London: Here is why you should avoid people who annoy you! Scientists have discovered that being in the company of annoying people slows the rate at which the mind processes movement. Whether you like someone or not can affect how your brain processes their actions, according to new research from the University of Southern California. [...]
Beijing: There is a thriving black market in China — for sperm. With the country’s only 11 sperm banks unable to meet the needs of childless couples, many donors are pitching in with sperm for sale. Yu Hua and her husband, a couple from Shanxi province who want to have a child, have zeroed in [...]
It is a painful condition that may cause a clicking sensation while moving one’s finger. Trigger Finger? Although the name might invoke laughter, the problem is no laughing matter. It refers to a condition in which the finger or thumb gets bent towards the palm and straightening of the finger causes a snapping sensation. Trigger [...]
London: A free-gravity font, that can also be used on mobile phones, and that looks like it’s melting because of a heavier bottom is what dyslexics — people with learning difficulty — need for reading online. It is less likely the brain will rotate them and confuse sufferers. Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that impairs [...]
On the 20th World Mental Health Day, experts talk about how people have come a long way in reducing the stigma associated with mental illnesses. In today’s chaos-filled India, where a 10-minute nap is considered luxury, and one needs to pay that heavy price called stress to keep up with change, there is one development [...]
Helsinki: Eating tomatoes and tomato-based foods lowers stroke risks, thanks to lycopene, an antioxidant, suggests a study from Finland. The study found that people with the highest amounts of lycopene in their blood were 55 per cent less likely to have a stroke than people with the lowest amounts of lycopene in their blood. The [...]
The condition can be just as effectively, more rapidly and cheaply diagnosed under bright lights. Sydney: Scientists have demonstrated a quick, accurate test for one of the world’s leading causes of blindness, age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The condition can be just as effectively, more rapidly and cheaply diagnosed under bright lights, instead of making patients sit [...]
Toronto: Acutely ill premature babies who got fresher blood fare no better than those who did not, a clinical trial, that defies the widespread notion that fresh blood is better, found. “Earlier, most of the literature on the subject suggested that fresh red blood cells are better,” says Dean Fergusson, head, Clinical Epidemiology Programme at [...]
According to the survey, 80 per cent urban Indian working women in the 25-45 age group are fat because of sedentary lifestyle and changing food habits Bangalore: About 80 per cent of urban Indian working women in the 25-45 age group are fat because of sedentary lifestyle and changing food habits, a survey by a [...]
London: Kids often emulate their mother, not father, when it comes to drinking habits in adulthood, says a landmark study. Children are more likely to see their mothers drink than their fathers, who do most of their drinking outside the home, the researcher said. Demos, the think-tank, tracked the drinking patterns of 18,000 people over [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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