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> The whole school system should be setup to push each student to the maximum of their potential, regardless of how high or low it is.

Things used to be that way, but times have changed. For example, check out some questions from the 1901, 1926, and 1999 exams.

> The whole school system should be setup to push each student to the maximum of their potential, regardless of how high or low it is.

Things used to be that way, but times have changed. For example, check out some questions from the 1901, 1926, and 1999 exams.

There's an interesting discussion of the SAT on the show Think Tank on PBS. The transcript is available.

There's an interesting discussion of the SAT on the show Think Tank on PBS. The transcript is available.

There's an interesting discussion of the SAT on the show Think Tank on PBS. The transcript is available.

There's an interesting discussion of the SAT on the show Think Tank on PBS. The transcript is available.

The current Pulpit has an interesting related analysis.

What's going to happen is we have to go into the protein world to really understand where the genome is taking the next level of biology. That's ten times as complex at least.

What is also noted is that the combination of these protein interactions is staggeringly more complex. I can imagine that the system interactions may be a million times or more complex.

So in my mind, patenting a gene might wind up being similar to patenting the management system of a nuclear power plant, and thinking that therefore you understand nuclear physics.

What's going to happen is we have to go into the protein world to really understand where the genome is taking the next level of biology. That's ten times as complex at least.

What is also noted is that the combination of these protein interactions is staggeringly more complex. I can imagine that the system interactions may be a million times or more complex.

So in my mind, patenting a gene might wind up being similar to patenting the management system of a nuclear power plant, and thinking that therefore you understand nuclear physics.

. . . end of story . . really. examples you ask?

Let's start with the Jim Lehrer interview with Bush. He (George) states clearly that he favors Microsoft and what they have done for the technology movmement.

George W. Bush: I hope, though, that whatever settlement is done it won't ruin this company because this company has been a very interesting innovator, and so I hope the judge would keep in mind that this company is an important part of the technological revolution taking place in America.

yawn . . the interview then turns to Bush advisor Ralph Reed - who was on the Microsoft payroll. Bush tries to wiggle out the issue, etc. . but the damage is done there. What do we learn from this encounter? Bush likes Microsoft, would prefer to not see the company broken up, and has a close advisor who is paid by Microsoft. Brilliant.

This quote from Salon.com:

Texas governor has gone on record strongly defending the software giant against the federal suit. "What I am worried about is if this company were to be broken up, this engine of change and this engine of growth," Bush said in February. "I am not sympathetic to lawsuits. Write that down."

Next,we have this article and this one and this one (which states Bush owns sares of Microsoft . . . ugh.

Of course the deal closer is the fact the www.georgewbush.com is running Windows 2000 (According to NetCraft). Heh,heh.

ok so what is my point (i have the flu . . just hold on for a second) . . Bush clearly has postive feelings towards Microsoft. I think Aschroft does too . . in the end these two hold enough strings to probably pull the case in their favor.

While I realize that know one really needs to tape all that much hellevision a month (gotta get away from that confounded machine!) this does have repercussions on teachers that rely on PBS for teaching aides.

If this is true what implications could that have on the the news that's in the parent post?

Go ahead mod me down.

Where'd you get the stuff in bold? I'm curious to read the rest of it.

That's at Bin-Laden Interview.

Where, O where did you get YOUR info???
129 warplanes is about 25% of the US invading force[...] and somehow, the media MISSED THAT?

I wish I could say that S was near N on the keyboard... in any case, the best summary of NATO warplane losses that I can find in 5 minutes on Google is at NATO Warplanes used & lost. Note that the figures there are planes downed on Yugoslav territory... more were lost over non-YS territory...

There's better stuff out there (and in my bookmarks elsewhere)... the Canadian NATO commander, particularly, noted how incredible the YS pilots were... MiG-29s are nothing to sneeze at :)

Here's the real stats:
1. Cruise missiles with 30 percent hit ratios -- this is true

The point is that they were reported to the US public at over 90%; and that the Tomahawk development team had been given that as a goal. 30%, the publicity figure that the Pentagon pulled back to, was in fact the overall hit percent for Tomahawk targets -- meaning it doesn't reflect that it may have taken multiple Tomahawks to hit the target.

