I read this a few days ago, and forgot to bookmark it. Now it has been reported again by CNN: Scientists at a U.S. weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for U.S. homeland security and the Iraq war.
Researchers . . . → Read More: Bees have been trained to sniff out explosives
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We saw Volver last night, with our Spanish evening class (and a lot of other Spanish evening class groups, as the cinema was running a special evening class session). We really enjoyed it – see the summary here, to find out what it’s about. You don’t get any choice by the way – as . . . → Read More: Volver I was expecting a padded envelope with a remote flash trigger which is about 2cm in each direction (you can see it in the blister-pack), so I was a bit surprised when our neighbour came round this evening with a parcel they’d taken in earlier today. When I opened it, I thought there . . . → Read More: Well packed It appears that Bush has been caught lying again. By Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker. Just like before the Iraq war. Am I surprised? No. A man in Manchester (UK) used his MP3 music player to hack into cash dispensers and capture details of customer’s credit cards and PINs, allowing him to steal Ł200,000 from them. He was only discovered after being stopped for making an illegal U-turn; police discoved a fake credit card in his car, which led . . . → Read More: MP3 player pays for itself; illegal U-turns don’t pay William Pfaff comments in today’s Observer on a phemonenom that has worried most Europeans for the last 3 or 4 years: … In America, it’s as though Bush, his inner cabinet, and the neocons have been playing a video game, with fictional characters and victims, virtual death and torture. Now the disc has suddenly . . . → Read More: Time to turn off the video game I remember, when we first visited the USA in 1982, being both shocked and interested in how the American media were reporting on the IRA. At a time when the IRA was viewed in the UK (and many other countries) as an illegal Irish terror-organisation, some American media were running interviews the IRA leaders . . . → Read More: A new slant on the news nu Zealand students cn nw wrte thR exam papRz n “text-speak”. See which were the most common words in each US President’s speechs, and when they were first used on Chirag Mehta’s blog. Interesting – you can see clearly events such as McCarthyism, the Cuba Missile Crisis and 9/11 reflected in the words used in speechs at those times. (via Boing Boing) November 1st was Sushi Day (there’s a day for everything, these days), but I only noticed today. Nonetheless I love sushi, so here’s a link to a little web site, which tells you all you wanted to know about sushi. Sushi, by the way – as you will discover on the website – is . . . → Read More: Sushi Day |
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