For the Finest Unidentified Sleeper
To the best of my knowledge I’ve never been abducted by aliens (though I admit my memory of certain nights is vague at best) but I imagine if an alien race decided to skip the door or window and instead enter my bedroom via a hole cut in the floor under […]
Tree Mobility
Australian Aboriginals replanted an ancient boab tree on Sunday after it was driven thousands of miles with a police escort to save it from destruction.
for the die hard environmentalist
With a philosophical insight, it is generally quoted that we have to leave back our attitude and possessions when we go to grave. I too agree but not completely.
Answer the call for quality family fun with an Aqua Jump, the quality water trampoline from the house of Rave Sports. Jump, splash, and throw your competition off this trampoline into water.
Are we trashing space already?
Here’s some advice that you would hope is more than unnecessary. NASA employees - astronauts, in particular - should avoid writing their names on any landscapes they encounter on their trips through the solar system.
There’s more for these protesters to worry about than debt!
The International Monetary Fund could be bad for your health. The organisation loans money to countries with financial problems, and in return requires governments to undertake “structural adjustment” policies aimed at improving their financial management.
The next Bird Flu -The Hendra virus
Australia is suffering the biggest outbreak of the highly virulent Hendra virus since the disease was identified in 1994.
Now a change in its symptoms in Queensland horses is raising fears that new strains may have emerged - and even that a strain capable of spreading from human-to-human could appear.
The heads of five agencies building the International Space Station staged talks on Thursday on tackling a looming transport problem for the ISS and gave positive signals for extending the orbital outpost’s life beyond 2015.
Britain’s ubiquitous CCTV video surveillance network has nothing on Japan’s Orwellian nightmare in the making. One of the country’s top electronics firms, NEC, has just announced a new plasma display fitted with a tiny camera that can accurately identify a person’s age and sex in order to target them with specific advertisements.
Neural Impulse Actuator
The days of cursing joystick/keyboard/gamepad may as well be over. A radical new shift in technology wants to put the onus on gamers’ mind for the right directions. OCZ technology has designed a device which it calls NIA or Neural Impulse Actuator.
GPS system has inspired researchers to develop a similar tracking and mapping system for astronauts on the Moon. Moon’s terrain and landscape pose a number of dangers and the obscure perils have in fact slowed research on the Moon.
For the bubbleheaded young Narcissus of myth, the mirror spun a fatal fantasy, and the beautiful boy chose to die by the side of a reflecting pond rather than leave his “beloved” behind. For the aging narcissist of Shakespeare’s 62nd sonnet, the mirror delivered a much-needed whack to his vanity, the sight of a face […]