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| Trashed thesis |
| Spiritual experience isn?t mere electrical stimulation of the brain, says Prasun Chaudhuri |
| Four years ago
when Michael Persinger — a neurologist from the Laurentian
University in Sudbury, Canada — claimed to have invented
electromagnetic headsets capable of stimulating religious
or spiritual feelings in humans, even die-hard atheists
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| Digital body map tailors? new toy |
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has never got so handy for the tailors. Bodymetrics,
a state-of-the-art body mapping system, is now allowing
designers to create perfectly fitting clothes. A
new denim range, Digital Couture ... |
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| Machines as small as viruses |
| Is it possible to cram
the 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the
head of a pin? Theoretically speaking, it is feasible.
In 1959, physicist Richard Feynman ... | Read.. |
| Threat perception |
| Dr
John Kenner, the main character in Michael Crichton’s
latest thriller State of Fear, accuses the US of creating
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In another development in flexible organic electronics, engineers at the University of Tokyo have come up with the world?s first credit card-shaped flexible plastic sheet image scanner. Light-emitting plastics are already being used in flexible compu ... | Read..
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| QED: Expert spokesperson
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An indian cardiologist said last week that the British government?s
recent approval of over-the-counter (OTC) sale of a cholesterol-lowering
drug called simvastatin should be a wake-up call for Indian doctors.
At a press conference organised by an Ind ... | Read.. |
| Recommended:
Many skeletons in the cupboard
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THE
GREAT BETRAYAL
Horace Freeland Judson
Harcourt; $ 22.99 ... | Read.. |
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Almost everywhere food is sold these days, you are likely
to find products claiming to contain no genetically modified
substances. But unless you are buying wild mushrooms,
game, berries or fish, that statement is untrue. ... |
