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October 25th, 2007 — Companies
I’m used to receiving changes to terms and conditions of my accounts with Citibank from time to time. The last one caught my eye:
The current terms and conditions already permit your data to be transferred to, stored and processed in other countries related to the operation of your account. [Damit, is that so?]
October 21st, 2007 — Natural History
Not that it will change my life for ever, but I happened to wonder how far away the Geographic North Pole and the Magnetic North Pole are from each other.
I used Google Earth to get an approximation of the distance. I used the ruler (menu Tools > Ruler in the version 4.2.0198.2451 (beta) of Google Earth).
October 14th, 2007 — acute accent
Scientists don’t find an adequate material to store nuclear waste in. A traditional candidate for the job was zircon (ZrSiO4), a ceramic mineral that is known to survive geologic processes like erosion, transport and even high-grade metamorphism.