Monday, December 1, 2014

Here's how to turn an ordinary balloon into a smartphone case

This balloon costs the rocket bottom price of just 99 cents and will take just 10 seconds to put on. If you've ever been in the market for a new phone case this handy balloon could do the trick.
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30 November 2014

Scientist who discovered DNA forced to sell his Nobel prize.

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

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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“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
  
 BornApril 14, 1889, London, United Kingdom
 DiedOctober 22, 1975, York, United Kingdom

A Silver/Gold-smith at work, Puwakpitiya, Avissawella, Sri Lanka

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