The ivory-billed woodpecker is being sought high and low. Ornithologists are on a desperate hunt to locate one. The rest of us have more realistic aims. Many of us would love to have more birds in the garden even if they aren’t as elusive and sought after as the ivory billed woodpecker. Here are a few factors which will determine how many birds wind up in your garden. Read the rest of this entry »
Crazy Rasberry Ants are an absolute nightmare to get rid of. I wish I had the solution.
Crazy Rasberry ants are causing a wave of damage and untold problems for home owners in Texas and look set to spread their way across the Southern States. What can be done to stop them? Read the rest of this entry »
It’s a hard life being a spelling bee contestant. Just some of the words that caught out the participants in this year’s contest have been bogatyr, opificer and prosopopoeia. But it could have been worse. Here are those words along with other words no one wants to come up against in a spelling bee. Read the rest of this entry »
Solazyme is a brand new bio-fuel that looks set to revolutionize gas and how we travel. However, with gas prices rising and global warming advancing quickly, we can’t wait until Solazyme is available and working to maximize our fuel efficiency. So which cars can we drive to make sure that we are fuel efficient now? Read the rest of this entry »
Sardoodledum: S-A-R-D-O-O-D-L-E-D-U-M
By now, you’ve probably seen the video of the poor kid who comes up against the word sardoodledum. First he breaks out laughing then he desperately tries to drill the asker for more information. Eventually, he manages to work his way towards the correct answer. So how do you succeed in a spelling be? Read the rest of this entry »
With Comcast Webmail being hacked last night, many people are now wondering how it is possible to keep your privacy on the net. Here are some top tips to make sure your private information is not compromised should something like the Comcast email hacking occure again. Read the rest of this entry »
Heather D’Aoust is suspected of having murdered her mother. She is 14 years old. The news today is that the District Attorney’s Office has announced that she is to be tried as an adult. Can it ever be right to try a minor as an adult? Can they ever be considered to have the same level of culpability as an adult? We take a look at the issue. Read the rest of this entry »
A red wasp infestation in or near your house can be a real pain.
Although not aggressive in ones and twos, when they nest in your attic or in the trees in your yard they may soon start to become a problem. Once their numbers reach a certain level, they become territorial. They will no longer see it as your house, but their territory which you are invading. Read the rest of this entry »
An actor from the Harry Potter films has been stabbed to death.
Rob Knox played Marcus Belby (a student at Ravensclaw) in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince. He was drinking at the Metro Bar in Sidcup when he got into a fight and was killed. This is the second stabbing in the area in only two weeks - Knox even went to the same rugby club as the victim in that attack. However, police are not treating these two attacks as being linked.
The stabbing of the Harry Potter star has resulting in a rise in people calling for a crackdown on knives amongst young people in the UK. There is an increasing knife culture in the UK which is a great concern to the public, politicians and the press alike. People no longer feel safe on the streets at night with such a level of violence. There have been calls for more police on the streets.
This increase in the number of stabbings has come with the relaxation of licensing laws allowing pubs and bars to be open longer into the night. The change in the law was intended to lower alcohol related violence but has had the opposite effect. The intention was that bars would close at different times so the problem of everyone going out into the street at the same time would disappear. However, this has not happened. Instead, alcohol related violence has increased as evidenced by this latest Harry Potter stabbing.
Kansas and Oklahoma have experienced another tornado.
The tornado ripped through Kansas and Oklahoma causing untold damage to property. This is not the first tornado to hit the region recently. This is the second night in a row that Oklahoma tornadoes have been reported. Ironically, the city of Protection in Oaklahoma has been the hardest hit. Many people have had their homes damaged seriously. There are reporsts that more than twelve homes have been destroyed by this most recent tornado. Rescue teams are currently out in the area surveying the damage and looking for any people injured by the tornado or experiencing difficulties because of it. Elderly people in particular are being treated.
This year has been a particularly bad year for tornados. There have been more than a hundred reported fatalities due to tornadoes this year. More than for any other year in the past decade. And meteorologists say we should expect the current spate of tornadoes to continue for a little while longer yet. They predcit we will see a large number of small tornadoes and are expecting at least a few more large tornadoes. How much damage these will cause when they do come cannot be told.
Many people are laying the blame for this increased tornado activity at the feet of global warming. Experts are divided on whether this is the case. Meteorologists have no way of linking any specific weather event such as the Oklahoma tornado to global warming. However, their models of global warming do predict a significant increase in extreme weather events such as tornadoes. Although there is no specific link, it is likely that these recent tornadoes are connected to the planet’s changing atmosphere. It is likely we will see more out of the ordinary weather events like the Oklahoma tornado in the future.
