They call them “sun pillars”, a type of halo effect, that form when sunlight reflects off the surface of falling ice crystals. Occasionally the optical phenomenon can also be produced from other sources of light, including street lights. Such was the case in Finland last week when light pillars rose into the air projecting a…
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“Unlucky” Friday the 13th flight 666 to Hel has safely landed
Finnair flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki (HEL) actually took off twice on Friday the 13th with both flights being fairly full of passengers. Pilots for Flight 666 to Hel took great pains to laugh it off. “It has been quite a joke among the pilots. I’m not a superstitious man. It’s only a coincidence…
Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Index rates countries
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has a new pet project that he hopes will shape the Internet of the future. His project, the “Web Index” measures and ranks over 60 countries on three broad states. These include: web readiness, such as infrastructure; web use, the quantity of web content available; and web…








