Skip to content

thepackratspantry.com

Menu
Menu

‘Fascinating’ and ‘provocative’ research examines genetic elements of bipolar, schizophrenia

Posted on December 28, 2022December 29, 2022 by

Saturday, October 1, 2011 Last week, Nature Genetics carried twin studies into the genetics of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This special report examines the month’s research into the illnesses in detail, with Wikinews obtaining comment from experts based in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom ahead of the U.S. Mental Illness Awareness Week,…

Read more

Arson charge for man who cleaned home with gasoline

Posted on December 27, 2022December 28, 2022 by

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Ernest Krajniak from Chilton, Wisconsin in the United States has been charged with arson after a lit cigarette ignited gasoline soaked clothes, setting his apartment ablaze. On Friday April 3, Krajniak, 47, cleaned his entire apartment with about five gallons of gasoline, wiping everything down with the soaked clothes. After he…

Read more

Thousands protest privatisation of Australian electricity industry

Posted on December 26, 2022December 27, 2022 by

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 In New South Wales today, thousands of people joined a protest including 15 Labor Members of Parliament about the State Government’s plans to privatise the electricity industry. The MPs included Paul Gibson, Upper House president Peter Primrose, and former MPs Kerry Hickey and Grant McBride. Mr Gibson was reported as saying,…

Read more

Hewlett-Packard to expand partnership with SAP

Posted on December 25, 2022December 26, 2022 by

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 This Monday Hewlett-Packard is to announce that it is expanding its partnership with SAP. The partnership will be working with NetWeaver around several new services. The company is also expected to mention about its new enterprise solutions that are currently in development. Hewlett-Packard will offer its clients services for upgrading servers,…

Read more

‘The Gates’ opens in New York City

Posted on December 23, 2022December 24, 2022 by

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 New York, New York —On February 12, 2005, at 8:30 a.m., New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped the first piece of fabric in The Gates, a land art project by Christo and Jeanne Claude. The artists installed 7,500 metal “gates” along 23 miles of pathways in New York City’s Central Park….

Read more

Nicaragua’s Ortega visits Imam Khamenei in Iran

Posted on December 23, 2022December 24, 2022 by

Sunday, June 10, 2007 In Iran on Sunday, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega met Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei where both leaders criticised American “imperialism” and shared the opinion that the United States government is “hated” and “isolated”. “The Bush administration is now the most disgraced government,” Mehr News Agency quoted Khamenei. Ortega stated that that the…

Read more

Wikinews 2020: An ‘Original reporting’ year in review

Posted on December 21, 2022December 22, 2022 by

Friday, January 1, 2021 After an active year of original content published on the English-language Wikinews, we take a look back at some of the two dozen-plus original reports from our contributors during 2020. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_2020:_An_%27Original_reporting%27_year_in_review&oldid=4641414”

Read more

Interview: Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted on December 21, 2022December 22, 2022 by

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 January’s second Interview of the Month was with Danny O’Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on 23 January in IRC. The EFF is coming off a series of high-profile successes in their campaigns to educate the public, press, and policy makers regarding online rights in a digital world, and defending…

Read more

Police report drug haul seizure worth up to £30 million in Brownhills, England

Posted on December 15, 2022December 16, 2022 by

Monday, December 2, 2013 Police in the West Midlands in England today said nearly 200 kilograms worth of drugs with value possibly as great as £30 million (about US$49 million or €36 million) has been seized from a unit in the town of Brownhills. In what an officer described as “one of the largest [seizures]…

Read more

Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer

Posted on December 14, 2022December 15, 2022 by

Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York,…

Read more

Posts navigation

  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • …
  • 112
  • Next

Categories

  • Plastic Surgery (7)
  • Insurance (6)
  • Performing Arts (5)
  • Weight Loss Surgery (5)
  • Real Estate (5)
  • Shipping (5)
  • Kitchen Home Improvement (4)
  • Parking (4)
  • Oil (4)
  • Business Energy Advice (4)
©2023 thepackratspantry.com | Built using WordPress and Responsive Blogily theme by Superb