Electric black cabs of the future

London Black cabs are going green.  Family owned technology group Frazer Nash will this year begin selling its electric Metrocab through Ecotive, a company owned by the same family after a lawsuit from Chinese competitor London Electric Vehicle Company delayed its plan by three years. LEVC began making its electric vehicles, but early production setbacks…

Tiger Woods: Biography

Investigative reporters Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner  and Armen Keteyian, in their first major biography of TigerWoods describes the Shakespearean rise and epic fall of  American icon and  attempted to understand who the real Tiger Wood is and summed up their subject as “the most mysterious athlete of his time,…

Raging Desire

Maggie, a protagonist from Tennessee, a raised evangelical, married young,  the narrator of the Jamie Quatro’s novel Fire Sermon says “Imagine writing this all down and giving the manuscript to my agent. This has been done to death”. In response, her agent said, “I won’t be able to sell this”. But Maggie falls in love…

K2-229b, Mercury-like exo-planet discovered

K2-229b, Mercury-like exo-planet discovered   An International team of astronomers has detected a metallic exo-planet with a density similar to Mercury.   Earth, Venus and Mars and some extra solar terrestrial planets have a mass and radius that is consistent with a mass fraction of about 30 per cent metallic core and 70 per cent…

Problem?  A good lawyer?  Ahh – that’s a good answer!

  This is a must-have handbook for all filmmakers and at £15.00 it’s a steal.  Tony Morris – private practice solicitor has given extensive advice in the media and entertainment spheres and his industry knowledge is second to none. Producers need help with a myriad of legal matters when making films.  Copyright is a major…

15 Otis Lifts at Elliptical tower 1 Blight street in Sydney

Sydney’s financial district boasts about the elliptical tower, 1 Bligh Street conceived as a “solitaire” which has graceful curves, creative use of glass and 15 Otis elevators, featuring eight of them with curved-glass walls.  Even the lift hoistways are fully exposed and the machine-room walls, floors and ceilings are also glass making it transparent.  The…

Jamie Vardie’s strike equalised by Lorenzo’s late penalty

International Friendlies Tue 27, Mar 2018, Wembley Stadium England 1       1 Italy Vardy 26’ FT Insigne (87’pen)                      HT 1-0   England were in lead given to them by Jamie Vardy’s powerful 26th-minute goal fired past goal keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma after Jesse Lingard’s hurridly taken free-kick shocked the visitors out early. England were denied a…

India’s flourishing Railways and the Raj – Wolmar

68-year-old Christian Wolmar, a London based railway historian and an award-winning writer and broadcaster specialising in transport, examines the complicated legacy of the Indian Railways, including the brutal history. His research which took him over a year, travelling the length and breadth of India on trains, culminated with a lecture on Indian Railway history at…