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How and Why to Exercise the Mind?

Posted: 2008-03-17 20:17:13 UTC+05:30

Exercise keeps you healthy in body and mind, but if you need a little more motivation than that, here's something new.

Kaizen

Posted: 2008-03-16 20:10:16 UTC+05:30

Kaizen is often translated in the west as ongoing, continuous improvement. Some authors explain Japan's competitive success in the world market place as the result of the implementation of the Kaizen concept in Japanese corporations. In contrast to the usual emphasis on revolutionary, innovative change on an occasional basis, Kaizen looks for uninterrupted, ongoing incremental change. In

The Hidden Structure and Fibonacci Mathematics

Posted: 2008-03-16 20:09:10 UTC+05:30

The Fibonacci numbers are Nature's numbering system. They appear everywhere in Nature, from the leaf arrangement in plants, to the pattern of the florets of a flower, the bracts of a pinecone, or the scales of a pineapple. The Fibonacci numbers are therefore applicable to the growth of every living thing, including a single cell, a grain of wheat, a hive of bees, and even all of mankind.

51 Amazing Facts

Posted: 2008-03-14 11:23:54 UTC+05:30

People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

How much water do you need a day?

Posted: 2008-03-13 10:46:08 UTC+05:30

Water is an important structural component of skin cartilage, tissues and organs. For human beings, every part of the body is dependent on water. Our body comprises about 75% water: the brain has 85%, blood is 90%, muscles are 75%, kidney is 82% and bones are 22% water. The functions of our glands and organs will eventually deteriorate if they are not nourished with good, clean water.

Keys to Memory

Posted: 2008-03-13 10:46:04 UTC+05:30

Characteristics of Memory

Posted: 2008-03-10 20:42:12 UTC+05:30

Radiotherapy

Posted: 2008-03-10 20:41:25 UTC+05:30

Radiotherapy, also called radiation therapy, is the treatment of cancer and other diseases with ionizing radiation. There are generally two types - internal radiotherapy and external radiotherapy. Internal radiotherapy is given in one of two ways; either by placing radioactive implants directly in a tumor or body cavity, or by giving a radioactive liquid, either through mouth or as an

The Suppression of Inconvenient Facts in Physics

Posted: 2008-03-08 14:11:46 UTC+05:30

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own commonsense.

The Big Bang Theory

Posted: 2008-03-08 14:09:06 UTC+05:30

"We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Except for children (who don't know enough not

Just One step away

Posted: 2008-03-08 14:08:17 UTC+05:30

If you were just one step away from reaching your goal, would you take that step? How do you know, right now, that you're not?

Pani puri funds Infosys dreams

Posted: 2008-03-08 14:07:28 UTC+05:30

Visakhapatnam: The wife of a poor pani puri vendor has become a software engineer in Infosys, thanks to her husband's support. Sheik Salar, 26, a street hawker, used every rupee he earned to help his wife Fatima Bibi Sheik, 21, achieve her academic ambitions. And it was not in vain. Fatima completed her course at Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering with high marks and was given a

The Human Genome Project

Posted: 2008-03-08 14:06:15 UTC+05:30

"To suppose that earth is the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to believe that in an entire field sown with millet, only one grain will grow", said Metrodorus of Chios in the 4th century B.C.

The Road to Success is not straight:

Posted: 2008-03-08 14:05:36 UTC+05:30

There is a curve called failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called friends, caution lights called family, and you will have flats called jobs.