Saturday, August 11, 2007
"Just like they told us that our bridges were safe, they also want us to swallow that our power grid is in no danger of a system-wide, no-power-for-weeks crash", said tenured power grid expert Donald McCormick, a senior contractor with Hydro One, an Ontario, Canada based electricity provider.
Mr. McCormick indicated that in reality though, there’s no question that the...
Thursday, January 25, 2007
A bathing sponge. Studies done on germs and bacteria performed by researchers at the University of Florida show that a dirty kitchen sponge can be cleaned and "sterilized" by microwaving it for 2 minutes, but researchers warn to wet the sponge first.
"People often put their sponges and scrubbers in the dishwasher, but if they really want to decontaminate them and not...
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Friday, April 7, 2006
Accra —The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICT introduced the Semacode technology and the Semapedia application to a segment of the Ghanaian public in a...
Friday, July 29, 2011
Grant Stott, and Bryony Hare opening the museum. Image: Brian McNeil.Today sees the reopening of the National Museum of Scotland following a three-year renovation costing £47.4 million (US$ 77.3 million). Edinburgh's Chambers Street was closed to traffic for the morning, with the 10am reopening by eleven-year-old Bryony Hare, who took her first steps in the museum, and won...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Ron Wright, whose death in February 2021 opened the vacancy. Image: United States Congress.Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas' 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
A Falcon 1 rocketThe SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket has failed to place a DARPA demonstration payload into orbit, on its first flight into space. The rocket launched from Omelek Island, at 01:10 GMT on 21 March, just less than a year after its maiden flight which failed just seconds after launch.
The rocket, which is the first privately-funded liquid-fueled launch vehicle, was...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Ron Wright, whose death in February 2021 opened the vacancy. Image: United States Congress.Wikinews extended invitations by e-mail on March 23 to multiple candidates running in the Texas' 6th congressional district special election of May 1 to fill a vacancy left upon the death of Republican congressman Ron Wright. Of them, the office of Democrat Daryl Eddings, Sr. agreed...
Sunday, November 6, 2016
The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the U.S. 2016 presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month's biggest stories.
In this month's edition on the campaign trail: the Free & Equal Foundation holds a presidential debate with three little-known...
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Canadian TD Financial Group has come to a deal with the regional U.S. bank, Hudson United Bancorp, to buy Hudson for US$1.9 billion. The new addition will be folding into itsMaine-based TD Banknorth, which is 51% owned by TD Financial. The acquisition will bring in 204 new branches and increase TD's footprint to New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. In total...