Untrue. It was local Somalians... and we actually had a 20:1 kill ratio...

There were a great number of Afganistanis there... and 20:1, if true, is pretty sucky against Somalis, compared to 200:1 in Iraq, no? Not that I'd believe Pentagon figures any more than I believe General Westmoreland's body counts...

only one manned plane was shot down.

See above. You were reading the US media, as it did its very poor job of serving the US people. The F-16 downs just didn't make the big papers.

I think it's important to put Bin-Laden's quote in context:
----> The US conducts Operation Desert Storm. The US media reports it is an enormous success -- highlighting the role of Patriot missles and other high-tech systems -- when in fact, MIT researchers later show that none of the Patriots hit their intended targets, cruise missle performance was dismal (30% ish), etc.
----> In 1992, a bunch of Bin-Laden trained hicks kick the US's butt in Somalia. Boy, we don't hear much about US military effectiveness in the media.
----> In Spring 2000, 129 US warplanes are downed in the Yugoslav/Kosovo conflict. The NY Times reports only one of these.

As an advocate of a truly strong military -- as opposed to a bloated, bureaucratic, budget-and-career-path grabbing mess -- I think we ought to be listening pretty strongly when Bin-Laden says America is run by "devils."

Why? Because what Bin-Laden is saying is that America is much weaker than is says it is. That it is run by a bunch of cowards who lie about just about everything -- including our military capacity. And that sort of lying has everything to do with the current case.

Instead of going out there and building a strong, honorable military that can defend Americans along with the ideal of freedom, the FBI and etc. are going out there and building a totalitarian state that prevents the flow of information and the development of ideas. It's saying that people can't have encryption, because we're too cowardly and lazy to defend against it, and playing to the weakness and fear of the public. This is the essence of unfreedom. This is what destroys republics.

It is also the direct opposite of the democratic ideal which protects our society. The idea of freedom of information is that we become strongest when ideas can flow without government restriction -- that we solve problems, build economies, develop new technologies, and learn to protect ourselves better in a free society. And it is for this reason that totalitarian societies are doomed to freedom.

Is Mr. Bin-Laden using encryption? Is he building a military force to fight the U.S. government? Is he hurting the U.S.? If so, then I say, as an American, thank you Mr. Bin-Laden. Thank you for pointing out how weak we have become, under the direction of Mr. Freeh, and Messrs. Bush, and Mr. Clinton. Thank you for showing us that our society is so weak, and so unfree, that it cannot defend itself from you. Thank you for pointing out the devils among us, and how unfree they have made us, and that they are liars.

And that the lie is, that it is good to restrict technology, restrict information, restrict DeCSS, restrict encryption. That it is good to not let Americans see when their planes are shot down, or when their soldier die because they are unprepared for real war, because it "maintains morale" and public support for the military. The lie is, that restrictions and lying and totalitarianism makes us stronger, when it weakens us, weakens our military, and weakens our democracy. The lie is, that this benefits anyone, other than the bastards telling the lie. And by that, I mean Louis Freeh, among others, in this case.

All I have left to say, is that it is time to get the bastards out of office.

When the Marines landed in the last days of 1992, bin Laden sent in his own soldiers, armed with AK-47's and rocket launchers. Soon, using the techniques they had perfected against the Russians, they were shooting down American helicopters. The gruesome pictures of the body of a young army ranger being dragged naked through the streets by cheering crowds flashed around the world. The yearlong American rescue mission for starving Somalians went from humanitarian effort to quagmire in just three weeks. Another superpower humiliated. Another bin Laden victory.

"After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle, thinking that the Americans were like the Russians," bin Laden said. "The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda ... about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."

So they come up with a slightly slicker version of Paypal's Web Accept program. (One of Amazon's innovations is a personalized greeting on the payment button -- a feature that may backfire given the privacy issues.) But everyone's going to ask, Doesn't Paypal already do this? And why should an emerchant use Amazon -- a competing emerchant?

So they don't market the thing as a micropayment system. They call it a "tip jar" system, which makes it sound like something new, and gives them a foothold in small sites that are noncommercial or don't compete with Amazon. That creates "brand awareness" (a holy concept with this company) and a chance to get a foothold in a market dominated by Paypal.

