Apr 17, 20081
Apr 4, 20080
Union Carbide Helps India To Achieve A Bright Future - 1960s
Oxen working the fields … the eternal river Gange … jewled elephants on parade. Today these symbols of ancient India exist side by side with a new sight-modern industry. India has developed bold new plans to build its economy and bring the promise of a bright future to its more than 400,000,000 people. But India needs knowledge from the western world. For example working with Indian engineers and technicians, Union Carbide recently made available its vast scientific resources to help build major chemicals and plastics plants near Bombay.
The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 was an industrial disaster that was caused by the accidental release of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) from a Union Carbide India, Limited (UCIL, now known as Eveready Industries India, Limited) pesticide plant partly (50.9%) owned by Union Carbide located in the heart of the city of Bhopal, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
The BBC gives the death toll as nearly 3,000 people dead initially and at least 15,000 from related illnesses since, while Greenpeace cites 20,000 total deaths as a conservative estimate.
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Mar 27, 20080
Iraqi Astronomer Explains Why The Earth Is Flat
The following is a video from an Iraqi Television debate on whether the earth is flat, which aired on Al-Fayhaa TV on October 31, 2007.Fadhel Al-Sa’d, Iraqi researcher on astronomy has suprising findings.
He quotes a Koranic verse which he believes is the proof that the earth is flat – “The breadth of Paradise is as the breadth of the heavens and earth” – attests to the fact that the Earth is flat.
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Researchers Pathologizing Hobbits
For those who did not know it yet scientist have found “hobbit” fossils. Some scientists think the “hobbit” or Homo floresiensis is its own species while some other think that hobbits were human or homo sapiens just like us but were afflicted with some disease making them smaller just like in The Lord of The Ring.
Bookmark this article:“The discoverers and many other scientists think the so-called “hobbit” is its own species, Homo floresiensis. The bones, they say, resemble species much older than our own. Yet the Flores individuals lived as recently as 12,000 years ago, long after Neanderthals had perished in Europe. The find upended our smugness over the idea that Homo sapiens had remained the lone hominid on Earth since.”[POPSCI]
Mar 3, 20080
Transvestite Fishes In Our Lakes And Rivers
The Globe and Mail has published some news on how fishes are being “feminized” by synthetic estrogen excreted by women on the pill into waste waters. Male fishes feminization lowers fish population. Feminized fish are found in lakes and rivers all over the world. [The Globe and Mail]
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