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If It’s in the Ground, It Can Only Go Down
Posted 6/5/2009 by JHiem
The real price of oil today is now at the same level as in 1976 and, before that, in the 1870s, when oil was first put to mass use in the United States. This long-term price decline is due mainly to the constant discovery of new fields and greater energy efficiency, making nonsense of the idea that the world is rapidly running out of oil. [more]
Downturn hits art investment funds
Posted 4/13/2009 by JHiem
Plans to inject at least $200m into the market have been shelved [more]
World Economy Falling Faster Than in 1929-1930
Posted 4/9/2009 by JHiem
Experts on the Great Depression take issue with the notion that the current downturn is less severe than the Great Depression. While the slump in the US is not as bad, that mis-states the global picture. [more]
Financial Advice Causes 'Off-loading' In The Brain
Posted 4/1/2009 by JHiem
Expert advice may shut down areas of the brain responsible for decision-making processes, particularly when individuals are trying to evaluate a situation where risk is involved [more]
Neuronal Cause Of 'Money Illusion'
Posted 4/1/2009 by JHiem
Inflation Felt To Be Not So Bad As A Wage Cut [more]
Simple Reasoning Strategies
Posted 1/31/2009 by JHiem
Can Be As Precise As Complex Ones [more]
What to buy for 2009?
Posted 1/7/2009 by JHiem
Personal Wealth’s panel of investment experts shares its views on the direction of financial markets in the coming year as well as the best investment ideas, markets and asset classes to bet on over the next 12 months [more]
Better Predictions Of Share Yields
Posted 1/7/2009 by JHiem
The “output gap”, can be used to predict stock market yields. This indicator provides good predictions of future yield on shares within a time horizon right down to one month and up to five years. The longer the time horizon, the more reliable the prediction. [more]
Got gold?
Posted 10/31/2008 by JHiem
At gold parties, consumers exchange old jewelry for cash, but sellers beware [more]
Roland Berger: Art has become a global market
Posted 10/14/2008 by JHiem
...the art market to ride out the current financial turmoil as wealthy Russians, Indians and Chinese buoy sales. [more]
Hirst Sale Marks U.K. Art Market Peak
Posted 10/8/2008 by JHiem
Prices Fall, Survey Says [more]
Auction bidding 'driven by fear'
Posted 9/26/2008 by JHiem
Worries about losing out at auctions may drive participants to pay over the odds, a brain imaging study shows. [more]
Down but not out
Posted 9/9/2008 by JHiem
Japan could yet outperform the other big rich economies over the next year [more]
Are We in the Peak of an Oil Bubble?
Posted 7/10/2008 by JHiem
By analyzing oil prices over the past four years, researchers have demonstrated more support for the hypothesis that the recent oil price run-up has less to do with supply-demand interplay and more to do with speculation. [more]
Bearish battalions
Posted 7/4/2008 by JHiem
Almost everything that could is going wrong for world stockmarkets [more]
The World According to 'The Bear'
Posted 6/14/2008 by JHiem
Some insight as to why Rob Arnott, investment guru and chairman of the advisory firm Research Affiliates, is still "The Bear" [more]
Japanese stocks could arise as inflation winners
Posted 6/12/2008 by JHiem
Analysts say expectations that consumer prices will now rise instead of fall could be the catalyst to spur some of the estimated 739 trillion yen ($6.84 trillion) sitting on deposit at financial institutions to move into higher-yielding equities. [more]
Buffett bets S&P 500 will beat hedge funds
Posted 6/10/2008 by JHiem
Warren Buffett has wagered roughly $320,000 of his own money that the S&P 500 will outperform a collection of hedge funds. The bet covers a decade and says that all the fees, costs and expenses must be included. [more]
Bear bottom
Posted 6/10/2008 by JHiem
Is this the right time to buy? [more]
Patent Filings Surge in China
Posted 6/4/2008 by JHiem
Applications are rising by 20% a year on the mainland, a sign of growing concern for intellectual-property rights. But could they be trouble for multinationals? [more]
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Explosive Vision
Posted 6/27/2009 by JHiem
Cai Guo-Qiang turns gunpowder into art [more]
'Milking' Microscopic Algae
Posted 6/25/2009 by JHiem
Could Yield Massive Amounts Of Oil [more]
Ubuntu aims for ten-second boot time with 10.04
Posted 6/10/2009 by JHiem
The developers behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution aim to significantly improve boot performance. Their ambitious goal for 2010 is to reduce total boot time to 10 seconds. [more]
Plastic That Grows On Trees
Posted 5/22/2009 by JHiem
In new research, chemists have successfully converted cellulose -- the most common plant carbohydrate -- directly into the building block called HMF in one step. Researchers hope to turn plants into a renewable, nonpolluting replacement for crude oil. [more]
Your search queries can predict the future
Posted 5/5/2009 by JHiem
Trends in what people are searching for online can be used to improve economic predictions [more]
Optical disc offers 500GB storage
Posted 4/28/2009 by JHiem
A micro-holographic disc that can store 500 gigabytes(GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. [more]
Chinese Master Lin Sets Record
Posted 4/8/2009 by JHiem
Lin’s oil-on-canvas “Fishing Harvest,” painted between the 1950s and 1960s and showing the catch being sorted, fetched HK$16.3 million, an auction record for the artist. [more]
Being Isaac Newton
Posted 4/6/2009 by JHiem
Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data [more]
Process For Making 'Unbreakable' Glass Developed
Posted 4/6/2009 by JHiem
Dr. William LacCourse: "We have dropped glass bottles from 10 feet high onto a concrete floor, and the glass simply bounces." more]
Robot Scientist
Posted 4/6/2009 by JHiem
Becomes First Machine To Discover New Scientific Knowledge [more]
New Material Could Lead To Faster Chip
Posted 4/1/2009 by JHiem
Graphene May Solve Communications Speed Limit [more]
Flying Car Takes Wing
Posted 3/25/2009 by JHiem
Invention Makes Its First Test Flights [more]
Skype Tops All in International Calls
Posted 3/25/2009 by JHiem
Five years after its launch, Skype has emerged as the largest provider of cross-border voice communications in the world. [more]
'Cold Fusion' Rebirth?
