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A new study by researchers from the Bristol University, UK, has suggested that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 (carbon dioxide) than had been
Bristol Traffic (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Berlin is the pivot-point of 20th century Europe. This week, the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall; the end of the cold war. Not one Bristol Traffic contributor has been asked for a "where were you when it fell?" quote, which is a shame as one intermittent contributor's answer "in East Berlin doing my military service for the DDR, wondering if the order to start shooting would...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
A new study by researchers from the University of Bristol, UK, has determined that the remarkable eyes of mantis shrimps could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players.
Breaking More Waves (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Despite the fact that we are now supposedly a global community, connected by the wired up and wireless world that we live in through the internet, there are many musicians that are highly acclaimed in their own country yet are very much unknowns in other parts of the developed world. Dan Mangan is one such artist. An award winning singer songwriter in his native Canada, in the UK he is still very much...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Three teenage thugs face jail for launching two sickening racist attacks on Asian shopkeepers in Bristol, UK, in the space of just one hour.
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
In a new research, scientists from the University of Bristol, UK, have discovered a clever structure in the ear on the wing of a tropical butterfly that potentially makes it able to distinguish
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
I know it works for me. But, that's a whole 'nuther story. From Ace : Not just 'enhanced interrogation techniques' but apparently the hardcore old school stuff as well . (Jonathan) Evans, the director-general of MI5, said British lives had been saved as a direct result of intelligence received from overseas agencies in the years following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Speaking on Thursday...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
People of Hastings defend town against accusations of racism after conviction over manslaughter of Mohammed al-Majed The sign has been taken down and the doors closed for good at the 19th-century seafront building where Mohammed al-Majed studied English. Not long after the 16-year-old student was killed, EF Language School upped sticks and moved to Bristol, having apparently decided that Hastings's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
If the GDP figures next week show no sign of recovery, it will be the first time the UK has ever had six successive quarters without growth ( Economics , 12 October). This leaves me wondering why the UK needs to sell its wares, including the student loan book, for a few billion pounds when it is sitting on an undeveloped, and globally recognised, goldmine. We all know nations need their niche in today's...
The Contentious Centrist (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Two Unrelated Matters about Israel I. From the Dubavian (from Dubai) blogger Buj al-Arab I get to read a charming article by one Jeff Gates who predicts, with sanguine malevolence that in five years Israel will not longer exist. Read Buj's pleasure in this prediction and the comments left on his blog: Online reports of a study by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Tokyo-based U.S. filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash's debut feature documentary will be shown for the first time in Japan on Sunday at Nakano Zero. Winner of the 2006 Prix du Canton Vaud (newcomers award) at Visions du Reel in Nyon, Switzerland, "the ballad of vicki and jake" follows nine months in the lives of single mother Vicki who struggles with drug addiction and her 11-year-old son, Jake, while...
GENEALOGE (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, England, information and photographs : "The origins of Bristol Cathedral lie in the abbey founded in 1140 by Robert FitzHarding, a wealthy merchant, Provost of Bristol and Lord of Berkeley. FitzHarding brought Augustinian monks, known as Black Canons, to serve God and the community at this spot across the river from the walled city. Their abbey church was dedicated...
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Earliest use of "new found land" -- Canadian history is interesting but often overlooked (even here) in favour of the history of other nations. (Picture of Hen ry VII right) Newly discovered letter reveals 1499 expedition to Canada By Randy Boswell British historians have unearthed a letter written 510 years ago by King Henry VII that sheds startling new light on Canadian history. The letter...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
The philosopher Jan Patočka is something of a national hero in the Czech Republic, and deservedly so. A teacher of Vaclav Havel , he was, in addition to one of the most important Central-European thinkers of the twentieth century, a martyr to the struggle for freedom in the Czech Republic during Communist rule. In 1977, at the age of 70, he died from a brain haemorrhage after a prolonged police...
Pension Pulse (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
The Globe and mail reports that Teachers lands British airport deal : The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan stepped into the restructuring of the British airport industry yesterday, increasing its stake in the fastest-growing airfield in the U.K. Teachers, which already held a 14.5-per-cent stake in Bristol International Airport, bought the 35.5-per-cent stake held by Australia's Macquarie Airports for...
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