Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Putting technology into e-learning
 To many people in Pakistan, the concept of e-learning is in its infancy. They believe that e-learning is learning something from the internet. To make things clearer...
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Byteback
 Editor’s reply: Using an NTFS file system could be the cause. However, if you are not using it, then there is a likely chance that your hard drive is about to crash. In either case...
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Beyond GM crops
 For years the life science companies — Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Pioneer Hi-Bred, etc — have argued that genetically modified food is the next great scientific...
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Personalised medicine
 The entire molecular system — comprising possible hereditary factors and ancestral hierarchy — of your grandchildren and great grandchildren is one day likely to be recorded...
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Solutions to old mysteries
 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the mediaeval Polish astronomer and mathematician, was condemned during his lifetime by the Catholic Church for suggesting...
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Portals of a different kind
THE phenomenal increase in internet usage in both developed and developing countries is apparent from its wide accessibility and transparency. Citizens are now able to download....
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Webwatch
 When it comes to blogs, most people are still clueless as to what really makes them different from mainstream websites. In this blog, Vaspers the Grate has featured some helpful...
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Register please!
Internet worms are increasingly targeting registry and users have now become aware of how to delete startup files using registry. Then there are problems associated...
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Of bombs that flew
 June of 1944 was heavy on the British as this was the month when the first flying bomb fell in London. The tragedy continued for 10 months, resulting in the launch...
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Food for thought
 Of all the bad eating habits, perhaps the most innocuous one is the consumption of junk food which has been on the rise for quite a while now....
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Pharming allows harvesting of HIV drug
In the perfectly controlled atmosphere of a brick-proof, hermetically sealed greenhouse deep in the Kent countryside, a fresh crop of tobacco plants is beginning to flourish....
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Wapda allowed to set up thermal plants
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, at a meeting held last week, allowed the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) to set up thermal plants to produce....
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Cool gadgets
 THE PIONEER INNO, the new XM2GO player, weighs 4.5 ounces and comes with a 1.7inch colour LCD that supports graphics. It is easy to set up and use with pretty decent...
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The learning platform
 Conferences, workshops and similar interactive activities can play an important role in exposing young and old minds to new concepts. In the field of technology, they become doubly important....
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