Author Archives: Shams

Nobel Prize 2007

Here are the names of this year’s Nobel Prize Winners and the reasons for their achievements as cited in the announcements  Medicine – Mario R. Capecchi (USA), Sir Martin J. Evans (UK), Oliver Smithies (USA) –“for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells”  Physics […]

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Cellphone Cultures

After reading an article in The New York Times, Monday 8th Oct, I could not stop but to write down some points: In Sweden you can use cell phones while riding bus or train (open-minded, tolerant Swedes) In Finland people do not like face to face conversation so the relief is cellphones (“Shy-Group”. I guess […]

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Sainthood for Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is soon going to be declared a “Saint” by the Vatican. The process, called ‘Canonization’, needs evidence of miracles performed by the deceased person. As far as it is known, Mother Teresa had two miracles where one woman with abdominal tumor and a Priest with kidney stone got cured. Both events took place […]

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