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["Anil Nair" <nairani@geodc.patni.com>]

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Tip of the day:  Re-use your plastic bags. 
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The last one is a brilliant scientific concept......

|New Scientific Theories

An American magazine held a competition, inviting its readers to
submit new scientific theories on ANY subject.  Below are the winners:
|
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|5th place (Subject: Probability Theory)
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|If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of
|pickup trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite
|number of highway signs, they will eventually write the complete works of
|Shakespeare in Braille.
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|4th place (Subject: Bio-Mechanics)
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|Why Yawning Is Contagious: You yawn to equalise the pressure on your
|eardrums.  This pressure change outside your head unbalances other
|people's ear pressures, so they then yawn to even it out.
|
|3rd place (Subject: Symbolic Logic)
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|The Chinese are technologically underdeveloped because each of their
|alphabetical characters represents a whole word or phrase, rather
|than a single letter.  Thus they cannot use acronyms to communicate
|technical ideas at a faster rate.
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|2nd place (Subject: Newtonian Mechanics)
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|Deforestation will eventually cause earthquakes, tidal waves or
|even the total
|destruction of our planet.  Just as a figure-skater's rate of spin
|increases when the arms are brought in close to the body, the
|cutting down of tall trees may cause the Earth to spin dangerously fast on
|its axis with disastrous results.
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|Winner (Subject: Perpetual Motion)
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|When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet and when toast is
|dropped, it always lands buttered side down.  Therefore, if a slice
|of  toast is strapped to a cat's back, buttered side up and the animal
|is then dropped, the two opposing forces will cause it to hover,
|spinning inches above the ground.  If enough toast-laden felines
|were used,
|they could form the basis of a high-speed monorail system.
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