Um, er… Hawking?
An astounding 78 per cent of British people cannot name a single living scientist, suggests a telephone survey of 1090 adults by the Royal Institution of Great Britain. More women than men were foxed by the question. Of the scientists people could remember, Stephen Hawking was the clear winner.
Ethiopia online
On 5 May Ethiopia launched an ambitious plan to wire the entire country for broadband internet within three years. Initially around 100,000 people in the capital Addis Ababa will have access, but by November the government hopes to raise the number of connections from 30,000 today…
