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| Science Explained - Why Do People Enjoy Watching Horror Movies? |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 2:58 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
| The cheapest formula: blood and guts everywhere, flies and spiders that grow as big as a cow and suck you up. The pervert human nature is also revealed also through our pleasure of watching horror movies. Why do we pay for two hours of fear, disgust and terror, which are elicit negative feelings? (not to mention in most |
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| Why isn't the Logan not doing as well as the Fiesta or the SX4? |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 1:56 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
| Reasons on why the Logan is behind competition, despite high initial sales |
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| Chemicals to Refuel When Work Loses its Grip |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 11:40 am |
| Tags: General Science |
| You've been there. I love my job and cannot believe I can paid for what I'd do anyway. Then out of the blue you wake up bored with people and projects all around you. |
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| 10 Common Traits of Humans and Baboons |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 3:21 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
| Ancient Egyptians venerated baboons, and regarded them as gods. In some cultures, the word baboon can be a derogatory term for ugly man . But baboons are considered the primates that are closely related to us in their stress inducing environment. Stress researcher Robert Sapolsky believes they are so |
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| How to Make Ice with Lasers - Supercooled water |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 3:13 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
| Ice is the result of water passing from its liquid state to a solid one and occurs when liquid water is cooled below 0 C (273.15 K, 32 F) at standard atmospheric pressure. Right? Well, sort of. Scientists have now succeeded in creating ice at room temperature. As a naturally occurring crystalline solid, ice is |
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| In Pics : Evolution of a new born Panda |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:39 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
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| The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 4:48 am |
| Tags: General Science |
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| Trick: Show your name next to Clock in Taskbar |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 9:59 am |
| Tags: General Science |
| Here is reminder of age old trick in Windows XP to show your name next to clock on the taskbar. See the pic and you will know it all. It is very easy to do so, here is the simple procedure: 1. Click on Start, point to Settings, click on Control Panel. |
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| 5 ways to Speed up your Website or Blog |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 9:58 am |
| Tags: General Science |
| Time it takes for a site to open is very important. In case your site does not load in about 7 seconds, chances are people will skip it and move on to next blog. Do you want this to happen to your blog? I am damn sure NO. So, what basic things one can do to add fire to your blog and make it open like knife in butter box. |
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| Researchers found Brain Cells that Keep Score |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 1:23 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
| Do your math skills offer benefits at work or is math a dreaded defeat? Interestingly, researchers just found the part of the brain that allows people to score and keep track through numbers. They found what they called accumulator neurons it's in the parietal cortex of the brain. Amazingly |
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| How To Make A Lemon Battery |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 11:11 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
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| Planet to be named after Mumbai boy |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:58 am |
| Tags: General Science |
| A few people have roads named after them, some others have buildings but a boy from Mumbai has a minor ice planet somewhere in the solar system named after him. If I look up at the sky, I can always feel there's something out there named after me. That's an excitement and rush like nothing else, says 17-year-old |
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| Global Warming Causing More Atlantic Hurricanes, Study Finds |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:39 am |
| Tags: General Science |
| July 30 (Bloomberg) Global warming is causing more frequent hurricanes in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, according to a study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The increased frequency of tropical cyclones ``is largely a response' to a 1 degree Celsius rise in sea water temperatures since |
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| Mortgage and Refinance Mortgage Information |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 8:20 am |
| Tags: General Science |
| How to survive in the today's mortgage world is quite a challenge. Read here about mortgage, mortgage refinancing, mortgage terminology and other mortgage related stuff as credits, loans, interest rates, debts, brokers, etc. Here's the place to start your journey into mortgages and to choose how to refinance |
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| Crop data to help farmers across India within 6 months: Sibal |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:01 pm |
| Tags: General Science |
| weather conditions, the Science and Technology Department has successfully developed a model for Haryana which would be extend to the entire country, including suicide-hit Andhra Pradesh, in the next six months, it was announced today. The Department has developed the capacity to monitor crop health in real time |
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