“Why do ants travel in group? Find out in the new commercial ad of public bus company De Lijn.”

We see modders and bikers adorning their motorbikes with whacky features, just to grab attention, on a somewhat regular basis nowadays. These fluent bikes, when they snarl on the roads, make heartbeats stop. Well, if you are already getting goose bumps imagining one, then check out the Honda Chopper designed by Pete Norris that seeks to combine form with functionality.

Some designs come out just as visually appealing specimens, while some of them take that allure to a further enhanced level by combining some realistic practical features. The Volkswagen Aqua concept conceived by industrial designer Yuhan Zhang certainly belongs to that latter category, and it does so with its sublimely stylish yet immaculately minimalist approach.

Growing plants without soil (hydroponics) has been an oft-cited phenomenon under consideration for quite sometime. Of late, a Japanese bio-medical expert, Dr. Yuichi Mori has come up with an innovative way of growing plants without soil through hydro membrane applying medical membrane technology. Showcasing his unique achievement, the futuristic agricultural system Imec, he demonstrated that plants can be cultivated anywhere even in the space.


He successfully cultivated cress plants through this ground breaking technology that produced a healthy yield with the minimal use of soil and water. He grew the crop on a sheet of cling-film where the plants were deeply rooted in the culture medium devoid of any soil. Dr. Yuichi Mori devoted a considerable amount of time in developing this special cling sheet, hydro membrane based on the principles of medical membrane technology. The secret of plant growth lies in the culture medium enriched with nutrients and sufficient water where the seeds are planted. The plants form a dense network of their roots as they grow which help them to cling firmly on the sheet. This unique agriculture system consumes about one-fifth of the water required for conventional soil cultivation, and the yield is absolutely safe as no pesticides or insecticides are added during cultivation.



This Imec method of cultivation induces the regulation of more sugar and amino acids during plant growth thereby producing high quality fruits and vegetables. Tomatoes and strawberries cultivated through this method will be sweeter containing high nutritional values. Moreover, the soil less cultivation prevents the growth of harmful bacteria and other soil borne diseases, and with the zero application of chemical pesticides, we can say that green plants are cultivated in a greener manner.

Crops can be grown on the film sheet on any surface and in any environment. Positive results have been derived through Imec method in the desert condition. A Japanese astronaut was successful in cultivating some herbs in the space station. Implementation of Imec method will not involve huge costs or complex technical process compared to hydroponics. It takes lesser time for plant growth, and the hydro membrane can be recycled.

Dr. Mori is highly optimistic about his invention that could bring about a radical change in country’s agriculture and economy, which has suffered a serious setback on the wake of tsunami. He firmly believes that the Imec method of farming will gradually overtake the hydroponics in the future.

Source:JapanTrends

It's a well accepted truism that love is blind, the implication being that people who are truly in love with each other will be able to overlook any imperfections, physical or otherwise, and find each other attractive regardless; but how blind is love? Croydon Hounslow investigates.

Sometimes being in a relationship for a long period can become boring especially if you know everything about him or her and have basically done everything to make them happy. All you need to do is get hold of some romantic date ideas and set out on making them a reality.



Something new for romantic date ideas would be to live with nature. Why not take a stroll in a park or somewhere private where you and your partner could enjoy a night under the stars? This will be very romantic if the moon is shining nice and bright and the stars shimmer all through out the night.


Romantic date ideas do not have to be complicated or too simple. As long as you know your better half, his or her likes and dislikes, you would definitely know what needs to be done to create that exciting, long waited romantic date.

Looks like it's now the turn of Neetu Chandra to be in the news thanks to that universal feeling called love. For, the latest buzz in Bollywood is that the actress is getting close with Sushmita Sen's ex-boyfriend Randeep Hooda.


Not just with Randeep, but Neetu is close with his family members too, reports suggest. Recently, the actress was spotted with the actor's parents at the staging of a new play which has Randeep in the lead.

“They wanted to take their relationship to the next level following which Randeep introduced Neetu to his parents. Since then, the actress is maintaining a close rapport with elders in Randeep’s family and they understand each other"

The blasting launch of Tata Nano lured the attention of the world to the automobile industry of India. Thus Tata’s dream of engineering a car for an average Indian buyer came true. Tata Nano is the smallest car ever launched in India, and it has hit the market with its five classy variants.

Nano is steadily making strides in the market, and it is anticipated that by the end of this year, the micro-hybrid version of this small family car will hit the markets, and will be showcased in the Tata Motors showrooms all over the country. In regards to the upcoming launch, a Tata Motors spokesperson said, “The Company does not comment on the company’s product plans”.  But it’s quite predictable that with the launch of Nano micro hybrid, Tata Motors will soon add a new product to its cart, portraying its capabilities in greener technologies. Taking a step further, Tata Motors is planning to launch an electric version of its best selling model, Indica Vista, in Europe this year.

Last year, during the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Tata Motors had showcased an electric Ace, and experimented with hybrid buses by running a few of them. We have come to know that the micro-hybrid technology might be provided by a German tier I supplier.

Source: autoindiaforum

If you thought flashing a winning smile is way to a woman's heart, wake up. An intriguing new study reveals that women find happy, smiling guys significantly less sexually attractive than those who are arrogant and moody.


Conversely, men find women who look happy and smiling most sexy, and have a strong sexual disliking for women who look proud and confident, the study suggests.

