British global engineering firm GKN, who help thousands of aircrafts to fly, sent 230 workers at its Somerset factory home early, and told them to expect significant job losses. Hundreds of highly skilled manufacturing jobs producing Wild Cat helicopters for Royal Navy In Yeovil, Somerset could be sent abroad in Italy. There is real risk…
British Scientists revealed that European Cod fish have regional accents and distinct dialects along the British coastline. Professor Steve Simpson, a Marine biologist professor and fish ecologist, leading a new study at University of Exeter said, “This species is highly vocal with traditional breeding grounds established over hundred or even thousands of years, so the potential…
Three British-born scientists won the 2106 Nobel Prize in Physics, for discoveries about strange forms of matter. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, will share £727,000 ( 8m Kronor) prize. Their work could benefit improved materials for electronics including super-fast computing. The winners will join an elite list of 200 other Physics laureates recognised since…
Virtual Reality or VR (not video recording!) is a growing genre in the world of film. I was fortunate enough to attend an inaugural session on Sunday 2 October the closing day of the Raindance 24th film festival at The Hospital Club Covent Garden. There were 14 films playing. This event was very avant garde…
Bauddhayan Mukherji and his wife attended the showing of this film, having come from a festival in Zurich, Europe the day before. The Violin Player was scripted and directed by Mukherji and is independent film at its best. I defy anyone to predict what happens in the second and third acts of the film…
Train Drivers Diary – Raindance offers up a true tragic-comic gem. Hailing from Serbo Croat filmmakers this film was selected as Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards and the acting is something very special as well as the choice of story. Train drivers the world over during their professional careers have to…
The Oxbridge undergraduate interviews are notorious for their technique of assessing candidates, professors, of course, tell just how smart you are. John Farndon’s book is a collection of 75 of the most drilling questions taken from actual admission interviews and gives full answers to all variety of question on histories, philosophies, sciences and arts. First of…
Award winning and bestselling author, Simon Garfield take a tour across time in this age of atomically precise devices and look at some of the ways in which time is represented, and meets with makers and advertsiers of Swiss watches and Roger Bannister the first runner of a sub-four-minute mile. He also looks at management…
Spotify, a Swedish music, podcast and video streaming service, pounced on to buy Berlin-based music streaming start-up Sound-Cloud. As SoundCloud’s 200m-strong community is to join Spotify’s 100m, which include 40m paying subscribers, and will compete with their biggest US rival Apple Music who has 17m paying subscribers. When the deal concludes we have major European superpower…