Monthly Archives: July 2006
Why people feel aggrieved about public Wifi
More urban WiFi hotspots are not a human right – but they would aid mobility
Read the full article...Should each person carry a Carbon Ration Card?
Debate on BBC Breakfast with Professor Mayer Hillman about the Carbon Ration Card proposal announced by Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs David Miliband.
Read the full article...Carbon ration cards
Debate on BBC Breakfast between Professor Mayer Hillman and Professor James Woudhuysen about the Carbon Ration Card proposal announced by Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs David Miliband
Read the full article...Lasst die Finger von der Mikrogeneration!
Um ihre eigene Energie zu erzeugen, werden Häuser IT brauchen. James Woudhuysen aber fragt sich, ob das überhaupt Sinn macht.
Read the full article...A self-defeating argument for nuclear power
The UK government’s energy review is more interested in changing the public’s behaviour than in putting a positive case for nuclear.
Read the full article...Unhappy? Don’t blame IT gadgets
If you’re feeling sad and lonely, cutting back on IT gadgets won’t help
Read the full article...Windmills of the mind
Why the UK government’s energy policy is more concerned with changing our behaviour and mindset than with actually supplying more energy.
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CONFIRMED: Israel has just uncovered documents that prove 6 Al-Jazeera journalists are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists.
A few of them are snipers; one is the head of Hamas rocket launching unit; and one is the head of their propaganda unit.
These are the…
BBC posts report proudly boasting that the ever assiduous @OrlaGuerin didn’t go where the IDF told her the money was, and so didn’t find it.
World stunned by this novel development.
Corbyn, Diane Abbott, Sadiq Khan, BLM, Stormzy, the entire Left-wing machine… All so quick to stand with thugs like Chris Kaba & George Floyd - simply because they’re black
They don’t unite us. They divide us with their poisonous race politics
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls