Creating Concorde
1964-1969 Creating Concorde. The world’s first supersonic passenger jet By Amanda Uren From Mashable October 1963 A wooden mockup of the Concorde nose and cockpit under construction at Filton factory in Bristol. Image: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images When, in 1947, the U.S….
Cayman Islands to ‘Fly a Flag for the Commonwealth’
The Cayman Islands will fly the Commonwealth flag outside the Government Administration Building (GAB) on Monday, 14 March 2016 at 10 a.m. as part of worldwide Commonwealth Day celebrations. To reflect this year’s theme “An Inclusive Commonwealth” over 850 Commonwealth…
The View from Europe: The cashless society
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now If you read the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post or some of the world’s other heavyweight newspapers, you may have seen in recent months, articles discussing the abolition of…
Top 5 evolution misconceptions you should stop believing
By PAULA KOVER for The Conversation From Mashable Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of I’m a…
The truth about sex after 50/Why making love may help to fight dementia
The truth about sex after 50 From Reader’s Digest Judging from the images the popular media puts forth, you’d think sex was only for twenty somethings. Nothing is further from the truth. Sex at midlife and beyond is a subject…
Criminal record disclosure checks ruled ‘unlawful’
From BBC Two people who claimed their careers were being blighted by having to disclose their minor criminal convictions to employers have won their case at the High Court. The court ruled the criminal record checks scheme used in England…
Million-dollar smartphone
By Steve Ranger From TechRepublic Rise of the million-dollar smartphone: how luxury phones became a must-have for billionaires Go with TechRepublic’s Steve Ranger on an inside look at the gold-plated gadget market that’s received a big boost from Apple. It…
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Stanford says English cricket embarrassment ‘breaks his heart’
From ESPN Cricket Info Allen Stanford has claimed that it “breaks his heart” to hear of the embarrassment that his notorious partnership with the ECB caused to English cricket. Speaking to the BBC in his first interview since 2009, when…
Gone for good? Not this Royal Caribbean ship
By Gene Sloan, From USA TODAY Just when you think it’s gone for good, they pull it back in. With apologies to The Godfather’s Michael Corleone (yeah, we know the quote isn’t quite right), that’s the story for a beloved Royal…
The Editor speaks: A painful dream
I often dream and most of the time if I wake up immediately I know what the dream is about but in the morning whatever it was has gone from my memory – vanished forever. There are some, however, that I do…
