Health Life: Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research
According to ScienceDaily, a 'new study by two York University researchers estimates the U.S. pharmaceutical industry spends almost twice as much on promotion as it does on research and development.' Despite pharmaceutical companies' claims that Amer
Life: Why are petrol caps on the driver's side of some cars but the passenger's side of others?
One of the most frustrating experiences of driving a hire car is to pull up at a fuel pump as you would when driving your own car, only to discover that the fuel tank is located on the other side. Car manufacturers could eliminate this difficulty sim
Scheduling your FTP downloads
Recently I had the need to download from my company's servers some files on daily basis. I had to replicate some data at my home server (I work from my home cause as I said on 'About', I can't stand Athens). The operation normally takes a couple of h
Funny Photo: Disrespect
Chinese brothers drive homemade F1 car
Brothers Zhao Xiushun (L) and Zhao Xiuguo test drive their homemade model of Formula One car outside their house in Tangshan, Hebei Province, some 180km (113 miles) east of Beijing July 21, 2006. The brothers, who built the car from scrap metal, sa