Flush with cash?
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced the winner of the “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge”. The $100,000 first prize went to the California Institute of Technology for a solar-powered toilet which turns waste into hydrogen and electricity.
Einstein: “Happy Birthday to me”
Albert Einstein, born March 14th, 1879, plays “Opus 135”
Drone ships?
![Rolls Royce is currently designing unmanned cargo ships and the EU is funding a 3.5 million-Euro study on Maritime Unmanned Navigation. [However, unmanned ships have plied the seas for hundreds of years: The Flying Dutchman, The Mary Celeste, The Black Pearl...]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/1502201403032014.jpg)
Rolls Royce is currently designing unmanned cargo ships and the EU is funding a 3.5 million-Euro study on Maritime Unmanned Navigation. [However, unmanned ships have plied the seas for hundreds of years: The Flying Dutchman, The Mary Celeste, The Black Pearl…]
Doer Die? Water Wars II
Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer believes that water-shortage issues will dominate Canada/US relations in the next 5 years and that these “water wars” will make the present Pipeline debates seem trivial.
Herring-loss
A Judge has overruled Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea’s decision to open the Vancouver Island Herring fishery after hearing that Shea refused to listen to the recommendations of the scientists in her own department to keep the fishing closed to protect the threatened species.
Lost in Space
Industry Minister James Moore announces the Conservative Government plans to make the Canadian Space Industry a “global leader” despite no new funding and large cuts to the Agency’s budget over the past 2 years.
Apple Falls
Apple stocks fall $45.45 or 8% even as the company celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Mac
Canadians are world’s largest consumers of antidepressants
![Because we have a lot to be depressed about: Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, Senate scandal, the weather, oil sands, train derailments, falling loonie...]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/21012014.jpg)
Because we have a lot to be depressed about: Stephen Harper, Rob Ford, Senate scandal, the weather, oil sands, train derailments, falling loonie…]
“Pill-popping makes perfect”
Study finds that the Epilepsy drug, Valproate, can give people the ability to acquire perfect pitch
Enigma no more
Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code in WWII, thus shortening the war and saving thousands of lives, who was then convicted of being gay and committed suicide, at last receives a posthumous Royal Pardon.
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