Trailblazer

Article Abstract:

Researcher Louis Liebenberg has provided handheld computers to a Kalahari Desert hunter-gatherer group of San Bushmen, in southern Africa. The Bushmen, who are expert trackers, are uploading information about their observations of animals into a central database via satellite. ?

General services, Public affairs, Social aspects, Usage, Innovations, Hand-held computers, Handheld computers, Company systems management, Information management, 21st century AD, Environmental monitoring, Hand-held terminals, Hunting and gathering societies, Tracking and trailing, Animal tracking, San (African people), Bushmen, Liebenberg, Louis

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Avalanche

Article Abstract:

Research at Switzerland's Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (known as SLF, its German abbreviation), involving avalanche forecasting, is described and discussed.

Switzerland, Natural disasters, Avalanches

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A user's guide to time travel: all it takes is a grasp of theoretical physics, control of the space-time continuum, and maybe a ball of cosmic string

Article Abstract:

Various designs involving the possibility of time travel are identified and explained.

United States, Time travel

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