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Brain Structured to Make Human Beings Religious, Claims a US Scientist

... prey to building early shelter. Thus though the palm lines are coincidentally formed by eons of evoluti...to find meaning in them through different forms of palm reading, Atran notes. Today, scientific images can track our thoughts on God all right, but the qu...

Efforts Underway to Fight Alcoholism Among Tribals

...ow when the latter tried to extract toddy from the palm trees owned by him. Often the reasons for murder...neak off for a nip or two of toddy from the nearby palm groves," said Sanjay Solanki, a teacher. Efforts are underway to counter alcoholism among tribals,...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...er than today. Temperatures soared. Crocodiles and palm trees lived in the Arctic. It all happened thanks to a giant belch of methane from the ocean, researchers have always thought. Eight years ago two scientists had reported at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union that a sediment core drille...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

...and is causing forests to be burnt to make way for palm oil and similar crops.He is expected to tell a sem... and starches, bio-diesel mainly from rapeseed and palm oil. They are blended with normal fuels, making up about 5% of the product. The carbon in bio-fuel...

Google to Digitise 800,000 Books at Mysore Varsity

...ernet search engine. "Written in both papers and palm leaves, there are around 100,000 manuscripts in our library, some dating back to the eighth century. The effort is to restore and preserve this cultural heritage for effective dissemination of knowledge," said J. Shashidhara Prasad, vice chancellor o...

Very Soon You can Eat to Your Hearts Content

...at found in meats, milk and cheeses, coconut oil, palm oil and palm kernel oil is considered a main cause of high cholesterol. There are two types of monounsaturate...

Singapore to Import Eggs, Fish from Andhra Pradesh

... Pradesh ranks first in the production of mangoes, palm oil, chillies and turmeric in the country. The state also ranks first in production of eggs, brackish water shrimp and fresh water prawn in the country. It is the second biggest producer of fresh water fish and has the longest coastline in the coun...

Tech Heads Go Gaga Waiting for Apple's IPhone

... puts a phone, web browser and music player in the palm of the hand, goes on sale at 6 p.m. (2200 GMT) Friday. Late Thursday some 60 fans armed with umbrellas and rain gear -- and a handful with pup tents and lawn chairs -- braved the elements outside Apple's 5th Avenue store in New York city. First i...

Biology, Not Only Parents, Turns Sweet Kids into Delinquents

... measures the amount of sweat on the participant's palm when exposed to stressful stimuli. In this case, the children watched a video of a dolphin swimming in the ocean so that the researchers could collect their baseline stress response. Next, they watched a second, more stressful, film involving a la...

Doherty Will Marry Moss If He's 'smack and Needle-free'

...y on the Eurostar until finally blood runs down my palm and up my head, and before I leg it to oblivion leaving her at the station calling me a this, that and the other and a so-and-so (accompanied by hand gestures)," he said. It looks like one of the reasons why the two fought was the singer' s drug add...

US Teens Charged With Gang Raping a Woman

..., police said. Investigators also say they found a palm print belonging to Walker at the scene. Lawson lived in Dunbar Village, the hardscrabble project where the attack occurred. Walker was apparently visiting a friend there, White said. Authorities believe the suspects all knew each other from the n...

Humans are Gobbling Up a Quarter of Nature's Resources, Reveals Study

...ently, but things could get worse, "if plants like palm oil and rapeseed are grown for biofuels to ease reliance on fossil fuels". "We are asking for trouble, if we expand production of biofuels, as the only fertile land available is tropical rainforests," said Haberl. "If we want full-scale replaceme...

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