I think the whole thing's gonna be a big bust. Paypal has done a good job of designing a simple, usable payment system and building a loyal customer base. The Amazon payment systemis one of those half-assed initiatives that works better as a Powerpoint presentation than in the real world.

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1) all communication between airplane and control tower, anywhere in the world, is conducted in English

2) a lot of European companies conduct their business in English, even if none of the parties involved are from an english speaking country.

3) English is an approved language for official documents in China

The Pokemon anime was not inspired by Nintendo's videogame. I think it was the other way around

First, there were Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue for the Game Boy handheld console, quite good console RPGs. Then the TV show came out and fscked up the whole franchise. For example, instead of Team Rocket being like the Mafia, it became two dumbarses. And Ash was also dumbed down and given a voice nearly identical to that of Noddy from PBS's Noddy. It's almost as bad as what happened to Super Mario Bros. the Movie. Ecch. And then they tried to turn the TV show into a video game (Pokemon Special Pikachu Edition, commonly known as Pokemon Yellow).

Well, if a change in Earth's tilt triggered the change then fixing it will be an Earth-shaking project. If Himalayan erosion cooled Earth, the fix might be as simple as sealing the mountains in plastic.

This looks a lot like the technology described in last week's I, Cringley column.

Tesla invented radio. Marconi made his fortune on Tesla's patents.

PBS recently aired a documentary on Tesla -- you can view the Web site here: http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ .

Everyone said Tesla was crazy when he said you could generate AC power from Niagara Falls. They are the first installation of hydroelectric power anywhere in the world.

Tesla is the king (and the USA stole his "deathray" plans). They're also working on another weapon he designed.

• US NAVY site (you will be monitored)
• Project home page (another military site -- you will be monitored)
• Conspiracy site -- lots of projects links (not military, but you may be monitored anyway, you conpiracy theory spouting nut!!! : ) ).

In short, Tesla was robbed.

Even if this is true, so what?

The "so what" is that this is largely the part that the executive branch has sway over, and the Democratic administration demonstrably worked to cut it down. Like I said, you're unwilling to give them credit for this project.

Gore's repeated statements that half of the benefit goes to the richest 1% is a flat-out lie.

Well, here's Jim Hines, University of Michigan Business School Professor attesting that the top 1% get 30% of the benefit, here . You can call the "half to 1%" phrase a flat-out lie if you must, but it's basically correct. Furthermore, your attempt at calling Bush's plan "progressive" is bewildering: the low tax bracket would go from 15 to 10 (a 5% reduction), while the high tax bracket goes from 39.6 to 33 (a 6.6% reduction). An extra cut for the most wealthy. That's documented here

For Greenspan's comments on real privatization, see http://www.senate.gov/~gramm/policy/grnspan.html

Your link doesn't have any comments by Greenspan on privatization at all! It's a PR piece out of Phil Gramm's office trying to make it look like Greenspan liked a proposal of his. The entirety of Greenspan's quote is this: "'Well, Senator, I react favorably to that sort of system,' responded Greenspan, adding, however, that he would want to see all the details before endorsing such a plan."

the page on patents is especially interesting. For example, he invented a radio remote control mechanism for a boat in 1898!

I tend to side with Tesla on this as far as the radio question goes. These paragraphs from the soon to be slashed website on Tesla perhaps summarize it best:

Despite the fact that almost every book mentions Guglielmo Marconi as the inventor of radio, the only thing Marconi did seems to be nothing more than reproducing apparati Nikola Tesla had registered years ago. Marconi copied Tesla, made some modifications, built a large industry producing radio devices in Europe and spent huge amounts to advertise his supposed invention.

Nine months after Tesla's death, the Supreme Patent Court of the USA decides that Nikola Tesla must be considered the father of wireless transmission and radio. Justifying its decision the court notes that in Marconi's related Patent (Íï. 764772 of 1904) there is nothing new not having been earlier published and registered by Tesla. The Court considered Marconi's claim that he did not knew of Tesla's patents false

the page on patents is especially interesting. For example, he invented a radio remote control mechanism for a boat in 1898!

