As a nation we are bombarded with a plethora of modern gadgetry, most of which we do not totally understand the full capabilities of but buy them none the less, for fear of being without the newest of new gadgets. Mobile phones are certainly the most popular invention due to the fact that they are […]
Burma in crisis after cyclone Nargis
On May 2nd Burma was hit by a devastating cyclone, which has left the Irrawaddy delta under water, destroyed the largest city Ragoon, left 22,000 dead and 41,000 missing. The situation is becoming increasingly worse as poor access and lack of supplies mean that the secondary effects of the cyclone are inevitably going to increase […]
How to cure a hangover
Ironically as I write this I am suffering from a horrific hangover. I have slept all morning and due to lack of energy am creating all manner of methods to procrastinate from my work. Today is a right-off. We get hangovers for multiple reasons. Alcohol breaks glycogen stores into glucose which is peed out. This […]
‘A G8 agreement of an American policy to bring democracy to the middle east’
‘The UK and US are trying to bring democracy to the Middle East’; this style of media portrayal of UK and US foreign policy is an example of their level of learnt naivety. It may justify a major socio-political issue that is modern political apathy, the enthusiasm drainer being the notion that politics has become […]
Martin Evans Nobel prize winner
Sir Martin Evans won the most prestigious award in science, the Nobel Prize, for “a series of ground-breaking discoveries concerning embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals.” This fulfilled a boyhood dream for Sir Martin and firmly placed the Cardiff bio science centre on an international stage. He was one of three recipients of […]
Obama in trouble over Trinity Church
The race for democratic candidate is in its final stages and heating up; Clinton and Obama are close. Its times like these that each candidate wishes and prays that previous mistakes, negative associations and political blunders, do not arise. Hilary Clinton had a major embarrassment when she falsely claimed that she entered a Bosnian war […]