Read An Opinion On: Jacon Website Submitted by: Pete Paddlia Before I ever went canoeing I had no hope to try it. The notion of canoeing never occurred to me when I was younger because I had no friends who paddled canoes or kayaks. And Bob, a pal of mine was recently curious as to…
English court jails policeman over insurance fraud
Thursday, July 1, 2010 A court in England, UK has jailed a policeman for ten months after he was convicted of defrauding his car insurance company. Police Constable Simon Hood, 43, arranged for a friend who dealt in scrap metal to dispose of his Audi TT, then claimed it had been stolen. Hood had been…
Sadr City suicide bomber uses fruit truck to kill 66 on market day
Sunday, July 2, 2006 A suicide bomber exploded a truck bomb in the crowded Al-Ula market in Sadr City in Baghdad on Saturday, killing 66 people and injuring over a 100. ‘At the beginning of this market, the criminal blew up his dynamite-packed truck after trying to go over the pavement,’ said Iraq’s Deputy Health…
Neanderthals ‘knew what they were doing’: Archæologist Dr Naomi Martisius discusses her findings about Neanderthals’ behaviour with Wikinews
Sunday, June 28, 2020 Last month, a study conducted by archæologist Dr. Naomi Martisius and other researchers concluded Neanderthals living in Europe tens of thousands of years ago were more sophisticated than previously thought. The now-extinct species used to carefully select bones from a particular animal species to manufacture their bone tools, the research showed….
Music: The Evolution Of Change Due To The Digital Era
Read An Opinion On: Cheap Keyboard Piano Sydney Music: The Evolution Of Change Due To The Digital Era by Seth Frank The war between vinyl and digital records continues to be a fiery debate among music lovers. While most individuals who grew up hearing Beatles vinyl tracks will say that vinyl sounds better, the newer…
Bluetongue disease appears in UK for the first time
Saturday, September 22, 2007 The first ever case of Bluetongue disease has been reported in the UK. The case involves a cow at a farm near Ipswich, Suffolk. Bluetongue affects ruminants such as sheep and cows, but is not known to affect humans. It is sometimes fatal, depending on the animals affected, and presently has…
Church of Scientology blames Pearl Harbor, 9/11 on psychiatry
Saturday, February 21, 2009 In an interview on a television show called the No Drug Show, hosted by Larry Byrnes, the Church of Scientology blamed both the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the attack on Pearl Harbor on psychiatrists and the drugs they prescribe their patients. Scientology considers psychiatry to be…
Afghan employee kills U.S. citizen at Kabul CIA base
Friday, September 30, 2011 A U.S. citizen working for the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan was killed by an Afghan also working there. The incident took place in the CIA Annex of the U.S. Embassy at Ariana Hotel in Kabul. The victim was not named. A second person injured in the incident was sent to a…
Intel’s Mobile Bottleneck
Read An Opinion On: Industry Management Issues Australia By Christina Xia Not long ago, chip giant Intel has done a series of two large-scale acquisitions: to 7.68 billion U.S. dollars of high-priced acquisition of security software maker McAfee, then spent 1.4 billion acquisition of Infineon’s Wireless Solutions Division, which is near Intel, the largest in…
Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai
Thursday, January 25, 2018 In findings published Wednesday in the scientific journal Cell, a team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys. They used somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same method that was used to create…