Latest News from the World of Consultancy. ‘Baby busters’ born richer and likely to live longer than ‘baby boomers’ LONDON -- Only able to buy their first house aged around 35, encumbered with student debt of around £90,000 and with significantly less generous pensions than their parents’ generation: this is the legacy handed down by the early 1960s ‘baby boomers’ to the early 1990s ‘baby busters’, the generation of students just starting at university, says a new PwC report.
On the other hand, the report notes that the baby busters are likely to live longer than their parents and to have higher absolute levels of consumption due to being born into a richer society after 30 years of technological progress and economic growth between the early 1960s and early 1990s. List of collective nouns. A skein of geese This is a list of traditional or whimsical collective nouns.
North Korea threatens war. Virus kills breast cancer cells in laboratory. HERSHEY, Pa. -- A nondisease-causing virus kills human breast cancer cells in the laboratory, creating opportunities for potential new cancer therapies, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers who tested the virus on three different breast cancer types that represent the multiple stages of breast cancer development.
Adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) is a virus that regularly infects humans but causes no disease. Past studies by the same researchers show that it promotes tumor cell death in cervical cancer cells infected with human papillomavirus. Researchers used an unaltered, naturally occurring version of AAV2 on human breast cancer cells. "Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in the world and is the leading cause of cancer-related death in women," said Samina Alam, research associate in microbiology and immunology.
"It is also complex to treat. " The Morning Plum - The Plum Line. Time released a new poll this morning finding that 54 percent view the Wall Street protests favorably, versus only 23 percent who think the opposite.
Interestingly, only 23 percent say they don’t have an opinion, suggesting the protests have succeeded in punching through to the mainstream. Also: The most populist positions espoused by Occupy Wall Street — that the gap between rich and poor has grown too large; that taxes should be raised on the rich; that execs responsible for the meltdown should be prosecuted — all have strong support. Conference on the Constitutional Convention : Harvard Law School, September 24-25, 2011.
A.D.H.D. Is in the American DNA - Room for Debate. There are two main reasons the diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is high in the U.S.
First of all, our gene pool is loaded for A.D.H.D. Consider the central symptoms of the condition: distractibility, impulsivity and restlessness. Consider also the positives that so often accompany A.D.H.D.: being a dreamer and a pioneer, being creative, entrepreneurial, having an ability to think outside the box (with some difficulty thinking inside of it!) , a tendency to be independent of mind and able to pursue a vision that goes against convention.
Well, who colonized this country? Back in the 1600s and 1700s, you had to have special qualities — some would say special craziness — to get on one of those boats and come over to this uncharted, dangerous land. IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain. IBM has been shipping computers for more than 65 years, and it is finally on the verge of creating a true electronic brain.
Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM’s so-called cognitive computing chips could one day simulate and emulate the brain’s ability to sense, perceive, interact and recognize — all tasks that humans can currently do much better than computers can. Why the Limitations of SSDs Are Actually Good. Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. How "EOM" Makes Your Email More Efficient.
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Yesterday, the organization dismissed its claims. That doesn’t mean the owner of the domain names – a shady company called Goggle.com Inc. – should break out the champagne just yet, though. The Internet search and advertising giant’s complaint in itself is interesting. Hublot Rebuilds The Famed Antikythera Mechanism. Discovered in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism has long been called one of the earliest computers.
For years scientists had no idea what it did, ascribing it with almost mystical functionality. Through the use of advanced imaging techniques, we now know that this lump of crusty, corroded brass was actually an astronomical computer that allowed ancient Greeks to predict the passage of the planets. Watchmaker Hublot has recreated the mechanism using modern techniques and shrunk it down to nearly postage-stamp size.