SCI-ART LAB
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Are cars safer than airplanes?
Q: Are cars safer than airplanes? After reading one of your articles in another group of this network, I am asking this Q.Krishna: Yes, airline people, pilots and psychologists say this to soothe nervous individuals. It seems it is based on an article published in Scientific American equating a…
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Are viruses alive? Are they eternal?
Q: Is it true that a virus cannot be killed because it is never born? Is it eternal then?Krishna: Viruses are strange things and people are still debating whether they are alive or not (1).If you say they are 'alive' inside a host, you can use the word 'kill' too. Some researchers use the…
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Turbulence during air exercises
Q: How do pilots avoid turbulence during air exercises?Krishna: To avoid wake turbulence during air exercises, pilots primarily adjust their flight path and altitude relative to other aircraft, especially those considered "heavy" or "super". This includes flying above the flight path of preceding…
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Some Qs. people asked me on science and my replies to them - Part 31
Interactive science seriesQ: What are the disadvantages of doing DIRECT Ph.D.? Krishna: If you have the confidence to do a direct Ph.D. you can proceed. But it takes a lot to learn before taking this step. Even PGs and those who did…
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Astigmatism
Have you ever gone to the optometrist for an eye test and were told your eye was shaped like a football?Or perhaps you've noticed your vision is becoming increasingly blurry or hard to focus?You might be among the …
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Measles isn't just dangerous, it may erase your immune system
Blindness, pneumonia, severe diarrhea and even death—measles virus infections, especially in children, can have devastating consequences. Fortunately, we have a safe and effective defense. Measles vaccines are estimated to have averted more than …
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What might happen when you take lots of medicines...
What might happen when you take lots of medicines...One of our uncles died of liver cirrhosis ten years back. He never touched alcohol in his life. He didn't have any viral infection to cause this. He didn't have diabetes, heart problems and he was not obese. Actually there was no reason that…
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Vaccine woes
Recent measles outbreak in the California state of the US ( now spread to other states too) tells an interesting story.Vaccines are not responsible for the woes people face but because of rejection of people to get vaccinated the problems arise!Although the US is one of the most scientifically…
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Your Biological Age Can Be Different From Your Actual (Chronological)Age!
Recently I have seen an old lady teasing an young girl who became breathless after climbing up a few steps. "Look I am 78. But still I can climb steps with ease. I can go anywhere I want without any difficulty. I don't have joint pains like you people have. What are you eating? Rubbish! Ha,…
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Plastic 'death traps'!
A few days back, when I was looking out from my balcony, I found a bird caught in the plastic wire net used to cover a balcony opposite to my apartment building. I immediately alerted the watchman of that building and he in turn went to the apartment to which the balcony belonged and released the…
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