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    දොස්තරගේ Pressure පෙත්ත බිලා අම්මට වෙච්චි වැඩේ

    Good that you didn't mention any names. There could be reasons why he prescribed a beta blocker - because of thyroid issue. Some have issues with beta blockers and I agree that a period of monitoring had to be done after the change.
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    සලාද වගාවල් කරනවා දැකලා තියෙන්නෙ කවුද?

    The sad truth is that the growers use systemic chemicals and markets the produce even before half-life. These pesticides get absorbed by the plant and those who feed on the plants consume the toxin. You are better off keeping away from these unless you grow them in your backyard or source them...
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    රුමේනියා: Is it a good place to live and work?

    Copied from one of my old posts...... The salary in Romania for our workers are a bit less than the average. They work long hours because the contract is so drafted and you sign it before leaving SL. So you can't complain once you are there. But most places do provide accommodation and a food...
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    Nobel Prizes 2024

    They should probably award it to Putin.. The way he talks about using nuclear weapons every fornight or so whenever the wind direction changes, starts unwanted conflicts etc. :unsure: PS: Remember, old JRJ appointed Gonawala Sunil as an All Island JP? Many would say he became a good boy after...
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    Nobel Prizes 2024

    Some aren't happy about it - because it;s not the average Nobel in Physics. :unsure:
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    Nobel Prizes 2024

    Usually post the nobel Laureates but this time I was away in Japan. Here are the winners 2024. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 John J. Hopfield Princeton University, NJ, USA Geoffrey E. Hinton University of Toronto, Canada “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine...
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    A/L math p6 chem help

    It's B.... not β. The line passing through O and BC are parallel as they both are verticals.
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    Unkillable Water Bears

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    We Finally Understand Why Tardigrades Refuse to Die.

    Please refer to my previous threads on Tardigrades. Tardigrades - The Unkillable Water Bears - Posted 2 September 2022. https://elakiri.com/threads/unkillable-water-bears.2069775/ Tardigrade Proteins Slow Metabolism in Human Cells - Posted 9 April 2024...
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    මිනිස් මොළයේ අභිරහස විසඳූ ආශ්චර්යමත් සිදුවීම....🧠

    He's referred to as the "Man who began Neuroscience" Note: There's another "Modern day Phineas Gage" - A 24-year-old Brazilian construction worker named Eduardo Leite has just survived an eerily similar accident, and he may walk away from his ordeal in better shape than Gage, who reportedly...
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    Windows වල Use කරන External Hard එකක් Macbook එකකට Use කරන්නේ කොහොමද?

    Try with a 128kB allocation unit size. I have heard that other sizes doesn't go well with Macs. Also Monterey v12 is said to have issues with certain USB vendors. https://www.easeus.com/computer-instruction/exfat-allocation-unit-size.html
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    බෝයිං අපලය : Intelsat 33e චන්ද්‍රිකාව පුපුරා යයි

    This appears to be a repeat of another similar incident that happened in 2019 - of IS-29e, which was also a Boeing 702MP model. The power loss and subsequent explosion could possibly be related to the Li-Ion Batteries. Boeing sources batteries from SAFT. It's a French company that's over 100...
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    We Might Find Alien Life In 7 Years.

    PS: The Insane Engineering of Europa Clipper
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    New Largest Prime Found.

    Mersenne primes are of the form 2^n - 1 where n is a prime. They are interesting to Mathematicians as they are in direct correspondence to Perfect numbers. The Euclid–Euler theorem relates Perfect numbers to Mersenne primes. It states that an even number is perfect if and only if it has the...
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    New Largest Prime Found.

    BLOWING ROCK, NC, October 21, 2024 -- The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has discovered the largest known prime number, 2^136,279,841 - 1, having 41,024,320 decimal digits. Luke Durant, from San Jose, California, found the prime on October 12th. Luke is currently GIMPS' most...
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    අඩේ මේක මාරම ලස්සන පොටෝ එකක් වර්ෂ 1896දී ශ්‍රී මහා බෝධියේ...

    He is the one who started the H W Cave bookshop, to sell books to the tea planters. Later went on to sell other goods as well. He wrote several books about Ceylon, travel (NE & Adams Peak etc) and also about our Railway system at that time.
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    ජුන්ඩාමය ගැටලුවක් 18+

    If you think it's PD, seek proper medical advice from an urologist. PD is progressive but benign and once plaque has formed it's in the chronic phase. Though the conditon has been known since the 1700's (first described by François Gigot de La Peyronie) its not understood fully to date. There...
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    Ivermectin for Cancer Treatment

    Ivermectin is back in the news. Ivermectin is considered a "wonder drug". It has been there since the 1970's, developed by the Japanese. It's a dihydro derivative of avermectin, originating from a single microorganism. It's highly effective in both animals and humans. Broad spectrum , safe and...

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