shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 3 days ago | news, health, science
Hmm, how long before another pharmaceutical company tries to patent turmeric?
Quoted: An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown. The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia.
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - 4 days ago | india, science, news
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 07 2009 | animals, science, civilization, books
Sounds like a really interesting read.
Quoted: Frans de Waal, director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, believes that it's just as natural to be nice as it is be mean. Man may be wolf to man, as the old saying has it, but de Waal points out with casual eloquence in The Age of Empathy that wolves are often quite lovely to one another.
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 28 2009 | health, science, news
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 27 2009 | food, science
My latest blog post ... I'm grumpy.
Quoted: I’m finding that there’s something truly remarkable about food science — the transformations that turn milk into cheese or yogurt, cream into butter, and flour and yeast into bread. That’s the good stuff. But at the end of the day, nobody argues over who gets to do the dishes.
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 07 2009 | science, india, world
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 31 2009 | science
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 17 2009 | science, news
Studies like this leave me speechless ... and not in a good way.
Quoted: A new study shows that if parents play it safe when choosing baby names, they may be doing their offspring a favor: Giving a newborn males odd, girly or strange first names may just help land them in jail. The top “bad boy” name, according to the study: Alec.
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 02 2009 | science, news
shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2009 | news, science
Apparently monkeys have this ability too, so don't make one angry.
Quoted: Jennifer Jarett never forgets a face. Not even someone she met for just a moment, not even decades later. Jarett is a “super-recognizer,'' a freshly minted term for an elite group of people who are exceptional at remembering faces.
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