I tend to side with Tesla on this as far as the radio question goes. These paragraphs from the soon to be slashed website on Tesla perhaps summarize it best:

Despite the fact that almost every book mentions Guglielmo Marconi as the inventor of radio, the only thing Marconi did seems to be nothing more than reproducing apparati Nikola Tesla had registered years ago. Marconi copied Tesla, made some modifications, built a large industry producing radio devices in Europe and spent huge amounts to advertise his supposed invention.

Nine months after Tesla's death, the Supreme Patent Court of the USA decides that Nikola Tesla must be considered the father of wireless transmission and radio. Justifying its decision the court notes that in Marconi's related Patent (Íï. 764772 of 1904) there is nothing new not having been earlier published and registered by Tesla. The Court considered Marconi's claim that he did not knew of Tesla's patents false

the page on patents is especially interesting. For example, he invented a radio remote control mechanism for a boat in 1898!

I tend to side with Tesla on this as far as the radio question goes. These paragraphs from the soon to be slashed website on Tesla perhaps summarize it best:

Despite the fact that almost every book mentions Guglielmo Marconi as the inventor of radio, the only thing Marconi did seems to be nothing more than reproducing apparati Nikola Tesla had registered years ago. Marconi copied Tesla, made some modifications, built a large industry producing radio devices in Europe and spent huge amounts to advertise his supposed invention.

Nine months after Tesla's death, the Supreme Patent Court of the USA decides that Nikola Tesla must be considered the father of wireless transmission and radio. Justifying its decision the court notes that in Marconi's related Patent (Íï. 764772 of 1904) there is nothing new not having been earlier published and registered by Tesla. The Court considered Marconi's claim that he did not knew of Tesla's patents false

"How can free software be threatened by commercial software? Linux and Apache have no market share or profitability goals, so they can't be threatened in these areas." [ ... ] "The threat only exists if we accept Microsoft's view that market share matters. Yet the whole key to the success of Linux and Apache is to not care about market share. "

As a BSD user, I am of course interested to see what effect the wider publicity geberated by MacOS X will have on my favourite family of operating systems. But if you ask if MacOS X will harm Linux, the free BSDs, or any other piece of open software... I have to tell you that I find your question irrelevant. :-)

Nova even has a companion web site
here
for their show "The Diamond Deception."

(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/diamond/
for those who worry about the goat...)

Gemesis is a Florida company that is now producing large, gem-quality clear or colored diamonds.

There's not much information on the Gemesis web site, but a few weeks ago I remember watching a PBS Nova program entitled "The Diamond Deception" about the quest for gem quality man-made diamonds. Gemesis contracted for Russian technology to produce what they claim are the best man-made diamonds in the world -- diamonds that can only be detected by a fluorescence test.

The stones being produced are of such high quality that DeBeers is seriously concerned about the future of the diamond market.

To quote the show...
"After fourteen minutes, the fire burned itself out. The next morning, Jerry's NASA support team arrived at Russian mission control near Moscow with no idea that there had been a fire on Mir. The Russians had never informed them."

The Russian space program has allways been extremely secritive, and with tight budgets on the line at NASA, I imagine that they are paraniod about a tarnished public image that could lead to even more budget slashing.

Whites score on average about 30 points below Asians on the SAT I math, and blacks score on average about 106 points below whites. If you look at the distribution curve, it's even more striking. Only a few hundred blacks per year have SAT I math scores above 700. A 700 Math SAT is about the minimum for a serious CS degree.

That's reality, like it or not.

drive stainless!

Israel lobbied the US to put a provision into US law prohibiting commercial satellite photography of Israel. Yes, the whole country. Unclear why; maybe they're worried about newer photographs of their nuclear bomb plants or refugee camps.

