Feeling adrift on a sea of information or worse drowning in it, the Information Overload Research Group comes to the rescue. The IORG offers 6 Tips to reduce (eliminate?) your electronic clutter:" Current Tip: Set up a “Five Weeks Folder” that deletes its content...
German gold dealers have stopped taking new orders for the precious metal as demand has skyrocketed. Gold is seen as a safe investment during the market turmoil.In uncertain economic times, Germans are dumping...
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There's a new gold rush.The financial crisis is prompting people to look for safer forms of investment than stocks and shares.The interest in gold coins is so great that many of the world's major mints are struggling...
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Richard Thaler, one of the authors of Nudge could not put it more bluntly on today's edition of The World.His advice on the current events is 'We're gonna have to suck it up and live more frugally'...
Anyone who knows anything about reggae music will be mourning the loss of this great man. He also happened to be just a normal bloke who lived over the road from me!"Rocksteady star Ellis dies at 70 ...
The biggest threat to our world's oceans, is not climate change, but over fishing and our ever increasing demand for water.An new study actually released yesterday, which involved 100 top aquatic ecologists, looks at...
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Mysteries of the Deep Sea -The deep sea is one of the harshest habitats on Earth, but is home to many remarkable creatures. Learn more in our comprehensive special report (New Scientist.com...
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University College London Professor Steve Jones believes that human evolution has come to a head because the forces that drive evolution - natural selection and genetic mutation - no longer play important roles...
"KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man who kicked his girlfriend's daughter in the head and dumped her body in the woods was convicted Wednesday, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City, Missouri, area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as "Precious Doe."...
How do you treat an addiction?Do you go cold turkey or do you wean it out progressively. Self confessed e-mail addict Peter Bauer of Mimecast, an e-mail management company tells Joia Shillingford in Living without e-mail (FT, Digital Business, October 8) how he plans to go...
I would not have known that October 7, 2008 was declared World Day for Decent Work by Unions around the globe if I had not read A Foolish Race to the Bottom (FT, October 6) by Stefan Stern. What defines 'decent work' he asks? Good pay, the right environment, safety, you...
I'm not sure what day, or hour, month, or year this gets read..I Just hope that it does.It really doesn't matter what age you are.What nationality. What religion you feel comfortable withor not.If you are Democrat,...
"Like the nimble superhero, he scales skyscrapers with dazzling agility, with just his hands and legs to support him.And now the man they call Spider-Man has turned his attention to the National Library of...
Legendary Sex Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten, who once sang "there's no future, no future for me" seems to believe he has a future as an advertising pitchman. "Decked out in an English gentleman-style tweed...