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Dear Friends, to carry forward with my blog on my interaction with the toppers of NIPER entrance I am presenting the next blog of the series. I got good comments from you all & taking into consideration your suggestions and support I am presenting the interaction in a simple manner.

Tushar Deshpande

During the last week I had an opportunity to meet the students here who were the toppers in the NIPER entrance examination this year. I was very happy to see those students who were the best in country. They have proved their metal and reached a stage where very few students reach. I tried to interact with them and had a good hour long discussion.

Dear Friends, I am feeling that we are missing some of the contributions from some of the contenders, rather contributors. Bhagwan Buddha has said it long before “With our thoughts we create the world” & I believe in this. I too was seeing a world being created by the work by many of my friends here but suddenly I see the sea getting shrunk; the flow has reduced; the wind has winded up; the rain vanished, despite the clouds still being there.

Dear Friends, I wish each & everyone a very Happy Dussehra, (Dushehra, Dasra, Dashera many pronunciations but mean the same festival)

Let us try to remove the evil in our surrounding the evil amongst us. Let us pledge that we will try our best to remove the evil practices in our Pharmacy field & help make it better & better with each day passing. Let us try to conquer the problems in our life & emerge victorious in every avenue.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

  -- John Desmond Baernal (Irish physicist, 1901-1971) in a Lecture at Birkbeck college, University of London, 1960.

Now the funniest of the thoughts that one can hear or say about science & scientific terms

PharmIndia Newsletter Issue 10

Breaking the ice 

Pain

Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm. Individuals experience pain by various daily hurts and aches, and occasionally through more serious injuries or illnesses. For scientific and clinical purposes, pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage".¹

PharmIndia Newsletter Issue 9

Oxygen is a very toxic gas

• Oxygen is a very toxic gas and an extreme fire hazard.
• It is fatal in concentrations of as little as 0.000001 ppm.
• Humans exposed to these oxygen concentrations die within a few minutes.
• Symptoms resemble very much those of cyanide poisoning (blue face, etc.)
• In higher concentration e.g. about 20%, the toxic effect is somewhat delayed
  and it takes about 2.5 billion inhalations before death takes place.
• The reason for the delay is the difference in mechanism of the toxic effect
  of of oxygen in 20% concentration.
• It apparently contributes to a complex process called aging, of which very
  little is known, except that it is always fatal.
• However, the main disadvantage of the 20% oxygen concentration is the fact
  that it is habit forming. The first inhalation (occurring at birth) is sufficient