My Name Is Yu Ming

Filed under:Cinema — posted by Paul on March 30, 2007 @ 12:40


Nice short film about a bored chinese shopkeeper who decides to learn Irish and come to Ireland. However, he finds it’s not as simple as he thought.

New Zealand schoolgirls

Filed under:Thought Provoking — posted by Paul on March 27, 2007 @ 2:05

The Guardian reports that two New Zealand schoolgirls did a science test in school that is going to cost the makers of Ribena a couple of million dollars.

Two New Zealand schoolgirls humbled one of the world’s biggest food and drugs companies after their school science experiment found that their ready-to-drink Ribena contained almost no trace of vitamin C.

Students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo tested the blackcurrant cordial against rival brands to test their hypothesis that cheaper brands were less healthy.

Instead, their tests found that the Ribena contained a tiny amount of vitamin C, while another brand’s orange juice drink contained almost four times more.



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace