October 2014

Doctor Who - Day of the Daleks

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“Day of the Daleks” is the first adventure of the ninth season of “Doctor Who” classic series, which aired in 1972 featuring the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. It follows “The Dæmons” and it’s a four parts adventure written by Louis Marks and directed by Paul Bernard.

Meg Whitman in 2009

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Hewlett-Packard has officially announced its intention to split into two separate companies. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will focus on products and services for businesses with Meg Whitman as CEO, thus maintaining the role she has in the current company. HP Inc. will be the company that will focus on personal computers and printers with Dion Weisler as CEO and Meg Whitman as chairman of the board.

Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo (Italian edition)

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The novel “Destroying Angel” by Richard Paul Russo was published for the first time in 1992. It’s the first in the Frank Carlucci series.

Louis Tanner left have the police for some time and one of the cases in which he was involved that remained unsolved concerns a serial killer who threw the bodies of his victims in the San Francisco bay with angel wings tattooed on their skin. The murders stopped for unknown reasons for a few years but suddenly restart.

Tanner can’t pretend nothing’s happening and reconnects with Frank Carlucci, a former colleague still in the police. At the time of the first investigation, Tanner was contacted by a criminal who claimed to have information useful to find the serial killer and he was listed as the person to meet to communicate such information. After the the murders restarted, that old trace may be the only one useful to solve the case.

The pieces of the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) (Image NASA/JPL-Caltech)

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation and is a major natural gas utility in the USA. The company is now testing a new device for the detection of methane leaks based on an instrument of the Mars Rover Curiosity. Developed to find out if there is methane on Mars, a possible trace of biochemical reactions, this instrument is a thousand times more sensitive than those used so far by PG&E to detect leaks of methane.

The new seafloor map (Image courtesy Scripps Institution of Oceanography. All rights reserved)

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A research published in the journal “Science” has shown a very accurate map of the world’s seafloor that includes thousands of previously unknown underwater mountains. The researchers, led by David Sandwell of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, conducted this study using satellite data collected over the past years.