by Georgia Popplewell It’s known as the universal solvent, Adam’s Ale, government juice, council pop, H2O, dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide, has a ton of different names in Arabic and yesterday (March 22) the world was called upon to pay it special attention. World Water Day 2008 marked the start of the fourth year of the […]
Telescopes to help find diamonds in space:
Scientists have devised a way to use the Spitzer Space Telescope to find diamonds in space, which might help them to understand how carbon-rich molecules develop. According to a report in Discovery News, on Earth, diamonds form deep inside the planet, under high temperature and pressure. In space, the opposite conditions exist, with extremely low […]
continues Cold waves in Kashmir Valley
Kashmir which is a North part of India is now a grip in Cold and its touching minus 10.4 degrees celsius. Kashmir Valley continued to be in the grip of cold wave on Thursday with minimum temperature touching minus 10.4 degrees Celsius. Qazigund in Anantnag district was the coldest place in the valley with the […]
Central Asian Energy Crisis Leaves Millions of Tajiks without Heat
Khujand, Tajikistan: We sit in an unheated restaurant wearing hats, coats and scarves. We are four – three Tajik women and one American – and we have come for lunch. As an American, the experience of dining in sub-freezing temperatures is strange for me, but to a Tajik it is the norm in wintertime. Farhanaz* […]
Social Responsibility or Corporate Responsibility.
I read an interesting news item the other day which talked about temporary workers employed in the Noida authority going on strike. This is by no means unusual, of course – strikes, though not as crippling in India any more except perhaps in Kerala and West Bengal, do still happen and occasionally make sufficient news […]
Part 8: El Camino de Santiago
JAMES Camino Day 9 Buenos Dias Los Amigos Today’s stage took us from Santo Domingo to Beldorado. When I woke up this morning in the hotel, for the first time on the Camino I was genuinely contemplating quitting. I thought long and hard about telling you this, but at the end of the day this journal […]
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