Monthly Archives: April 2014
When telcos are terrible at communication
It’s time mobile operators fixed their networks – and their prose.
Read the full article...Making the case for shale gas and oil
Both advocates and critics of fracking have it wrong. Also, both use the wrong word.
Read the full article...Publicly funded design support for SME manufacturers
Over the years, governments have put very little money into supporting product design among SMEs. Here’s a review of the results of their work.
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HOME ORIFICE "NOT FIT FOR PORPOISE" DEPT: Landing in your Saudi/UAE private jet at London City Airport, to bankroll Allah knows what? No questions asked.
BORDER FARCE: Landing at Manchester Airport with the plebs, to publicise 7 October? "You're nicked". https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/47eb98e8-ffd1-4c36-89bb-aad382950d6b?shareToken=a0d2657259020f3a6a6077f9e8622cf8
@jameswoudhuysen @spikedonline It will also set different rates for EV charging via smart-home connections and power the local grid from connected EVs when it suits them.
@jameswoudhuysen @spikedonline Now if only we all had working smart meters; knew how to use them; and had the time to monitor them!
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking