Saturday, March 5, 2016

Two POPS of the late 1950s


Johnny Horton - North to Alaska

https://youtu.be/b3tAJS0wpRY


Oh! Carol - Neil Sedaka
https://youtu.be/2dQSHyffvtQ

Talc linked ovarian cancer

Uses of redundant DNA

The fury of a female

High Diving Giraffes

Email from JKS Weerasekera

FANTASTIC, WATCH IT TO BELIEVE IT.


  - You Have to See it to Believe it!

This is incredible! The video is a French Production (5:27 mins).
Apparently they only perform in Australia. They don't tour because it costs too much to
transport these highly trained and valuable animals.
It take about 2 years to train one giraffe to feel comfortable in the water and
then another 3 or4 years to get them to dive.
They also train them using only the reward system, unlike other animal exhibitions
where they use harsh techniques.



Cultural Encounters—Sanskrit At The Mughal Court

In the 1580s, Emperor Akbar ordered the translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata into Persian. The newly minted Mughal epic, called the Razmnamah (Book of War), would prove a seminal work in imperial …


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Breakthroughs in cancer treatment