December 18, 2004 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Vernacular of the human mind TWENTY years ago, a future business student, a little boy then, was told that one day he would turn out to be a phenomenal singer. Apparently he sang like a nightingale... BYTEBACK Linux issues On a Linux OS I can’t play videos, hear songs or connect to internet. How do I fix these problems?... Hell hath no fury like a zombie scorned SINCE Half-life 2 shows no signs of being released before the end of this year, Doom 3 has been launched with much aplomb, giving gamers around the world one more reason... A crash course in Flash After the arrival of Flash 4, a Macromedia product for animated and dynamic web applications, a new era started in the history of web development as general users were quite fed... WEBWATCH This is a great resource with beautiful images and reference information about history of human exploration of space, with background on the people, organizations, and inventions that have made such exploration possible.... The breathing sickness ASTHMA, a serious public health problem responsible for staggering healthcare costs, is now on the increase in Pakistan. The morbidity and mortality from bronchial asthma are increasing worldwide. The World Health... Communication and all that jazz IN the not-too-distant future, cellphones will not be merely used for communicating as technologists predict that cellphones will do a lot more than just transmitting voice and text messages from one... Brain fingerprinting: yes, please! THE post 9/11 scenario has brought to light one of the biggest challenges of this century — terrorism. Almost every country in the world is threatened by it in some way... Of men, women and computers JOHN Gray’s Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus is, undoubtedly, one of the most popular books of our time, pointing out the inherent differences that exist between men... DMB-receiving cellphone unveiled LG Electronics unveiled the world’s first terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast-receiving (DMB) mobile phone, and demonstrated its functions.... Scientists say coral reef levels remain the same Coral reefs around the world could expand in size by up to a third because of increased ocean warming, according to a new Australian study which contradicts the long-held belief that... NEWSBITS  Experts call for awareness to check hepatitis Senior medical professionals have called for public awareness with regard to prevention of hepatitis, assuming serious proportions in Pakistan.... CADCAM workshop concludes at GIK An eight-day international workshop on Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CADCAM) for mechanical component, design and manufacturing was organized by the department of mechanical engineering of Ghulam Ishaq Khan... Money at your fingertips SINCE the introduction of credit cards by a multinational bank in 1994, plastic money and cashless transactions have continued to see an expansion in both usage as well as methods of... I-TERMS Trackback: A type of peer-to-peer communication system that was designed to send notification of updates between two websites via a Trackback Ping. Pings are small messages sent from one... COOL GADGETS DMB-receiving cellphone LG Electronics unveiled the world’s first terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcast (DMB) receiving mobile phone....

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