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Exhilaration…..ohh…..well….!!

Q: When in your career did you find life to be the most exhilarating?

Answers:

Arsenic in the park and phytoremediation

When the U.S Geological Survey geographer Terry Slonecker was going through aerial photographs, he could easily detect the stress and stunted growth of trees and grass in the park in Washington that led him to conclude its arsenic. He was in fact looking for arsenic in a nearby area used for military activities in World War I. But the park has no history of WWI activities rather it goes back to the American Civil War which occurred between 1861 to 1865. But how it could leave arsenic there?

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Friends, if you need a ‘friend’s definition :-)

Culture

If you are ‘natural-type’, fine. You are flexible. But if you are ‘suspicious-type’ or ‘question-type’, may be you need a norm 🙂 . Ya, we are about to know ‘friend’s definition.

There are 18 entries in dictionary.com for ‘friend’. It can be a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard, or a person whom one knows, likes and trusts (these two seems to be the best ones).

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Wind energy, the next riding horse of power

Environment

As U.S Department of Energy (DOE) doing a feasibility study to generate 20% of power for Americans from wind energy, turbine industries can be a new lucrative market for investors. The approximate time planned is by 2030. More than 20 years at hand. The turbine market will be advancing tremendously in the coming decades. That’s a certainty.

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Do animals sense natural events?

Culture, Environment

Were these natural warning of an impending earthquake in the mountainous Sichuan province in China – there is much news coming out now, something that could look like superstitions. As the news emerges, three days before the earthquake thousands of toads appeared on the streets on Mianzhu city or hours before the unusual behaviour of lions, zebras and other animals at the zoo in Wuhan. What the human perception could not catch, animals could!!

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Economy?? – waiting for the Saviour

General

United Nations says that world economy is on the edge of a severe downturn. It will badly hit the developed countries. But for developing countries the risk is less. Well, sure because they are developing 🙂 . There are a lot of things to do, construct, and organize. If the ruling line will be fine developing countries will show continuous growth.

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Corporate business

Technology

A heated debate over the last few months seems not ended but getting fuel underneath. It’s all about Microsoft’s buying of Yahoo!. For the last four years Yahoo!’s rival Google’s stock has gone up 440%, while Yahoo!’s one remained flat. Microsoft moved to a bid to offer $33 per share making the total value of $47.5 bn. But Jerry’s team demanded $37/share. Therefore MS retreated. But shareholders anger and frustration persisted.

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The ‘Crazy Rasberry Ants’

Environment

Well they have ‘engineering brain’ and they do follow a ‘sustainable strategy’ – when their fellows get killed by pesticides they simply use the ‘corpses’ as bridges to safely move over the surface treated with pesticides 🙂 . The complaints against them are piling up daily. Our subject is an ‘ant’. No not one, they are many – they are the ‘crazy rasberry ants’ of Texas.

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