Raw food diet

Stevepavlina summarized his recent 30 day trial on raw food diet on his personal development blog. The post is a complete report with the all the details including the challenges he faced, variations in body temeprature and blood sugar. According to his report he had lost 10 pounds in that period.

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Blue eyed people share a single ancestor.

A new study shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. According to researchers from Copenhagen University, a single mutation which started as recently as 6-10,000 years ago was responsible for all the blue-eyed people alive on Earth today. Blue eyed people out there can claim that Angelina jolie and Brad pitt are their relatives.

Amazon.com acquires audible.

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. announced last Thursday that they had reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. Audible.com is an Internet provider of spoken audio entertainment, information, and educational programming. Audible’s catalog includes about 80,000 audio books, radio programs, spoken word selections and other digital content for download. By this acquisition Amazon will increase the amount of digital content it sells which will help the company improve margins,analysts said.

Atlantis launch set for Thursday

Space shuttle Atlantis which will carry European Space Agency’s science lab Columbus is being prepared for Thursday’s launch. Columbus will be the second lab in the space while there is already one which belongs to US. The third lab,Japan’s Kibo, will be carried up starting next month.

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$45 billion bid to Yahoo!

Microsoft made an $45 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo last Friday. Yahoo’s reponse to the bid yet to come. Mean while Google slammed this move by Microsoft as “inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet”.

Iran launches rocket.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad read out the launch countdown before the rocket blasted off. The rocket which is designed to carry a locally-made satellite was launched on Feb 4th. Iran has been accused by western nations of building nuclear weapons. Iran insists its nuclear programme is designed only to generate electricity.

Future of Rear projection TVs.

Rear projection TV sales are on the decline. Market research studies show that in 2009, less than 1 percent of the TVs sold will be rear-projection sets. While Sony and Philips got out of that sector, Texas Instruments looking for ways to attract consumers from LCD TVs and Plasmas. It has developed a lightweight prototype set that is less than 7 inches deep to mimic the “hang on the wall” concept of LCDs. At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, the company displayed smaller chips that TV makers could use to create slimmer sets with brighter, high-contrast pictures and smoother motion in the images. It also showed — behind closed doors — projectors tiny enough to fit in a cellphone.

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Next generation weapon tested

US navy tested an enormously powerful new weapon which is designed to replace the conventional weapons aboard naval ships. It uses electromagnetic energy instead of chemical explosives to fire a projectile. It is named as railgun. It will ultimately fire projectiles with a muzzle velocity of 7 mach. Mach is the speed of sound which is 340m /second at sea level.

The full capability working prototype is expected to be released on 2018.

“It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.” George Patton

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Green energy vs National security

Ministry of Defence in Britain objects that the new wind turbines to be installed in certain areas will interfere with its radar. This objection has placed the ambitious plan to deliver a third of Britain’s energy needs through green energy in jeopardy. According to MoD experts, turbines create a hole in radar coverage so that aircraft flying overhead cannot be detected. The change of policy has prompted fury among developers, who had previously been told that there were no defence implications.

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New Brain mapping technique

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in the brain. The technique minimizes brain exposure and reduces the amount of time a patient must be awake during surgery.
Language mapping, originally created to help guide epilepsy surgery, has proved to be an essential tool in helping neurosurgeons identify which parts of the tumor can be safely removed and in protecting patients from damage to speech and language centers.

Earlier it was estimated that 20,500 men and women will be diagnosed with, and 12,740 men and women will die of, cancer of the brain and other areas of the nervous system in 2007, according to the American Cancer Society.

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