Leh, June 24, (Scoop News)- N.N. Vohra, Governor, inaugurated an international conference on “Sustainable Resource Development in the Himalaya” at Leh, today. This Conference has been organized by the Institute of Energy Research and Training (IERT) of the Jammu University in collaboration with the Geological Society of London. Voicing serious concern about the grave consequences […]
AMANDA KNOX: TORTURED BY A RELIGIOUS ZEALOT?
This sensationalized headline could be straight from a 1690s Salem Witch Trial. However, they would have punctuated it slightly different: AMANDA KNOX: TORTURED BY A RELIGIOUS ZEALOT!!! _____________________________________________________ If you need any background in the Amanda Knox case, please see DENVER or the meticulously and accurately revised chronicle on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_knox _____________________________________________________ There are three […]
Jammu University organizes workshop on gemstones, gemmology & geology
Jammu, February 21 (Scoop News) – A two day national workshop on “Gemstones: Their Gemmology and Geology” organised by the Department of Geology, University of Jammu in collaboration with the Directorate of Geology and Mining, J and K Government took off at the University here this morning. Mr. Surjit Singh Salathia, J&K minister […]
OBAMACATION 2010: LET THE SUN SHINE IN
"What bad – what incredibly bad! luck that the final report went off, just after the very worst period in human history". 3001. The Final Odyssey. 1997. Arthur C. Clarke pp 208. In 2010, The Year We Make Contact, a University of Chicago researcher, Dr. Chandra, is called […]
On Threespine Sticklebacks and Other Reversals
The threespine stickleback, a tiny freshwater fish native to Lake Washington, has gone retro. In what researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are labeling a case of “reverse evolution,” the species has reinstated a bony plated armor it once utilized to survive attacks from predators – and it has accomplished this reversal in an […]