TAX DODGER!....excuse me...TAX EXILE!
Sod him and his plastic crap:-(
Cheap blow-up baby incubator bags James Dyson award
An inflatable incubator for use in poor countries has won this year's James Dyson Award, which celebrates university student inventions. James Roberts, a 23-year-old University of Loughborough graduate, won £30,000 to develop his prototype (called MOM) for mass production. The university will also receive £9,000. The …
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Thursday 6th November 2014 18:08 GMT Pen-y-gors
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A big round of applause (and a pint or two) for James - just shows there are clever young people doing practical things to save lives around the world, with damn all public funding.
Interesting to compare James' work, with the potential to save tens of thousands of lives a year, with the annual $2.8 BEEEELION that DARPA get to spend on research in the USA, most of it focussed on projects which ultimately try to come up with 'improved' ways of killing people. It's a crazy world.
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Thursday 6th November 2014 20:01 GMT Rick Brasche
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increasing overpopulation in "third world" nations is already, and will continue to be, the cause of more violence, wars, atrocities, and environmental damage than any amount of clever warfare.
A human being is the biggest threat to anything. One would say that assisting more survivable births in areas where live birthrate already exceeds the environmental capability to support and the death rate by nearly 2 to 1 is a greater crime than a smart bullet that only hits the arsehole who decided a bomb in your childrens' bus is easier than a bomb in the car of the "leadership" he's in competiton with.
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Thursday 6th November 2014 20:40 GMT Charles Manning
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"increasing overpopulation in "third world" nations [BAD]"
By any of your measures, third worlders are far less of a problem than first worlders.
First worlders consume more, pollute more, fight more than third worlders.
If anyone should be denied healthcare and fertility treatment it should be the first worlders.
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Thursday 6th November 2014 22:57 GMT Cliff
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Well done to him. Simple works.
As for the population rant above - the birth rates in the West were considerably higher when infant mortality was also considerably higher. When your kids are more likely to live than die, you don't have so many because you don't need to. The best way to reduce the third world birth rate is actually to reduce infant mortality.
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Friday 7th November 2014 11:54 GMT monkeyfish
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More likely the fact that we're not dying soon enough. Remember, when the final salary pension scheme was invented, and the retirement age set at 65, the average life expectancy in men was about 68. In most counties in the world you have to work to eat, so the retirement age is never. Basically, expect to retire not long before you're dead.
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Friday 7th November 2014 17:04 GMT Sheep!
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Actually if you follow the Gates foundation research, one of the things to come out of their vaccination programs is the discovery that when infant mortality rates are slashed through better healthcare population rates actually FALL as people have less children (because they're not constantly losing the ones they've already had and trying to play the numbers game in the hoppe at least a couple of them survive) so this invention may actually help to reduce the population as well as saving lives. Of course, you would have to have bothered to find out the actual situation instead of just making fatuous statements that have no basis in fact to have known this.....
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