May 21, 2012
- Business Week - Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Those who survive often suffer from low IQ, diabetes, and heart disease when they reach adulthood. According to the World Health Organization, 75% of these deaths and ailments could be averted by simply keeping...
The annual Maker Faire Bay Area, in San Mateo, attracted thousands of visitors over the weekend, and probably as significantly, it now attracts the attention of the mainstream...- SARISKA -- India, which has the highest number of wild tigers, will play the biggest role in saving the big cat. But it needs to solve the growing man-animal conflict.
May 18, 2012
- Researchers have unveiled an “inexact” computer chip that challenges the industry’s 50-year pursuit of accuracy. The design improves power and resource efficiency by allowing for occasional errors. Prototypes unveiled this week at the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers in Cagliari, Italy, are at least 15 times more efficient than today’s technology.
The... - We had listed the nuclear reactors that are expected to start or restart in 2012.
All 14 are on track for commercial operation in 2012.
14 Reactors in 2012 2012 India, NPCIL Kaiga 4 PHWR 202 (operating) 2012 Iran, AEOI Bushehr 1 PWR 950 (...
May 17, 2012
Social pinning site will be used to highlight pieces in and inspiration behind the store's new 'True Blue' collection.BEFORE foreign investors came to India, its finance minister remarked recently, “we did not eat lizards.” For all the grumbles one hears about India’s economy, there is hardly a sense of desperation. Those foreign investors keep coming: on May 1st Vodafone’s boss met the government. Despite a corruption scandal, a price war, a huge retroactive tax claim and wildly unpredictable regulations, the mobile-phone firm is committed to its $18.6 billion investment in India, even though its value has...
Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Those who survive often suffer from low IQ, diabetes, and heart disease when they reach adulthood. According to the World Health Organization, 75% of these deaths and ailments could be averted by simply keeping these premature babies warm. Unfortunately,...
In my line of work I come across some amazing people. One of which is Hannah Dawson - a remarkable young lady who is at the forefront of working with horses - our very own horse whisperer! - who can help develop a truly outstanding relationship between an owner and their horse.
I asked Hannah to give an insight into her work...to see if we could learn on how to...
May 16, 2012
How Fab.com pivoted from a failed social network for gays to a retailing powerhouse valued at $200 million in less than 6 months. The third in our Pivot series.
Bradford Shellhammer and Jason Goldberg realized it just wasn't working.
Their gay social...
