Shares of Tesla Motors will have a hard time going higher because of the news surrounding the company, Andrew Left, Citron Research’s executive editor, said Wednesday. “What I underestimated [about] Tesla the first time is, when the Model S was introduced, nine of 10 stories were saying how great the car is, and the stock just followed. Right now, there’s more balance,” he told CNBC’s “Fast Money: Halftime Report.” “If you look at the Geneva auto show, which happened last week, it’s no longer about if someone will have long-range electric vehicles in 2019-20, it will be who doesn’t have…
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CYCLE AID FOR AFRICA Cycle Aid for Africa is a hugely successful Education Africa project that distributes bicycles to under-resourced schoolchildren who have to travel enormous distances to attend school every day. The project was launched on 20 March 1997 by then Deputy-President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki. Speaking at the launch, he described Cycle Aid for Africa as a project that represents a “practical way in which we seek to empower communities in their quest for a better education”. The bicycles are allocated to learners as part of an incentive scheme for good school results. They remain the property…
Social Architecture applies the theories of affordable building to impoverished areas inhabited by the poorest of the poor, whose facilities are inadequate and/or non-existent. The design and building concepts of an international partner university are implemented for the creation of the physical structures, and students from the university come to construct the building, thus encouraging social tourism and the transfer of skills from the university students to unemployed and often uneducated, locals. To see the processes of an actual live project please visit the Nottingham University School of Built Environment website that was created by the students for their project…
The research project, which involved 2.6 million participants in 29 different countries, over a 3-year period, was made possible by the use of smartphone technology to help collect, log and transmit data from surveyors operating around the world. Dr. Caroline Harper, CEO of Sightsavers, says: “The biggest infectious disease mapping exercise in history, ‘The Global Trachoma Mapping Project,’ has been completed within agreed timescales and budget. Funded by the UK government, in partnership with the US and WHO [World Health Organization], this creates a lasting platform which will underpin the drive to eliminate blinding trachoma, and will also contribute to…
Mercedes-Benz has imported the SLC 43 AMG to India for homologation. The top-spec SLC is expected to be launched for the Indian market by the end of this year via the CBU route. The Mercedes-AMG SLC 43 is a powerful version of the SLC and comes powered by a 3.0-litre V6 mill that churns out 367bhp of power and 520Nm of torque. This motor comes paired to the brand’s 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission. It does the 0-100kmph sprint in 4.7seconds and an electronically limited top-speed of 250kmph. The Mercedes-Benz SLC 43 is a replacement to the SLK 55 AMG all over.…
ntact lenses may change the microbiome of the eyes, according to research published in mBio. The new insights may lead to a better understanding of how to improve eye care and prevent infections, such as giant papillary conjunctivitis. Does the process of putting in a contact lens change the eye microbiome? Statistics from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) show that, globally, around 100 million people wear contact lenses, and over 30 million of them live in the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urge contact lens users to care for their lenses properly and to…
The China-spec production version of the Volkswagen Cross Blue SUV has been spotted sans camouflage. Showcased first in 2012 and then again in sport coupe form in 2013, this new car will slot in between the Tiguan and the Touraeg SUV in VW’s global lineup. This Chinese model gets a new grille and a much more traditional design for the headlamps, a bit of departure from the normal VW design language. However, the silhouette of the concept car is very visible indicating its VW origins. The tail lamps too have got a new design and are in line with the…
A new, large cohort analysis from the prospective Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, indicates that men who had moderate baldness affecting both the front and the crown of their head at age 45 were at a 40% increased risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer (usually indicates a faster growing tumor resulting in poorer prognosis relative to non-aggressive prostate cancer) later in life, compared to men with no baldness. There was no significant link between other patterns of baldness and prostate cancer risk. The study, published September 15 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, supports earlier research…
MasterCard customers will soon be able to replace their passwords with a “selfie” and a fingerprints to verify their identity and make payments online. The payment processing company confirmed the decision to introduce biometric checks this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Ann Cairns, head of international markets for MasterCard, told CNBC that biometric checks had been trialled in the U.S. and the Netherlands and will be launching them in the U.K. soon. “I think the whole biometric space is a great way of protecting yourself when you are doing payments,” she said. “There are a whole range…
Electron Microscopy micrograph of human hair cross-section. The top region shows the external part of the hair — cuticle region; The bottom region shows the internal macrofibrils — cortex region. Credit: Fabiano Emmanuel Montoro/LNNano, CNPEM A new discovery about the structure of human hair is likely to change the way scientists and researchers, as well as the cosmetics industry, view and explore it in the future. Human hair structure has been studied extensively for more than 70 years, but a complete picture of its local structure has proven elusive. But now, by combining a submicron X-ray beam with cross-section geometry,…