A Londoner on a downward slope

Thirtysomething Ray is a freelance tech journalist – an underachiever caught in a trap, with his wife a nurse expecting their first child. They are trying and failing to move from their one-bedroom flat in East London to become proud owners of a  small, oversized maisonette in an undesirable suburb, as his life falls apart.…

Zadie Smith’s impressive essays exposes the Follies of showbiz

Zadie’s centrifugal styled collection of 31 essays there is a piece called “Meet Justin Bieber!” the celebrated Canadian Teenage pop idol. The ethics of Bieber’s near-namesake, the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, whose instance that true meetings demand an emotionally deep encounter between “I” and “Thou” rather than the selfish use of human being as another…

Dyson’s Air blade tap hand dryer dries your hand in 12 seconds

https://lnkd.in/dKBgntM Wash and dry hands at the sink without making the floor wet. HEPA filters prevent the spread of washroom bacteria. Invented by British founder Sir James Dyson, Dyson’s AB11 new Air blade Tap hand dryer at the sink uses clean air, from the HEPA filter which is then forced at 430 mph through apertures…

Four killed in hundreds injured in Milan train derailment

Four people were killed and hundreds injured in Thursday’s train derailment and crash at Pioltello, 30 km from the Italian city of Milan, according to the Italian fire department. Six people were trapped inside one of the carriages, with emergency services working hard to free them. The train was on its way on its way from…

Satellite dish: a thing of the past

  The pay TV Company, Sky is planning to make all its channels and content available online so that customers will no longer need a satellite dish on their property. Sky hopes by making its hundreds of channels more widely available will increase both revenue and profits. Italy will be first to get all Sky…

Virginia Woolf interjected in changing the role of women in society

Adeline Virginia Woolf, an English writer born in 22, Hyde Park Gate in Kensington, London on 25th January 1882, committed suicide in Lewes on 28th March 1941, was one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century who pioneered using a stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Virginia Woolf, the youngest daughter of successful…