Thursday, June 16, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Thursday, June 16, 2011)
(1)- BOTTLED ANTIMATTER -- Thankfully nothing self-destructed when CERN researchers first created, then forced antihydrogen atoms to hang around for an unprecedented 16 minutes, 40 seconds. Newly published report here:

(2)- COLD CASES BREAKTHROUGH -- Australian researchers have developed a new way of recovering usable fingerprints from old evidence. The scientific breakthrough
is a world first, that could help police reopen unsolved cases.

(3)- LOOKING FORWARD -- The tropics and much of the Northern Hemisphere are likely to experience an irreversible rise in summer temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years; a "permanent emergence of unprecedented summer heat."

(4)- CARE TO HAVE SOME? -- This season’s new batch of ice-cream sandwiches can be found on a truck or at the flea, showcasing Italian gelato or French macarons, or in a super-peanutty new guise.

(5)- BARE-HANDED -- Dipping his hands into hot boiling fat, this chef takes his cooking to extremes. He buries his hands in boiling fat and sieve fried chicken with his own fingers. Amazingly the 50-year-old walks away with no blisters.

(6)- NAPOLEONIC LESSONS – Napoleon’s first English lessons (Three lots of text in English and French, and his drawings) while he was banished to exile on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena fetched more than 93,000 euros at auction.

(7)- ENGLAND’S ACCENTS -- Some are spreading; some retreating. Some are mutating; some are even getting stronger. But, overall, the pronunciation and prosody of spoken English seems to vary as much as ever across the country of its birth.

(8)- THREE IS DIFFICULT -- Take 4 equal mass particles, arrange them in 2 binary pairs orbiting within 2 planes (parallel and with zero total angular momentum). Now introduce a fifth Lighter particle that oscillates back and forth.

(9)- CONTRADICTORY HENRY -- Kissinger never misses the opportunity to shower praise on any Chinese leader. He does so on Deng Xiaoping, especially right after Tiananmen. Inevitably, he lets China off the moral hook.

POLITICAL CARTOON

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