Death wears bling: the glory of London’s Caribbean funerals
From The Spectator Ian Thomson applauds the grand rituals of West Indian funerals in his review of Charlie Phillips’s How Great Thou Art How Great Thou Art: Fifty Years of African Caribbean Funerals in London Charlie Phillips King/Otchere Productions, pp.130,…
Federal Judge signs off on IPod antitrust trial
By Marisa Kendall, The Recorder OAKLAND — A class of iPod buyers suing Apple seems likely to make it to trial intact, after an eleventh hour challenge from the company’s legal team fell flat. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers…
Cartoon of the Day
By Tony Zuvela, Cartoonist “It’s my own little World which I can escape to everyday and create a fun, weird, berserk Cartoon to whatever subject I like. I enjoy doing all the work myself, and all the aspects of Cartooning,…
How red meat could raise risk of Alzheimer’s
By Larisa Brown From iol lifestyle The accumulation of the mineral abundant in red meat was found to have begun in the part of the brain which is generally damaged in the early stages of the disease. London – Eating…
It’s official: Giant snook is all-time record
By Bill Sargent From Florida Today Ward Michaels never doubted for a minute that his catch of an enormous 591/2-pound Pacific black snook last March at Puerto Quepos in Costa Rica would be accepted as an all-tackle world record. “I…
Unpleasant dance with CCJ by Jamaica and T&T
By Rickey Singh From Jamaica Observer Some 52 years after Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago formally severed the colonial relationship with Britain, they maintain a strange preference for the Privy Council in London as their final appellate institution instead of…
New Hampshire hospital may have exposed patients to an incurable, terrifying brain disease
By Jennifer Welsh Business Insider PHOTO: #1 Wikipedia/Sbrandner There’s a small chance that 13 patients in and around New Hampshire were exposed to an extremely rare, terrifying, and deadly degenerative brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob, according to a state health…
Now China’s using drones to deliver packages
By Chris C Anderson From Business Insider Shenzhen-based Chinese delivery company SF Express is in the early stages of putting drones in the skies that can deliver packages to remote areas according to the South China Morning Post. SF Express…
Why just one exam in labor is ordinarily enough
By Doula Delight From Bahama islands info Ordinarily, the only necessary vaginal exam in labor is the one that determines if the mother is indeed in active labor. It is true, that in cases of arrested labor, additional exams may…
