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		<title>SUPER SLUG</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deep-sea snail shell to inspire next-generation body armour? The shell that protects snails living on deep-sea vents could inspire the next generation of body armour for humans, say scientists. “The three-layer design could improve body armour without adding excessive weight,” Christine Ortiz, who led a research team at MIT, said. The scientists studied the snail’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=445&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running can help jog memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running regularly not just helps one shed those extra weight, it also does wonders for the mind, claims a new study. According to scientists at Cambridge University, regular jogging leads to growth of new cells in the area of the brain which in turn boosts the memory. Timothy Bussey, a behavioural neuroscientist and the lead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=443&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gadget allows blind &amp; deaf people to ‘hear’ with skin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gadget that converts sound to vibrations will help individuals who are deaf and blind or severely hearing impaired to perceive and recognize sounds with their skin, says its maker. Called Monitor, the super device is being developed by engineering researcher Parivash Ranjbar, reports the Daily Express. Ranjbar, an engineering researcher at Örebro University in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=441&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handwriting new tool for catching a liar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientists in Israel have discovered a new way to catch liars — by analysing their handwriting. Researchers at Haifa University said that physical properties of handwriting can tell whether the writer is dishonest. “Handwriting analysis could eventually complement other lie detection methods and would add a new dimension because, unlike almost all other techniques, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=439&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Way To Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But Obama presidency’s first year scorecard is reasonable Two years ago, presidential hopeful Barack Obama made a pitch for change. So when Obama was elected by a decisive margin and inaugurated as the 44th US president this day last year, expectations of him – from Americans and global citizens – were stratospheric. Since then his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=437&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Place Time Forgot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who knew Basu’s Bengal won’t glorify his legacy Only a hard heart would not have been moved by the idea of a proud, imperious man on a hospital bed, valiantly fighting all that nature threw at him. Jyoti Basu was chief minister of West Bengal for 23 years. In 1996, he almost made it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=435&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AAL IZZ WELL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dose of happiness is what the present day education system needs. Principals, teachers and students, the three inevitable components of an education system are groups of people whose happiness has to occupy centre stage when decisions about the revamp of the system are made. Are they even in the reckoning? It&#8217;s a utilitarian world. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=432&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A TREASURE TROVE OF EXOTIC SPECIES DISCOVERED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amongst the newly discovered species is a snail sucking snake and a transparent frog. The researchers believe that these creatures may be wiped out in the next few years because of global warming&#8230; A team of scientists working for Reptile &#38; Amphibian Ecology International have discovered a treasure trove of previously undiscovered biodiversity in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=430&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web error makes personal public</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Misdirected Cookie’ Exposes Glitch With Major Implications A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers’ accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch—the result of a routing problem at the family’s wireless carrier, AT&#38;T—revealed a little known [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=428&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mind bender: Light can now be tied in knots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Could Revolutionize Laser Tech Physicists have tied “light in knots”, a breakthrough which they claim paves the way for a new level of precision in laser technology, with applications ranging from traffic speed guns to height measurement. A British team has achieved the remarkable feat in which the light was controlled using holograms especially designed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=menontalks.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8849834&amp;post=426&amp;subd=menontalks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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