Why Christmas trees are not extinct
Conifers such as Christmas trees suffer a severe plumbing problem. The "pipes" that carry water through firs, pines and other conifers are 10 times shorter than those in flowering trees. But a University of Utah study suggests why conifers not only survive but thrive: efficient microscopic valves let water flow through conifers about as easily as it flows through other trees. "When you are...Health benefits of a Christmas brandy
Drinking a shot of smooth full-flavoured brandy this Christmas could actually benefit your health, Monash University researchers have found. The key to its benefit is antioxidants conta...Just in time for Christmas: Retail IT.
There's been some buzz rustling around the biz about how gaming is going to transform corporate training. Judy Brown and the folks at the UW-System Guess what? Gaming is just the tip of an iceberg big enough to rerou...Christmas comes early with Treo 650
I have been anticipating this day like a child waits for Christmas. Today, I saw the new Treo six weeks ago in a private suite at the <a target="blank" href="htt...Turkey Is Listed In The Christmas Meal Despite Bird Flu Scare
There is no change of plans regarding the Christmas dinner. Turkey still remains popular inspite of the bird flu scare. The demands for Christmas turkeys have risen by 25% in Britain. Supermarket owners say that the sales of the bird //are as good as the previous year. When bird flu was spreading and was in its peak in the month of October and November people feared that its s...Christmas trees to yield key Tamiflu ingredient
Biolyse Pharma Corp., a closely held Canadian company that extracts chemicals from plants, plans to use used Christmas trees to extract the chemical for making Tamiflu, the drug that treat bird flu.// The trees contain shikimic acid in their pine, spruce and fir needles, Ontario-based Biolyse said today in a statement. The acid is used in Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu and is mainly extract...Christmas, Carols And Unique Indian Christianity
New Delhi: Christianity came to India much before it went to the west, perhaps a reason why India's 25 million Christians prefer to be catholic in faith // , oriental in worship and Indian in culture. It has been a two-way process - a process of osmosis where Christianity has over the centuries become an indelible part of Indian plurality. Not only for the urban middle classes enthusia...Toy Story Turns Bitter-Christmas Toys, No Music to the Ears!
The Charity Deafness Research UK has suggested that certain Christmas toys are not safe and could hamper children’s hearing. This was revealed when 14 toys out of the 15 that// were tested, turned out to portray readings that were higher than the prescribed safety limits of 85 decibels. Among the toys, the noisiest were found to be toy guns, which included a mechanical toy machine gu...