Monthly Archives: April 2016
Video: Filtering Drinking Water with Nanofibers
This water bottle filter, made from nanofibers, can reduce water-borne diseases.
Liquidity, an Alameda, California-based startup, has developed a low-cost water filter made from nanofibers that it hopes will reduce water-borne diseases in poor countries. Naked Filter, a version designed for the developed world, attaches to a plastic water bottle. Its membrane of electrospun nanofibers allows water to pass through it quickly.
Conservation Ecology News: the 3rd big tree plant is coming up! Book the weekend. Free accommodation and food!
Source: Conservation Ecology News
Global Middle Ages:Illuminated manuscripts were products of… | The Getty
The Fables of Leonardo da Vinci – Medievalists.net
11th Annual Meeting ZKS Foundation Board in Geneva: Another 30 grants and other subsidies
Schindler’s List (ZKS Foundation Publication List) is updated. Have a look at the ZKS library!
This is great: 80 rhinos headed for Australia in bold move to save species – Australian GeographicBUT WHAT ABOUT THE NATIVE AUSTRALIAN SPECIES???
Australia is set to be a sanctuary for Africa’s endangered rhinos as poaching operations escalate, killing record numbers for Asia’s illegal horn trade.
Source: 80 rhinos headed for Australia in bold move to save species – Australian Geographic
Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman – Medievalists.net
Lionheart By Sharon Kay Penman Penguin Books, 2011 ISBN: 978039915785 Publisher’s Description: From the New York Times-bestselling novelist, a stunning story of a great medieval warrior-king, the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Richard, Coeur de Lion. They were called “The Devil’s Brood,” though never to their faces. They were the …