Background: The anti-brand
It is supposed to ‘give you wings’ and the cool kids call it ‘speed in a can’. Wise grandmothers say it is extracted from bulls’ testicles and wise grandfathers say it decreases your penis. No wonder...
View ArticleNorwegian prostitution law will ‘hit the weakest’
Street prostitutes will suffer the most from Norway’s ban on buying sex, Fafo Insitute for Labour and Social Service says. According to the new report published by Fafo, an estimated 40 percent of...
View ArticleF1: End of extravagance
F1 pit stops will no longer be the same. Pic courtesy: Varlen. Licensed under creative commons Anyone who thought that Formula One with all its billions could weather the financial storm was on the...
View ArticleBackground: Honda exits Formula One
Honda's 2007 'Earth Car'. Image courtesy Red Cyan, licensed under creative commons The World Motorsport Council, the decision making body of the FIA, approved a series of radical cost-cutting measures...
View ArticleBackground: Norwegian prostitution law: In the footsteps of Sweden
Norway will follow in Sweden’s footsteps in two weeks when buying sex will become illegal. 10 years after the implementation of Sweden’s prostitution law, politicians and experts are still discussing...
View Article(Background) Where to die: that is the question
The debate about how to address the end of life care has been on the agenda for a while now, and it’s drawn even more attention recently with the case of Craig Ewert’s assisted suicide at a Swiss...
View ArticleIs Britain ready for a Mumbai-style terror attack?
While commandos were still fighting against terrorists in Mumbai Peter Clarke, former head of Scotland Yard’s Counter-Terrorism Command, from the pages of The Sunday Telegraph warns: “our enemies have...
View Article(Background) Is Britain ready for a Mumbai-style terror attack?
In India some call it their country’s 9/11 moment. The November 2008 Mumbai attack hasn’t been the first terror attack but it’s been without any doubt the most cruel and heinous. From 26 to 29...
View ArticleChewing-gum art
Is it possible to create cohesion among people by sticking them together with chewing-gum? A guy in Muswell Hill said yes, it is. I saw this chap for months and months, lying on the pavement, every...
View ArticleWebsite critique: www.ansa.it
Ansa .it is the website of most important press agency in Italy. First impressions The website seems at a first sight quite cluttered and cahotic. This is because: The nameplate is too small and in a...
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