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Compiled by David Edgren
Humans enjoy five— or six—kinds of taste buds: sour, bitter, salty, umami (or meatiness) and sweet—as well as, possibly, fat. Unlike every other mammal examined to date, cats lack the ability to taste sweetness.
A company called Meraki wants to cover the earth with ad hoc wireless computer networks.
When each “Mini” network hub connects to at least one other Mini, the network self-configures— sharing the internet with all in reception range. The $US50 Mini is the size of a small radio. It contains less than $US5 worth of components, including a few chips and a radio-frequency transmitter. Founder Sanjit Biswas says his goal, and that of Meraki, is to “connect the next billion people.”
A large study in China suggests heavy alcohol consumption may significantly increase the risk of stroke in men. The risk of stroke was 22 per cent higher while the risk of mortality was 30 per cent higher among men who drank the most— at least 35 drinks a week— compared with non-drinkers
For more than 120 years Signs of the Times has been promoting God’s Word as an authorative source of both wisdom and history.
In the April 13, 1942 issue, Harold W Clark wrote: “The Bible contains the only positive and authoritative statement regarding Creation. The record in the first chapter declares that Creation took place in six days. The fourth commandment says that ‘in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is.’ Exodus 20:11. The Psalmist declares, ‘By the word of the Lord were the heaven’s made (Psalm 33:6).”
Extract from Signs of the Times, November 2007.
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