Acts of loving kindness & profound cruelty
By Warren J. Blumenfeld From Huffington Post As opposing meteorological conditions when colder and hotter weather fronts collide to incite severe and dangerous storms at point of impact, loud claps of thunder and high voltage lightning bolts split my heart…
The Editor Speaks: Taking a break
IMAGE: mikemesserli.blogspot.com I shall be taking a small break over the next few weeks due to health reasons so this space be will taken up by guest columnists who write a lot better than myself so you are in for…
A picture about tech addiction won National Geographic’s 2014 photo contest
By Neha Prakash From Mashable This year’s National Geographic photo contest winner highlights humans in the wild (read: public transportation) doing what they do best: staring at their cellphones. The winning image, titled “A Node Glows in the Dark,” was…
Chikungunya in the Caribbean: A backgrounder for non-specialists
By Deborah Almond, Antillean Media Group From Caribbean360 IMAGE: Blood sucking Aedes mosquito with blood at its stomach BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Thursday October 16, 2014, AMG – Chikungunya (CHIKV) was detected for the first time in the western hemisphere in December…
Immune children aid malaria vaccine hunt
By Rebecca Morelle, Science correspondent, BBC News The antibody trapped the malaria parasites inside of red blood cells A group of children in Tanzania who are naturally immune to malaria are helping scientists to develop a new vaccine. US researchers…
Orkney flying the flag for Tanzania and the Cayman Islands
From Occadian OIC launched the “Support a Second Team” campaign in Kirkwall today Orkney Islands Council launched its local Glasgow 2014 ‘Support a Second Team’ campaign today, Friday. Each local authority area in Scotland has been twinned with at least…
