The sweetest success is in this story about a lady who has begun acting in her 90s.
Starmakers always are on the lookout for a fresh new face and they found one in Mae Laborde, albeit of the wrinkled variety. The 97-year-old Laborde is just four years into her acting career and hotter than ever. Standing 4-feet-10, with snow-white hair, rosy-red cheeks and a sweet-as-peaches-and-cream smile, she’s becoming TV’s ubiquitous grandma.
Everyone’s gotta have a dream. If you were Oscar you’d likely want something like this.
Last year’s trash could become next year’s model home, thanks to the invention of a new type of construction material made entirely from waste products.
“Bitublocks,†created by engineer John Forth of the University of Leeds in England, are composed of recycled glass, sewage sludge, incinerator ash, the by-products of metal purification and pulverized fuel ash from power stations.
“Bitublocks use up to 100 percent waste materials and avoid sending them to landfill, which is quite unheard of in the building industry,†Forth said. …
… Plans also are now under way to develop a “Vegeblock†using waste vegetable oil.
I think it may be good news that some urban centres worldwide are developing wi-fi but time will tell. I have a sense of hope though. Comment on this item and let everyone know what you think about this issue. I wonder if there’s any way that the Tragedy of The Commons can be applied – perhaps not. Perhaps this is an example of such a notion being transcended by the Info Age?
“The common good is back in fashion. Across North America, from San Francisco to Fredericton, more than 200 crusading cities are building municipal Wi-Fi networks. Boosting business, providing Web access for poorer citizens, creating communal communications infrastructures: different cities have different missions driving their Wi-Fi projects.”
You’ve seen/read I, Robot …well everyone talks about doing it, but now someone’s actually doing something about it. Our robots, in the future, are going to have ethics! There’s something very “Star Trek” about this story – very “Data”. Or in this case Alex Hubo.
” South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to stop humans misusing robots — or vice versa.”
OK this story is almost a half decade old – but it’s still great. A TV show showing only good news…
“In June 2020 the BBC will be celebrating the 10th year of their Good News program. Over the years the popularity of Good News TV has grown and grown. The program has concentrated on good and positive news stories that have happened around the world…”
Who’d’uh thunk?