Friday, January 17

Day: March 13, 2016

Humans living on moon by 2026
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Humans living on moon by 2026

    "You are here to help humanity become a spacefaring species." So said the opening line of a brochure for a workshop that took place in August 2014. It was a meeting of some of the greatest scientists and professionals in the space business and beyond, including gene editing maverick George Church and Peter Diamandis from the XPrize Foundation. The workshop's goal: to explore and develop low-cost options for building a human settlement on the moon. "You are here to make this moonshot a reality," said the brochure. The history-making Apollo missions would have cost $150 billion by today's standards. With new ways of thinking, it might be possible to set up a lunar station for $10 billion (£7bn). NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay helped organize the meeting, and then he edited ...
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How doing nothing can make you more successful
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

How doing nothing can make you more successful

    In today's work-obsessed society, we have this belief that we have to constantly be doing something in order to be successful. But what if the opposite were true? As Stanford psychologist Emma Seppala argues in her new book, "The Happiness Track: How to Apply the Science of Happiness to Accelerate Your Success," we can be more effective if we take time to do more of nothing. It's a radical idea, but one that's actually backed up by research. We're most creative when we're less focused. For a 2011 study, researchers gave 428 students questionnaires to classify them as either a morning or an evening person, and then gave them logic problems in either the morning or late afternoon. To the researchers' surprise, the morning people performed better in the late afternoon, whereas...
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Osborne Signals More Spending Cuts In Budget
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Osborne Signals More Spending Cuts In Budget

    The Chancellor is warning of more austerity in this week's budget as he claims the country is facing a "dangerous cocktails of risks". George Osborne has written an opinion piece in the Sun on Sunday newspaper in which he credits the Government's long-term economic plan for shaving the deficit, shoring up the banking sector and achieving record employment. But he says the world is "facing its most uncertain period since the Great Recession ... so in the Budget next week we need to take more bold decisions". The Chancellor says his hand has been forced by economic headwinds out of his control: the slowdown in China, the drop in oil prices, instability in the Middle East and interest rates falling around the globe. He suggests they have stunted growth in developing nations a...
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Crash Pilots had psychotic depressive symptoms
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Crash Pilots had psychotic depressive symptoms

The report into the Germanwings crash which was deliberately caused by a co-pilot has recommended more medical checks for crew. One hundred and fifty people died when co-pilot Andreas Lubitz flew flight 9525 into a mountain-side in the French Alps after locking the pilot out of the cockpit. French investigators have been holding a news conference in France this morning as the report into the crash's cause is published. It comes after some of the families of the victims of the crash, who had advance sight of the report, voiced concerns. Investigators told the news conference a doctor recommended that Lubitz should be treated in a psychiatric hospital two weeks before the disaster. Lubitz had begun to show symptoms that could be consistent with a psychotic depressive episode in December 2...
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Action against Bangladesh Bank says Finance Minister
13Mar By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Bangladesh, ENGLISH

Action against Bangladesh Bank says Finance Minister

    The finance ministry will take action against Bangladesh Bank for not formally informing the government about the bank’s $101 million cyber heist, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said today. The central bank has showed audacity by not informing this to the government, Muhith told reporters at his ministry office this afternoon. The minister came up with the remark after hackers stole $101 million last month from a Bangladesh Bank account at New York Federal Reserve Bank. I will talk with the prime minister within one or two days in this regard, he said. Meanwhile, Banking Division Secretary M Aslam Alam said that they will hold an emergency meeting with the central bank’s board members on Tuesday (March 15) on this issue. He informed this to the reporters after holding a meetin...
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