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    Missing Cat compilation - Funny

    Deserves an award.... :rofl:
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    Red Alert: Need to quarantine imported organic fertilisers

    Interesting article by Prof Chandre Dharmawardana - Canada When the government suddenly banned the import of fertilisers and pesticides in April 2021 and went ‘100 percent organic’, many scientists warned of dire danger ahead. The hubris of becoming the world’s first to be free of alleged...
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    Chinese Energy Crisis

    UK Petrol problems.... China Coal problems. :oo:
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    Another Geometrical Puzzle

    ABC is a right angled triangle with an inscribed rectangle BDEF such that AD = 4 cm and CF = 3 cm Find the area of the rectangle. What is the minimum area of the triangle ABC for which these criteria can be met?
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    Discovery of another protein that plays a part with SARS-Cov-2

    Researchers in the UK and Germany have provided evidence for a novel mechanism by which (SARS-CoV-2) binds to human host cells. The team – from the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge, and the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research in Göttingen – found that in...
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    Japanese scientists create "Elite" antibodies.

    Japanese scientists have created “elite” antibodies that can beat a broad range of coronavirus strains, including Delta, using a new technique that dramatically speeds up discovering potent antibody candidates. Hiroshima University Professor Tomoharu Yasuda and his team has devloped a process...
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    Get used to the 1970's wonderful era.....

    Probably those born around or after the 1970's should watch this. Many of them sing Hosannas for Sirimavo government knowing absolutely nothing. This video is only "Haal Polima"... There was Miris Polim, Paan Polim, Milk powder polim, ... essentially there wasn't anything without a polim. :(...
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    SriLankan Delta variant assigned AY.28 or B.1.617.2.28

    The Delta with the mutations A701S, A222V, A1078S detected in Sri Lanka, has now been officially assigned a sub lineage, AY.28 and named as B.1.617.2.28, Sri Lanka lineage. AY.28 Sri_Lanka 69.0%, Turkey 8.0%, India 4.0%, Russia 3.0%, United States of America 3.0% 2021-04-09 Alias of...
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    Interesting Geometry Problem...

    ABC is a right angled triangle. The circle with centre at D is drawn and AB & BC are tangents to it. The lengths of AB & AC are given above. Calculate the small area in red, bounded by CA, CB & the arc of the circle.
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    New study shows the Pfizer is better with a longer dosing interval.

    New studies done in the US, Canada & Italy shows that better results are obtained with longer dosing intervals. A second dose at 16 weeks did not significantly improve humoral (antibody) responses among individuals who were infected prior to the first dose, but it significantly enhanced these...
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    An interesting puzzle....

    This one was forwarded from a WhatsApp group... Find the missing number. The numbers in each quadrant follows the same pattern.
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    Clever Advertising.....

    Clever approach.... Dual purpose.. Promoting the vaccine and at the same time addressing the anti-vax sentiments. A truck driving around Charlotte - USA.
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    PCR technology moves on....

    Microchip based real-time PCR techniques with the extremely fast heating and cooling device performs rapid amplification and analysis in micro-volumes. Lumex Instruments Canada has created an accurate, cost-effective, and fast Microchip RT-PCR Influenza and COVID-19 detection method from upper...
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    Boeing's Fatal Flaw

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    IMF chief boosted China's economic data

    It's a WION report. Let's wait & see what develops....
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    mRNA vaccines in a salad....

    You might end up eating your next mRNA vaccine. It's been known that that DNA containing the mRNA vaccines can be successfully delivered into the part of plant cells where it will replicate, the plant can produce enough mRNA to rival a traditional shot, and finally, determining the right dosage...
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    To Rome Or To Roam

    Nice write up by Prof Kumar David..... The game of musical chairs between Cardinal and PM is comic. Musical chairs is a party game played by children at birthdays. To watch two fat, hardly mobile aging frogs circling the Pope’s throne would delight any bunch of six and seven year olds. To go to...
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    The future of Solar Panels - Perovskite

    Oxford PV will market Perovskite solar panels in 2022. Also they have designed Tandem solar cells with world-record efficiency of 29.52%, combining Perovskite with Silicon. The Japanese are also in the development of these and Toshiba has panels so thin and transparent enough to coat a curtain...
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    Singapore vs Srilanka

    Sri Lankan people always had aspirations of being the next Singapore..... Only issue was that Singaporeans elected "Lee Kwan Yew" and the pathetic SriLankans elected "He Con You".😱😄 So, now shut up and face the music.🙄😢
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    Singapore on Sinovac

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