Jinn?
According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtains of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. May grant wishes.
Projects
Travel, around the world.
Sleep, less.
Profit, more.
Eat, deliciously.
Find, a new home.
Bio?
Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — mixed up genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly languages, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Roles: entrepreneur, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer, director of technology, project lead, solutions architect — as well as gardener, factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, student, teacher, language lawyer, traveller, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, philosopher, consultant
2003-May-10
Cayman Islands, discovered 500 years ago
The Cayman Islands were sighted by Christopher Columbus exactly five centuries ago, on 1503-May-10, during his fourth and last voyage to the West Indies (and America). At first the Spaniards named the islands
Las Tortugasbecause of the many turtles in the surrounding waters, but by 1530 they were known as the Caimanas or Caymanes after the alligators reported to be native there.
Fertile ants
BBC News:
Army ants, these days dispersed across the world, all came from a single source over 100 million years ago on the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. ... Army ants ... are in general nomadic, foraging for prey without advance scouting, and their wingless queens can produce up to four million eggs in a month. ... [They] have evolved only once and that was in the mid-Cretaceous period.Up to four million eggs a month corresponds to more than one egg per second (there are 2.5m seconds in a 30-day month).
Guide to the May 15-16 total lunar eclipse
space.com:
No enthusiastic skywatcher ever misses a total eclipse of the Moon. Yet during the time that the Moon is entering into and later emerging from out of the Earth's shadow, secondary phenomena may be overlooked by any observer who isn't prepared.Read the whole thing for a chronological guide through the upcoming total lunar eclipse.
At 2am GMT, May 16, you will notice that the edge of the Earth's [umbra] shadow projected on the Moon is curved. Here is visible evidence that the Earth is a sphere, as deduced by Aristotle from lunar eclipses he observed in the 4th Century BC.
Update: the BBC has some additional information.
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