What Greed Can Do

An employee, Jdimytai Damour died when many crazed Black Friday shoppers battered down the doors of a Long Island Walmart. The worker was an overnight store clerk who was just trying to hold back the crowds before the doors officially opened at 5:00AM. According to Jimmy Overby, another employee at the store: “They took the [...]

Parachurch Organisations

Recently been thinking a lot about this controversial subject. I came across this blog article which articulates the matter far better than I ever could.( I thoroughly agree with the writers conclusions).  Here is the article below:
Parachurch Organisations
“The latest edition of the newfrontiers magazine came out recently, and it touches on what could prove a [...]

Leading scientist urges teaching of creationism in schools

Came across this article from the Telegraph today.
“Creationism should be taught in science classes as a legitimate point of view, according to the Royal Society, putting the august science body on a collision course with the Government.
The Rev Michael Reiss, a biologist and its director of education, said it was self-defeating to dismiss as wrong [...]

What is the Large Hadron Collider? explained via Rap + article

Today was a land mark day for Physics. If you heard a lot of talk about the Large Hadron Collider and that it might end the world when it was switched on today. ( By the way it didn’t) Here is the explanation of the device in the form of an informative ultra geeky rap. [...]

Life Update, Πάντα ῥεῖ, Changes, Turning 22.

Heraclitus describes everything as being Πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) or in a state of flux with change being central to the universe itself.
Its been over two months since I last posted and in that time so much has happened in that time I’ve found myself thinking a lot about the nature of change, growing older [...]

iPhone 2 is official!

Almost a year after the original Apple iPhone went on sale, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the eagerly awaited 3G version of the device, finally putting to rest months of rumors and speculation. While some of the rumours panned out — the new handset will offer full GPS — other rumours, like the addition of [...]

What’s Steve got up his sleeve?

Today, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.’s chief executive, is expected to end the guessing game and unveil the second version of the iPhone at Apple’s developer conference in San Francisco. Without a doubt a new iPhone would steal the show. Here are some of the rumours flying around the net about its features ( taken from [...]

Obama Democratic Nominee for President, Clinton to back Obama

Based on the latest tally of all US media organizations, Obama now has passed the threshold of 2,118 national convention delegates needed to clinch this year’s Democratic nomination, becoming the first African-American presidential nominee of a major US party.
“Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president [...]

‘Mars Phoenix Lander’ touching down tonight

NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander is set to explore the Martian arctic, looking for signs of water and conditions favorable to life. But getting there won’t be easy: in the international history of the space age, only five of 13 attempts to land on Mars have succeeded.
Phoenix will enter the Martian atmosphere at nearly 13,000 miles [...]

Telectroscope Tunnel connects New York and London

New York and London’s newest hot attraction: A “tunnel” under the Atlantic that connects the two cities. It’s called the Telectroscope ( created by Paul St George), and links up the Big Apple with London in real-time in what is basically a giant outdoor videoconference. The Telectroscope (pictured above) is actually an art project, and [...]