After many years of traffic gridlock, the Vedder Bridge was replaced this year. The new roundabout and wider lanes make for smoother traffic flow. Here is video of the “launch” earlier this year of the new bridge across the Chilliwack River.
Category: In the news
ISON speed at perihelion
In for some rapid acceleration? As Comet ISON whips around the sun like a slingshot, it’s speed will increase 7-8 fold. How many G’s is that?
At peak perihelion speed, Comet #ISON will slingshot around the sun at 1/1000th the speed of light. pic.twitter.com/tSdIDd1JM3
— Anthony Sagliani (@anthonywx) November 28, 2013
Chain 124
This is an amazing story about Chain 124, a series of 30 kidney transplants covering 60 operations started by one person. For that person it was an act of altruism. The story covers some of the amazing mathematical matching and high speed computer processing to make this happen.
Also check out the multimedia interactive that shows all the kidney exchanges that took four months from beginning to end.
3D printing breakthrough
The world of 3d printing of real and totally unique objects fascinates me. My good friend John Biehler has been creating quite a collection of 3d printed objects. Check some of them out at johnbiehler.com.
However, this story is not about unique items and out of production parts. It’s about using this technology to create a new jaw for an 83 year old woman. The BBC reports that doctors created a jaw bone to replace a diseased one in an 81 year old patient. The replacement “bone” was made of titanium, much like other medical replacement parts.
I think this is pretty amazing.