The study, first-of-its-kind to report gender difference in the attractiveness of smiles, might help explain the 'enduring allure of bad boys.'

"This study finds that men and women respond very differently to displays of emotion, including smiles.”

The bureaucratic hierarchy of the HR department screens the candidates over and over again to weed out the less skilled. However, often it all goes futile because of the wrong interview procedures. Many interviewers go the Google-Microsoft way with the so-called brain-teaser interview questions like - How many golf balls can fit in a school bus? So, in many cases, it seems that the skills required to pass industry-standard software interviews are not the skills required to be a good software developer.

Interviewer should be looking for people who are smart and who can get things done. Certificates and degrees should not define accomplishments; rather it should be measured in terms of real-world projects with real-world users.

An interviewer can analyze the skills of a candidate by asking him to show his code, explain the design decisions and describe what he would do differently on it. By making him to implement a feature or two while you watch, you can easily understand how he works and how he implements his innovative thoughts while working. And this is the ultimate aim of a technical interview and not to measure the depth of subject knowledge.

The typical theory-heavy interviews don't always figure out the coding skills of the candidates neither their ability to work as a team.

For more information Source: siliconindia

Powerful people often bend rules according to their will, but can a rule breaker be perceived as powerful?

According to a new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam, people who violate basic rules of social behavior lead others to believe that they are powerful.


Violating a norm implies that one has the power to act according to one’s own volition in spite of situational constraints, which fuels perceptions of power, states the study published in 'Social Psychological and Personality Science.

Definitions of Designations:-

Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month.


Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.


Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.


Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby.


Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.


Resource Optimization Team thinks they don't need a man or woman; they'll produce a child with zero resources.


Documentation Team thinks they don't care whether the child is delivered, they'll just document 9 months.


Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with a delivered baby.


Tester is a person who always tells that this is not the Right baby.


HR Manager is a person who thinks that... a Donkey can deliver a Human Baby - if given 9 Months !!!

When you have a heart attack, a part of your heart dies. Specialized heart cells perish and you can never get them back.

Doctors cannot repair these kinds of areas in the heart; the dead areas just sit there functioning no more. When confronted with this type of problem there doesn’t seem to be much of a solution. Do you treat the area like a pothole and build a new route around it?


You could, but that’s a really unproductive way to fix the most important organ in the human body. In theory, a better approach would be to figure out how to revive the lifeless area. A group of researchers at Brown University and in India may have figured out a way to do exactly that.
   
The scientists looked to nanotechnology for a solution.
   
In a laboratory they constructed a scaffold-looking structure made of carbon nanofibers and a government-approved polymer. Their tests showed the artificial nanopatch restarted natural heart tissue cells ­– called cardiomyocytes – as well as neurons. Bascially, the tests showed that a dead region of the heart can be brought back to life. That’s right; we’re talking about zombie style hearts.
   
"This whole idea is to put something where dead tissue is to help regenerate it, so that you eventually have a healthy heart," said David Stout, a graduate student in the School of Engineering at Brown and the lead author of the paper published in Acta Biomaterialia.

For more information Source: tgdaily

It ‘s a low back pain acute a sudden and very strong pain that occurs in the lower back Determined, in most cases, by a muscle contracture caused, in turn, by a sudden movement or incorrect. It is not serious, but should be treated properly. First of all, the first thing to do just “affect by the witch,” is to stay in the same position, without trying to straighten up and force, because this could cause injuries.

So if it was … curved one is curved. At this point, you need to reach and stay in bed rest absolute for 48 hours, which means without changing position and without getting up. In this way, the muscles can slowly resume normal features. Usually this form of low back pain heals spontaneously within three days, so there’s not much to do but rest.

After 48 hours of forced immobility, we can move again, but use great care and caution. Better to make slow movements and avoid any forcing until there is restored completely.

Source: healthspablog

It’s true that binge drinking or binge eating of any kind does lead to weight troubles and lifestyle diseases. But to answer the eternal question of does beer give you a beer belly, the short answer is no.


Beer isn’t just about the calories. A pint of regular beer contains approximately 200-300 calories. A light beer contains approximately 100 -150 calories. So you could budget it into your daily calorie intake and enjoy a pint or two or three. But, dramatic health portals have already told you that Alcohol Has Empty Calories! This simply means that for the same calorie count from a nutritious food or beverage, you would also get important nutrients that go a long way in better health management.

A second point to consider is the high levels of sugar in beer. Yes, this spikes your blood sugar levels, and take a wild shot at what spiked blood sugar levels do? They Make You Hungry.

Finally the date when the Prancing Horse stampedes the Indian road has been announced. On 26th May, Ferrari officially opens a shop in New Delhi. The very first dealership will be located in the Janpath area. A second dealership in Mumbai will be announced in the months to come.


The Ferrari India invasion has been talked about on the Indian blogosphere since a year now. But the blogosphere heated up when Ferrari officially appointed Shreyans Group as their official partners.

Ferrari is expected to offer their whole range in India. BS motoring expects the following range

• California Spider – Rs 2.2 crore
• 458 Italia – Rs 2.56 crore
• 599 GTB – Rs 3.37 crore
• FF – Rs 4 crore

• Only 30 % said they believed that having eliminated bin Laden, the US forces will withdraw from Afghanistan.
• 51 % believed the US will continue to engage in the war in Afghanistan. 

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