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.

Source: Video: Filtering Drinking Water with Nanofibers

11th Annual Meeting ZKS Foundation Board in Geneva: Another 30 grants and other subsidies

Fountain in front of meeting place near Geneva’s Old Town
Jacqueline Schindler before the meeting close to Geneva’s Old Town
Table layout before start of ZKS board meeting
Professors of both fields and ZKS Foundation’s Bank Manger
Professor of Mediaeval Studies
Professors of Engineering and ZKS Foundation’s Secretary
Professors of Engineering and Secretary
Professors of Mediaeval Studies
Fountain In front of ZKS meeting place near Geneva’s Old Town
Jacqueline Schindlerafter the meeting close to Geneva’s Old Town

Schindler’s List (ZKS Foundation Publication List) is updated. Have a look at the ZKS library!

Shakespeare
ZKS Library: Close Up
ZKS Library: Close up
ZKS Library
ZKS Library
Koala and Tiger Quoll, endangered Australian species
Dante
Mount Pilatus
Monk in Scriptorium
Lake Lucerne
Lake Lucerne
Jacqueline Schindler’s study
Jacqueline Schindler’s study
Jacqueline Schindler’s study
Jacqueline Schindler’s study

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 …

Source: Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman – Medievalists.net