Category: Society

  • Raising breast cancer awareness with Tommy

    Meet Tommy. He’s the star in a new campaign from Cancer Research UK to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month which runs through October. Tommy is the ‘breast awareness guy,’ the focal point of a special website and starring in a…

  • The evolution of blogging

    During the past week, Technorati has published a series of articles on the state of the blogosphere in 2008, the first such report in nearly 18 months. Like previous reports from Technorati, this latest one goes beyond just the raw…

  • Gordon Brown’s first step

    I watched a good 40 minutes of Prime Minster Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, broadcast live on BBC News. If you read the speech, I think you’ll agree that it’s pretty good as far…

  • Have your say in the US election

    A neat idea from The Economist concerning the forthcoming US presidential election: The Economist has redrawn the electoral map to give all 195 of the world’s countries (including the United States) a say in the election’s outcome. As in America,…

  • Remembering 9/11

    Seven years ago today. Who can forget the images of tragedy? Nearly 3,000 people died in this mass murder Representing more than 90 different nationalities Over 6,200 were injured 24 people still officially missing Never forget.