New record time spent in space

Tuesday, August 16, 2005 The current International Space Station commander, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev has set a new record of a total of 748 days spent in orbit – almost 2 years, as of Tuesday August 16th, 2005. This outstrips the record set by Sergei Avdeyev‘s missions on Mir station. Being in space presents many health concerns – both psychological […]

Wikinews interviews 0 A.D. game development team

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0 A.D. is a historical, open source, strategy game, published by Wildfire Games. It focuses on the period between 500BC and 500AD. The game will be released in two parts: the first covering the pre-AD period, and the second running to 500AD. With development well underway, Wikinews interviewed the development team. Aviv Sharon, a 24-year-old Israeli […]

Raised Bed Gardening: What Are The Benifits?

Click Here To Find Out More About: Mobility Aid Products Australia By Caiden Felix For this article I’m going to stray from my normal topic of Internet marketing and indulge myself with one my passions……..gardening……..,in particular raised bed gardening. So here we go! Where soil is of poor quality and drainage inadequate, raised bed gardening makes it simple to create […]

Australian government hopes to establish triage by phone

Sunday, January 29, 2006 The Australian federal government hopes to slash hospital emergency department waiting queues by setting up a 24-hour national medical hotline. A government source said that the National Health Call Centre Network would be manned by registered triage nurses 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. Triage nurses would perform a diagnosis over the phone based upon the […]

Massachusetts lawmakers enact plan for universal health coverage

Friday, April 7, 2006Legislators in the Massachusetts General Court, their name for the state legislature, approved legislation on Tuesday, April 4, that would make it the first state in the United States to require all residents to have health insurance and impose penalties for non-compliance. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican who is expected to run for U.S. President in […]

Category:Cannabis

This is the category for cannabis, a drug with recreational and medicinal uses. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 16 February 2018: United States: Berkeley, California declares itself a sanctuary city for recreational cannabis 16 April 2017: Canada to legalise marijuana to ‘make it more difficult for kids to access’ 20 January 2017: Germany legalises medical use of […]

Understanding Cloud Computing

Click Here To Find Out More About: Richard Light Interactive It Hosting services over the Internet is the main thing cloudcomputing is about. The cloud symbol that illustrates the Internet by way ofdiagrams and charts is where the name cloud computing originated from. Basically, these services fall into three categories:Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service. Acloud service is different from traditional hosting. […]

Eleven alleged Russian spies arrested in US

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 The United States announced the arrest of eleven people accused of acting as spies for Russia, breaking up what the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) called a “long term, deep cover” spy ring within the US. Those arrested were, according to the US government, members of a spy ring that had existed for several […]

Google planning PayPal rival

Monday, June 20, 2005 Financial analysts say Google is planning an e-wallet service that could eventually compete with eBay’s payment service PayPal. Google has not confirmed the development. The rumor is a first sign of Google’s expected expansion of revenue sources to capitalize on its advertising customer base and search-engine traffic. What form that expansion will take has been a […]