Snapshots
| December 2011 The Hollywood of the Arab World: not just Mummies and Magic Mummies, Pharoahs, Pyramids, locusts, quicksand, and romance. These disparate things may not seem to have any connec on when listed, but they are the component parts of the Hollywood blockbuster. The Mummy (1999), starring Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraser. The Hollywood thriller used an Egyp an backdrop to showcase incredible CGI effects as the main characters interchangeably fled from and fought the traditionally embalmed, but now resurrected corpse of an Ancient Egyp an Pharoah. Read more… |
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| August 2011 Socially Responsible Investment – Treating the Untreatable For most of us, the word “textiles” is synonymous with clothing or apparel. This is not surprising given the high profile of the textile industry from the first documented knitted and woven textiles of the late Stone Age through to the production of linen by ancient Egyptians and the first fine silks by the Chinese. Read more… |
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| August 2011 Socially Responsible Investment – Is Solar Energy the New Nuclear Energy? Who could forget the devastating images of Japan we saw three months ago? The most severe earthquake ever recorded shook northwestern Japan on the 11th of March 2011. The quake, which reached level 9.0 on the Richter scale, brought not only destruction and devastation to Honshu, Japan’s main island, it also triggered a catastrophic tsunami. Read more… |
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| June 2011 Entering the Age of the Smartphone We are at a pivotal point in technology development. Continuous improvement in the technology industry has redefined our daily existence. Absolute reliance on technology has become the norm. Without our GPS devices, e-readers, smartphones, laptops, usb sticks and digital cameras, many of us would have trouble getting through the day. Read More… |
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| May 2011 Computing is Heading for the Cloud Suddenly everyone in the technology industry is looking to the sky, but instead of reaching for stars companies are reaching for the Cloud. We, the general technology using public, are already relying on some form of cloud computing, whether we realize it or not. Read More… |
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| June 2011 Resources – Collaboration in the Oil and Gas Industry What do the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 and a remarkable oil discovery off the coast of Southern Brazil have in common? The answer is: both occurrences have considerable impact on the collaboration of the players in the oil and gas industry. Read more… |
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| Mai 2011 Socially Responsible Investment – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) Melting glaciers, the continued extinction of rare species, more frequent heat waves and increasingly stronger tsunamis – some believe that the long forsaken Armageddon is inevitable. Others believe they have found an antidote named REDD. Read more… |
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April 2011
How prepared are we for the next catastrophe? |
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November 2010
Geothermal Energy – An Overview |
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| August 2010 “Super Bugs” – A threat that can be combated with novel antibiotics? How must Alexander Fleming have felt when, in 1928, he discovered a fungus having destroyed his bacterial cultures? His first instinct might have been disappointment, but he soon realized the impact of his accidental find: he had discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin. Since then, it has become the most widely-used antibiotic; derivatives of it are used even now to successfully treat many of the most common infections. Read more… |
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June 2010
Burn Injuries and their Treatment |
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May 2010
Peptide drugs Peptide drugs have had a difficult history. From being hailed as the “new systemic antibiotic” favour in a little over a decade, owing to several compromising characteristics. In comparison to some small molecules, for example, they are more expensive to manufacture, more difficult to administer and are eliminated more quickly from the blood stream in the early 1990’s, they fell from. Read more…
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