Friday, May 28, 2010

WhaT security do we have here????????

This is the time to think upon this issue,,as this is the 3rd incident or a disaster which took place within a months duration...

The 2012 UP howrah- Kurla Gyaneswari Express was derailed first after which it was rammed by a goods train in its top speed,,,,which killed 79 innocent people in b.w their sleep...
Even though this seems to be an accident,,union minister..Mamta Banarjee..tells this to be a sabotage created by some anti-social elements..
N wat do we people have to do in between the rivalry b.w the govt. and the so called anti-socials...

Honey, we shrunk the bees!


Electromagnetic frequency emitted by cell phones reduces bees' colony size and the number of eggs laid by the queen bee and changes their behaviour, says a research paper published in the latest issue of Current Science. The authors are Ved Parkash Sharma and Neelima R. Kumar of the Departments of Environment and Vocational Studies and Zoology at Panjab University, Chandigarh.

The magnetite (a natural magnet) in their bodies that helps bees navigate is sensitive to “electro-smog” that cell phones emit into the atmosphere, the paper says. For their experiment, the scientists selected honeybee colonies at the university's apiary. They exposed one set of colonies to functioning cell phones of a 900 MHz frequency band, for 15 minutes twice a day. They left the other free of the radiation.

The results were unambiguous. In the colony exposed to cell phone radiation, the brood-size (comprising eggs and larvae) was just 760.19 cm2, compared with 1975.44 cm2 in the colony free of radiation. The queen bee exposed to radiation produced far fewer eggs a day (145) than its undisturbed counterpart (376).

And while there was no immediate exodus of bees as a result of cell phone interference, the number of pollen foragers (worker bees with pollen loads) returning to the hive declined. Consequently, the ‘pollen stores' (the portion of the comb containing cells filled with stored pollen) decreased in size from 246.7 cm2 to 154.7 cm2; and there was a dip in the number of cells containing ripe and unripe nectar.

“At the end of the experiment, there were neither honey, nor pollen nor brood and bees in the colony, resulting in the complete loss of the colony,”

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New, Pink, and Rare

Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a recent scientific review of the handfish family.

Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from areas around the city of Hobart , on the Australian island of Tasmania.

Though no one has spotted a living pink handfish since 1999, it's taken till now for scientists to formally identify it as a unique species.All of the world's 14 known species of handfish are found only in shallow, coastal waters off southeastern Australia, the review notes.

Oil to whipe out Gulf Whales......

If the Gulf of Mexico oil spill kills just three sperm whales, the local population may be in serious risk in the long run, experts say.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Sometimez Many things go OFF our handz..

My deep condolences to my great principal,,K.C. Mathew, and my two teachers chettiyar sir and Krishnakumar sir who expired off on saturday in a road accident....

And also 2 all the 159 who died in the manglore flight crash..