Frontline aired a good documentary on Nuclear Power a while back.. and oh.. here's the site for it..Apparently in France, there is much different opinion on nuclear power than in N.A. See for yourself

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reac tion/

It's not just pure caloric restriction that causes the marked effect in extension of ones life span. CRaN (Calorie Restriction and Nutrient suplementation) is a highly specialized dietary regime where your caloric intake is greatly reduced and controlled while at the same time the nutrient intake is increased so that all essential vitamins and mineral levels are maintained. Note that most CR practitioners that I know strive to avoid the need for additional supplementation of thier vitamins, minerals and nutrients by makeing sure there are 'complete' meals intake not through the use of Vitamin supplements. (all do use some supplements btw but the goal is to make sure everything you need is in your food)If you restrict without additional nutrients you will end up malnourished/starved and eventually you will die way before your median lifespan. Research has proven that this works in various lab animals where life span (I am using mice here as an example) of an adlib group of animals is rougly 36 months and a CRAN group of these animals may live 45-55 months. Primate research is underway at a few universities but the results may take 45-50 years to be fully realized. The mechanism that causes this is probably a lack of free radical damage due to the limited caloric intake but more research will need to be done to prove this as such. The estimates by many noteable gerontologists such as Dr. Roy Walford tends to place the maximum lifespan of man at roughly 120 years. It could be possible for people to attain 130-140 years on this lifestyle if they start early enough (post puberty by say 2-3 years with a 20% degree or greater restriction).More information can be found at some of these links: Calorie Restriction Via Non-Gourmet Cooking
CR Society Mailing list Archive
Stealing Time Article on PBS
Life Extension Magazine CR is NOT for the undisciplined folks out there. It is a very difficult and possibly dangerous regime with many fantastic benefits but it takes a LOT of hard work to do and to do right. My wife and I have been practicing CR on and off for the past two years. When we are doing it correctly I can honestly say I feel awesome(and not very hungry btw) but when we mess up our bodies let us know very quickly that we are eating incorrectly. Back to topic... The interesting thing about the discovery of this particular gene is the potential for use as gene therapy etc.of course none of this matters if you get hit by a bus while crossing the street ;-)

I thought I remembered reading an article in SciAm or Discover about this but can't seem to find it. Here's some other links, though.

A part of the PBS documentery on the subject

UCLA news article

It's long been known that a diet rich in nutrients but poor in calories extendeds the life of living organisms. "Calorie restriction (CR) has extended the 39-month maximum life span of mice to an impressive 56 months, which would correspond proportionally to a 158 year-old human. " - http://www.pbs.org/stealingtime/living/calories.ht m.

Just taking a pill will never be enough to extend lifespan in lifeforms more complex than a fruitfly. If you're really interested in life extension, check out http://www.walford.com/, with sample meal plans in the "Anti-Aging program", or this report on superhealth.

I interned up at BBN this summer, and although I never got a chance to meet Tomlinson, I have a friend, still at BBN, who works in the same dept. as Ray, and had this to say about him...

Yeah, it's kinda funny how Ray did that -- I've talked to him a couple
times about it.

Basically he took an existing FTP-like program and wrote the email service
around it. He wasn't exactly "authorized" to code it up (i.e. no job
number), and as usual BBN didn't capitalize on the invention (i.e. no
big $$$s). He had pretty much forgotten about somebody tracked it down
around when the web started getting big ('93 or so). All the sudden
people got interested in the history of email -- what was the first email,
etc.

The first email was either "QWERTY" or "12345" or such; just a debugging
test that Ray has completely forgotten. People get all excited, like
it was "That's one small step for [a] man, ...", but the first email
wasn't nearly as poetic.

Also, it's quite possible that the "@" key on the keyboard might have been
lost without email, like the cent key (""). At the time I don't think
it's placement was standardized, and without email it's hardly used by
most people. Businesses might use it (e.g. "10 apples @ 5 cents each"),
but more likely they need the copyright symbol ("©"). Anyways, another
funny implication.

BTW, he insists the correct way to write email is "email", not "e-mail".

Rays' glory includes being listed as a "PBS Nerd":
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/cast/page6.html
There's a picture there in case you didn't get a chance to meet him.

The only way that you get cheap internet service (or really, cheap anything) is by taking advantage of economies of scale. That means a lot of users, most of whom have different opinions from you about the tradeoff between limiting spam and blocking a few sites. So if you want to get those economy-of-scale DSL prices, you have to put up with what the vendors offer you.

If you want special, invidivualized service, you'll have to pay the price. And if you think you aren't alone, start an ISP and make some money off all those people who are being oppressed by the evil goons at MAPS. It looks like it's easy to do. If there are enough of you, you'll get the price as low as your current options.

