Slumdog Millionaire

Now really is it worth all the fuss? Ten Oscar nominations? Four Golden Globes? The ‘best ensemble cast’ at the SAG awards? Probably. It’s a good film. It’s difficult not to be drawn in by the romance of the film or the beautiful cinematography, yet categorising a film depicting extreme poverty, religious riots, death, modern [...]

The inauguration of:

The United States of America’s 44th President.

Bad News for the Alaei Brothers

News from the New Scientist reports Iranian brothers Kamiar and Arash Alaei, pioneers of treatment for HIV in Iran, have been charged with “communications with an enemy government” to “launch a velvet (sic) overthrow of the Iranian government”. They have been held in detention since June 2008 when they were taken to an undisclosed location [...]

In Defense of Life

Once again whilst enjoying our Christmas break, eating til we explode (that wasn’t just me was it?), Captain Paul Watson and his Merry Men set sail on this year’s mission to save the whales. Operation Musashi launched and I think it’s about time I gave y’all an update.
Leaving Brisbane, Australia on December 4th (with a [...]

Scitable

The Nature Publishing Group has launched a new online educational resource called Scitable. Aimed at undergraduate biology students and educators the platform combines scientific information with social functionality to provide users with an authoritative resource in the Google-isation of education. So far Scitable boasts over 150 evidence based articles in the field of genetics, which [...]