Private rocket in orbit
Space history has been made when Space X blasted into orbit, nothing great about! Well it is something special as Falcon 1, which has become the first privately owned rocket to reach orbit. This launch was the fourth attempt by the organisation, the first three failing to launch.
The rocket, which blasted off from their base [...]
Wave energy takes to the sea
The world first viable wave powered energy plant went into action earlier this week. This took place off the coast of northern Portugal where it has produced enough power to supply fifteen hundred homes.
This small plant has only come about because of the countries rules that power companies need to invest into green power.
Nevertheless, there [...]
Sexist men get on better
This is not going to be good news for those people who believe in fair practice for all people, in recent research carried out by researchers at the University of Florida it has been found that men with sexist or old fashioned views about women in the work place tend to get on better than [...]
September 22, 2008Bugs used for recycling
It has been discovered a bacteria could help with the disposal of plastic item that are normally dumped in landfill sites and take several hundred years to degrade. Instead of this practice, continuing these plastics could end up being used for recycling.
The bacterium is known as Pseudomonas and they can be used on the low [...]
Gates gets into Bio Fuels
It seems that bio fuels are to be the future of keeping our cars on the road in the short term at least, but with the potential of this industry to make millions if not billions of pounds, then there is going to have to be some serious investment to get the ball rolling.
Step in, [...]
Sandwich bag looks mouldy
It has always been the case, you spend and money making your lunch for work or for the kids to take to school, only to find that people keep stealing the sandwich or taking a bite out of it. There is no excuse for this, and it is seriously annoying.
So what be done about this [...]
Postman who did not deliver
A postal worker from Edinburgh but who now works in Germany has been caught with over twenty thousand letters in his home that he failed to deliver. Police in Frankfurt say that for the entire month of August he failed to deliver any mail at all. In fact, he even failed to deliver mail to [...]
September 11, 2008Calming down an irate woman
It’s true that women from all walks of life are assaulted everyday in the home, work and other places too, but something that is not widely known is the fact that half as many men are also assaulted under the same circumstances.
The problem for some men when confronted with an aggressive woman is that they [...]
Germans not to use Chrome
The German Government have made a surprise announcement telling their citizens not to use Google Chrome, the latest edition to the browser collection.
The advice is coming from Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security no less, who say that the new browser from Google should not be used to surf the internet, this is because if [...]
Gadgets that should be banned
There can be no doubt that most of us would not be able to live our lives without the help of technology, it is everywhere whether we like it or not. However, for all of its good points there are some smaller additions to the technology market which some people feel should be banned from [...]
September 3, 2008What a bank doesn’t say
Everyone knows that banks and actually most large businesses never tell their customers the entire truth; they like to tell a story, which is reassuring to their customers. If the truth was known then maybe people would not shop or bank anywhere and that would just not do.
Below are some points which the banking industry [...]
Internet failing in the USA
At one time if we in the UK wanted to look at a website based in another country the access was almost certainly routed through the USA, after they claim to have invented the internet in the 1970’s so it is only natural that they had control of the traffic.
But over the last few years [...]