From the world of science…
Work on your sense of humour to land a job..
New York: Tickling the funny bone of your interviewer may land you the job! Job candidates with a sense of humour are more like to be hired: new study.
(Me: No, it isn't a joke. A sense of humour, among others like landing a job, makes your popularity soar among your friends_
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Chlorogenic and coumaric acids in tomato soup help cure health problems caused by smoking.
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Mushrooms contain an anti-oxidant called ergothioneine that is helpful in healing liver damage, cataracts, and heart disease.
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What is dental plaque?
Dental plaque is a pale yellow biofilm, the visible evidence of millions of bacteria colonizing on your teeth. Of the estimated 25,000 varieties of bacteria that live in the oral cavity, about 1,000 species, primarily streptococcus mutants, make up the complex biosystem of the teeth.
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Indian spices under US lens for bacterial contamination
Washington: Many spices from India, the largest exporter of cooking ingredients to the US, have come under scanner of the health watchdog FDA for being susceptible to Salmonella bacteria contamination. Salmonella germs are said to have been behind many food poisoning outbreaks in the US, while the food products that can get such contaminations include spices, fish, beef, poultry, milk, eggs and vegetables.
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Statins proved to be best drug for treaing cataracts.
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Air pollution claims premature deaths in US
A person who loses his life from air pollution-related cause dies about a decade earlier than he would have. 52,000 people die due to emission caused by power generation. California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution.
Believe it a lot!
Man tries to smuggle fish in trousers
Auckland: A Vietnamese man attempted to smuggle live tropical fish into New Zealand in his trouser pockets, but was caught when water was spotted dripping from his bulging pockets. When he was searched officers found seven fish hidden in plastic bags in his pockets.
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Chinese woman boils abusive hubby's body parts in cooker.
A woman from Lu'an City in China, allegedly killed her abusive husband and boiled his dismembered body parts in a pressure cooker, before turning herself over to the copies. The man was supposedly drugged and tortured by his wife for 3 days in June. After torturing her hubby, the woman chopped his body into pieces with a saw and boiled them to cover her crime.
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New Zealand man wears cow costume to steal steak:
A desperate man donned a cow costume to steal steams and pilfer a number of expensive new items from a food shop in New Zealand.
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Thought for the day…
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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News of the day…
Nine colleges let outside coaches take over PCM (Physics, Chemistry, Maths, the key subjects) classes while staff twiddles thumbs..
Now Jr colleges bunk class, allow coaching class to take over campus.
Mumbai Mirror in a week-long investigation came across at least nine colleges that have outsourced their physics, chemistry and math classes to coaching centres. Only practicals and classes of other subjects such as languages are conducted by teachers on the rolls of these colleges.
(Me: All things considered, outsourcing of teaching is the best option. As things stand, if the mushrooming, burgeoning coaching classes – and have in the process a multi-billion-rupee industry - all over the country is any indication, almost all school pupils from 9th standard onwards and all college students attend these coaching as they find the standard of quality of teaching in regular school/colleges being so poor; they go to the colleges only for the mandatory minimum attendance – here again many use proxies – necessary for getting their admission card/hall ticket for their examinations. Most school teachers and all lectures and professors get their salary and perks (including hefty pensions) for doing practically nothing. So, outsourcing teaching is the best option for schools and colleges – and why not, if the biggest MNCs like Microsoft, GE, international and national banks can outsource their low-tech clerical or back office jobs to third world countries for better efficiency at much lower costs?)
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No fast-track solution to rape cases, law overhaul needed: SC
The court bench said that while fast-track courts are needed, they are of little use if there isn't also a fast-track procedure to deal with cases of rape and gang-rape.
(Me: A BIG thumbsup to the apex court! One would say the observation applies to all other serious criminal cases, too. See, what is good for the Western goose –- with all their affluence, huge judiciary infrastructure for a far, far less population -- isn't necessarily good for the Indian gander with a terrible resource crunch due to which the available funds have had to be rationed out thinly over myriad welfare measures and the law and order and justice-dispensing system is just one)
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Gujarat may provide energy to power-strapped Pakistan..
If talks between Delhi and Islamabad go well, then Gujarat might soon be supplying electricity to Pakistan, which is facing acute energy crisis.
(Comments: Food for thought for all those Modi-baiters in the media and other assorted armchair critics elsewhere… How many states are electricity-surplus in India?)
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Tweet of the day: "@Iamsrk My kids have the amazing ability to answer any question thrown at them… only their answer is the same for all queries… Huhhmmm'!"
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Tongue in cheek…
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus" - Mark Twain.
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What's the difference between a new husband and a new dog?
After a year, the dog is still happy to see you.
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"Instead of the most attractive investment destination, India is becoming the world's largest welfare state. Are we headed for stagflation" – Vijay Mallya on the economy
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A truism…
"There are many victories worse than a defeat" – George Eliot.
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