New study reinforces earlier data, scoring substances based on harm they cause London, England (GenevaLunch) – UK media headlines Monday 1 November are mainly about bombs and another potentially explosive subject: which substance is the most damaging, among drugs and alcohol. Alcohol comes out tops, followed by heroin, but before wine lovers panic that this […]
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EasyJet’s ash detector gets CAA support
London, England (GenevaLunch) – EasyJet, one of the airlines hardest hit by ash cloud bans, has come up with a detector that could allow pilots to spot too much ash and change course. Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority says it is “happy an airline appeared to have found a technical solution, and, although it was not […]
Vintage wine frauds face off with science (update)
Australians take advantage of nuclear fallout Brits and French prefer to shoot ion beams from particle accelerator Update 17:35 Australian researchers have succeeded, after 11 years of research and several hundred bottles of wine, in coming up with a new carbon-dating method to check the real age of vintage wines. It’s not cheap, but the […]
UK media love Swiss clichés (and expenses-paid trips)
Geneva, a city you’ve probably never seen, even if you live there Some things never change, and a certain class of wealthy Brits seeing quaint little Switzerland as a playground is one of them. Another is the itch of UK newspaper writers to get the editor to pay for a trip, preferably during the ski […]
Swiss gives Geneva more UK flights
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Airline Swiss will offer more connections between Britain and Geneva starting 10 January 2010, with six new flights daily to Heathrow. The company is reducing the number of flights between Geneva and London City from the current six a day to four. The additional flights will be provided in part by […]