Category: Interesting news stories

  • Beat The Jobs Freeze In The Antarctic !

    I didn’t apply for that job, advertised recently, on an uninhabited island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. I think they have had thousands of applicants and I certainly would have loved a spell on there. As long as I had my guitar and a supply of beer I would have been happy ! Hot on…

  • Psychiatrists, Takeaways & Lap-dancing, The Link Is?

    There are many ways to look at what is happening within a nation. You could conduct a survey but one of the best ways is to look at the most popular types of businesses that are being requested by telephone directory enquiries. The telephone directory 118 118 recently released some fascinating statistics which give us…

  • Speed Bumps Set to Generate Power

    I am all in favour of finding new ways to generate power. Whether it’s wind farms, solar power, harnessing the waves or even the way I mentioned in a previous post about road heating. I came across another really good way of generating electricity the other day and that is using speed bumps to generate power when…

  • UFO’s Seen Over The Lake District

    It seems that I may have to revise one of my recent blog posts about the possibility of alien life being found. In that post I said that I doubted alien life would ever visit planet Earth. But now, according to the Northern Echo newspaper UFO experts are saying that aliens are landing in the…

  • Making A Beeline For Disaster

    With all this talk of rising sea levels and a changing climate one very fundamental part of our ecosystem is near collapse, and it has hardly had any publicity at all ! Native British bees are dying out and when they go so will flora, fauna and one-third of our diet. Albert Einstein had a…

  • Social Media is Becoming Main Way of Communicating

    The way things are going we will not have to talk to each soon ! TV and computer games almost killed the art of speaking to each other and now with the likes of Facebook, mobile phone text messages, blogs and now Twitter it seems likely that we will lose our ability to use language…

  • More Aliens Exist Than First Thought !

    I have always wondered, like everybody else, whether alien life forms exist. Are we alone in the universe or is there other intelligent life out there is a question that has been asked many times and, no doubt, will be continued to be asked for many centuries to come. New research by an Edinburgh scientist has come…

  • Look Now To See Venus At Its Brightest

    If you look west into the night sky in the early evening you may have noticed a very bright star, and you may have wondered what it actually is. I have noticed it for a few weeks now. It is the planet Venus and it is now the brightest it has been for 8 years.…

  • Exercise For Only 30 Seconds A Day To Stay Fit !

    Scientists have discovered that just 30 seconds of high intensity exercise, like sprinting or cycling fast, can improve health if done on a regular basis. The findings say that this increases the body’s metabolism, which helps to prevent weight gain, heart disease and diabetes. The study was conducted on 16 men who sprinted and cycled…

  • Twitter Tells The World What Your Are Doing!

    I like to keep abreast of what is happening in the world and I also like to keep in touch with new technology and lately I have been trying to keep up with the new world of social media. I have got a Facebook page that I never use and I recently read that anybody…

  • Next Time You Are Faced With A Sinking Ship Don’t Queue!

    New evidence released today by an Australian researcher has revealed that the English tradition of waiting in a queue may not always be the best idea! The research attempted to explain why more English people than Americans died when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. It seems that the English waited in a polite…

  • This Lift Is Going Up-The Next Floor Is A Space Station

    A space elevator that runs up a 22,000 mile cable from Earth to an orbiting space station was mentioned by Arthur C Clarke in one of his science fiction books many years ago, but the idea goes back to 1895 when a Russian scientist, inspired by the Eiffel Tower, proposed the idea. Now, thanks to a British invention scientists…