Schoolboy corrects Nasa calculations: Nasa has been outsmarted by a German schoolboy who corrected its estimates of the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, it was reported today. The German Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten newspaper said 13-year-old Nico Marquardt came across the Nasa miscalculation after conducting a study as part of a regional science competition. [Guardian]
Author for the Lonely Planet Guide to Colombia Thomas Kohnstamm admits he never set foot in the place: The travel writer who wrote part of the Lonely Planet Guide to Colombia has admitted that he never visited the country. Thomas Kohnstamm says that he was in San Francisco at the time. “They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia,” he told The Australian Herald Sun. So he “got the information from a chick I was dating who was an intern in the Colombian Consulate”. [Times]
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