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![]() Improve early detection of seasonal illnesses through monitoring health-seeking behavior through online web search queriesGoogle Inc together with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has developed a trend model to enable real time monitoring of flu trends, globally.
At the moment Google Flu trend can give trends for 20 countries around the world.
Can this be the start of new innovative trends to be able to act pro-active on potential epidemics around the world, like the one we see today- Swine Flu or the H1N1 flu virus?
In this article we give you some insight into the Google Flu Trend analysis. ![]() SWINE FLUE VACCINE – DEADLY OR SAFE? Should I get the vaccine and can I feel safe?H1N1 Influenza virus has spread globally and has shown tendency of slowing down, but keeps peaking in certain areas and coincides with the seasonal flu in parts of the world.
Health authorities around the world have different view on how to handle this pandemic, however, they seem to agree to extensive vaccination against both the seasonal and H1N1 flu.
Some countries have established a practice that all should take the vaccine, and others are sitting and waiting.
Safe or not? Judge for yourself ![]() THE KEY TO SUCCESS IS MEASUREMENTThere are lots of ways to measure things and make statistics that can give you some answers. However, before you do this, you need to know what to measure and what you measure against.
There is no meaning in making an effort or initiative to do something, unless you know why you do it, and what it will create of added value for yourself and the organisation you work within.
Measurement creates success, and you need to find time for measurment. I present for you 21 ideas to do so. ![]() 32 NEW PLANETS IN OTHER SOLAR SYSTEMS ARE DISCOVERED - REVEAL HOW PLANETS ARE FORMED - LIFE APART FROM US?European astronomers revealed that they had observed new planets in other solar systems than ours. These observations date back to January this year, and will give researchers important clues to how planets are formed. Further studies will reveal more details around these planets, however new instruments have made it possible to measure their size and masses. The largest one is 5 times our own planet Jupiter, the largets planet in our solar system.
What about life out there? ![]() 50 DAYS LEFT TO SAVE THE WORLD - ARE WE ABLE TO DO IT, OR WILL WORLD LEADERS FAIL?Mr. Gordon Brown states that in the year of 2080 around 1.8 billion humans will suffer from lack of water, and its not only the poor countries that will be touched by the climate crisis coming up on us.
The world has only 50 days left to save the world from global warming he states the other day. ![]() BONUS BONAZA – Failure of ethics or economic model?Is there a failure in moral and ethics within the Financial sector or a total miss-management by global leaders to accept the responsibility to create a sustainable global economic growth?
However, we come short to see some real action – maybe because we do not know what to do about it, or is it just ignorance?
RBS plans to give between 1 and 5 million British Pounds to each Bank manager in their system.
The same bank was saved in October 2008 and is now owned 70% by the British state. ![]() US Dollar under pressure - A new record Federal Budget Deficit of 1.417 Trillion US DollarThe US Federal budget has trippled its deficit from 2007-2008 budget year to this present one presented last week.
The US Dollar and economy is in a very bad shape and this puts pressure on the US Dollar in the international market. The trust of the currency begins to bleaken and there is a general concern that US economy could fall into a second wave of the recession in 2010 as the inflation will hit the continent.
What can the US federal Government to do make a sustainable development? ![]() Creation of the Universe - The theory and observation merged together can give us some answers - Observatins of the Black Holes in our Universe.Black Holes can not be seen in normal light, as they have to be observed in x-ray or infra red spectrum of light.
However, recent discoveries of massive Black Holes within our universe both distant and close reveal some interesting facts about when and how our universe came about.
Observations merged with theoretical models have resulted in simulations which support the fact that Black Holes have played and still play an important role in the evolution of the universe. ![]() CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE - THE BIGGEST BLACK HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE HAS BEEN RECORDE -WHAT ROLE DO THESE PLAY IN THE CREATION OF OUR UNIVERSE?Astronomers have tried to lure the secretes out of the universe, and more and more sophisticated technologies have been utilised both on the earth, but also as space laboratories.
Lately, the Subaru Observatory recorded a massive Black Hole in our Universe. What did this tell us about the creation of the universe, simple as the Big Bang theory or is it more to it than that? In this article we will discuss this closer and hopefully understand more. ![]() BRIC economy driven by China - The union becomes stronger as bi-lateral agreements are signed within BRIC sphereBRIC economy is driven mainly by Chinese economy at the moment as the other countries economies either contracts or is just in stable position and can not make any large international lifts. However, the Chinese economic force has an impact on the US economy as well as other major international economies in the world.
Bi-Lateral agreements within BRIC as well as statements about oil price structure makes us believe that BRIC wants and can play a more important international economic role.
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