Nearly 142 years after Charles Darwin wrote that the sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language, MIT researchers have now found that birdsong closely resembles human speech. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo, say that Darwin was right when he…
How many trees are cut down to make one piece of paper? It would take a rough average of 24 trees to produce a ton of printing and writing paper. We can estimate that it takes about 12 trees to make a ton of ground wood and newsprint. 1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing…
Compiled by Dr. Malika B. Mistry Trends in Kerala’s Money Order Economy Kerala’s is what we used to term ‘Money Order Economy’, a substantial population surviving on remittances. Earlier they used to send it by Money Orders. Today the remittances are made by inter-bank or intra-bank electronic transfers. Land-short, food-scarce and trade union afflicted work…
