Everybody lies is a fascinating, witty book, blending informed analysis of the signal and the noise and looks into new data sources, dominated by Google, where the author Seth Stephens previously worked. “I am convinced that Google searches are the most important data set ever collected on the human psyche”, he writes. Data provides new…
Oxford University Medical researchers have developed a sensitive test to identify people at high risk of a heart attack or stroke by scanning their blood vessels, a method known as fat attenuation index or FAI, which identifies people whose blood vessels have fatty deposits or “plaques” that are in charge of breaking off and causing…
Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish noble and agronomist who discovered Vodka from potato, moonshine, potato wine and the method of extracting starch from potatoes paving way for gluten-free baking. She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751. She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish…
The Swedish firm Volvo would switch to electric for all models and would not rely on an internal combustion engine by 2019. Yesterday’s UK car sales of diesels figures showed a 15 per cent drop, following stern warnings about air pollution deaths and costly levies. There was also upward sales surge of electric and hybrid…
Serious concerns were being raised over efficiency of checks after it emerged insulation beneath the cladding was never tested for fire safety, as 181 high-rise buildings in 51 local authorities have failed fire safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Cladding samples tested as part of a “major national investigation” into the…
Theresa May promised “major national Investigation” into the widespread use of flammable cladding on residential tower blocks. The newly elected Labour Mp Emma Dent Coad for Kensington complained that England’s building regulations had been “watered down”. to suit the fat cat developers and contractors. Even the Germany city of Wuppertal ordered the evacuation of a…
According to the Government, 75 tower blocks from 25 councils have now failed the fire safety combustibility tests on cladding since the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, blamed on buildings polyethylene insulation. Every panel testes has failed. In the past building materials passed building control officials are considered to be dangerous. The Association of British Insurers told ministers…
Heat is on other councils to check cladding material used in other high rise tower blocks. Cladding should not contain any element of combustable materials. The number of tower blocks found to have combustible cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower rises to 11 across England. Already five tower blocks on the Chalcots Estates in…
The Grenfell Tower disaster in West London is the worst fire the UK has witnessed, as the investigators and working to find out how the blaze began and spread rapidly and also are looking into the construction, refurbishment and the management of the Tower block, as well as the existing building regulations, are adequate. The…