Posts by Dr. Dennie Beach
Nigeria: Science Minister Wants Stakeholders to Promote Economy Driven By Innovation
The Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Abdu Bulama, has urged stakeholders in the sector to support the country in the promotion of...
Acer doubles down on hybrids, aims for sub-$50 smartphones next year
The Taiwanese tech giant isn't giving up on hybrid laptops, or on Microsoft's operating system, revealing a slew of new notebooks at th...
Ethiopia Aims to Launch Satellite
By Zerihun Getachew
It is disclosed that Ethiopia has planned to launch medium research satellite within the next five years.The Entot...
Africa: On Trial – Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa
By Rob Bailey, Robin Willoughby and David Grzywacz
Summary
Increasing agricultural productivity and adapting farming to climate chang...
CVS Stores Stop Selling All Tobacco Products
At a CVS store near Times Square, the shelves are notable for what they no longer display: cigarettes. Now the only smoking products to...
Influx of African Immigrants Shifting National and New York Demographics
Threatened with arrest in 2009, Lamin F. Bojang fled Gambia after publicly contradicting its president’s claims that he could...
Xiaomi sells 40,000 Redmi 1S phones in 4 seconds in India
The Chinese company appears to be unable to keep up with demand for its phones in India -- leading to complains on Facebook about the "...
New Novartis Drug Shows Striking Efficacy in Treating Heart Failure
By ANDREW POLLACK AUG. 30, 2014
An experimental drug has shown a striking efficacy in prolonging the lives of people with heart failure...
What Doctors Can’t Do
Mary White makes house calls. She’s a senior community health worker in Philadelphia in the IMPaCT program at the Penn Center for Commu...
The Sad, Dark End of the British Empire
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain had dominion over so many portions of the Earth it was said, famously, that “the sun ...