Posted 3/24/2009 by JHiem
New Evidence For Existence Of Controversial Energy Source [more]
First Superman fetches $317,200
Posted 3/16/2009 by JHiem
A rare copy of the first Superman comic, dating from 1938, has sold at auction for $317,200 (£227,000). [more]
Blazing a trail
Posted 2/21/2009 by JHiem
The artist who makes striking sculptures from matchsticks [more]
The lure of impressionism for the newly rich
Posted 2/3/2009 by JHiem
There was a dramatic increase in prices for the work of the impressionists through the 1950s. It was driven, as ever, by the new money of the time. [more]
Low–cost LEDs
Posted 1/31/2009 by JHiem
A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% within five years. [more]
Painter finds fakes at art show
Posted 1/21/2009 by JHiem
A leading Indian artist has said he was "stupefied and outraged" to find that many of his paintings at a show he was inaugurating were fakes. [more]
Coming Nanotechnology a foundation technology
Posted 1/13/2009 by JHiem
Tiny science makes socks that don't smell and windows that clean themselves [more]
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Vegetarians 'avoid more cancers'
Posted 7/3/2009 by JHiem
Study involving 60,000 people found those who followed a vegetarian diet developed notably fewer cancers of the blood, bladder and stomach. [more]
Cancer boost from whole carrots
Posted 6/19/2009 by JHiem
"Boiled before cut" carrots contained 25% more of the anti-cancer compound falcarinol than those chopped up first. [more]
How personality and stress contribute to disease
Posted 6/19/2009 by JHiem
Our ability to withstand stress-related, inflammatory diseases may be associated, not just with our race and sex, but with our personality as well [more]
Stress Makes Your Hair Go Gray
Posted 6/17/2009 by JHiem
Those pesky graying hairs that tend to crop up with age really are signs of stress, reveals a new report in the journal Cell. [more]
The New Socialism
Posted 6/12/2009 by JHiem
Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online [more]
Oily fish 'can halt eye disease'
Posted 6/11/2009 by JHiem
People with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) should eat oily fish at least twice a week to keep their eye disease at bay [more]
Weekly curry 'may fight dementia'
Posted 6/6/2009 by JHiem
Curcumin appears to prevent the spread of amyloid protein plaques - thought to cause dementia - in the brain. [more]
Alcohol reduces gallstone risk
Posted 6/3/2009 by JHiem
Consuming two units a day cuts the chance of developing gallstones by a third, analysis of data from 25,000 men and women showed. [more]
Soup can help you lose weight
Posted 5/27/2009 by JHiem
The key to this low-tech weapon against hunger is a hormone called ghrelin. It is one of the major players in the body's appetite system. [more]
Excessive Cola Consumption
Posted 5/21/2009 by JHiem
Can Lead To Super-sized Muscle Problems [more]
Adding Walnuts To Good Diet
Posted 4/29/2009 by JHiem
May Help Older People Improve Motor And Behavioral Skills [more]
'Proof' face creams beat wrinkles
Posted 4/28/2009 by JHiem
Researchers found it stimulated the production of fibrillin-1, a protein that promotes elasticity in the skin which is lost with sun damage. [more]
Stem Cell Makes Cloudy Corneas Clear
Posted 4/10/2009 by JHiem
Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger a rejection response when injected into eyes that are scarred and hazy [more]
Omega-3 Kills Cancer Cells
Posted 4/6/2009 by JHiem
Docosahexanoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish oils, has been shown to reduce the size of tumours and enhance the positive effects of the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, while limiting its harmful side effects. [more]
Viewers Can Learn Without Paying Attention
Posted 4/1/2009 by JHiem
Contrary to common belief, attention may actually impair the ability of people to draw conclusions based on the visual images or stimuli they observe [more]
Egg Makes Sure That Sperm Don't Get Too Old
Posted 3/31/2009 by JHiem
New research has now shown that a fertilising sperm can get help from the egg to rejuvenate. [more]
Monoclonal Antibodies
Posted 3/27/2009 by JHiem
Primed To Become Potent Immune Weapons Against Cancer [more]
New Anti-cancer Drug
Posted 3/27/2009 by JHiem
200 Times More Active In Killing Tumor Cells [more]
Special Yogurt Fights Stomach Ulcer Bacteria
Posted 3/24/2009 by JHiem
The suppression of H. pylori infection in humans could be achieved by drinking yogurt fortified with urease antibody [more]
Strive for '100 steps per minute'
Posted 3/19/2009 by JHiem
You should be taking 100 steps each minute for half an hour a day if you want to achieve "moderate" exercise by walking [more]
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