With environmental concerns constantly mounting, campaigners are calling on the public to make more and more changes to their lifestyle. One suggestion is to buy locally produced food. Shipping fruit, vegetables or meat from various corners of the world adds air miles to your conscience and digits to your bill. To highlight this issue, Scottish journalist Stephen Jardine has this year begun a campaign promoting…
http://articlesss.com/Success in most personal endeavors, especially striving for school excellence, has much more to do with motivation and good work habits than it does with innate abilities. The vast majority of people certainly have the mental faculties and capacity to learn necessary for success in school. The trick is to use those natural gifts and to use them wisely. Often, there are self-imposed roadblocks preventing…
The credit crunch and fuel prices have rarely been out of the news recently. When you combine this with the stark environmental warnings regarding CO2 emissions, it puts motorists under more pressure, both in terms of finance and conscience. Clearly it’s just not practical for everyone to use public transport on a daily basis, so when you have to use your own car or a…
The recent discovery of a leather-bound notebook could be the solution to a debate that has been rampant within the Royal Society for 350 years. The argument revolves around English politician Alexander Popham — who was born deaf and mute around 1650 and was taught to speak by a distinguished scientist. But who? Controversy has since centred around which of the two scientists Popham’s mother…
If you’ve ever been in a non-fault incident — perhaps on the road, or at work — then it could be more than just yourself which is in pain; if the accident causes you to miss an extended period of work, or makes your working or day-to-day life more difficult, your bank balance could also feel the pain. However, those people that are hurt in…
It’s hard to imagine living in a world where we don’t have any electricity to power the many inventions we have made for ourselves. If you have ever been through a prolonged power cut you’ll know just how troublesome it can be, and how unprepared we are for it. But the truth is that we are placing a lot of strain on the network, and…
In 1989 the chemistry professors Stanley Pons and Martin Fleishman reported that they had achieved cold fusion in a palladium anode emerged in a solution of sodium deuteroxide in heavy water D2O. Due to a bad exactness of their report, only few other scientists managed to replicate their findings in the first place. The findings were then dismissed as due to misunderstandings and bad scientific…