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| What
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| Looking for happiness? Consult Bhutan’s
King, suggests Andrew C. Revkin |
| What is happiness? In the
US and in many other industrialised countries, it is often equated with money.
Economists measure consumer confidence on the assumption that the resulting figure
says something about progress and public welfare. The gross domestic product,
or GDP, is routinely used as shorthand for the well-being of a nation... |
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| Restless
reality |
| Almost two centuries ago,
Robert Brown became fascinated by the incessant zigzag motion of fragments in
pollen grains, a seemingly obscure phenomenon that would come to be named after
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Three ? two ? one ?” A few days ago a new kind of aircraft was launched into the cloudy skies over Eccles. When it landed in a field of stubble near the river Mersey, the plane marked a return to the flap-free aircraft of the Wright brothers and ... | Read..
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| QED: IPR: A new ball game
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Intellectual property rights (IPR) ? a flourishing field for the present-day-lawyers ? is proving to be an excellent channel of growth for technology industry, if a survey in a recent issue of The Economist is to be believed. It’s s
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| Recommended:
Just like chimps and bonobos
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Our inner ape
Frans De Waal
Riverhead Books; $24.95... | Read.. |
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Why Corner
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Moshing at a gig or attending a classical concert aren’t just aurally stimulating ? they can benefit your health, too. According to new research, listening to Beethoven or ‘Badly Drawn Boy’ may help heart disease and stroke patients, a ... | 
