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    Intelligent Answers

    What a decent way to Reply! Wife : Tell me who is STUPID ? You or Me?" Husband: (Calmly), "Everyone knows that, you are so intelligent, you will never marry a STUPID person." An Economist beautifully explained two reasons for having 2 Wives A- Monopoly should be...
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    Oceangate Titan Did Not Implode Just From Pressure. There Is a Catch!

    Another viewpoint.......
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    Photon Counting CT - A New Era in CT Scanning.

    Photon Counting CT's are increasingly being used in many countries across the World. Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (PCCT) is a new technology that enables higher spatial resolution compared to conventional CT techniques, energy resolved imaging and spectral post-processing. This leads to...
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    What's Politics?

    A Russian Jew was finally allowed to emigrate to Israel. At Moscow Airport, Customs found a Lenin statue in his baggage and. asked, "What is this?" The man replied, "What is this ! Wrong question comrade. You should have asked, 'Who is he ?' This is Comrade Lenin - who laid the foundations of...
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    Elephants & Peto's Paradox.

    I had written on Peto's Paradox on a another cancer related thread before. However, Peto's Paradox is the evolution's answer to cancer prevention. The lack of correlation between body size and cancer risk is known as Peto’s Paradox. Animals with 1,000 times more cells than humans do not exhibit...
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    Japanese New Treatment for Multiple Types of Cancer - Targeted α-particle.

    Targeted α-particle therapy (TAT) is an attractive alternative to conventional therapy for cancer treatment. Scientists at RIKEN in Japan have developed a technique that treats various cancers by inducing alpha radiation within cancer cells, killing them while leaving healthy tissue unharmed...
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    Batch-dependent safety of the Pfizer BNT162b2

    The Danish published a peer reviewed article on the adverse reactions of the Pfizer vaccine. This clearly shows that the safety was very much dependent on the batch - with 71% of the suspected adverse reactions occurred in 4.2% of vaccine batches. :oo: Numbers of suspected adverse events...
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    LEAKED Titan Sub Transcript Shows Crew In Battle For Lives.

    Copied as received on WhatsApp.... Make your own judgement.
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    Rowan Atkinson on Free Speech.

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    Olena Podluzhnaya - Jaw Harp

    An old one recirculating in WhatsApp again... Olena (aka UUTAI) is an Ethnic Russian from Yakutia. She was on BGT too.
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    Of Implosions & Life in the Deep Sea.

    There were much written quoting several Tik-Tok & Fakebook scientists on the implosion of this tiny sub heating up near to the temperature of the Sun. I have yet to find this claim made by a single reputed scientist. These Tik-Tok scientists must be reasoning out that the implosion turned this...
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    JWST Detects a Crucial Carbon Molecule in Space.

    Astronomers have detected a crucial carbon molecule in space for the first time using the James Webb Space Telescope. The compound, called methyl cation, or CH3+, was traced back to a young star system located 1,350 light-years away from Earth in the Orion Nebula, according to NASA. Carbon...
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    IARC set to declare Aspartame as possible Carcinogen.

    The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - the cancer arm of the WHO - recently indicated that aspartame will likely be declared a “possible carcinogen to humans.” The FDA recommends a daily intake of 50 mg/kg, whereas European regulatory bodies recommend 40 mg/kg for aspartame...
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    Shell-less Cephalopods can modify their RNA.

    We all know that the instructions to build an organism is contained in DNA. Cells copy those instructions into messenger RNAs, (mRNA) Then, cellular machinery called ribosomes read the mRNAs to build proteins by stringing amino acids together. Most of the time, the protein’s composition conforms...
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    A Titanic Disparity in How the World Responds to Maritime Disasters.

    By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea, four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the Adriana sank off...
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    Finally.... The First RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) Vaccines Approved.

    On 03 May 2023, the FDA approved Arexvy, the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine approved for use in the United States. Arexvy is approved for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease caused by RSV in individuals 60 years of age and older. Also on the 31 May 2023, Pfizer...
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    India Trip....

    Never really wanted to visit India but eventually did. Took the Air India flight at 2.50 AM today from BIA. Though I purchased an economy ticket, at the last moment just bid for an upgrade to Business class. There were 12 business seats and only 4 occupied. When I bid just one day ahead there...
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    First Three Parent Baby born in Britain.

    Britain’s fertility regulator on 10 May confirmed the births of the U.K.’s first babies created using an experimental technique combining DNA from three people, an effort to prevent the children from inheriting rare genetic diseases. In 2015, the U.K. became the first country to adopt...

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