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 -> Food for thought?
Mumbai's tiffin box (i.e., affordable lunches) couriers are lecturing at India's top MBA institute. Complex logistical lessons?
1,366 views | 15 Oct 2003
 -> Is this what Bush has come to?
Writes the Inquirer: "IT SEEMS WE'VE OPENED something of a can of worms with our story yesterday, which suggested the US Republican Party blanket emailed different newspaper editors with the same letter praising George Bush."
942 views | 14 Oct 2003
 -> Is sex really necessary?
In one of the most credible studies correlating overall health with sexual frequency, Queens University in Belfast tracked the mortality of about 1,000 middle-aged men over the course of a decade. The results...
614 views | 14 Oct 2003
 -> Most dangerous jobs
America's top 10 dangerous jobs.
1,053 views | 14 Oct 2003
 -> Quantum Physics has been all wrong?
New calculations suggest that the pictures should actually be blurry, leaving scientists questioning some basic assumptions about time, space and gravity.
808 views | 13 Oct 2003
 -> No more free downloads
The world's most popular song-swapping network, Kazaa, has thrown its weight behind a plan to start billing song swappers for their music downloads.
820 views | 13 Oct 2003
 -> Is USA losing its grip on technology?
Andy Grove seems to think so.
817 views | 12 Oct 2003
 -> Underwear that can "detect heart attack and call ambulance"
The Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven has developed bras, vests and pants that register and analyse the wearer's heartbeat.
417 views | 11 Oct 2003
 -> Missing Genitals?
A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia.
892 views | 11 Oct 2003
 -> The modern "quickie divorce"
Getting a quickie divorce has taken on a whole new meaning in Malaysia after it was decided that a man can divorce his wife with a text message.
525 views | 11 Oct 2003
 -> HIV strikes a "juvenile" every 14 seconds!
Isn't this the making of a catastrophe? A young person is infected with HIV every 14 seconds, a report from the United Nations Population Fund reveals. Around 6,000 people between the ages of 15 and 24 catch the disease every day.
828 views | 10 Oct 2003
 -> More planets like Earth?
Japanese scientists in Hawaii have found another star like sun, surrounded by sandy particles which could suggest the formation of more planets like earth, only 160 light years away!
441 views | 10 Oct 2003
 -> Honda reduces cost of building fuel cell cars
Honda Motor has brought the mass production of zero-emission hydrogen vehicles a step closer to reality by developing a cheaper-to-make, high-performance fuel cell stack needed to power the cars.
824 views | 10 Oct 2003
 -> Something's stinking in Chicago
(And it's not their baseball team!)
753 views | 10 Oct 2003
 -> Generate a 3D display from your laptop screen and cellophane
These guys present a "novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic" technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the left and right eye views.
548 views | 08 Oct 2003
 -> SUPERB! Arnie is back
Turn on your speakers and listen to the Governator!
52,564 views | 08 Oct 2003
 -> North Korea wants to dump Japan from talks
This is quickly becoming a text book negotiations case study. A statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry, carried on the official KCNA news agency Tuesday, said "Japan had been dumped from future negotiations."
784 views | 08 Oct 2003
 -> Warning Bells for Sun
A prominent technology analyst for Merrill Lynch is urging Sun Microsystems to slash as much as 15 percent of its workforce and focus on being a niche player in mission-critical computing, or risk being a part of IT history.
1,125 views | 07 Oct 2003
 -> Measure the speed of light with a chocolate and a microwave
Before Galileo people believed that light traveled at an infinite speed, i.e., it could travel any distance in no time. How this doozy notion was turned around on his head..
6,579 views | 07 Oct 2003
 -> Carving pumpkins
Some of the most popular "extreme pumpkin" photos.
3,556 views | 07 Oct 2003
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