Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
The UK government's chief science adviser has told BBC News that he supports the former chief drugs adviser's scientific view on cannabis.Professor John Beddington, the UK's chief scientist, would not be drawn on whether the Home Secretary was wrong to sack Professor David Nutt. Prof Nutt was chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). He was fired after using a lecture to say cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
The UK government's chief science adviser has told BBC News that he supports the former chief drugs adviser's scientific view on cannabis.
Professor John Beddington, the UK's chief scientist, would not be drawn on whether the Home Secretary was wrong to sack Professor David Nutt.
Prof Nutt was chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).
He was fired after using a lecture to say cannabis was less harmful than alcohol and tobacco.
Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100.One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.
Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100.
One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.
President Barack Obama and Bill Gates are being invited to back a website that promotes social politics.The web portal, entitled Hope Plus, aims to offer online tools to enable social projects such as building schools and fighting pollution. Although still being created, the site is billed as "a place where people can meet, congregate and participate..to change the world online". It aims to launch in December at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference.
President Barack Obama and Bill Gates are being invited to back a website that promotes social politics.
The web portal, entitled Hope Plus, aims to offer online tools to enable social projects such as building schools and fighting pollution.
Although still being created, the site is billed as "a place where people can meet, congregate and participate..to change the world online".
It aims to launch in December at the Copenhagen Climate Change conference.
Data collected by mapping agency Ordnance Survey is to be used to keep track on vulnerable workers and young children.Locatorz, the firm behind the mobile-phone location service, will be the first commercial company to get its hands on such data. Users will have to have a GPS-enabled handset for the service to work. It can only be activated with the consent of the mobile owner and can locate people to within 10 metres. It works by using a mobile phone's GSM connection, then sending the GPS signal to Locatorz servers which can in turn plot the information onto an Ordnance Survey map and send it to a viewable, secure internet page.
Data collected by mapping agency Ordnance Survey is to be used to keep track on vulnerable workers and young children.
Locatorz, the firm behind the mobile-phone location service, will be the first commercial company to get its hands on such data.
Users will have to have a GPS-enabled handset for the service to work.
It can only be activated with the consent of the mobile owner and can locate people to within 10 metres.
It works by using a mobile phone's GSM connection, then sending the GPS signal to Locatorz servers which can in turn plot the information onto an Ordnance Survey map and send it to a viewable, secure internet page.
