Friday, April 22, 2011

The Rodadero

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Rodadero and Qocha  Chincanas at Cusco "To the north of Chuquipampa we find Suchuna. It is a geologic formation similar to a hill wit...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bofedales - wetlands

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Wiki  is reporting that "Bofedal es un humedal de altura y se considera una pradera nativa poco extensa con permanente humedad. Los veg...

Frost mitigation

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Very interesting paper on raised fields and their physics (in English and Spanish). Modelling nocturnal heat dynamics and frost mitigation...

Qocha

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From the article, Los camellones alrededor del lago Titicaca, by Pierre Morlon, 2006. The article is discussing the traditional agricultural...

El sueño de la razón

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Il  sonno della ragione genera mostri (El sueño de la razón produce monstruos) è un' acquaforte e acquatinta realizzata nel 1797 dal...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Sugawara no Michizane

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Sugawara no Michizane che cavalca un bufalo. Utagawa Sadakage (attivo dal 1818-1844) Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) venne divinizzato come ...

Hokusai manga - supernatural

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The Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画) is a collection of sketches of various subjects by the Japanese artist Hokusai . Subjects of the sketches include l...

World Wide Words: Rule of thumb

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"The expression rule of thumb has been recorded since 1692 and probably wasn’t new then. It meant then what it means now — some method ...

Invisibility cloaks

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Novel cloaking device makes 'larger' objects invisible, 20 April 2011 | By Andrew Czyzewski "Researchers have developed a nove...

Astronomical sensors for terrestrial use

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QMC adapts astronomical sensors for terrestrial use, 19 April 2011 | By Andrew Czyzewski "Highly sensitive astronomical sensors are be...