IN 2011, Foster Huntington quit his successful job in New York City to live in a tree house (two, actually) on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge in the US. In a few months, with the help of friends and a construction crew, Foster created his dream world, complete with treetop homes connected by swinging bridges, an on-site …
Graduates who move overseas and fail to repay their student loans after their studies should be arrested, suggests an education expert who has authored a report on what the UK can learn from New Zealand’s higher education sector. Sam Cannicott, former Regent’s University London employee who now works for Statistics New Zealand, described how New Zealand’s “no-nonsense approach” to collecting student loan repayments …
A female Nintendo employee has been fired after months of harassment from gamers who blamed her for censorship—but the company says her firing has nothing to do with her being targeted by the “GamerGate” campaign, the Verge reports. “I am no longer a good, safe representative of Nintendo, and my employment has been terminated,” Seattle-based worker Alison Rapp tweeted on Wednesday, adding that the …
Ebola is no longer an “extraordinary” health event, the World Health Organisation has said. The disease that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa during its most recent outbreak doesn’t pose as much of a threat as it once did, and the risk of it spreading around the world is low, a committee formed by the health group concluded. …
World Health Organization (WHO) is celebrating World Health Day on April 7, 2015 with an objective to create global health awareness. The theme for World Health Day 2015 is ‘Food Safety’ and WHO is promoting the issue of food safety and it’s improvement as a part of the campaign. Here are 10 facts you should know about WHO, World Health …