Window falls 76 floors from Shanghai Tower, injures Tesla driver

Mere weeks into its much-anticipated soft opening, China’s tallest building, the Shanghai Tower has had its first freak accident. On Monday, a glass window pane weighing a whopping 200kg fell from the 76th floor of the 632-metre skyscraper and nearly hit a Tesla parked below on Dongtai Road. SEE ALSO: Shanghai Tower looks like giant […]

Tsunami Warning Systems / Looking for the next big wave

At the end of December 2004, I was among the millions watching the endless hours of TV coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami. As I watched the huge death toll rise by the hour, I remember thinking, naïvely, “How could so many people not have known what was coming?” After a bit of reflection, I […]