2014年10月3日 星期五

2014-10-04 U.K. Spotlight


Obama needs a gangsta to lay down the law  Financial Times
Barack Obama's second term has been tough going for his supporters. Many had hoped that once he was re-elected, the US president would become more like that intriguing character he played on the campaign trail. The expectation began creeping into ...


   


Ebola case in the US highlights risk to other nations  New Scientist
For the first time, someone has developed Ebola outside the tropics. The man was infected in Liberia, and fell ill after flying to Dallas, Texas. He is now hospitalised, isolated and in critical condition. Epidemiologists have been warning that this could happen ...


   

  BBC News   
ARM creates operating system for 'internet of things'  BBC News
British computer chip designer ARM is creating an operating system to power new kinds of internet-connected devices. The company is designing the mbed OS software to require as little battery power and memory as possible, and will not charge for its use.

   


Peter Piot: out to stop the Ebola virus he found  Financial Times
When the lethal Ebola virus began terrorising Africa, Peter Piot watched in frustration as international experts dithered over how serious the crisis was and how it should be tackled. It was 1977, the year after a Belgian medical team led by the young ...


and more »   

  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)   
Conservatives should think very carefully before ditching the ECHR  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
We made the argument that the HRA embodied a series of values – freedom of speech, right to private property, personal liberty etc – that are exquisitely Conservative. We also demonstrated that it contained a wide range of protections against the power of ...


and more »   

  BBC News   
Israel: What wine did King David drink?  BBC News
A scientist in Israel is on a mission to find out what kind of wine was drunk in Biblical times. The project - which is part-funded by the government - also aims to re-launch its production. Several barrels of wine are already standing next to Elyashiv Drori's ...


and more »   


Guinter Kahn, dermatologist, 1934-2014  Financial Times
Scientists have been seeking a cure for baldness since the dawn of modern medicine. Hippocrates experimented with a concoction of opium, horseradish, beetroot and pigeon droppings. It was another two and half thousand years before a Jewish émigré ...


and more »   


David Cameron versus Ed Miliband: the narrative the Tories are desperate for  Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Even before David Cameron's speech, the Conservatives had had a pretty good conference season. Despite several challenges of varying seriousness – a minor scandal, the Ukip threat, and polls that just aren't budging – the party refused to panic. Instead ...


and more »   

  BBC News   
Satellites detect 'thousands' of new ocean-bottom mountains  BBC News
It is not every day you can announce the discovery of thousands of new mountains on Earth, but that is what a US-European research team has done. What is more, these peaks are all at least 1.5km high. The reason they have gone unrecognised until now is ...


and more »   


'Perfect storm' turned HIV from local to global killer  New Scientist
Almost like detectives retracing the steps of a killer in a whodunnit, researchers have pieced together how the virus that later became known as HIV grew from infecting a few hunter-gatherers in Cameroon to affecting 76 million people across the globe.

and more »   

沒有留言:

張貼留言