Business and Finance
The relative cost of war – sad and astounding.
Monday, November 30th, 2009David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful .net) prepares interesting diagrams to present information and statistics in an accessible way. This one really brings home the cost of the Iraq war when a meaningless figure merely bamboozles the brain.
How to decontaminate nuclear power stations for a few British pounds…
Friday, September 11th, 2009In 2009 it was revealed that Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland is using a household cleaning product, Cillit Bang, to clean up radioactive plutonium stains from a disused facility. In an astonishing success story of shopfloor innovation, one worker saw a tv ad for the cleaning product in which it was used to [...]
Johnnie Walker whisky – where is it from?
Sunday, July 12th, 2009It’s from the town of Kilmarnock in Scotland of course…..eh, not much longer! The company, Diageo, which owns the Johnnie Walker brand has INCREDIBLY decided to close its operations in Kilmarnock (and neighbouring village of Hurlford) with the loss of 700 local jobs. This is a devastating blow to the area in Ayrshire, Scotland, and [...]
Google story mistakenly prompts $1 billion price fall in United Airlines stock!!
Friday, September 12th, 2008Now this one is hard to believe! On Monday 8th Sept, 2008, automated programs were allowed to wipe more than $1 billion from a company’s value unchecked. When a website ran a story which merely referenced an old Google news article from 2002 about United Airlines financial problems, the hits to Google boosted the old [...]


