Boeing 787 team, Virgin Australia, Antarctic rescuers, and military cadets among honorees Aviation Week Laureate Awards honor extraordinary accomplishments in exploration, innovation, and heroism Aviation, aerospace and defense leaders in 10 categories were honored last night at Aviation Week’s 55th Annual Laureate Awards, a black tie awards gala recognizing the year’s most remarkable individuals and … Read more
Since 2007, Isabelle Gellé, a French perfumer based in Yorkshire has been striving to make people rediscover the smells of Nature through botanical perfumes. Ahead of her time, Isabelle anticipated that consumers would want to return to periods when natural ingredients were the only known things around. Isabelle is a native of the Indian ocean … Read more
Kirsty Bertarelli, Britain’s richest woman, has taken delivery of £100m superyacht. The Vava II superyacht is the biggest ever built in the UK at 96 metres. Wealthy couple Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli commissioned the luxurious vessel two years ago. The super yacht Vava II was intended to replace the couple’s old boat, which measured up … Read more
Upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lowerclass individuals Are Rich People Unethical? Which social class is the more likely provenance of unethical behavior, the upper class or the lower class? Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley analyzed a person’s rank in society (measured by wealth, occupational prestige and education) and found that those … Read more
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, expects to test fly its first spacecraft beyond the Earth’s atmosphere this year, with commercial suborbital passenger service to follow in 2013 or 2014, company officials said to reuters. Virgin Galactic is the most visible of a handful of companies developing spaceships for tourism, research, educational and business purposes. The suborbital … Read more
Best places to study 2012 Paris topped the inaugural Best Student Cities table, which ranks cities according to measures taken from “public information, population sizes, number of educational establishments and their quality, as judged by the QS World University Rankings. London emerged as the world’s second best study city, followed by Boston, Melbourne, Vienna and … Read more