By Robert Harland

This could be the ultimate status symbol - a flying car.

The prototype Terrafugia Transition, which has just been cleared by the US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), can fly like a regular plane and land at an airport before folding up its wings and setting off on the road.

By Robert Harland

"To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day," so said British playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham.

He was of course referring to that great British culinary institution, the full English breakfast.

This usually comprises several fried foods – bacon, eggs, tomatoes, sausages, baked beans, fried bread (a fried ‘slice’), mushrooms, black (blood) pudding and sometimes left-over mashed potato, also fried.

By Robert Harland

When you die, burial or cremation are usually the only options and most people decide before they fall off their perch which one they’ll choose. But they are not that environmentally friendly.

By Robert Harland

This year the United Kingdom celebrates the 150th anniversary of that great British culinary classic, fish and chips.

By Robert Harland

If you get caught not wearing a seat belt in Bacolod, you get a small fine and you have to attend a seminar on the wisdom of belting up on every trip. If you’re caught in Britain, there’s a hefty fine of 60 British pounds (Php4,000).

In what could be a most timely event during the celebration of Environment Week in Negros Occidental, the Philippines Biodiversity Conservation Foundation, Inc (PBCFI) and the Negros Forest and Ecological Foundation, Inc (NFEFI) signed a memorandum of understanding to further strengthen their partnership in advancing species and habitat protection, conservation and recovery on Negros Island.

By Robert Harland

Quite by chance I recently came across a website offering for sale Shamrock V, a beautifully restored wooden J-Class yacht built in Britain in1930.

By Robert Harland

I’m a keen cyclist. In 2003 I crashed into a Jeepney, but was saved from serious head injuries because of a sturdy helmet, so I was intrigued to learn of a new development to help cyclists know when it’s time to buy new head protection.

By Robert Harland

For those old enough to remember Sean Connery in the classics Goldfinger and Thunderball in the 1960s a lasting memory would almost certainly be James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5.

By Robert Harland

Anger - we’ve all blown our tops at one time or another. When we get angry our heart rate, blood pressure and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline increase – sometimes dramatically.

Our facial expressions change as does our body language. We raise our voices, bare our teeth, attempt to look physically larger and stare.

Anger is a behavioral pattern designed to warn aggressors to stop their threatening behavior. It’s a normal and usually healthy emotion that we all experience. But when it gets out of hand, it can cause problems.