ISS Commander Chris Hadfield Bids Goodbye Singing “Space Oddity”
Charming and charismatic International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield spends the end of his term in the ISS winning the public’s fascination with his tweets and posts on Tumblr including photos of outer space scenery, the sun in outer space and other lack-of-gravity related posts. At the end of his tenure, he makes a tribute [...]
From 1988 to 2013: The Predictions That Came True
The Los Angeles Times Magazine published an article about their outlook of LA’s future by the year 2013. A renowned professor of USC, Jerry Lockenour is using the articles of the periodical dated in 1988 to teach in a graduate engineering class. The magazine issue, which was labelled a “special report” by Nicole Yorkin of [...]
New Whiplash Compensation Guidelines For 2014
Prime Minister David Cameron pledged that the UK government will aid the insurance industry in cracking down fraudulent whiplash compensation claims all over the country, which has pushed up premiums by 80% since October, adding £118 to every motorist’s insurance. With the insurance industry, losing £2 billion, the Ministry of Justice plans to abolish the [...]
Dennis Tito Unveils Plans for Private Mars Voyage Today
Dennis Tito, an American businessman who visited the International Space Station as one of the few “Space Tourists” in the world, will unveil his plans for a Mars Voyage care of his Inspiration Mars Foundation. His press conference, which would be held at the Washington, D.C.’s national Press Club today, will include the businessman, the [...]
The PPI Claims Deadline: The Good and The Bad
Undeniably, the hottest issue in the UK today is what will happen if the Financial Services Authority (FSA) considered finalizing the PPI claims deadline on April 2014. Consumer groups and critics flared the city watchdog for considering the deadline proposal of both the British Banking Association (BBA) and the Confederation of British Industries (CBI). Critics [...]
What to Make of the Rising Medical Negligence Risk Pool?
It was reported by BBC that the NHS Wales’ medical negligence payouts have doubled over the past three years to a total of £38m, increasing by £18m and this should alarm many UK citizens. The increasing Wales Risk Pool amount is symbolic of taxpayers paying for more expensive medical treatment, but this is not the [...]
New Study Suggests Space Travel Can Cause Alzheimer’s
Galactic cosmic radiation can be a great threat to future astronauts as it can increase the likelihood of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study by M.Kerry O’Banion a professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center in the field of anatomy and neurobiology. As a senior author of the study, the radiation poses a [...]
The Mayan Calendar: How Modern Mayans Actually Saw Their Calendar To Be
Modern Mayans still exist in the world today and as the Mayan calendar came to an end on December 21, many of them did not believe in end of the world, the coming of a deity or calamities erupting everywhere. The new, modernized Mayans, such as spiritual master Ollin Yolotzin who leads the Aztec ritual [...]
PPI News: “We Are Not Impressed With Banks’ Performance” – FOS
Financial Ombudsman Chief Natalie Ceeney states that the FOS is not satisfied with the way banks are handling PPI claims consumers directly filed to their complaints departments. Around 7 out of 10 rejected bank claims were valid according to the FOS, which had the organization accuse banks of delaying and trying to slow down the [...]
Moon Crash Site Named After Sally Ride
Ebb and Flow, the twin spacecraft for a mission to measure the moon’s lumpy gravity field to learn more about its early history and the satellite’s internal composition, was recently put out of commission by NASA after more than a year of orbiting the moon. The twin spacecraft’s crash site on a lunar mountain was [...]