Party

As per the suggestion, will we have a get-together this month?

Josef

Where's the remotest place on Earth? - Image 1 - New Scientist

Gallery - Where's the remotest place on Earth? - Image 1 - New Scientist:

"Plotted onto a map, the results throw up surprises. First, less than 10% of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.

What's more, many areas considered remote and inaccessible are not as far from civilisation as you might think. In the Amazon, for example, extensive river networks and an increasing number of roads mean that only 20% of the land is more than two days from a city - around the same proportion as Canada's Quebec province."

found via gyford.com

still too hard and too expensive?

Britain's Royal Society to study climate "geoengineering" | FP Passport:

"An interesting editorial in The Guardian by a member of Britain's Royal Society, the country's national academy of science, announced -- with a bit of modesty bordering on self-skepticism -- plans to look into 'geoengineering' schemes to combat climate change"