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The Japanese Nuclear Crisis Explained – in a cartoon!

Here’s an interesting cartoon I came across, aimed at explaining the Japanese nuclear crisis in the way that kids could understand. The great thing about it is that there are some concepts that even some adults don’t know: how the crisis compares the the Three Mile Island Incident and the...

Who’s going to win?

photo credit: kagey_b It’s been interesting seeing the Online Gaming companies in the Isle of Man go from strength to strength. I was aware that there were a couple of companies operating a sportsbook in the Isle of Man; but I am pretty surprised, not only that they’re still around,...

A great use of ultrasound

I don’t tend to blog much about medical technology, but I did come across something that was interesting, especially for us blokes. It’s about prostrate cancer, which is the second most common cancer diagnosed in men. A lot has been written about prostrate cancer, but not being a doctor, a...

I’m in the Top 3 Isle of Man Twitter accounts!

“There are lies, darned lies and statistics” is a quote that has probably done it’s time. It’s should read, “There are lies, darned lies and web stats”. Statistics are important but it’s quite amusing to spot the bias from one stats engine to another. For example, today I found out...

Large Hadron Collider goes Live

The new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has just been switched on at CERN. Here’s a brief description of the device: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons (one type of hadron) charged with high energy. Its...

Congratulations, BenSpark is off to Vegas!

photo credit: .klash If you’ve been following my posts over the last few weeks you’d have noticed that I was taking part in a competition organised by PicApp and FuelMyBlog. Well, the competition is now over and the winner has been announced. The winner was BenSpark who’s off to Blog...

SEO: Is it really fair on the consumer?

I’ve just come from an interesting post on FuelMyBlog’s blog entitled: SEO wins gold, silver and bronze. It’s an interesting post that compares SEO to the Olympics and The Guinness Book of Records. Here’s a snippet from the post: A lot of SEO technology is used to make sure weaker...

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