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CHENNAI, India — Medical staff who helped deliver a one-eyed child born here last week believe the mother may have been given an experimental anti-cancer drug, according to an internal hospital report seen by Wired News. The report, from Kasturba Gandhi Hospital for Women and Children in Chennai, cites two potential causes for the birth defect: Either it was the result of an undetected chromosomal disorder or the mother was exposed to Cyclopamine, a drug that is being researched by a number of U.S. pharmaceutical companies as a potential cancer treatment.There is no reference in the report on how Cyclopamine became listed as a possible cause.
I just read Imagining the Google future (thanx, Slashdot). This is a set of four different future scenarios for Google. The Ray Kurzweil one is shocking - his scenario is cheekily titled: ‘(Circa 2105): Google is God’. What is even more shocking is that it’s difficult not to believe him. Read his books - The Age of Intelligent Machines and The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence for more information.
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Find out how big your visual blind spot is and how your brain fills the hole so you don’t notice it.
Coating the back of each eye are photoreceptors that catch light and convert it to nerve impulses to send to the brain. This surface, the retina, isn’t evenly spread with receptorsthey’re densest at the center and sparse in peripheral vision. There’s also a patch that is completely devoid of receptors; light that falls here isn’t converted into nerve signals at all, leaving a blind spot in your field of viewor actually two blind spots, one for each eye. Read More »
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You’ll forget your English by the time you finish reading this..
This is a true essay written by a Bihari candidate at the UPSC(IAS)Examinations..
The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:
Indian Cow
HE IS THE COW. “The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed,And
because he is female, he give milks, [ but will do so when he is got child.]
He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got
four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards.. His whole body
can be utilised for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached
to his basement. [horses dont have any such attachment
What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed
milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, watermans and mankind generally. His motion
is slow only because he is of lazy species., Also his other motion.. gober]
is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes[like Pizza
] , in hand , and drying in the sun..Cow is the only animal that extricates
his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are
situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in
the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially
so when he is got child..This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes
the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly
proceed with great velocity forwards.He has got tails also, situated in the
backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of
the other side.. This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on
his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it.The palms of his feet are
soft unto the touch..So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have
poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts . His eyes and nose are
like his other relatives.
This is the cow……..
It was informed that the candidate passed the exam.and is now an IAS, is
bihar in somewhere,..[sorry somewhere in Bihar ].
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