The Rise of the Gulf Carriers
By Ashley Kindergan From The Financialist Every company can count on an existential threat showing up at its door sooner or later. For European and Asian airlines, that time is now, and it is three Persian Gulf-based carriers that are…
Justice on two wheels in the heart of London
By Jacques Klopp, AFP from Business Insider London cyclist Lewis Dediare, poses with his equipment on December 15, 2014, just one of dozens of British cyclists who have found a new raison d’etre: to travel the land recording reckless drivers…
Cartoon of the Week
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,…
Scientists discover cosmic factory for making building blocks of life
From Phys.org Scientists have discovered a ‘cosmic factory’ for producing the building blocks of life, amino acids, in research published today [Sep 15 2013] in the journal Nature Geoscience. The team from Imperial College London, the University of Kent and…
Involuntarily brewing beer in your own stomach & getting drunk is a real medical condition
By Mary Beth Quirk From Consumerist There are a lot of things our bodies do that we don’t tell them to — our lungs know to breathe, our hearts know to beat, and we can grow humans in our bellies…
Did drought doom the Mayan Empire? New evidence from Belize’s ‘Blue Hole’
By Tia Ghose, Livescience.com From The Christian Science Monitor Minerals taken from lagoons reveal a century-long drought occurred between A.D. 800 and A.D. 900, right when the Mayan civilization disintegrated. SAN FRANCISCO — Drought may have driven the ancient Mayan…
CARICOM must fully implement “bold” strategic plan – Christie
From CARIBBEAN360 GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Monday January 5, 2014, CMC – Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie says it’s important for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to fully implement the five-year strategic plan that has been endorsed by regional leaders for deepening the…
Anglican Church faces falling membership and deep divisions
By Joe Friesen Demographics Reporter — The Globe and Mail More than 15,000 packed Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens. Crowds thronged the lobby of the Royal York Hotel. Two hundred reporters scrambled for news and The Globe and Mail splashed the story on…
The 16 best “bends”
The 16 best “bends” from this week’s photo challenge By Megan Ranney From Mashable TOP IMAGE: PAUL BICA Snow Gently curling autumn leaves, winding winter roads and the delicate curves of city buildings: Bends can be truly beautiful. Last week,…
Researchers discover how and where imagination occurs in human brains
From medicalxpress Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other incredibly diverse behaviors? The answer, Dartmouth researchers conclude in…
