Whoever said that a bottle gets you closer to Nirvana was definitely wrong. Over a million of them might do the trick, though. At least, that's what monks from a temple in Thailand think. The temple's real name is Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, but it is better known to locals and visitors from abroad by a m... |
29 October 2008
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Although, unlike plastic, glass is spared the environmentalists' finger pointing to it as a polluting material, the process of its creation is not as friendly.Obviously, when opening a bottle of wine, one might possibly be concerned by the prospects of a terrible hangover rather than the impact that the creation... |
3 October 2008
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Bisphenol A (BPA) was investigated in the 1930s during the search for synthetic estrogens. Diethylstilbestrol proved more powerful than estrogen, so bisphenol A was not used as a synthetic estrogen. Currently, it is a primary monomer in polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins. Bisphenol A is also employed as an antiox... |
31 January 2008
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What you saw yesterday in science fiction movies can become the reality of our days. The fans of the Dune series may see now something resembling the stillsuit and the rehydrator that took water from sweat, fecal matters, or urine.The Life Saver water bottle is employed by the troops as a water sanitizer that can tur... |
14 September 2007
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A trauma caused by a rape is severe, but in this case the trauma is double: a raped woman in Meru (Kenya) had a 300-ml soda bottle stuffed in her vagina. Doctors at Meru General Hospital were shocked by the incident after the 20-year-old victim turned back for treatment, two weeks after the ordeal.The bottle had been... |
2 August 2007
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