Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics

Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of “The Edge of Physics.” A former software engineer, he was inspired to become a science writer by his passionate curiosity about the world.

Why you should listen to him:
Anil Ananthaswamy is a consultant for New Scientist in London. He has worked at the magazine in various capacities since 2000, most recently as deputy news editor. He is also a contributor to National Geographic News.
Ananthaswamy worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley before training as a journalist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He’s the author of The Edge of Physics (published as The Edge of Reason by Penguin in India).

Dream Lines by Jokke Sommer

Dream Lines is Norwegian Wingsuit pilot Jokke Sommer’s compilation videos from 2010.

Check out Jokke’s website at: Jokke Sommer.com

You can subscribe to Jokke’s blog and keep up with his latest adventures through his words and video footage through RSS feed on his site.

A word from Jokke:

Dream Lines is a short video with the best proximity flights from 2010. Traveling and filming together with my co pilot, Halvor Angvik. Locations: Romsdalen, Litledalen, Aurland, France and Switzerland.

All my videos is of course FREE to download, but any donations for our future projects and videos is higly appreciated!

20% of any donations goes to SOS Childcare

Thank you!

Jokke Sommer

Click here for video download page.

Skydiving: Karen Lewis Dalton and Team in Dubai Competition

Christy Frikken,  Becky Brocato, Karen Lewis Dalton , Hannah Betts, and Annaliese Peterson

Karen Lewis Dalton and Team  are currently competing in the Dubai International Parachuting Championship & Gulf Cup 2011.

The event takes place January 8th through  January 16th, 2011.  You can follow the news and results at:  Results

Karen will be featured in an upcoming interview on females in BASE jumping. Karen’s photography can be viewed at: Karen Dalton Photography