admin | March 5, 2010
“The emerging field of ‘nutrigenomics’ looks at how food interacts with genes. It has long been known that people react to certain nutrients differently according to their genetic makeup. Lactose intolerance, for example, is more common among Asians and Africans than of people of North European descent.”
The story is at BBC News – DNA test could [...]
admin | March 4, 2010
“In the UK, to be married to more than one person at a time is illegal. But the Zulu ethnic group, of which Mr Zuma is part, practises polygamy by tradition.”
Raed more @ BBC News – How do Zulus explain polygamy?.
I would respectively put foward that the imposition of one’s values on those who do [...]
admin | February 26, 2010
Asylum applications for the last three months of 2009 were the lowest since the early 1990’s. Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas ia reported to have said” …Our border has never been stronger, as shown by the fall in the number of asylum applications.”
Does this mean we are refusing to allow application for asylum by [...]
admin | November 30, 2009
The latest in dog horror stories about the 4 year old child mauled to death in Liverpool http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8386023.stm does nothing to help my intense phobia of dogs and particularly certain breeds of dogs. Many people have expressed that I have a unjustisfied or irrational fear of these dogs and that I put myself in danger by [...]
admin | November 30, 2009
Many of us who have to work for a living have over the years got used to the idea that if the skills we brought to the market place were ever to become uneconomical, we would be redundant. We would need to re-train and gain new skills to continue with any sort of gainful employment. [...]
admin | November 11, 2009
Someone forwarded me a link to phones4u’s home page yesterday and I emailed them to determine whether they had been hacked but have not had a response. I am sure they did not intend to have Santa having a wee in the snow or surrounded by what look like cans of beer and holding a [...]
admin | November 8, 2009
There have been a few stories over the last week or so about the scam advertisements on social sites mainly Facebook, arguably the most successful social site. It appears to have started with this commentary – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/ on Techcrunch. One of the Facebook successful applications company’s CEO can be seen discussing his early strategy in [...]
admin | October 4, 2009
Despite being an island – and our reputation for wet weather – the UK actually has less available water per head than many European countries including France, Italy and Greece. London, for example, has less annual rainfall than Rome, Paris or Naples.
http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=EV0503_8291_FRP.pdf
No, really? Forgive me if I think you been smoking something.
