Friday, August 19th, 2011
A new book called Herd has attempted to explain the phenomenon of mass behaviour in society, looking at riots, consumerism and even Mexican waves. Author Mark Earls explains the importance of imitation. Read More
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Ukraine’s president Victor Yanukovych signed into law a bill approved on 7 July by the country’s parliament, regulating the land cadastre in Ukraine. The new law cancels from 2013 the requirement to hold acts of ownership of land and is yet another step on the way to cancelling the current ban on the sale of
Friday, August 19th, 2011
The conference “Re-source” should help to accelerate the implementation of strategies and action programs and the sustainable use of natural resources internationally advanced. Experts and interested parties from academia, politics, government, industry and commerce, and NGOs from the three countries will present their ideas. In recent years, focused on measures to improve material and energy efficiency increased
Friday, August 19th, 2011
Russia said it had lost track of a newly-launched, multi-million-dollar telecommunications satellite on Thursday, the latest in a series of setbacks that have dogged its space industry. The $265-million Express AM-4 satellite, described by its makers as the most powerful satellite ever built in Europe, launched late on Wednesday aboard a Proton-M rocket from the Russian-leased launchpad
Friday, August 19th, 2011
A huge network of glaciers, carrying ice thousands of kilometres across Antarctica, has been discovered as a result of space agencies’ efforts to focus their satellites on Earth’s icy regions during the International Polar Year. These new findings are critical to understanding sea-level rise. The International Polar Year (IPY) was an ambitious science programme carried out
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Riots always happen when cities consider themselves to be at a high point in terms of their urban development,” says Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout, speaking to me from his home in Rotterdam. “We’ve studied riots in every decade since the 1960s, and every time you can see that the officials of the city felt
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The key goal of transport projects under the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) is “moving people not vehicles”. As transport projects receiving assistance under JNNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission) are required to confirm to NUTP, they need to be people-centric. This implies investment priorities favouring public transport and non-motorised transport (NMT). To plan transport infrastructure,
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
EduSat will be controlled by Morehead students from the lead Kentucky Space on-orbit ground operations facility at the university. During its first 30 days in orbit, EduSat will test a new type of orbital deployer designed to release numerous smaller satellites called PocketQubs, invented by Bob Twiggs, former director of the Space Systems Development Lab at
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The National Trust is launching a survey of all its tree avenues in an attempt to find out more about where they are and the condition they are in. It estimates it has around 500 avenues, which were first planted to provide a natural picture frame to improve views. The trust said tree avenues exemplify “man and
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) has recently carried out a number of significant improvements to its website, offering customers and the public alike, a less complex structure for them to have public access and navigate through information for planning applications that require an EIA.
