Author Archives: Shams

Futalognkosaurus – The “Giant Chief”

According to Yahoo News, A new dinosaur species has been unearthed in Argentina on the banks of Lake Barreales of Province Neuquen. The Species named ‘Futalognkosaurus’ in Mapuche Indian words means “Giant Chief”. The 105-foot (neck: 56 ft, tail 49 ft approx.) Chief was roaming the Earth during the Late Cretaceous Period (88 million of years ago). The dinosaur was human-friendly (if any of us were living at that time ) as it was herbivorous – loving only plants.   (more…)

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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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