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Researchers at the University of Kentucky are perfecting a skin cream that stimulates the body’s own tan-generating cells, producing the same bronzed results as a natural tan without the sun exposure.
The prehistoric farmers of southern Mexico built large-scale engineering projects designed to store and transport water. Workers in 750 BC transported by hand some 2.64 million cubic metres of earth to build the 400 metre-long, 100 metre-wide Purrón Dam in the Tehuacán Valley.
The abalone makes proteins that induce calcium carbonate molecules to adopt two distinct yet seamlessly melded crystalline forms—one strong, the other fast-growing— resulting in a tough, shiny coating on anything in the shell. Thus a grain of sand becomes a pearl.
Australian anthropologist Ann Hale says laughter involves a unique form of consciousness that tries to juxtapose two dissimilar concepts. When the two events or concepts attempt to coexist in our mind the resulting incongruity causes us to see humour in it and we laugh.
Sources : ABC, Scientific American, Smithsonian.
“Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:21, 22). Signs has been in the business of testing and proving the claims of the Bible for more than 120 years. God wants us to be convinced of His love and power, not coerced or tricked.
Signs believes God’s moral law, called the Ten Commandments, is the best way for humankind to live. In our prodding, proving and printing, Signs has shown time and again that God’s ways truly are the best ways.
Extract from Signs of the Times, January / February 2007.
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