Bytes
In the news -
2011
January 2012
Solar power can help the billion people without electricity (Carl Pope at
the Guardian - 5 January 2012)
Ironically, the world's poorest can best afford the most sophisticated lighting
India's Drug Trials Fuel Consent Controversy (Rama Lakshmi at The Washington
Post - 2 January 2012)
1,700 people died in clinical drug trials between 2007 and 2010 while 2010
trials generated $300 million of business for India
Need a New Kidney? Check out Facebook (Donna Gordon Blankinship at The
Associated Press - 1 January 2012)
More people are using social media sites like Facebook, Craigslist to find
transplant organs
US has replaced 100-watt bulb with halogen and other technologies (David
Shaffer at Star Tribune - 1 January 2012)
The incandescent bulb converts only 10 percent of the energy to light and the
rest is lost as heat
