Dyson began developing a medical ventilator in response to a government appeal for firms to take part in a national effort to increase the number of ventilators, is now no longer required. Sir James Dyson, founder, who invested £20 million on the project without asking for public funds, in a note to staff said that…
The Department of Health UK has released its official death toll, 616 people had died in hospital from coronavirus in the past 24 hours taking the total death toll to 18, 837 at 5 pm, pm 22 April. Out of 425, 821 tests of which 138, 078 tested positive. A British Airways passenger Boeing 777…
50th Anniversary of the Earth Day and celebrate one of the smallest but most critical organisms. Did you know the bee pollinate two-thirds of our world’s crops and 85 per cent of the world’s flowering plants and vegetables? Bees are flying insects related to wasps and ants, especially the western honey bee is famous for…
Netflix’s subscription numbers surged this year as coronavirus lockdowns roufn the world keep people at home where they want to be entertained. 16 million people created new accounts in the first three months of the year , almost double the new sign-ups saw in the final months of 2019 Europe , the Middle East and…
Hackers might have reportedly stolen over €100 million, kept as COVID-19 financial aid, from the government of Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) province as officials didn’t secure the website. Hackers created the website’s copy and collected users’ credentials by sending them to counterfeit sites. They then used users’ personal information to the requests and collect funds…
I Shakuntala Devi, “the human computer”, and child prodigy, who was born in Bangalore on November 4, 1929, in a poor family world remembers her death anniversary died due to respiratory and cardiac problems on Sunday 23 April 2013 aged 83. She dropped out of school because her father could not afford the monthly school…
Novartis commits to donating up to 130million doses of Hydroxychloroquine to support the global COVID-19 pandemic response. Hydroxychloroquine and a related drug Chloroquine are currently under evaluation in clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19. Novartis COVID-19 Response Fund of USD 20 million, helped to build drug discovery and development collaborations and essential medicines price…
Beatles and Rolling Stones appearing on the same show into your living room “One World Together At Home Concert”. Taylor Swift gave an emotional performance of her ballad Soon You’ll Get Better sat against the pastel-coloured floral backdrop of the piano room in her house, originally written as a memoir of Swift’s grief over…
Greg Jenner, writes about a vibrant cast of ovr 125 actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, freaks, ruffians in search of celebrity’s historic roots. Dead Famous is funny and fascinating exploration of both a bygone age and how we came to inhabit our modern, fame obsessed society. The scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans…
Our food culture is fragmented, a mix of mass “ultra Processed” foods ( high in salt, sugar and fat) the effect of Europeanisation as pizza is children’s favourite food and wee also eat the world’s cuisines, as UK got wealthier, allowing aspirations and tastes to flower. Industrial and post-industrial societies have moved away from…