Posts Tagged ‘Science’

Carry your X-Ray Machine Around!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:47 By Radhika

In need of an X-Ray urgently? Worry not about that long wait for your turn at the diagnosis centre. Or an appointment that takes longer than you expected. You can own your own personal X-ray machine now. The machine was designed in collaboration with NASA.
It’s not advisable for individuals to get over-exposed to those rays. [...]

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Islamist militant attacks in northern Nigeria: 150 killed in two days of violence

Monday, July 27, 2009 17:57 By GSerrano

Islamist groups launched new attacks against security forces in northern Nigeria, a day after nearly 40 people died in bloody clashes between police and a radical Islamic group in Bauchi.
The BBC also reported a tally of ‘100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno State, where hundreds are fleeing their homes.’ [...]

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Correcting a blunder: Hollywood restores NASA’s lost footage of the first moon landing!

Friday, July 17, 2009 9:26 By Neo

So, NASA was competent enough to put man on moon and later on send a space probe to Mars, but it was too dumb to preserve the footage transmitted by Apollo 11.

What seems downright more stupid is not that they misplaced the tapes or lost in an accident, but the wise men decided to tape [...]

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War: The Evolutionary Cause of Altruism

Friday, June 12, 2009 23:33 By GSerrano

It is but logical to think that man’s evolutionary history has given rise to a definitive evolutionary form of social behavior. According to Samuel Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, the aspect of altruism may have likewise sprung from the eons of tribal warfare as the concept and act of personal sacrifice has become a [...]

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Some suggestions by science to cure the ills of economy (and predict another disaster)

Saturday, June 6, 2009 16:07 By GSerrano

Scientists believe that there are some economic solutions that can be sourced from physicists, engineers, biologists, ecologists, and others. Since economy has of late proven to be vulnerable, even disastrous, when left alone to the arbitrary whims of unpredictable markets, scientists suggest that there are ways and means from the fields of science that can [...]

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A Boy Named Christopher: Monitoring of a Special Child

Friday, May 29, 2009 16:58 By GSerrano

 

Christopher B. Bajala is a student in one of the poorest public elementary schools in deepest, darkest Third World. He had his worst stage of cerebral palsy in early 2005. He showed difficulty with his fine motor tasks such as holding the pencil and using scissors, maintaining his balance, and even walking. He also had [...]

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Sharp Challenge: Stop those Marching Bacteria!

Thursday, May 7, 2009 13:52 By Madhuri Katti

Can we really stop those multitudes of marching microbes and the flu? Well, with fears of pandemic Swine flu looming large answer seems no. But going by Sharp’s latest ad campaign ‘Bacteria’, their high density Plasmacluster ion generator air purifier seems rise to the challenge of stopping the lethal march of  microbes.
This colourful print campaign [...]

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Anniversary of First Earthrise Shot from Space!

Thursday, December 25, 2008 19:04 By Madhuri Katti

Christmas is celebrated for whole lot of reasons. Here is one more reason to celebrate the day. On this day, some 40 years ago, Apollo 8 crew did a live television broadcast from lunar orbit and world saw first shots of Earthrise as seen from Moon!!
There is another interesting twist in the tale. At the [...]

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