James Watson (pictured) said he
has become an 'unperson' since he made controversial claims that black people
were not of equal intelligence to white people during a 2007 interview.
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30 November 2014
This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Monday, December 1, 2014
New technique for pain relief could alleviate suffering.
Scientists at Saint Louis
University in Missouri managed to block a pain pathway in rodents with chronic
neuropathic pain, which develops due to nerve damage.
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30 November 2014
Bhopal's toxic legacy lives on, 30 years after industrial disaster
On December 2, 1984, the factory owned by the U.S. multinational Union Carbide Corp accidentally leaked cyanide gas into the air, killing thousands in the city of Bhopal.
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30 November 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
A review of 'Tales of an enchanted Boyhood' by Dr.C S Nannayakkara.
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http://1960medicalbatchcolombo.blogspot.com/2014/08/tales-of-enchanted-boyhood-alupola-to.html
“History, like the drama and the
novel grew out of mythology, a primitive form of apprehension and expression in
which – as in fairy tales listened to by children or in dreams dreamt by
sophisticated adults - the line between fact and fiction is left undrawn. It
has for example been said of the ILIAD that anyone who starts reading it as
history will find that it is full of fiction but, equally, anyone who starts
reading it as fiction will find that it is full of history.
All
histories resemble the ILIAD to this extent that they cannot entirely dispense
with the fiction element. The mere selection, arrangement and presentation of
facts is a technique belonging to the field of fiction…”
“A study of History”
Arnold J. Toynbee.
Arnold
J. Toynbee
Historian
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
CH was a British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of
International History at the London School of Economics and the University of
London and author of numerous books. Wikipedia
Muhammad Ali can't remember his third world title, daughter reveals
Ali, who has been fighting
Parkinson's Disease for 30 years, cannot remember beating Leon Spinks in Las
Vegas in 1978 to regain his heavyweight world title, his daughter said.
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28 November 2014
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