NIGHTWATCH Special Report: Afghanistan Taliban Numbers

NightWatch 29 November 2010 Special Report: October in Afghanistan Findings: The number of clashes in October in the NightWatch data base, which contains exclusively open source reports on fighting, remained elevated, at 701. The Taliban “victory” offensive continues. NightWatch estimates this number represents a fourth to a half of the actual total, but it includes …

Crime Data Controversy: Open or Proprietary

forums.e-democracy.org correspondences on the issue BAD news for opening up broad access to crime data – the number one everyday citizen demanded government information based my direct experience with online community forums. Note some useful links: http://pages.e-democracy.org/Minneapolis_and_St._Paul_crime_data “CrimeReports is contending in a current federal case that public crime data becomes CrimeReports’ own proprietary product in …

Homemade Spacecraft w/Camera + iPhone Attached Records Blackness of Space

The Brooklyn Space Program is a organization formed by a group of friends in New York City interested in scientific experiments, engineering, design and education. See this video from a camera attached to a weather balloon that rose into the upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space. See the slideshow BrooklynSpaceProgram.org

Journal: Solar Power for Africa…One Option

Micro Scaled Concentrated Solar Power units , Clean Energy to Power a Multi-biulding Health Clinic Sopogy, Inc., manufacturer of the proprietary micro-scaled concentrating solar power (MicroCSP) system, is demonstrating its SopoNova™ solar panels at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. The project developed by STG International (previously known as Solar Turbine Group) is designed to …