In Thailand, an Innovative Fight Against Cervical Cancer
Maikaew Panomyai did a little dance coming out of the examination room, switching her hips, waving her fists in the air and crowing, in her limited English: “Everything’s O.K.! Everything’s O.K.!”
Translation: The nurse just told [...]
Testing for Disease, for Under a Penny, Using Bits of Paper
While other scientists successfully shrank beakers, tubes and centrifuges into diagnostic laboratories that fit into aluminum boxes that cost $50,000, George Whitesides had smaller dreams.
BIG DEAL A nonprofit company produces diagnostic [...]
Small Fixes: Patient Groups Help Share the Burdens of Living With AIDS
Rogerio Bernardo slung a black satchel over his shoulder and waited by the roadside in the morning mist for a bush taxi. In dusty wingtips, frayed pants and a gray pinstripe suit coat so big it swallowed his slender frame, he looked like any [...]
Over 50 bitten by stray dogs in city every day
GURGAON: While the city observed World Rabies Day on Wednesday, the dog menace remains a big problem in Gurgaon where on an average, more than 50 people get bitten by stray dogs on a daily basis.
Gurgaon has more than 50,000 stray dogs, yet [...]
High cholesterol levels in both men & women: survey
Both men and women aged between 25 and 45 in Pune and Mumbai have alarmingly high cholesterol and triglyceride levels in their blood — both considered risk factors for heart diseases, says a survey conducted by Golwikar Metropolis Healthcare [...]
Friedrich Nietzsche composition for piano and violon
Friedrich Nietzsche composition for piano and violonchelo with Pinokio from tokio philosophical video.
To Princess Ariadne, My Beloved.
It is a mere prejudice that I am a human being. Yet I have often enough dwelled among human beings and I [...]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, the German philosopher and classical philologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 August 25, 1900)was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive [...]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844; studied philology; became in 1869, professor of philology at Basle; made the acquaintance of Richard Wagner and became warmly attached to him, and associated also with the distinguished [...]
What’s on your genes?
These two mice are genetically identical and exactly the same age. Each mouse’s mother received a different, specialized diet, which switched on or off chemical clusters called methyl groups that reside near genes. Flipping these genetic [...]
A greener way to keep flames away
Flame retardants are used to protect clothing and furniture from fire. But the chemicals are also used to fight forest fires: Special planes may dump thousands of gallons of flame retardants on a blaze to try to get it under control. Credit: [...]
