IMG_5742 Chumaichada, is the dance from the amazon region of Peru with strong influences of dance and music. Creole Waltz – a Peruvian adaptation of the European Waltz and Cueca a pan-Andean compound with ¾-6/8 dance rhythm. The most popular dance in Peru is the Marinera Nortena which represents a man’s courting a young…
Crypto currency Bitcoin nosedives 11.4 per cent since July 2017 to £ 3, 331.22 ($4, 326.75) and one point the crypto currency was down over 16 per cent, as China’s Central Bank, PBOC declares initial coin offerings and all related fundraising activity to be illegal. Issuing the strongest regulatory challenge so far to the…
Aston Martin is considering plans to list on the London Stock Market, which give fans to buy shares in the prestigious 104-year-old car marker. According to a Bloomberg report they could float as early as next year. The Warwickshire based luxury manufacturer could aim for valuation similar to Ferrari which listed in New York in…
Gold price soared 1 percent to their highest in almost a year yesterday 4th September 2017, in the wake of North Korea’s latest and most powerful nuclear test as investors went elsewhere in search of safe-haven assets including Bitcoin. Spot gold had risen to £1,030.54 ($1, 338.36) per ounce by 07:08 GMT, after touching its…
At the ninth BRICS Summit at Xiamen, China, where the leaders of BRICS nations, decided to support the strengthening of international cooperation against corruption and including the use of the BRICS Anti-Corruption Working Group. Zi Jinping the Chinese president lamenting that “ protectionism and an inward-looking mentality are on the rise, only openness and inclusiveness…
An innovative timber-concrete composite slab is being used in more and more buildings in Switzerland, after these passed the same strict fire safety standards as conventional concrete or steel buildings. The Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) at ETH Zurich which is globally renowned for conducting large scale fire tests. These fire tests allow researchers to…
British born, Nicola Ann Spaldin, FRS is Professor of Materials Theory at the ETH Zurich, known for her pioneering research on multiferroics has been awarded € 100, 000 and the L’Oreal-UNESCO, For Women in Science prize for Europe for her revolutionary research in the field of material sciences. Nicola, a Cambridge graduate and a PhD…
Junior Doctor Adam Kay’s confessional indignities and joys of being a junior doctor in the UK National Health Service, based on diaries kept between 2004 and 2010. The moment you set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realised that there’s quite a lot they don’t teach you at medical school, as…
At the dawn of the new era, when science fiction is fast becoming reality as AI transforms, crime, war, justice, job and society to what it means to be human. Inspired by a visit to London’s Science Museum in 2014, Max Tegmark, the American Physicist and professor of Physics at MIT and the co-founder of…