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Solta Island Resort
A rotating hotel is to form the centrepiece of a new resort near Split in Croatia. Designed by Richard Hywel Evans of Studio RHE, specialists in holiday resort design, the concept was proposed from a desire to provide sea views from each room. (Pics)
Continue reading… “Solta Island Resort: Europe’s First Rotating Hotel”
Modern humans were responsible for butchering Neanderthals in the Stone Age, says a leading fossil expert.
Continue reading… “Modern Humans ‘Ate’ Neanderthals To Extinction”
Six volunteers from Europe and Russia will on Tuesday allow themselves to be locked up in a capsule in Moscow for over three months to simulate the conditions for an eventual manned mission to Mars.
Continue reading… “Mars Mission Simulation Planned”
It is expected that the proposed enormous oceanarium in Moscow will form part of an amusement complex complete with a cinema, hotel, business center, shopping mall and many restaurants. According to news sources, the Eurasian country of Kazakhstan, which is the world’s largest landlocked country, is financing the construction of one of the new oceanarium.
Continue reading… “Europe’s Biggest Oceanarium Will Be Located In Moscow”
The property market is in the doldrums, mortgages are elusive but there is still some hope for the first-time buyer: the paper house.
Continue reading… “The Wall Paper House”
There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers-a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).
Continue reading… “The Rise Of The Robots”
With the US economy slumping, the going has got very tough, but the tough are no longer shopping. They’re laughing.
Continue reading… “Laughter Yoga Catching On In U.S.”
American children are approximately three times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medication than children in Europe. A new study published today in BioMed Central’s open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health claims that the differences may be accounted for by regulatory practices and cultural beliefs about the role of medication in emotional and behavioural problems.
Continue reading… “American Children More Medicated Than Children In Europe”
They are small and look more like art than innovation. But the mini-windmills built by a British company could soon be on roofs across Europe and the US — if German energy giant RWE has its way.
Continue reading… “Mini-Windmills Could Soon Be On Roofs Across Europe And US”
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India wants to be superpower, but China seems to be one step ahead. India wants the world, especially America and Europe to realize that India is just as powerful as China and thus deserves a superpower attention. Second counter point video after the jump.
Continue reading… “Why India Hates China”
The 2008 European Inventors of the Year were awarded recently in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Even if you don’t recognize the names of the inventors, you will certainly know their inventions and the contributions those inventions have made to the world during the last 10 to 15 years.
Continue reading… “Europe Honors Its Best: European Inventor of the Year Awards For 2008”
Datamonitor forecasts that the number of social network users in Europe will more than double to 107.4 million in 2012, up from 41.7 million in 2007.
Continue reading… “Social Network Growth Trends in Europe”
