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 26 Aug 2011 @ 22:40
Gargantuan social crises brought about by almost ceaseless warring among ethnic communities surely have their tolls on the affected populations. Africa has been the most direly affected by such crises, with the end result of seeing up to around 3 millions of non-combatants needing immediate relief to stave off hunger and death. More >
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25 Aug 2011 @ 22:26
A Swiss corporate insurance giant had just committed significant funds to aid Asian countries in boosting their trade. The funding will be channeled to the Asian Development Bank or ADB.
This ‘corporate social responsibility’ or CSR initiative by the Swiss Re Group is most welcome. It comes at an opportune time when Asia has been bannered as the continent that drives the global economy up. Boosting trade means not only increasing the volumes of imports and exports, but also improving the institutions concerned such as financing processes, regulatory frameworks, and liberalizing inter-country trade among Asians. More >
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25 Aug 2011 @ 07:30
The US National Science Foundation has allotted a fund block aimed at helping out the scientists of developing countries conduct their noble researches. Qualified countries are not only those poor ones but also emerging markets whose scientists are still struggling in the woods to take off with their researches due to fund lack. More >
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23 Aug 2011 @ 22:20
Disasters in the form of floods and droughts do not only destroy natural ecology, flora and fauna, they destroy seeds as well. Thus, the idea of ‘relief seeds’ has turned out to be among the challenges for materialization by disaster-prone habitats with food production as their primary economic engagement. More >
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22 Aug 2011 @ 22:45
Sand has been in use as filtration material for so many hundreds of years. Maybe a second look at the ordinary sand that we find in beaches and in our backyards could provide the answer to lingering questions about more effective water filtration processes. More >
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22 Aug 2011 @ 05:47
Who knows what is in store in the future of such diseases as malaria? Better diagnostics could address the prevention aspect, and simple kits such as what can be brought as mobile tools to the field just might prove to do better than orthodox means offered by laboratory methods. More >
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13 Aug 2011 @ 04:57
We have a new alarming development concerning malaria spread. Gorillas and monkeys might just happen to be the dreaded carriers of the disease, a news that could cause chagrin on the legendary Tarzan. More >
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12 Aug 2011 @ 01:26
Assessing the link between science and journalism is an emerging concern across the globe. There may be rampant incidences of journalists being denied access to scientists, incidences that feed into the fertile mindsets of conspiracy theorists. More >
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7 Aug 2011 @ 22:38
There seems to have been an abusive employment of universalistic yardsticks to measure scientific innovations across diverse countries. For instance, the preponderance on formalistic institutional developments have tended to favor Northern economies that have built universities and think-tanks across the centuries. More >
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5 Aug 2011 @ 22:17
Renewable Energy or RE is the wave of the present-to-future as energy source. RE represents clean energy, even as it had presented itself as the most potent entry point to efficient, clean, cheap energy in the long run. More >
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