Ground the Airbus?

To date, there have been 23 fatal Airbus crashes, killing 2,584 people. EXCERPT: Used in law, science and philosophy, a rule known as Occam’s Razor requires that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex, and/or that explanations of unknown...

Maneuver your wheelchair using your brain

discover mind powere to the nth degree"This special wheelchair can be controlled using a 3D map wherein their surroundings are plotted. That map will appear in front of them while users will wear a cap. This cap...

The race for the First Manned Mission to Mars has begun.

By, Uwe Paschen. The Race for the first manned mission to Mars has begun.  The six volunteers from Russia, France and Germany chosen  out of some 6000 candidates have started the first simulated trip to mars in...

The Birth of Trinity: Web 3.0

Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, and The Emergence of the New Fourth Estate  In the wildly popular 1960’s television series Star Trek, Captain James T. Kirk would often turn towards his engineer, Officer ‘Scotty’ <?xml:namespace prefix = st1...

Economy’s turnaround (part 3)

In the two previous issues about this subject the economy is judged from the Macro and the Business viewpoint. Macro deals with the overall approach as bank institutions, while Business with the industrial side of...

Hybrid Hype

Thinking about innovation? Than let’s innovate the right things. The environment will suffer from the economic downturn that soon will become a global depression.Much is written about tailpipe CO2 that should be...

Introducing.... Emily Carr's New Look !

Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada has launched a new identity. It is a new logo - a circle. Shown here as a (really nice) animation. I like it, do you? "To accompany Emily Carr's brand-new university status and name change, we've revamped our...

Triumvirate of visionaries reels in 43 million TVs, heads for NM

By PETER KELTONCopyright © Peter Kelton             ALBUQUERQUE, NM — When a TV channel reaches into 43 million homes in a brief two years from startup,...

No fixed points

Education is about conformity as to Standards just as Governments promote Standards through laws however does such conformity stifle ones thoughts and imagination in reaching beyond those...

This Is Not A Normal Recession: Moving on to Plan B

""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...

Karachi Nazim, Mustafa Kamal placed among top-three world mayors

"KARACHI: Reputed journal, Foreign Policy in its report has declared Karachi Nazim, Syed Mustafa Kamal the second best mayor of the year 2008 world.Foreign Policy report titled ‘The Mayor of the moment’ said that Germany’s Berlin City Mayor, Klaus Wowereit, 55 topped...

The city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands is getting a new hospital

Currently the Dutch city of Amersfoort has officially one hospital with a regional functionality for the surrounding villages and town: the Meander Medisch Centrum (Meander Medical Centre). Due...

EFI Showcases Industry-Leading Technology Portfolio at Graph Expo 2008

" EFI™ (Nasdaq: EFII), the world leader in customer-focused digital printing innovation, will showcase its industry-leading portfolio of solutions in its largest trade show booth ever at Graph Expo (Oct. 26-29,...

The UltraBattery , Cheaper to Build While Giving More Power to Hybrids // Cur...

" " Earlier this year in January, Australia's CSIRO Energy Technology divulged about a new battery for hybrid cars called UltraBattery. It is technically a lead-acid battery and supercapacitator in one....

Noriko-san, Intelligent Sleep Mask Delivers Wake-up Call In

" " How often have you slept past your stations on a train journey, only waking to realize, your station crossed an hour ago? I have been a lazy commuter myself, and have gone through this on a number of occasions. I recognize the personal agony and the fellow...

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