The Weird Rules of CreativityUnexpected Consequences: BallardBallard may not be the best example of success. It just sold its automotive fuel cell assets to Daimler and Ford, including all of the IP, test equipment and inventory with transfer of the employees and leaving development to Daimler and Ford at,...
SAN FRANCISCO AFP — The Los Angeles Dodgers will be without relief pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo for at least the first round of the baseball playoffs, and perhaps longer, the team have said. The lefthander won't be available for the first-round series against the Chicago Cubs after undergoing tests...
In "Too Many Rules" (August 18), a respectful but ultimately dismissive review of The Dark Knight, Ross Douthat states that Tim Burton's Batman films will hold up better than Christopher Nolan's. Permit this aging fanboy to disagree. Burton's Dr. Seuss-meets-Maurice Sendak visual style was never a good match...
NORTHERN Ireland would cease to exist and be swallowed up to form a united Ireland...no - it's not a prediction for the future but a map of the past! This amazing world map shows the borders of new countries which were strangely predicted 70 years before...
The Selina Scott row about being too old to read the news rumbles on. Latest opinion formers to chuck their hats in the ring are the little and large of cocktail party London, Michael Winner and Marie Helvin. Mr Winner claims in the Daily Mail that it's...
Heavy water is not just heavier. Swapping each H in [H.sub.2]O with a D--hydrogen's isotope deuterium--changes water's properties. The deuterium version is mildly poisonous, and its freezing point is 4[degrees] Celsius, instead of O[degrees]C. Such differences reveal that quantum effects, which aren't usually manifest to the naked eye, rule in...
IT'S SO weird. Grown men dressed like two-year-olds, throwing themselves on the ground and shouting. One minute they're weeping and the next they're practically snogging. All those funny lines on the field. All those logos on their backs. I just don't get it. I did watch Bend...
Getaway WE'RE OFF to see the bubbling mud pots at Bumpass Hell when we get sidetracked by a field of lupines so lush and alluring, we're drawn in like Dorothy to the poppies. It literally has us frolicking--even my brother, who lives in New York and is not,...
Jill Saward, who gave up her right to anonymity in order publicly to discuss her experience of rape and its aftermath, is standing against David Davis in his diverting civil-liberties by-election. She will have done the nation a service even if she manages only to get across to people what...
Scandal, as the weird worlds of exams and pharmaceuticals collide! We reported here last week that two of the biggest exam boards, AQA and Edexcel, had approved the use of an allergy reliever in exams. The tool, created by Lloydspharmacy, works by using light- emitting nasal probes, and was said...
By the time you read this I should be in Iran ... skiing. Yes, I know it's a bit of a weird weekend break, but I saw a picture of two women snowboarding in full burkhas, asked where it was, and now I'm off to have a look. ...
Neutron stars may be weird, but they're not so strange, a new study reveals. Crushed by gravity, matter at the cores of neutron stars--the collapsed remains of heavyweight stars--is subject to a combination of enormously high pressure and low temperature that can't be attained in any laboratory. A...
Hometown America is a contest that combines research, geography, history, and nonfiction reading and writing. It is perfect for a group project, but individual students may also enter. Here is how: 1. Find the information. What is special, unusual, weird, or wacky about your hometown, city, or local...
WHOEVER said the law was an ass certainly had a point. The North East is littered with by-laws and covenants so outdated they appear ridiculous. The Chronicle reported yesterday how no town within a donkey ride of South Shields is allowed to have a weekly market....
A FEW things you should know about The Verve, for those not familiar with this phenomenal recently-reformed indie rock band, who got the Roundhouse audience chucking pints over themselves with glee. First up, kooky frontman Richard Ashcroft taught Stone Rose Ian Brown all he knows about...
THOSE IN THE East who had nodded off in the 1 o'clock hour during Monday night's 49ers game missed something worth filing away for future reference. The 49ers and the Cardinals may have bored the country into a morphine-like state, but the way the thing came...
I don't know why I did it - I know it's wrong - I was breaking all my rules. I just couldn't help myself. There I was, in a car, on my way to eat a three-star meal cooked by ex-stars in 'Hell's Kitchen'. I knew that I should just...
MONTREAL AFP — Roger Federer's miniscule faith in HawkEye electronic linecalling sunk even lower Friday after being denied a match point ace by the on-court circuitry at the Montreal Masters. The Swiss traditionalist still managed to close out a 6-3, 6-4 quarter-final win over Lleyton Hewitt with a...
AAP Sports News Australia07-20-2007Golf: Rules controversy overshadows Woods defence opener By Norman Dabell CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July 19 Reuters - British Open organisers, the Royal and Ancient(R&A), dismissed claims today that holder Tiger Woods had been given preferential treatmentover a first-round ruling. World No.1 Woods'...
Lawsuits against an attorney-rating Web site and allegedly derogatory postings about female students on a law school admission discussion board raise questions about the legal protections Web sites and blogs can expect from evolving Internet law. Some attorneys have objected to how lawyers are ranked on the...
Articles 2007-06-22
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