Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame has written an excellent article on the value of star programmers in a product development team.

US. Scientists at Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research have created zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. Actually the dogs are normal after re-animation. So they are alive as before. Read on to find their technique. Don't try this at home.

According to Amartya Sen, Economist and Nobel Laureate, being argumentative is an asset rather than a liability acquired as a legacy from India's historical, cultural, racial and religious ‘heterodoxy'. "India is so full of contradictions that any generalisation about India has an opposite argument which is just as true," explains Sen. So, in his just published book, Sen - who "enjoys putting forth arguments rather than giving advice to people" brings up the brighter side of being argumentative. Here are a few excerpts...

Whatever your age, your body is many years younger. In fact, even if you are middle-aged, most of you may be ten years younger or less. This heartening truth, which arises from the fact that most body tissues are under constant renewal, has been underlined by a novel method of estimatin the age of human cells.

Neuralyzers, a fictional device to wipe memories or re-program them, became popular with Men in Black movie series. Scientists report that beta-blockers (like Atenolol), a popular blood pressure reducing drug, can be effectively used to wipe out bad memories, in other words neuralyzers for common man.