It seems that every day another area of the economy is depressed because of the global financial crisis in the banks and governments around the world. This time it's The Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, which has announced it will make no new grants until 2014; and there is a...
My phone was working totally fine before, but now when I try to text one certain contact it glitches, and the text wont appear, but it's really there. On top of that, after every time I push space the virtual keyboard disappears. It also kept closing texting when I tried to hit "send", and...
I recently got this phone off amazon where in the description it said "unlocked". It turns out that the phone is not unlocked-meaning I could not and still cant insert my sim and make/recieve calls or even TEXT!
So desperately I went online unlock-sim.net and payed for an unlock code. The...
I have to talk 3 minutes about a certain topic. Some easy to debate and related to the English spoken world.
The topic must be as much debatable as possible.
I have to talk 3 minutes about a certain topic. Some easy to debate and related to the English spoken world.
The topic must be as much debatable as possible.
w00t! My blog post on Urban Heat Islands has won the prestigious Editor's Selection Award from ResearchBlogging.org News!
See the awarding blog post here, and the awarded blog post here.
Thank you Sarah Kendrew.
Two other posts won the award as well: Ovarian Cancer at...
Urban areas can be warmer than surrounding non-urban areas because there is a lot of combustion, pavement and other structure can collect solar heat and retain it for a while, and other factors. It is not uncommon to look at a weather map where conditions for precipitation are marginal, and...
...I'd like to talk about an observation I made while writing for a now defunct monthly rag about global warming back in the early 1990s, and have always wanted to pursue formally, as a research project. Since I've not gotten to it yet, I thought it might be fun to outline the idea more...
The number of people falling ill each year with tuberculosis (TB) is falling, with 8.8 million global cases last year compared to 9 million in 2005, and the number of deaths to the disease in 2010 fell to the lowest level in a decade. However, lack of funding, especially in fighting...
All of the other android phones have gotten the 2.3 update, and I saw that the droid 2 global got the update, but then it was suspended to fix something. Does anyone know when the android 2.3 update for the droid 2 global will come out or have any details? Thanks!
presently our society is broken, the young people are disgusting and the old people are rude and shameless. Young people have no future prospects and not much chance of entering into a home owning democracy as house values are incorrect. why then are we focusing so much on global warming when...
T-Mobilr and/or AT&T (USA)? I found online that the Droid 3 Global phone is sold as "Unlocked" and the seller claims on the web page that the phone can be used freely with any GSM carrier in the world (make phone calls, send and receive text messages and use the internet), including T-Mobile and...
There was a poll.
On climate change, 69% of respondents said that they believe that "there is solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades," with 26% saying that they did not believe it, 2% volunteering that there is some or mixed...