Browsing articles from "September, 2011"

Mad Thai dogs and Englishmen

Sep 6, 2011   //   by Nicholas Milton   //   Blog  //  No Comments

Here’s a blog to make you green – with envy. I’m in Thailand doing a marketing plan for a friends diving company. I spent last weekend in Phuket staying in the seaside resort of Patong. Its notorious for its neon nightlife and is full of women who shout ‘Welkome’ at any passer by followed by ‘Massage’, ‘Ping Pong Show’ or ‘Bom, Bom’.  A day of this was more than enough (not literally I should add) so at midday on sunday I headed up into the forest above the bay. On the way I was accosted by several mad Thai dogs (which guard every house here). You can see what I found on the attached video. YouTube Preview Image

Could sunscreen pill save coral reefs?

Sep 1, 2011   //   by Nicholas Milton   //   Blog  //  No Comments

Amazing story about scientists at Kings College London developing a sunscreen pill from corals on the Great Barrier Reef . The pill could be available in just 5 years time so that experience of slapping on sun tan lotion every 15 minutes if youre a red head like me could become a thing of the past. Perhaps more importantly could it help to conserve our rapidly vanishing coral reefs ? I hope so but I doubt it. Rainforests like the ones in Borneo have long been known to contain a potential cure for diseases like malaria, cancer and HIV. But they continue to be cut down at an unprecedented rate.

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