Month: September 2005
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Floss Facts
Commercial floss was first manufactured in: 1882 Material it was first made of: Silk Newest material: Gore-tex Amount bought per person: 18 yards Amount that should be bought per person: 122 yards (12 inches a day) Percent who say they floss daily: 28% (some are fibbing, according to the sales data) In 1994 a prison…
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Question your Knowledge
I would like to start to post a series of interesting questions and allow you to test your knowledge on the issue, it could be a myth or even true but attempt to answer it in the comments section, in a few days I will answer the question, the first question Many people have claimed…
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Malaysians Vote on Astronauts
Malaysia’s Science Minister plans to make the country’s space programme a truly interactive experience by allowing all Malaysians to elect a Malaysian astronaut to visit the International Space Station along with the Russian team in 2007. There is a pool of 11,000 candidates aspiring for the slot and it may truly become a cut throat…
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Dentistry in Karachi
Teeth Maestro is actually the pen name of Dr. Awab Alvi who is a dentist by profession in Karachi, Pakistan. He has been practicing Dentistry in Karachi since 1999 when he graduated from de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore and has since been practicing with his father Dr. Arif Alvi at Alvi Dental Hospital, which is…
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Bush Needs a Potty Break
“I think I may need a Bathroom Break? Is this possi..” This is a note being written by George W. Bush during the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York yesterday. A call for nature is usually very urgent and it won’t even wait for the President of the World George W.…
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Take Responsibility
……………….To continue on the New Orleans disaster, this cartoon by Cagle.com quite adequately explains why Bush had to finally accept responsibility
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Google Blog Search
Google does it again, it has just released a Blog search tool that will limit its searches to only blogs. Blogger had a dashboard previously that only limited itself to the Blog spot domain and nothing beyond so technically this engine now covers the entire blogging world and can be used to keep track on…
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A Mighty Brave Bush Jr.
Just today President Bush was brave enough to accept full responsibility for the mismanagement in the New Orleans disaster. Personally I have high regard for a person who is willing to accept his failures in public speaks a lot about his moral values, that said I feel this disaster has brought forth probably the only…
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Tag me if you can
Just recently I was blog-tagged by Minigma, I usually am not too keen to play the tag game but thought that this specific tag was very interesting. Go ahead read this post it is possible for you to discover the person behind the Teeth Maestro’s blog, so discover away. TAG Questions: 5-years ago: That’s a…
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Pakistan – Israel Talks
The latest hot issue that has gripped Pakistanis and also the Muslim world is a sudden show of softness by Pakistan towards the Israeli nation culminating into a round of high level talks this past week in Turkey. A step taken by our unconstitutional-military-coop-no-shit-ruler President Pervaiz Musharraf seems to be quite revolutionary and this move…
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US & The Iraqi Constitution
…………Credit : Economist.com
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Rape Trap
A Los Angeles Times Story about a South African inventor Sonette Ehlers and her new anti-rape female condom. “Rapex”, the condom-like device bristling with internal hooks designed to snare rapists while in the process of committing the rape. The device, concealed inside a woman’s body, hooks onto a rapist during penetration and must be surgically…
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Big Easy Rocked by Katrina
My heart goes out to the people in New Orleans who have been rocked by the Katrina Hurricane. Hundreds if not thousands of people have perished in this tragedy and millions are now homeless. I offer a prayer on behalf of all Pakistanis for a speedy recover from this, it is sad to see the…
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Nanospheres to cure Sensitive Teeth
The Institute of Physics in a conference recently revealed some interesting research related to dentistry, preliminary findings show that Nanospheres could finally solve the age of problem of sensitive teeth. Sensitive teeth or ‘dental hypersensitivity’ is a condition that arises when the dentine of the tooth is exposed. The dentine is made up of thousands…
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Dig to the other side
Haven’t you sometimes wondered if you were to dig a hole through the earth where would you most likely land. Or sometimes I have wished for a hole in the earth hence a direct route to the US rather then the ass-kicking 24-hour flight. Some crazy lunatic has a mathematical solution indeed worked it out…