New York Times: America’s Outback: Southern Utah.
I think another trip to the US Southwest is in order. André and I traveled in the area almost ten years ago, but missed a lot since we we didn’t spend enough time at any one place, nor were we experienced hikers back then. I’d love to visit Bryce Canyon, Zion and Capitol Reef again, and I’d also like to hike to the Wave, but it’s not easy to get a permit since only 20 hikers are allowed per day. Some day, maybe…
Today there was another shootout at a German school. A former student killed nine students and three teachers, then fled the school (possibly because the police were entering the scene) in a kidnapped car, finally killing himself during a shooting with the police some 40 km (25 miles) away.
It’s the first shootout at a German school in which people were killed since the one in Erfurt in April of 2002.
Deutsche Welle: Teenage Gunman Takes Own Life After German School Shooting.
“Police in Stuttgart have confirmed the death of a gunman in a school-shooting incident that left at least 15 victims dead and several injured near Stuttgart in the southwest of the country.”
Spiegel: Germany Shocked by Teenager’s Killing Spree.
“Germany was in shock on Wednesday after a 17-year-old youth killed 16 people in a shooting rampage that began at his school, where he shot dead 10 pupils and three teachers. He later took a gun to his own head during a shootout with police. His motive remains a mystery.”
I’m not only concerned because I’m a teacher myself and the school where this happened today is quite similar to my own but also because it happened in a town where a friend of mine works. A lot of his colleagues have children in the school, and the town is small enough that many people know each other. At his company they were told to shut the gates and the window shutters, and for hours many of his colleagues didn’t know how there children were.
Update:
BBC News: German school gunman ‘kills 15’.
“Fifteen people have been killed by a teenage gunman who went on a rampage in south-west Germany, officials say.
Among the dead were nine pupils, eight of them girls, and three teachers at the Albertville secondary school in the town of Winnenden, north of Stuttgart. “
New York Times: Teenage Gunman Kills 15 at School in Germany.
“Winnenden, Germany — A teenage gunman killed 15 people, most of them female, on Wednesday in a rampage that began at a school near Stuttgart in southern Germany and ended in a nearby town, where he then killed himself after the police wounded him.”
NASA offers a lot of photos taken on the moon via their site NASA Images.
Virtual reality images of the moon is a collection of panoramas made from high-resolution photos the twelve astronauts who walked on the moon took. (The rest of Panoramas.dk is worth checking out as well, by the way. Quicktime is required to view the panoramas, though.)
From Panoramas.dk:
If you want still more images of the moon, check out Google Moon!
About Google Moon:
There are some great documentaries about spacesuits, the Lunar Rover, navigation computers, the Lunar Module and Saturn V on Youtube, each in five parts. They were aired on the Discovery Channel during Space Week. I’ve only watched the first two documentaries (not enough time for all of them today) and found them very interesting. Enjoy!
Links via MetaFilter.
There’s a great Feynman thread at MetaFilter with links to lots of videos of him. I watched Richard Feynman – The Last Journey Of A Genius last night. The film is mainly about Feynman’s and Ralph Leighton’s obsession with Tuva and was filmed in 1988, just a few days before Feynman died. There are links to a lot of other films worth checking out in the thread, too.
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