(1) In the book Albert Einstein- Historical and Cultural Perspectives- Banesh Hoffman states: I now want to tell about a small dinner party that i was invited to at the house (Einstein’s) on Mercer Street in Princeton. While tea was being served from a teapot and not via tea bags […]
Source: NASA New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed […]
dnaindia: ANI: The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human brain […]
Source: The Local: A sniff of a “cuddle hormone” can encourage married men to literally keep their distance from other women, German scientists have shown – but paranoid wives should not yet put in orders for monogamy spray quite yet. Read More:
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) — What do a tight, fitted bed sheet and a blood clot in the wrist have in common? Both are associated with a condition called sheet fitting palsy. True to its name, the palsy is reported in those who spend a long period of time repeatedly trying […]
Huff Post: Amitai Shenhav. A few weeks ago the cover of Newsweek featuredan article by Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon who previews what he refers to in his forthcoming book as “proof of Heaven.” In his piece, Alexander argues that heaven exists because he had the experience of heaven without the biological capacity for […]
RT: Astronomers have discovered another potentially habitable planet – and it’s at least seven times the mass of Earth. Dwarf star HD 40307g hosts a system of six planets, and one of those is believed have the potential to support human life. The newfound exoplanet was discovered by a team […]
ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2008) — Dutch ecologist Roxina Soler and her colleagues have discovered that subterranean and aboveground herbivorous insects can communicate with each other by using plants as telephones. Subterranean insects issue chemical warning signals via the leaves of the plant. This way, aboveground insects are alerted that the plant […]
United Arab Emirates: PRESS RELEASE AMEINFO.COM Hosted at the inaugural episode of ‘Faith in Finance’, a new six-part series launched by Bloomberg TV and exclusively sponsored by ADIB, Tirad Al Mahmoud, CEO, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank depicted a positive outlook for Shari’a-compliant banking as a viable, resilient and ethical business […]
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. –Tao Te Ching Intelligence is Overrated: What You Really Need to Succeed –by Keld Jensen, Original Story, May 05, 2012 Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. […]
BBC: Why some people respond to treatments that have no active ingredients in them may be down to their genes, a study in the journal PLoS ONE suggests. The so-called […]
By Spencer Wells DNA is more than 99% similar among all humans, so all claims for discrimination, like caste system, polygenetic theory of human origin or some people being the ‘chosen people’ are only self indulgence. There is very little difference in the intellectual abilities of different races or families. […]
ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2012) — Wouldn’t it be amazing if our bodies prepared us for future events that could be very important to us, even if there’s no clue about what those events will be? Presentiment without any external clues may, in fact, exist, according to new Northwestern University research that […]
Huff Post: Jahnabi Barooah. How do prayer and meditation affect brain activity? Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD, is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College, and he has studied the neuroscientific effect of religious and spiritual experiences for decades. In […]
By Dr Amtul Qudoos Farhat, MBBS, DCH (UK), FCPS (Pakistan) United Medicine Group, Canada The concerns and quarries people have about Thyroid issues and prescription of desiccated thyroid extract has […]
About 22 million Americans are on long-term treatment with beta-blockers, a class of drugs frequently prescribed to manage high blood pressure and as cardioprotection after a heart attack. Having difficulty […]
by Andreas Keiser, swissinfo.ch Switzerland tops all major research and innovation rankings worldwide, largely thanks to generous funding and a clear separation between public and private research, as well as […]
Source: CNN Money/Fortune By Philip Elmer-DeWitt FORTUNE — Developers often complain about the hoops Apple (AAPL) makes them jump through to get their wares into the iOS App Store. But the company has its reasons — besides its 30% cut of the revenue — and one of them was illustrated […]
Source: Microsoft started October with a bang, unveiling Anders Hejlsberg’s newest creation: TypeScript, a superset of Javascript aimed at making the language’s big jobs easier. Key features of TypeScript include: module support class declarations static typing a Visual Studio 2012 plugin S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Developer Division, […]
Source: Gulf Times By Mizan Rahman The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission’s anti-cyber crime cell has received, in the last nine months, over a thousand complaints, most of which were directed at the popular social networking site Facebook and were lodged by female students, official said yesterday. Bangladesh Computer Security Incident […]