 2007

[en] Oooops! Too much browsing

I just became member of a very exclusive club, the club to have experienced something very special. To see what I saw go here.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

[en] Whale killing in the Faroe Islands



Today a herd of Pilot whales where killed in Tórshavn on the Faroe Islands. There is a article about this here. Also you can enjoy the beautiful images from the killings here in these two galleries: Gallery 1 and Gallery 2.

Long live the Pilot whale killings!

Having received criticism for this article I have deceived to add some more informative text on the killing from wikiedia.org - Whaling in the Faroe Islands.

From wikipedia.org:

Whaling in the Faroe Islands has been practised since at least the tenth century.[1] It is regulated by Faroese authorities and approved by the International Whaling Commission. Around 950 Long-finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melaena) are killed annually, mainly during the summer. Occasionally, other species are hunted as well, such as the Northern Bottlenose Whale and Atlantic White-sided Dolphin. The hunts, called "grindadráp" in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organised on a community level; anyone can participate. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semi-circle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales slowly into a bay or to the bottom of a fjord.

Most Faroese consider the hunt an important part of their culture and history. However, animal rights groups criticize the hunt as being cruel and unnecessary.[2] [3] The hunters claim in return that most journalists do not exhibit sufficient knowledge of the catch methods or its economic significance.[4]



Good whaling... Jari

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Monday, July 16, 2007

[en] Our cousin got a scholarship

Recently it came to my attention that our cousin Jeppe has got a scholarship (check it here) - we congratulate him.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

[en] Prizes

I have in the last few weeks had the pleasure of winning two prizes:

The prize for best phd-talk at the Danish Physical Society's Annual meeting in Nyborg 19-20th July 2007.











At the ECNS 2007 I was awarded one of the poster prizes for my poster on (European Conference on Neutron Scattering "Criticality in CoO Nanoparticles" (Poster no. M122).

Today (12-07-2007) a news article appeared on the internal homepage Risø National Laboratory where I work. It is not accessible from the outside, but I made a copy. Here it is: Main page - News article.

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Friday, March 9, 2007

[en] Where have I been?