San Francisco, CA | Today, Andrew Freeman & Co. (AF&&Co.), a leading hospitality and restaurant consulting firm, released its 2008 Trend Watch list. Tapping into the pulse of the hospitality and restaurant marketplace for the coming year, the Trend Watch lists the top restaurant/bar and top hotel trends to expect in the New Year. […]
How Nuclear Competition Funded the Space Race
When we look back at Sputnik, we naturally associate it with space exploration, JFK’s moon exploration speech, the moon landing and the first satellite. In our minds, Sputnik’s launch was the first event of the Space Race, a noble adventure started by the leaders of the cold war to demonstrate scientific and technological superiority. The […]
Study:Earthquake prediction from space is more accurate
China’s deadly earthquakein the Siachuan province has once again showed that ground based earthquake prediction methods and systems are not reliable. Traditional seismology does its best, sometimes succeeding but more often only saying something like, ‘California will be destroyed in the next thirty years.’ But remote sensing from space can provide more accurate data about […]
Heard By A Bird, April
"I am the opposite of Sigmund Freud; I ask, ‘What don’t women want?’" – Dr. Otto Rank A Letter Dear gossip-spreader: Do you know the expression "as the crow flies"? It means the most direct route possible — a straight line. I propose the opposite concept: "My neighbor’s house is two miles off, as the […]
A single model of car may have six different aliases in six different countries!
The Americans, certainly the most automobile-obsessed people in the world, were always big on everything because their country was so huge. So naturally they built the most humungous, luxurious and lazily powerful cars going. Being easy-going themselves, and rather spoilt, they have automatic everything in their dinosaurs, and soft, cushy suspension systems so that you […]
Scuttling the Sethusamudram Project in the name of Religion
Gone are the days when religion dominated politics and temporal head was considered as subservient to religious head in the western countries and now there is a clear-cut demarcation between the two and one head will not interfere in the affairs of the other. But in India, notwithstanding being secular, it is an irony, still […]
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