I went to a conference this morning at the Hope Street Group, a DC-based think tank. They had a panel of doctors, PhDs, a lawyer, consultants, John Podesta (Clinton's healthcare czar) and an…

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, December 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Rock has added a new online easy access savings account to its range, e-saver (Issue 4). The account pays 3.00% gross* per…

The three problems of humanity were outlined in a talk by Nick Bostrom (of Oxford University, UK) at TED in April 2009.In this piece I will continue to examine the "big" problems identified in the…

LONDON, December 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Apple once again rewrote the book on how to build a successful smartphone (http://www.mobiles.co.uk/smartphones.html) in the middle of 2010 with the launch…

GENEVA, December 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- HP today announced the launch of two limited edition notebooks developed with Rossignol, (http://www.rossignol.com/) the mountain lifestyle brand especially…

What is the basis of distinction in each of the four steps? This is the five kingdom classification given by scientist Whittaker (1969).This scheme was based on - Structure of Cells - {prokaryotic…

HAMILTON, Bermuda, December 10, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Oil Insurance Limited (OIL) announced today that Standard and Poor's has affirmed OIL's financial rating of A- "Strong" with a Stable Outlook. "…

... India, actually. Today, Wikipedia flagged up a new article, Coffee production in India, with a interesting piece of history.  Quoting in full from the article: Coffee growing has a long…

Paleontologists recently unearthed bones, likely in Montana or Wyoming, of a new dinosaur species dubbed Stochastisaurus. "Based on surrounding species and the fossils themselves, there's an…

Anyone can be skeptical about a scientific result. It's good to state your skepticism, to make your view known. But are you done once you speak your view? Is that all it takes, a quick skeptical…