NASA may go to Venus
NASA could be sending a fleet of craft to Venus in the not too distant future, but the craft used will not only be the usual rocket powered, as NASA are experimenting with high altitude balloons. Could this be the future of space travel?
The plan will be considered to go in around fifteen years time, [...]
Downturn could be a lethal for children
There could be between 200,000 and 400,000 child deaths because of the economic downturn, according to the General Secretary of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Margaret Chan.
This claim is being considered entirely viable because in times of crisis health will take a back a seat in many people’s lives it at this point when things [...]
University offers Beatles degree
There are many college courses around that cover many hundreds if not thousands of subjects. However, most of these subjects are the standard type that you would expect to find on a university prospectus. Therefore, when a course turns up offering a Master of Arts degree on the subject of the Beatles, it is bound [...]
February 27, 2009The end of handwriting
How often do you actually sit down and write something? According to recent research it is not very often, a decade ago, we would have been send letters, cards and writing down notes to remind us of what to buy at the shops, but with the increased use of the internet and computers, is handwriting [...]
February 24, 2009Fighting climate change with fish and chips
The rise of the small fuel producer is reaching the point where there is in virtually all areas someone producing their own bio diesel from used cooking oil.
The problem is that as this becomes more popular is there any chance that we could be seeing a fuel war between rival producers, in the same way [...]
Murdering cats to be tagged
They may sit on the sofa and look as if butter would not melt in their mouths, but it turns out that the average family pet cat is a ruthless assassin with an average of five kills per year to chalk up.
It is estimated that the total kill for the country’s cats runs into millions [...]
Sega cutting back to save cash
The games maker Sega are feeling the global credit crisis so hard that they have had to revise almost everything that makes the company what it is, one of the most popular games companies in the world.
But in a market like this, the industry is struggling Sega had lost around £200 million last year, and [...]
Young actors still living in slums
It looks as if the film Slumdog Millionaire is becoming a victim of its own success, as it turns out the young acting stars Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail are not only still living in the slums where they found, but in fact are worse off than before.
The film had more than £8 million for [...]
UK hit by heavy snow
One day everything was all right, people could travel around freely and everywhere was open.
Then suddenly, almost literally overnight, everything changed and the UK was covered in heavy snow, which caused chaos. Almost all transport services began to grind to a halt, trains, road and even airports suffered under the weight of snow.
It is said [...]
What men spend their cash on?
To ask this question would seem to be a waste of time, because as most women would say they already know what men are spending their hard earned cash on and it certainly is not always necessarily, what you may think.
Of course there are going to be those boys toys which cost a lot and [...]