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February 11, 2006

Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Assessing Pakistani science
The Constitution Avenue in Islamabad — the eight-lane arterial road that winds its way through what can be described as the....
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Byteback
Please download the latest version of Yahoo Messenger from http://messenger.yahoo.com. Once the Yahoo Messenger is running...
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Debunking quackery
D r Donal O’Mathuna, a professor of bioethics and chemistry at the Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio, said he...
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No stopping human re-engineering?
My daughter is 10. Fast forward 25 years, and she is having her first child — early by the standards of all her....
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At the bottom of the heap?
A few years ago, the ministries of information technology and science and technology would frequently boast that Pakistan was well....
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The painful truth
Who, or what, do you spend the better part of your day with? If your answer is anything other than the computer, then you are certainly....
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Webwatch
There is no dearth of people who like to believe that science is a man’s domain. This website will definitely give them some food for...
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Hide and seek
Steganography — the practice of hiding information is perhaps as old as the art of communication itself. Steganography aims not only at disguising the message (as in encryption) but....
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‘Stirling’ performance
Unlike liquids and solids, gases are diffused rather than condensed. The special characteristics of gases are utilized to provide power to countless mechanical and pneumatic systems....
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Off to the ‘final frontier’
It is cold, distant and it may soon freeze and lose its atmosphere. Scientists are still debating whether Pluto deserves its status as a planet or it should....
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A pill to deal with painful memories?
Imagine being plagued with bad memories, images of such terrible trauma — an accident or an instance of abuse — that they produce an uncontrollable emotional reaction....
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Quake-resistant house designed
On Oct 8, Pakistan woke up to the reality that it lay in a seismically active region. Whatever transpired on that fateful day underlined the need for Pakistani designers and engineers...
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Cool gadgets
The Creative TravelDock 900 provides an ultra-compact but surprisingly good-sounding speaker system for portable audio players. It runs on four triple-A batteries...
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The case of absentee technology
A few days ago, I was trying to watch three soaps on three different channels simultaneously. Their names were....
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