Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Outsourcing childcare
Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas
Entries from August 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Flying à la Carte: Q&A with Skybus’s CEO
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/da2183afd28a4110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html If Skybus Airlines is the future of air travel, then the future won’t cost much. Nor will it keep you hostage on the tarmac. The company’s chief executive, Bill Diffenderffer, has rethought everything from the cost of onboard refreshments to how and where passengers check in. The result, he claims, is an airline that [...]
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Go, Antigua, Go!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/business/worldbusiness/23gamble.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&ei=5087%0A&em&en=45639b242bae8fd2&ex=1188014400&oref=login “…The dispute stretches back to 2003, when Mr. Mendel first persuaded officials in Antigua and Barbuda, a tiny nation in the Caribbean with a population of around 70,000, to instigate a trade complaint against the United States, claiming its ban against Americans gambling over the Internet violated Antigua and Barbuda’s rights as a member [...]
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Lobes of Steel
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/sports/playmagazine/0819play-brain.html?ex=1188273600&en=842c3ba0d994a5cf&ei=5070 “….Scientists have suspected for decades that exercise, particularly regular aerobic exercise, can affect the brain. But they could only speculate as to how. Now an expanding body of research shows that exercise can improve the performance of the brain by boosting memory and cognitive processing speed. Exercise can, in fact, create a stronger, faster [...]
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Festo Air Ray
http://www.festo.com/INetDomino/coorp_sites/en/c79c5d07d5805095c12572b9006f04f5.htm “Air_ray, modelled on the manta ray, is a remote-controlled hybrid construction consisting of a helium-filled ballonet and a beating wing drive. Its light design makes it possible for it to “swim” in the sea of air, boosted by helium, in a similar way to the manta ray in water. Propulsion is achieved by a [...]
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
This is your brain on love
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-attraction30jul30,0,6503437,full.story?coll=la-headlines-health “…In an experiment published as a chapter in a 2006 book, “Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience,” Fisher found 17 people who were in relationships for an average of seven months. She knew they were in love from their answers to what researchers call the Passionate Love Scale. They all said they’d feel deep despair if their [...]
