Seymour Benzer, a founder of the field of modern genetics, died from a stroke on Friday, November 30, at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. He was 86. An emeritus professor at the California Institute of Technology, Benzer’s lasting impact on modern-day genetics can be seen in continuing work whose foundations he helped lay. Studies in gene […]
Mugabe to repeal POSA, AIPPA
The government is likely to announce some amendments to the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) and the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) by the beginning of next month so that President Robert Mugabe can take a “trophy” to the European Union- African Caribbean and Pacific countries summit in Lisbon that […]
Wanted : Indian Philantropists
As some one associated with the NGO sector, chasing funds is one of my responsibilities. It is not a pleasant job; at times one can feel a kindred spirit with a beggar though of course here one is not soliciting funds for one self but for a larger and nobler cause. Although most NGOs can […]
Season – So ‘Nobel’
October is said to be Nobel season – and rightly so. Come October and it is the time the Nobel Prizes are announced. A much looked-forward to event. THE PRIZE: All the prizes are administered by the Nobel Foundation and all except the Peace Prize are presented in Stockholm. The Peace prize is […]
Slavery Museum in Liverpool
2007 is the 200th anniversary of Britain abolishing the slave trade. This transatlantic horror started in 1501 and continued for almost 380 years. By 1780, Liverpool was the European capital of the trade. Ships from the city transported approximately 1.5 million people across the Atlantic and into slavery in the Americas. To mark the anniversary, […]
Anime Review of Hungry Heart, Wild Striker
"Hungry Heart: Wild Striker" is fifty-two episode Japanese anime series that is considered as a "slice of life." This is an anime series that revolves around sports. In the case of Hungry Heart Wild Striker, it focuses on the sport of soccer which is called in the United States but called football around the rest […]