Monday, August 17, 2009
Berlin Wall anniversaries
This coming November is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But there are lots of other Wall anniversaries -- like the anniversary of the day it went up. What surprised me when I took a look at the contemporary coverage for SPIEGEL Online last week was that no one realized what a big deal the Wall would turn out to be. Der Spiegel ran the story on page 18, and even in the issue a week and a half after the fact there was comparatively little coverage.
Labels: anniversary, berlin, coverage, media, spiegel, wall
Saturday, August 01, 2009
Roman city revealed...
I wrote a short piece for Science Now (Science magazine's online news site) about a team of geomorphologists from Padua, Italy who have uncovered a lost city using aerial imagery. The photos are amazing. Read it now, before it goes behind the pay wall...
Labels: aerial, altinum, ancient, city, images, Roman, rome, science
