Online dating is hardly a new phenomenon – thanks to the rise of the internet the trend took off in the 90s, with it’s impact in pop culture first seen in the 1998 Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks rom-com ‘You’ve Got Mail’. Nowadays there are more online dating sites available than you can shake a [...]
20 predictions for the future
A week ago the BBC Magazine published an article exploring some predictions made by American civil engineer John Watkins in 1900. Most of Watkins’s predictions were astoundingly accurate (notably digital colour photography, mobile phones, television, and free university education), while a few others were perhaps a little ambitious (phasing out C, X, and Q from [...]
New way to fight cancer
Below is a transcript lifted from the weekly Innovations talk show on Radio Australia. This session focused on the new ways to fight cancer by using what we already have in our bodies. Not with chemo or radio-therapies but by using the body’s own immune bodyguards DESLEY BLANCH: Imagine fighting cancer with our own antibodies [...]