As the 1940’s air war in Europe intensified, the Allies faced a major problem. Their bombers would leave England by the hundreds, but too many of them didn’t return, brought down by extremely heavy enemy flak. The Allies desperately needed to beef up the armor on their planes to provide protection, but armoring an entire plane, or even an entire cockpit, involved far too much weight. How could they choose the few especially vulnerable places to be armored? A couple of clever engineers … [Read more...]
12.500 hours of reading emails, every month.
Why "I quit e-mail” a month ago. At our Radboud University Medical Center (RUMC), we send out some 750.000* e-mails, every month in a row. Monthly we send these from our approximately 18,000 email addresses. Conversely, on a monthly average of 1.2 million* e-mails are being send to ús. If every mail from/to would consist out of 1 sheet of paper, that would be seven pallets of 200 packages of printing paper évery month, and that's even only assuming emails without … [Read more...]