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Thai engineer teaching at MIT
Published on 09/05/2011
» At age 28 this Thai engineer has one impressive resume: PhD petroleum engineering, lead drilling engineer, manager at MIT's Geospatial Data Center.
Flood photos
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 04/04/2011
» News photos bring a news event alive and, as you will see, their captions are a great source of easily understood and remembered vocabulary.
Earthquake threat to small dams
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/03/2011
» Small reservoirs with about two million cubic meters of water could inundate some areas less than 20 minutes after an earthquake.
Water secrets from Israel
Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/03/2011
» Drip irrigation, waste water reclamation, technologies for extending scarce water resources, shared by Israel government.
Internet exhausting addresses, but no IPocalypse
AFP, Published on 23/01/2011
» The Internet is running out of addresses.
Manmade disaster
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 22/10/2010
» Developers in the Korat area seemed to forget about Mother Nature when they made their plans, resulting in record flooding.
Downstream alerts
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 20/10/2010
» It was inevitable. The flood waters in upstream areas had to make their way downstream and now six more provinces are under flood alerts
Flood threat for Bangkok
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 19/10/2010
» All that water flooding upcountry areas has to go somewhere and parts of Bangkok are likely to be submerged in the coming days.
Floods worsen
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 18/10/2010
» Thailand experiences floods like those affecting Nakorn Ratchasima and surrounding provinces every year. Here’s a chance to learn the vocabulary used to describe them.
Storm hits holiday island
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 12/10/2010
» We can test out our new vocabulary list with a story on a storm that hit Koh Chang and nearby areas yesterday.