Jojoba plantation can bring prosperity in most poor areas of Pakistan

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

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Yermanos, D.M. 1979. Jojoba: A crop whose time has come. California Agriculture. July-August 1979. pp. 4-11.

Source: Bolta Karachi

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Climate change a key incentive for INNOVATION in prehistoric Africa?

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Rashid Faridi
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10 Lost Cities Which Were Discovered Later

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

We Humans seem to have a need to imagine the past as grander than the present, and that the ancients had some knowledge we have lost. This belief has been compounded by archaeological discoveries of important citie. It seems absurd to us, in the age of the internet to remind us of every fact, that anything so large as a city could be lost. But cities have always fallen into disuse for a variety of reasons, and without a resident population, have been lost to history for centuries until rediscovered. This list focuses on cities which have been abandoned, forgotten (except perhaps by a few people living nearby) and rediscovered later.

Following are 10 of them:

  • Pavlopetri,Greece
  • Cliff palace,Colorado
  • Akrotiri,Santorini
  • Tikal,Guatemala
  • Timgad,Algeria
  • Machu Picchu,Peru
  • Mohenjo-daro,Pakistan
  • Petra,Jordan
  • Troy,Turkey
  • Pompeii and Herculaneum,Italy

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Stalagmites Keep Record of Abrupt Climate Events Over 100,000 Years(link)

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Rashid Faridi

A new set of long-term climate records based on cave stalagmites collected from tropical Borneo shows that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently than other regions of the globe to abrupt climate change events. The 100,000-year climate record adds to data on past climate events, and may help scientists assess models designed to predict how Earth’s climate will respond in the future.

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