Hyperactive Hurricane Season Expected This hurricane season could be a threatening one according to predictions by a top U.S climate agency. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts between 14 and 23 named storms. These NOAA predictions place the 2010 Hurricane season in the highest category of ‘hyperactive.’ While the NOAA does not predict the whether or not these [...]
A coup in Niger, loud children in Berlin, and a kamikaze pilot in Texas
Century-Old Scotch Discovered in Antarctic Ice Whiskey enthusiasts the world over are excited about the recovery of five crates of scotch and brandy from the South Pole’s ice. The whiskey had been buried under a hut built for Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 expedition to the pole. Shackleton left the whiskey in his hurry to leave Antarctica before the ice formed over [...]
This week: Haiti, Google, and Snow-Free Vancouver
Your biweekly international roundup, featuring sex, drugs, and giant icebergs. Marijuana Café Opens in Oregon North America’s first marijuana coffee house has opened, allowing medicinal marijuana users a place to smoke outside of the home. The establishment, called Cannabis Café, gives members a place to get the drug and smoke it among other users. While marijuana use is still banned [...]
Switzerland tries to shed “suicide vacation” label A main destination for assisted suicide, Switzerland is attempting to brighten its image to tourists by toughening legislation. Each year, hundreds of terminally ill patients flock to clinics in Switzerland in a movement dubbed “suicide tourism”. Two draft bills have recently been presented to the Swiss Parliament that would implement stricter rules on [...]
American Hunters, Fishers Back Global Warming Legislation American hunters and fishers have come forward in favour of fighting climate change. This traditionally Republican interest group is now saying they have noticed the effects of climate change on their hobbies, and are pressing the U.S Senate to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty special interest groups have urged senators in a letter [...]
Dr. David Foot addressed a full audience in Bandeen Hall last Thursday. The first of this year’s Donald Lecture Series, Dr. Foot is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto and addressed Bishop’s about how they could profit from considering demographics in their business. His book Boom, Bust & Echo: Profiting from the Demographic Shift in the 21st [...]
Cairo suffers from huge trash problem Four months ago, when swine flu broke out in Mexico, the Egyptian government decided to kill all the pigs in the capital city of Cairo. Despite the fact that no cases of swine flu had been reported in Egypt (though there were two in neighbouring Israel), and the fact that a person does not [...]
The international news you miss while living in the Bubble. Parthenon rift flares up between Greece, UK Two hundred years ago, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin removed more than half of the sculptures and friezes with the permission of then-authorities and shipped them all to London. Today, in the British Museum, more than half a million people witness all [...]
