Men motivated by 'superior wage'

"On receiving a paypacket, how good a man feels depends on how much his colleague earns in comparison, scientists say. Scans reveal that being paid more than a co-worker stimulates the "reward centre" in the male brain. Traditional economic theory assumes the only important...

Fresh warnings on housing costs

House price inflation is expected to ease over the rest of 2007. The increase in mortgage rates since last summer is having an effect on housing affordability and will bite further during the coming months. Negative real earnings growth so far this year - average earnings...

Holy jetPacks Batman

a side by side review of two wearable jet packs

Nepalis Take Drugs Worth Rs 9b Annually: Report

" Nepali citizens take drugs worth over Rs 9 billion in a year, reveals a report released here on Wednesday, adding that domestic industries supply 35 per cent of drugs needed. "Nepali citizens spent Rs 9.061 billion in the year 2005-2006. Out of the drugs, consumed here in...

Mobile marketing best way to reach audiences

The Mobile Marketing in the News blog has this interesting report from the Mobile Marketing Forum in the USA. In some ways use of mobile in the USA is behind Australia but in other ways it is ahead. Considering Australia (and most of the world) had a several year head start...

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communities

Google could be Facebook…and more on networks and communitiesfrom Library clips by Johnt"There’s a lot of talk about networks and communities, I posted on blog communties or networks not long ago…Collaboration Loop has a comparison. As often put networks are individual...

Tourists return to Nepal as violence makes an exit

"Tourists return to Nepal as violence makes an exit By Vipul Goel Pokhara (Nepal), Jan.16 (ANI): As peace returns to Nepal, the Himalayan kingdom, after the November peace deal between the interim government and the Maoists, thousands of tourists have started visiting...

Uranium vs. Thorium: Mining, Processing, Waste Generation

"I've taken a little time to do another comparison slide between the waste generated in a typical light-water reactor compared to a liquid-fluoride thorium reactor. For the light-water reactor waste calculations, I used the WISE Uranium Nuclear Fuel Energy Balance Calculator...

CEOs pass average Canadian salary by Jan. 2

CTV puts pay-scale inequity into concrete terms that we all can understand:"By the time most Canadians drag themselves into work on Tuesday after the holidays, the country's highest-paid CEOs will already have earned the average employee's annual salary. By 9:46 a.m. Tuesday,...

Google overtakes Technorati

"Ailing weblog search engine Techorati has been overtaken by Google, according to research company HitWise Inc. According to HitWise, Google's Blogsearch has seen a 168 per cent surge in traffic since Google started to promote the service more heavily in October. The research...