The other day I said that it was an American recession and not an Australian problem. Three things happened yesterday that radically altered my perception. One involved my neighbour, Ron the second involved my uber geek friend from Europe and the third, an Australian edict to stockpile food. . Stockpile Food For a [...]
Thank you, Congressman [Gephardt] and Senator [Hagel] for those wonderful introductions. It is really a great honor to be introduced by two such distinguished legislators. And thanks to you, Mr. Devine, and all your staff, and to the wonderful UNA chapter of Kansas City, for all you have done to make this occasion possible. [...]
Kleiner Perkins have been one of the hottest and most astute Venture Capital companies in Silicon Valley. Today, they announced a 200 million dollar fund to invest in fighting pandemics, like bird flu. SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola are the new disease fronts of the 21st century. Moving aggressive VC money into play offers the fastest [...]
Bird Flu's been gaining a head of steam, unseen by the major economies of the world and fundamentally ignored by the news media. Bird Flu or H5N1 is a strain of flu that has mutated from birds; chickens, ducks, geese, fowls across the species into humans. Somewhere, there's been an exchange of genetic material and the flu has mutated [...]