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Lateral Thinking

by admin Dec 20, 2005 Add comment

There are six eggs in a basket.
Six people each take one egg,
how can it be that one egg is still
left in the basket?

Did you Know

by admin Dec 19, 2005 Add comment

PepperThat almost 900 years ago a man named Suryavarman II tried to construct heaven on earth. He did not succeed. But the temple mountain that his people built in what is now Cambodia in nothing short of miraculous. It would be an architectural feat even today to erect a seamless edifice with stones weighing as much as 8,000 pounds apiece. Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, erected around 1150, was built wihout the use of mortar; it is held together by weight and friction. The complex is a sculpture of roughly a square mile. Its sandstone relief carvings–of Hindu legends and Khmer battle scenes–are among the world’s finest.

Source: Life Magazine
Further reading: A Fascinating Page From History – Monuments of Angkor Wat

Lateral Thinking

by admin Dec 12, 2005 1 Comment

Two fathers and two sons were seated round a table. There were four apples on the table. Each of them took one apple and ate it entirely yet there was still one apple left on the table. How was this possible?

Did you Know

by admin Dec 9, 2005 Add comment

safron that safron comes from the dried stigmas of the saffron crocus, and it takes 75,000 blossoms or 225,000 hand-picked stigmas to make a single pound. This makes it the world’s most expensive spice.

Another interesting fact about saffron is that it contains a poison that acts on the central nervous system and damages the kidneys. Large doses can have severe effects; 10 to 12 grams is a fatal dose for human beings! [source]

Did you Know

by admin Dec 4, 2005 Add comment

kindergarten that kindergarten (garden for children) was the brain child of a German academic named Friedrich Fröbel. He drew inspiration from nature, and came up with the design for kindergarten back in 1837.

Read more in the article – Studying the Creation of Kindergarten

Did you Know

by admin Dec 1, 2005 Add comment

pizzathat Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day.

Did you Know

by admin Dec 1, 2005 1 Comment

cricketthat If you chew gum while chopping onions it stops your eyes from watering.

The “Indian Flap”

by admin Nov 30, 2005 Add comment

A colleague’s husband recently underwent a surgical procedure known as the “Indian Flap� for reconstructing his nose. This was the first time I have heard of this 1000 year old technique, and on digging around the web a little, I finally found an article that sheds light on the history and the details of this wonderful procedure.

The first successful transfers of human tissues to heterotopic sites were done via what are now referred to as “pedicle” flaps. Such transfers are never even transiently deprived of their blood supply (2). The pedicle flap principle was initiated largely by trial and error at the time of its inception. In about 600 B.C., the Indian surgeon Susruta first described many types of facial flaps, including how flaps from the cheek, for example, could be used to repair the nose (3).

He wrote “…. first the leaf of a creeper, long and broad enough to fully cover the whole of the severed or clipped off part, should be gathered; and a patch of living flesh, equal in dimension to the preceding leaf should be sliced off from the region of the cheek.” The “Indian flap,” or forehead reconstructive rhinoplasty, was introduced later and performed near Delhi from 1000 AD until the 20th century by the same family–members of the brickmaker caste.

The technique was a treasured family secret: a daughter-in-law would be allowed to watch and assist, but a daughter, who might subsequently marry and take the secret outside the family, was prohibited from observing the procedure. Throughout the operation, the patient would be sitting upright to minimize blood loss, and prior to cutting the flap, a handkerchief would be briefly tightened as a tourniquet around the neck to visualize the congested veins of the forehead which would be included in the flap.

The contemporary use of the “Indian flap” for nasal reconstruction testifies to the practicality and success of a procedure which was first developed in the pre-Christian era. It appears to have taken centuries for the principle and the procedure to travel from its origin in India to Europe, where use of the technique was first documented in the fifteenth century (2).

read more by clicking the source link below.

Source:
The History of Flaps
by Elizabeth K. Hale
Journal of Drugs in Dermatology (Dec 2002)

What are we doing when we look away during a conversation?

by admin Nov 30, 2005 Add comment

cricketI have always wondered about this, and now this post at Congnitive Daily provides an insight into the possible reasons behind this behavior.

Personally, I can think of three reasons why I would look away during a face to face conversation: one when I am concentrating, two a lack of interest, and finally just being uncomfortable when stared at during a conversation.

Lateral Thinking

by admin Nov 29, 2005 Add comment

A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink. The bartender pulls out a gun and points it at him. The man says, “Thank you,” and walks out.

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