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Take this test, it's pretty interesting!!!

Brain Gender ID Test - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/ ... okie.shtml
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TRY THIS NOW!

This is so funny that it will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But you can't!!!

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction!!!

I told you so... And there is nothing you can do about it.
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The President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, has asked a question about terrorism and has sought out of the box answers to combat terrorism at Yahoo website.  Check it out.

What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?
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If you haven't seen this --

Hacking into the LA Traffic Control System

This made worldwide news two weeks back.  I was alerted to this news a couple of days after this by one of you in the chatroom.  I had said that it could be the same Kartik Patel who was my student in traffic engineering ..

Well, it turns out he is.  The same on who graduated from UCI.  I can't seem to decide if I should be mad or proud about the guy :)

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INTERESTING FACTS

1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from
stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.

2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow
at the same time. Indeed convenient!

3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write
their own name.

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.

5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree
wide angle.

6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it
sounds hollow then it is ripe.

7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps
showing their own photos on each stamp.

8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is
approximately six to eight weeks old.

9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.

10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly
than plants watered with cold water.

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the
bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.

13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are
called phosphenes.

14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose
and ears never stop growing.

15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.

16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't
stay in the gut. It will pass through the system  and be excreted.

17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour
by breathing.

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is
rebuilt every year.

19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world
that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right
foot, left foot.

20. Onions help reduce cholesterol, if eaten after a fatty meal.

21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually
the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
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An interesting reflection. : Slow Down Culture

It's been 18 years since I joined Volvo, a Swedish company. Working for them
has proven to be an interesting experience. Any project here takes 2 years to
be finalized, even if the idea is simple and brilliant. It's a rule.

Globalize processes have caused in us (all over the world) a general sense of
searching for immediate results. Therefore, we have come to posses a need to
see immediate results. This contrasts greatly with the slow movements of the
Swedish. They, on the other hand, debate, debate, debate, hold x quantity of
meetings and work with a slowdown scheme. At the end, this always yields better
results.

Said in another words:
1. Sweden is about the size of San Pablo, a state in Brazil.
2. Sweden has 2 million inhabitants.
3. Stockholm, has 500,000 people.
4. Volvo, Escania, Ericsson, Electrolux, Nokia are some of its renowned
companies. Volvo supplies the NASA.

The first time I was in Sweden, one of my colleagues picked me up at the hotel
every morning. It was September, bit cold and snowy. We would arrive early at
the company and he would park far away from the entrance (2000 employees drive
their car to work). The first day, I didn't say anything, either the second or
third. One morning I asked, "Do you have a fixed parking space? I've noticed we
park far from the entrance even when there are no other cars in the lot." To
which he replied, "Since we're here early we'll have time to walk, and whoever
gets in late will be late and need a place closer to the door. Don't you think?
Imagine my face.

Nowadays, there's a movement in Europe name Slow Food. This movement
establishes that people should eat and drink slowly, with enough time to taste
their food, spend time with the family, friends, without rushing. Slow Food is
against its counterpart: the spirit of Fast Food and what it stands for as a
lifestyle. Slow Food is the basis for a bigger movement called Slow Europe, as
mentioned by Business Week.

Basically, the movement questions the sense of "hurry" and "craziness"
generated by globalization, fueled by the desire of "having in quantity" (life
status) versus "having with quality", "life quality" or the "quality of being".
French people, even though they work 35 hours per week, are more productive
than Americans or British. Germans have established 28.8 hour workweeks and
have seen their productivity been driven up by 20%. This slow attitude has
brought forth the US's attention, pupils of the fast and the "do it now!".

This no-rush attitude doesn't represent doing less or having a lower
productivity. It means working and doing things with greater quality,
productivity, perfection, with attention to detail and less stress. It means
reestablishing family values, friends, free and leisure time. Taking the "now",
present and concrete, versus the "global", undefined and anonymous. It means
taking humans' essential values, the simplicity of living.

It stands for a less coercive work environment, more happy, lighter and more
productive where humans enjoy doing what they know best how to do. It's time to
stop and think on how companies need to develop serious quality with no-rush
that will increase productivity and the quality of products and services,
without losing the essence of spirit.

In the movie, Scent of a Woman, there's a scene where Al Pacino asks a girl to
dance and she replies, "I can't, my boyfriend will be here any minute now". To
which Al responds, "A life is lived in an instant". Then they dance to a tango.

Many of us live our lives running behind time, but we only reach it when we die
of a heart attack or in a car accident rushing to be on time. Others are so
anxious of living the future that they forget to live the present, which is the
only time that truly exists. We all have equal time throughout the world. No
one has more or less. The difference lies in how each one of us does with our
time. We need to live each moment. As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens
to you while you're busy making other plans".

Congratulations for reading till the end of this message. There are many who
will have stopped in the middle so as not to waste time in this globalized
world.
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Nice stuff.  Makes people think doesn't it?

.. But, as the moderator, I have to ask you to give attribution to the author and where the article appeared.  If it is online, a link MST BE provided.  If it is a subcription link or subscription newspaper/article, the above must be edited out...

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jayakris wrote: Nice stuff.  Makes people think doesn't it?

.. But, as the moderator, I have to ask you to give attribution to the author and where the article appeared.  If it is online, a link MST BE provided.  If it is a subcription link or subscription newspaper/article, the above must be edited out...

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Sorry Jay - I donot have the origin - this was sent to me by a friend of mine thru email.
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We will let it stay.  On a quick google, I could not find the origin of that piece, which is on many blog pages - and everybody says "I just got this by email".  I do not like unattributed pieces like that.  Somebody could have made up all of that stuff, even if the point in there is fine!

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While the origin of the piece remains unknown, the Slow Movement has lot of supporters. Please follow this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement
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Someone out there either has too much
spare time or is deadly at Scrabble.

(Wait till you see the last one)!



DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE


THE MORSE CODE :
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE


AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

Yep! Someone with waaaaaaaaaaay
too much time on their hands! (Probably a son-in-law)
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Yeah!!

India's N-capable Agni III's launch a success
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/apr/12agni.htm
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STRANGE BUT TRUE

  · The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

· Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

· The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard
playing card!

· The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance
Florence to shave them off!

  · Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant
is considered an insult!

· Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money
in Siberia!

· The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands
on each other's shoulders!

· A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

· Most lipstick contains fish scales!

· The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum!

  · No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

· A crocodile always grows new teeth to replace the old teeth!

· The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

  · Clinophobia is the fear of beds!

  · A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!

· The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds!

· Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

  · The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!

· A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!

· In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons!
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