This laptop is solar powered, has no hard drive, is moisture, dirt and dust resistant, droppable and its keyboards are waterproof. In short, it is a laptop made for children and costs only $210 or a little under Rs 10,000.
Designed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, the XO laptop aims at taking computer education to the masses, especially poor children in developing countries like India. Read on» » » »
Cancer is caused by a group of cells that display uncontrolled growth, destroying adjacent tissue and spreading to other locations via blood. It is a complex disease that involves multiple lifestyle factors.
But the important thing for you to remember is this: Cancer cannot invade a healthy body that’s free of an overload of toxins, whether mental or physical. Read on» » » »
My name is William Stephenson; I grew up in Manasquan and have spent most of my life in New Jersey. I’d like to speak with you about achieving your best, about making the most of your assets and realizing your biggest dreams. Read on» » » »
When we are afraid, our metabolism speeds up, muscles tighten and our adrenal glands produce an extra quantity of stress hormones. We call this anxiety, a common emotion experienced by most of us in response to confrontation with an unpleasant and potentially harmful trigger.
When anxiety becomes an excessive and irrational dread of everyday situations and you begin to worry and feel tense without provocation, it can be a disabling disorder that needs medical attention. Read on» » » »
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When food is on your mind there can’t be a better option than Destination India. With a cuisine as diverse as the Punjabi chholas and Kancheepuram dosais, there is just so much to choose from. Here’s looking at the food hubs of the country. Read on» » » »
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You probably hear it a lot, casually thrown around in your gym, the fact that, “Weight loss is all about revving up the metabolism”. Your body’s physical shape is very closely connected to its rate of metabolism, which simply refers to all of the body’s physical and chemical processes that use energy.
“It’s calculated as a basal metabolic rate (BMR), which is the number of calories your body burns per day at rest,” says clinical nutritionist, Dr Nupur J Krishnan. Metabolism varies vastly from person to person, depending on factors like age, sex and weight. Read on» » » »
Pregnant women in their late twenties and thirties are twice as likely to develop diabetes during their pregnancy today than they were five years ago. “Almost 3-4 per cent Indian women develop gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a disease that places both the mother and child at risk of complications,” says Dr Suneeta Mittal, Head of Department, Obstetrics and Gyanecology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The global incidence is 2-3 per cent. Read on» » » »
Ever wondered how to recycle or reuse the unwanted stuff in your household? Heres how to. Read on» » » »
Office computer keyboards could be filthier than toilet seats and cause serious diseases, according to a study by a British microbiologist.
Tests were conducted on 33 keyboards and compared with swabs from a toilet seat and a door handle in a public toilet. It was found that the keyboards contained dangerous levels of killer bacteria such as E coli and S aureus. E coli causes Read on» » » »
Our management professors always told us about corporate life and that is why we studied and worked hard to score well and join the corporate rat race. Those were the easy days. The corporate ladder would stare at our face and we would strive hard to go up the next rung. If the corporate ladder was steep, we would run into the occasional snake and falter but it was clear that the way forward was up.
But the ladder disappeared and the corporate race changed the rules. The way forward was no longer up, it was now dictated by, what I coin, ‘The Corporate Trellis’. The corporate race today is not on the ladder but has been replaced by ‘The Trellis’. The way forward is sideways. Corporates hire and value cross-department exposure. How you move using ‘The Corporate Trellis’ dictates when you will reach the top. Read on» » » »
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