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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“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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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

Secret £3billion bunker to protect former Yugoslav leader Josip Tito

The complex is dug into a mountain outside Konjic, 25 miles south of Sarajevo in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina and was built to protect former leader Josip Tito from nuclear attacks.
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28 November 2014