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Gretel’s Dark Forest

December 21, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

German artist Kilian Schoenberger shared their Dark Forest photography project on Behance. It’s described as “back into the light” this is “where Hansel and Gretel lost their way”.

The photographs were actually taken by wandering through the remote forests that line where the Iron Curtain in Central Europe used to be. We’ve pictures from Germany and the Czech Republic in the set.

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Which forests would you recommend for fantastic photography? Have you any holiday or flights to Germany tips to share?

Discover the most radioactive places on Earth

December 19, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The important difference between ionizing radiation and the sort of radiation you might get with your smartphone is brought to life in this strange tour video. Two sieverts of radiation will kill you. A banana has 0.1 microsieverts.

In order to compare normal radiation (and we can use bananas as comparison now) this brave team goes to some very strange, interesting and radioactive places.

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Would you ever suit up and go on a radioactive tour? Or would you much prefer to spend your summer holidays on a beach in the sun?

Is religion is dying?

March 24, 2011 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Researchers in America working for the Northwestern Universityand the University of Arizona have concluded that people the West are finding religion to be less useful. They suggest that religion itself may die out in nine nations.

To get to these results, the research team used mathematical techniques, nonlinear dynamics, to mine data from census results going back a full centruy from Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

At the core of the prediction is teh suggest that social groups that have more members are more attractive to join. Social groups have status, utility or both. For example, it’s useful to speak the language of the largest social group in your area and you join that group by learning the language.

The survey and modelling is available online from the Cornell University Library.

Richard Weiner, a researcher at teh University of Zrizona and one of the authors, walked press through some of the conclusions. He said;

“There’ll be a continuing loss of membership among people that identify themselves as belonging to a religion. Over time, we could reach a time where society is dominated by people who claim religious non-affiliation,”

In the Czech Republic nearly 60% of people identified themselves as non-affiliated with religion. That was the highest recorded in the study. Countries like The Netherlands have a non-believer percentage in the 40% area but that figure is predicted to soar to 70% by 2050. That’s less than 40 years.

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Are you a non-believer? Do you think this is a natural course of the development of society or does the possible exctinction of religion in some countries herald a terrible tradigy?

Photo credit: Jerzy Kociatkiewicz

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