Mechanical penguins love transistors. The Linux Pimp

Funny you should say that. Robert X. Cringely once observed that whenever Microsoft announces that it is going after a particular market, whoever owns that market at the time gets nervous and starts doing things differently, in order to "get ready" for Microsoft. He further said that it is usually a mistake; if they already own the market they must be doing something right, and by suddenly doing things differently they often screw up a good thing.

steveha

However, I don't see how his education enabled him to be such a visionary. I've been reading some of his writings and some of it just gives me the chills. He came up with the entire system of alternating current - not by scientific method, not by trial and error, but by envisioning how it would all work. When he first physically built the first AC motor, he had the idea all worked out in his head. The guy was a prophet, and its a shame some of his other ideas never came into being. We could be using an electrical system that transmitted electricity through the upper atmosphere and using ~90% less energy than we do today.

There was a definite spiritual quality at play in Tesla's hugely significant inventions, and that is most definitely not taught in schools.

By the way, check out the PBS special on Tesla Dec. 12.
http://www.pbs.org/tesla

I watch the sea.
I saw it on TV.

The book (or at least its subject) has been made into a 1998 episode of NOVA (here is the Internet Movie Database entry; there's also a transcript on the PBS Web site), and a made-for-TV movie (starring Jeremey Irons) by A&E.

(Sorry for my previous erroneous post. There have been books made from NOVA episodes; I believe Simon Singh, author of The Code Book, adapted the 1997 episode on Fermat's Theorem into a 1998 book.)

The book (or at least its subject) has been made into a 1998 episode of NOVA (here is the Internet Movie Database entry; there's also a transcript on the PBS Web site), and a made-for-TV movie (starring Jeremey Irons) by A&E.

(Sorry for my previous erroneous post. There have been books made from NOVA episodes; I believe Simon Singh, author of The Code Book, adapted the 1997 episode on Fermat's Theorem into a 1998 book.)

The book (or at least its subject) has been made into a 1998 episode of NOVA (here is the Internet Movie Database entry; there's also a transcript on the PBS Web site), and a made-for-TV movie (starring Jeremey Irons) by A&E.

(Sorry for my previous erroneous post. There have been books made from NOVA episodes; I believe Simon Singh, author of The Code Book, adapted the 1997 episode on Fermat's Theorem into a 1998 book.)

The book (or at least its subject) has been made into a 1998 episode of NOVA (here is the Internet Movie Database entry; there's also a transcript on the PBS Web site), and a made-for-TV movie (starring Jeremey Irons) by A&E.

(Sorry for my previous erroneous post. There have been books made from NOVA episodes; I believe Simon Singh, author of The Code Book, adapted the 1997 episode on Fermat's Theorem into a 1998 book.)

The book (or at least its subject) has been made into a 1998 episode of NOVA (here is the Internet Movie Database entry; there's also a transcript on the PBS Web site), and a made-for-TV movie (starring Jeremey Irons) by A&E.

(Sorry for my previous erroneous post. There have been books made from NOVA episodes; I believe Simon Singh, author of The Code Book, adapted the 1997 episode on Fermat's Theorem into a 1998 book.)

My father, a clockmaker himself, enjoyed the book enough that he immediately had me look up Dava Sobell's address via an Internet phone book, just so he could thank her for it directly. This startled me at the time, because I had no idea he knew such a thing was possible. :) I haven't seen the A&E version yet, but it stars Jeremy Irons so it must be good. I mean, how could a movie starring Jeremy Irons be bad?
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My father, a clockmaker himself, enjoyed the book enough that he immediately had me look up Dava Sobell's address via an Internet phone book, just so he could thank her for it directly. This startled me at the time, because I had no idea he knew such a thing was possible. :) I haven't seen the A&E version yet, but it stars Jeremy Irons so it must be good. I mean, how could a movie starring Jeremy Irons be bad?
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Haven't read the book but the NOVA episode was cool: NOVA . The A&E mini series was on of the best things I saw on TV last year. Watch it when you get the chance: A&E

There's been a show on this (maybe a Nova episode) on PBS

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/longitude.sht ml
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/

It was a great book, based on a great epsiode of NOVA.

It was a great book, based on a great epsiode of NOVA.