$10,000 question: what are you guys looking onto?
A computer monitor, aren't you?
WE TOO ARE THE POLLUTERS. RIGHT NOW. (Though indirectly.) It's a fact: in 1990, everyone had CRT monitors. These are obsolete now. MEGATONS of CRT monitors, turned from an everyday object to waste. E-WASTE. Dubious organizations ship these huge amounts of old hardware to countries like Nigeria, Ghana, China and some others. Poor people say, they can make a humble living by getting the copper out of the printed circuit boards. Though using MEDIEVAL methods. Heck, yes, open fires and things; and they inhalate the toxines at the same time. Well, they must live too, they say. The unused, highly TOXIC stuff falls down, on the ground. Rain comes and washes the stuff into the local lagoons or seas. HIGHLY TOXIC WASTE. Poor fishermen must fish anyway, washing (!!) their fish using (still) clear water. But you can't get the toxines out completely that way!
It's a huge problem. we must act. NOW.
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A comment on Talk: Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
I was just working on my German translation of this talk yesterday, and had absolutely NO idea! He passed away on October 14th.
I had to check out Wikipedia to verify the incredible news.
May this talk remain his sort of "digital monument". :)
We have to be thankful that TED could get him there on the symposium IN TIME before it was too late.
R. I. P.
A comment on Talk: Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory -- and horror
$10,000 question: what are you guys looking onto?
A computer monitor, aren't you?
WE TOO ARE THE POLLUTERS. RIGHT NOW. (Though indirectly.) It's a fact: in 1990, everyone had CRT monitors. These are obsolete now. MEGATONS of CRT monitors, turned from an everyday object to waste. E-WASTE. Dubious organizations ship these huge amounts of old hardware to countries like Nigeria, Ghana, China and some others. Poor people say, they can make a humble living by getting the copper out of the printed circuit boards. Though using MEDIEVAL methods. Heck, yes, open fires and things; and they inhalate the toxines at the same time. Well, they must live too, they say. The unused, highly TOXIC stuff falls down, on the ground. Rain comes and washes the stuff into the local lagoons or seas. HIGHLY TOXIC WASTE. Poor fishermen must fish anyway, washing (!!) their fish using (still) clear water. But you can't get the toxines out completely that way!
It's a huge problem. we must act. NOW.