‘NEWS’ Archives
Best Beginner Telescopes
Best Beginner Telescopes By Aidan James I'm sometimes asked to recommend the best beginner telescopes and my first comment is often "the one you are most likely to use"! It's not that I'm intending to be blunt or to cause further confusion but seriously one of the over-riding factors is going to be whether you are going to be inclined to haul [...]
Fuel Management Advice
Fuel Management Advice By Carl Liver Fuel management is essential in today's economic climate; it involves minimising expenditure on fuel and administration of fuel for all of your company vehicles. It is achieved by ensuring you pay the lowest possible price and minimising fuel consumption as well as only paying for fuel used for authorised [...]
Super Massive Black Hole Formation
Super Massive Black Hole Formation By Dennis Huff A super massive black hole is thought to form from the joining of smaller black holes. Since black holes take in matter, over time they grow. If two black holes come together, and then another and so on, a super massive black hole is eventually formed. Most super massive black holes exist [...]
Contribute to a Greener World – Solar Energy
Contribute to a Greener World - Solar Energy By Olga Masters There is a limit to some of the earth's resources, especially those from which we make electricity. Much electricity depends on the burning of fossil fuels, which are starting to run out. It would take thousands of years to make any more fossil fuels, so once they are gone that's [...]
The Canals of Mars
The Canals of Mars By Steve Challis Discovery In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli of Italy was looking at Mars through his telescope and saw what he described as canali. I cannot speak Italian, and would probably guess that this meant canals. This is what many English speaking people did at the time, but apparently it means channels, not [...]
Starlight, Star Bright
Starlight, Star Bright By Kevin Manning How bright a star appears in the sky is commonly referred to as its apparent magnitude. More than 2,000 years ago during the Hellenistic period a Greek astronomer named Hipparchus came up with a system of classifying stars according to their brightness. In this original magnitude scale Hipparchus [...]
Bahamas: International Women’s Day
“I'm sure not one civic leader, not one business leader, not one religious leader, will give IWD a thought, much less a word. Bahamian women will be silent too”: Still, Womanish Words holds out hope “that we'll hear the voices of some good writers…speaking up with me in celebration and support of the global women's movement on March [...]
Is the American Space Program Coming to an End?
Is the American Space Program Coming to an End? By Thomas Ajava The cold war was not good for much, but it was a great time to be in the space program of either the USA or USSR. The governments were racing to be the first in space in this way or that, which led to the funding needed to do things like walk on the moon and send probes around our [...]
Toyota’s Product Liability Issues
Toyota's Product Liability Issues By Roman Mosqueda Toyota Motor Corporation's product liability for unintended acceleration and braking problems, which has reportedly led to 10 million recalls and counting, would eventually be found to be manufacturing and/or design safety defects. From the reported accounts of several accidents involving [...]
Chile’s Massive Earthquake Highlights the Necessity of Preparedness
Chile's Massive Earthquake Highlights the Necessity of Preparedness By Anthony Gucciardi Early Saturday morning, February 27, a massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit Chile. With death toll estimates steadily climbing from the original estimate of a little over 100, it is a sad reminder that at any time a natural disaster can occur. Creating [...]
