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| Bending
it like Beckham |
| The new ball at the Fifa World Cup
strives to be the perfect sphere. Prasun Chaudhuri and Monojit DasGupta look at
the physics behind it |
| In the summer of 1997 in
France, Brazilian Roberto Carlos kicked his way into football’s hall of fame.
The ball was placed 30 metres from the opposing team’s goal post and slightly
to the right. Carlos took a measured run and kicked the ball hard. The ball initially
travelled far to the ri... | Read.. |
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| Guiding
tags for the blind |
| Rohit, a visually impaired
boy in his early teens, dreams of being able to move around his home without assistance
from his siblings or parents. And e ... | Read.. |
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| Kaleidoscope |
| Trusting
in Technology |
For all the talk of having a world leading IT services industry, high-tech R&D
centres, and satellite launchers, our institutions are remarkably reluctant to
use new technology. Technological devices are seen as complex, hard to use, unreliable
a ... | Read.. |
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| Treating
tribals |
Six years ago, a group of young doctors from the All India Institute of Medical
Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, rejected the lure of private practice ... |
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Health
Remedies in your own home ... | Read.. |
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| Therapy
trouble |
| Sometimes psychotherapy
may be detrimental to a patient’s mental health, says Richard A. Friedman
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| Eyeing
invisibility |
| Invisibility
and the ability to see through walls ? dreams that were once confined to the pages
of science fiction ? are moving into the realms of feasibility. ... |
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| Recommended:
Electrons rule our lives
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ELECTRIC UNIVERSE
David Bodanis
Crown; $ 24.00... | Read.. |
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Why Corner
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| Why do old people suffer from cataract? |
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