Read an article in Amar Ujala on 22nd December 2008, that briefly discussed about the risk of blood cancer/lukemia in people, especially young kids, living in homes under/near high voltage electricity lines.
As per the article, British government has prohibited construction of homes and schools within 200 feet from these lines. When will we wake up to this risk in India, where I have seen housing complexes within 20 feet from these lines and still newer projects coming up within 100 feet from power lines.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
MSN Live Search: Same query different number of results
May be what I have happened to chance upon at MSN Live Search (search.live.com), is a characteristic of other search engines like yahoo, google as well. Any expert out there, who can explain the whys of this seemingly discrepancy (feature)?
I tried 3 expressions of same example query in succession at search.live.com and got 3 different number of search results.
1. (site:.ke OR site:.tn) AND mogadishu
resulted in a page mentioning "Web 1-10 of 497 results"·
2. mogadishu AND (site:.ke OR site:.tn)
resulted in a page mentioning "Web 1-10 of 777 results".
3. (mogadishu AND site:.ke) OR (mogadishu AND site:.tn)
resulted in a page mentioning "Web 1-10 of 610 results".
In this example, number differences are not that great, but I had noticed a significant difference in these numbers, with a different search initially.
What are your expectations as a user in above example?
I tried 3 expressions of same example query in succession at search.live.com and got 3 different number of search results.
1. (site:.ke OR site:.tn) AND mogadishu
resulted in a page mentioning "Web 1-10 of 497 results"·
2. mogadishu AND (site:.ke OR site:.tn)
resulted in a page mentioning "Web 1-10 of 777 results".
3. (mogadishu AND site:.ke) OR (mogadishu AND site:.tn)
resulted in a page mentioning "Web 1-10 of 610 results".
In this example, number differences are not that great, but I had noticed a significant difference in these numbers, with a different search initially.
What are your expectations as a user in above example?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tremor and Animal Instincts
Yesterday night (17 September, 2008) at around 03:15AM IST I experienced a tremor lasting for around 2 seconds (as it felt), must have been 5 or greater on Richter scale. Didn't find any mention of it in today's ToI edition, unless I missed it. Some time back, I got to know that some people experienced a light tremor around 5-5:30am.
But the dogs in lane knew of tremor around 30mins to an hour before I experienced it. They were bark-weeping in a different tone around that time. Someone in neighbourhood had tried to quiten them twice.
Perhaps some kind of energy pattern/magnetic field changes happen/build up in the area before the quake finally hits and these animals can sense it well in time. Only if humans could understand lesser animals!
But the dogs in lane knew of tremor around 30mins to an hour before I experienced it. They were bark-weeping in a different tone around that time. Someone in neighbourhood had tried to quiten them twice.
Perhaps some kind of energy pattern/magnetic field changes happen/build up in the area before the quake finally hits and these animals can sense it well in time. Only if humans could understand lesser animals!
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