At Imperial College London, medical students navigate a full-service hospital where they see patients, order X-rays, consult with colleagues and make diagnoses.
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Oscar-winning movie legend Maurice Jarre dies
Academy Award-winning composer Maurice Jarre, who scored movies including "Doctor Zhivago" and "Lawrence of Arabia" among others, died Sunday from cancer in Los Angeles, according to French media. French news Web site France 24 said that news of the 84-year-old’s death had been broken by the manager of his son Jean-Michel, himself a composer of electronic music
Can the West cultivate ideas from Cuba’s ‘Special Period’?
Since the revolution in 1959 Cuba has been many things to many people, but the collapse of the Soviet Union meant few have seen the island state as a vision of the future. As worries about “peak oil” grow in developed nations, the communist republic is proving to be an increasingly popular example of how to cope when the spigots run dry, for the simple reason: they’ve already been there. With the loss of supplies from oil-rich Russia in 1991, and a U.S.
Lights go out across planet for Earth Hour
Lights were going out across the world on Saturday as millions of homes and businesses in major cities went dark for one hour in a symbolic gesture to highlight concerns over climate change. In Australia, floodlights of the Sydney Opera House were extinguished as the city’s iconic harbor kicked off events for Earth Hour, a day-long energy-saving marathon stretching through 88 countries and 24 time zones.
Could the Internet run out of space?
When a small group of university scientists began linking computers on different campus sites at the very end of the 1960s, they had no idea that their work would one day spiral into a globally-accessible network in which the total number of pages is measured in the tens of billions. Such has been the Internet’s phenomenal and dizzying growth that much of the technology which supports it has grown organically and without much forward planning.
Tough task: Designing a game about your ‘first time’
In an industry dominated by men, leave it to women to come up with the winning idea in a contest to create a concept for a video game about losing one’s virginity. On Wednesday, at the Game Developers Conference here, the two-woman team of Heather Kelley and Erin Robinson won the Game Design Challenge with just 36 hours of preparation, while their competitors had weeks to come up with concepts for a game about “your first time.” This was the sixth straight year of the design challenge, hosted annually by New York-based game developer Eric Zimmerman.
IBM and the Rebirth of Outsourcing
A couple of month ago, India’s chief finance minister may have made calls to the heads of IBM and several other large U.S. tech companies to tell them that the huge developing nation was hemorrhaging high-end tech jobs
Kids with ADHD May Learn Better by Fidgeting
Like nose-picking and a preoccupation with feculence, the inability to sit still for long periods is a defining characteristic of childhood.
The polar explorer searching for green warriors
Robert Swan’s life reads like a boy’s own adventure tale with a modern eco-twist. Inspired by the daring age of Antarctic exploration, Swan followed in the footsteps of his heroes; the men who risked, and lost, their lives to reach the South Pole.
Reality TV star Jade Goody loses cancer fight
British reality TV celebrity Jade Goody died early Sunday morning following a public battle with cervical cancer, her publicist has announced. Goody, 27, died in her sleep at home in Essex, east of London, just before 4 a.m. (midnight Eastern Daylight Time), a spokeswoman for Max Clifford Associates said