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  • The Pivo 2 Noddy Car

    Why jettison good looks in the pursuit of fuel economy? Not when you could be running around town in this adorable little Pivo 2 car from Nissan, currently on display in London's Science Museum as part of the Japan Car exhibition , 29 November 2008 to 19 April 2009. Like Nissan's popular Figaro...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
  • Bad News Bears

    Harrods teddy bears are being recalled due to high levels of formaldehyde. Around 800 bears sold by the London department store between 2 July and 26 July have been found to have a higher than usual amount of the methanol derivative in the foot pads, Lara spotted in today's Telegraph.co.uk . A Harrods...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008
  • On perfect Houston office lunches and coffee

    When I'm in the ICIS Houston office, one of my favourite places to get lunch is the local Whole Foods Market on Kirby. That is when I'm not queuing up for slabs of beef at the Texas Bar-B-Q or down the nail salon. So I was happy to see that a flagship Whole Foods store had opened last year in...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
  • Bronzed limbs - the chemical way

    It's not every day that chemical commuters set off from London to Brussels on the Eurostar train and find that the St Pancras station has been taken over by 30 models, male and female, who have stripped off to highlight Sun Awareness Week. I am grateful to my fellow blogger Annette Hanford for the...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-07-2008
  • Why are Brits rubbish at recycling?

    My colleague Ed Cox has quite a controversial take on the British approach to recycling... As I danced down the stairs on Saturday morning with another couple of bin bags full of rubbish, I asked myself why we Brits are so bad at recycling? I'm not a bad person but it just never occurs to me to put...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008
  • Surreal moments in Shanghai

    Since we’ve described the Blog as a look at the “off-beat side of reporting on the global chemicals industry …behind the scenes at training sessions across three continents”, I feel I should record some of the more surreal moments of the editorial training I’ve been doing with our Shanghai team this...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008
  • Moscow hotels most expensive - official

    Moscow tops the world's capitals in terms of hotel room rates, according to our fellow RBI bloggers at Travel Weekly . Here is the top ten from a survey out today by Hotels.com of the average price per night and increase/decrease from 2006 to 2007. The Blog isn't so sure about what you'll...
    Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-11-2008
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