Smithsonian.com examines the Colosseum:
The guesswork ends when you meet Heinz-Jürgen Beste of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, the leading authority on the hypogeum, the extraordinary, long-neglected ruins beneath the Colosseum floor. Beste has spent much of the past 14 years deciphering the hypogeum—from the Greek .Read more...
Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician from Toronto, was given a scratch-off lottery ticket as a gift and managed to crack the lottery code. In this article from Wired Magaine, what’s more remarkable, the state lotteries almost refused to listen to him:
The apparent randomness of the scratch ticket was just a .Read more...
The controversial Turkish underwater highway under the Bosphorus is now under construction:
The construction of the underwater highway was officially begun Saturday by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a ceremony at Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa seaport. The highway, which is a joint project between Turkey and South Korea, .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal reports on the new lab from the Institute for Business & Home Safety:
The $40 million research center, set on 90 acres in Richburg, S.C., features a massive test chamber as tall as a six-story building that can hold nine 2,300-square-foot homes on a turntable. .Read more...
BusinessWeek profiles Hany Farid, an expert on Photoshop forensics.
The Dartmouth College computer scientist is developing digital forensics software that can instantly tell whether an image has been manipulated, and what make and model of camera captured it. It’s “exactly like gun ballistics,” says Farid, 44. “If Photoshop .Read more...
The New York Times works to understand the Stuxnet Worm.
Fingerprints in the New York Times.
Researchers have found a way to mathematically calculate the rarity of a fingerprint.
Although fingerprints are unique to every individual, crime scene prints are usually incomplete patterns taken off doorknobs or glass.
Knowing the rarity of a partial print could be useful to forensic scientists who .Read more...
The New York Times looks at Microsoft’s fight with pirates:
The arrival of organized criminal syndicates to the software piracy scene has escalated worries at companies like Microsoft, Symantec and Adobe. Groups in China, South America and Eastern Europe appear to have supply chains and sales networks rivaling those of .Read more...
Joseph B. White at the Wall Street Journal looks at the decline in car crash deaths:
The number of drivers involved in fatal accidents who were eating, talking on a phone or otherwise distracted rose 42% from 2005 to 2008. But that’s just one way to read a new .Read more...
The New York Times reports:
The nation’s ability to identify the source of a nuclear weapon used in a terrorist attack is fragile and eroding, according to a report released Thursday by the National Research Council.
Such highly specialized detective work, known as nuclear attribution, seeks to study clues .Read more...
The Wall Street Journal looks into the decline in fire deaths:
After recording the fewest deaths attributable to fire last year, New York is once again on pace to break that record for 2010, officials said Wednesday.
Through Dec. 1, there have been 56 civilian fire deaths in 2010, .Read more...
BC Business Online looks at two British Columbia accident reconstruction firms:
With offices also in Ontario and California and a staff of 54, MEA is part of a small community of B.C. forensic engineering companies internationally recognized for investigating disasters such as collapsed buildings, equipment failures, police .Read more...
