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Difference between Brown & White Eggs

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What’s the Difference Between Brown and White Eggs?

By Bjorn Carey, Life’s Little Mysteries Managing Editor
04 February 2011 6:46 PM ET

I have plans to cook an egg quiche thing and enough cinnamon rolls for 10 people this weekend, so I’m going to need a lot of eggs. Normally I’m not too discerning with my egg selection — they all scramble just as well to me. But, standing in the grocery store, I froze. Should I buy brown eggs, or white? Is one variety better for eggy dishes, and the other better for baked goods?

I had no clue, and after spending a good five minutes scanning every letter of labeling on the various brands of eggs, I felt no more in the know. So I gave up. I picked up a carton of the cheaper white eggs, headed for the checkout and hoped for the best, or at least a less costly mistake.

to read more, go to:   http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/difference-between-brown-white-eggs-1315/.

 

Shakespeare-A Pot Head???

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Could Shakespeare’s Bones Tell Us if He Smoked Pot?

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 27 June 2011 Time: 04:36 PM ET
Shakespeare Tomb
Shakespeare’s final resting place in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon.
CREDIT: David Jones, Flickr

A South African anthropologist has asked permission to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed the Bard and whether his poems and plays may have been composed under the influence of marijuana.

But while Shakespeare’s skeleton could reveal clues about his health and death, the question of the man’s drug use depends on the presence of hair, fingernails or toenails in the grave, said Francis Thackeray, the director of the Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who floated the proposal to the Church of England.

Thackeray conducted a study in 2001, which found evidence of marijuana residueon pipe fragments found in Shakespeare’s garden.

to read more, go to:   http://www.livescience.com/14797-shakespeare-bones-smoked-pot.html

Can your Physics Teacher Do This?

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Video Lectures

Photo of Prof. Lewin swinging on a pendulum.

Professor Walter Lewin demonstrates that the period of a pendulum is independent of the mass hanging from the pendulum. This demonstration can be viewed on the video of Lecture 10. (Image courtesy of Markos Hankin, Physics Department Lecture Demonstration Group).

to see the lecture, etc. go to:    http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-01-physics-i-classical-mechanics-fall-1999/video-lectures/

 

Longest Burning Light Bulb

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Calif. Light Bulb Has Been Burning 110 Years Straight

Life’s Little Mysteries Staff
Date: 21 June 2011 Time: 01:03 PM ET
The 110-year-old Centennial Lightbulb.
The 110-year-old Centennial Lightbulb.
CREDIT: Dick Jones

An incandescent light bulb recognized by Guinness World Records as being the longest burning is still glowing strong days after celebrations that marked its 110th anniversary.

The Centennial Light Bulb, at Fire Station No. 6 in Livermore, Calif., has been burning bright since it was first installed in 1901. (The exact date appears unknown, though the bulb’s “birthday” is typically held in June, most recently June 18th.) Since then, the 60-watt bulb has been alight 24 hours a day, operating at about 4 watts, to provide night illumination of the fire engines.

Other than a few power outages, there has only been one break in its operation, when it was removed from one fire station and fitted in another in 1976. The cord was severed out of fear that unscrewing the bulb would break it, and it was moved with a full police and fire truck escort, under the watch of Capt. Kirby Slate. It got but 22 minutes of rest during the ordeal.

to read more, go to:   http://www.livescience.com/14700-longest-burning-lightbulb-110-years-livermore-california.html

 

19th Century Flat Earth Map

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Ingenious ‘Flat Earth’ Theory Revealed In Old Map

Map of the Earth made in 1893 by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Credit: Don Homuth
Map of the Earth made in 1893 by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota.
CREDIT: Don Homuth

In 1893, Orlando Ferguson, a real estate developer based in South Dakota, drew a map of the Earth that combined biblical and scientific knowledge in a unique way. The map accompanied a 92-page lecture that Ferguson — referring to himself as a “professor” — delivered in town after town, traveling far and wide to share his theory of geography, highlighted by his belief that the Earth was flat.

Ferguson’s map represents the Earth as a giant, rectangular slab with a dimpled upper surface. Don Homuth of Salem, Ore., just donated one of two intact copies of the map to the Library of Congress. [See the map]

“It’s very fragile. It’s printed on tissue paper and hand-colored with watercolors,” Homuth said. He got the map from his eighth grade history teacher in Fargo, N.D., who got it from his grandfather, who lived in Hot Springs, S.D. — Ferguson’s hometown.

 

Visiting Asteroid

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Small asteroid to pass within 7,500 miles of the Earth on Monday, orbit to be altered

Published on June 24, 2011 4:30 am PT
– By Jim Duran – Writer
– Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller

(TheWeatherSpace.com) — NASA says that a space rock will pass just 7,500 miles above Earth’s surface on Monday, June 27, 2011.

to read more, go to:  http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-06_24_2011_asteroid.html

 

Connection-Lunar Eclipse, Earthquakes. Volcanoe

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Total Lunar Eclipse – Earthquakes and Volcanoes That Follow

By Mitch Battros – Earth Changes Media
Jun 20, 2011 – 11:16:45 AM

  

What I am about to tell you should be considered ‘conjecture’ until adopted and established by the majority of world scientists; however what I will layout below is pure unabated ‘fact’. As many of you know, I am a researcher and author whom among other items, study the science-of-cycles. What I see coming based on this science is worthy of announcement.

 

This is not a warning of imminent danger, but rather a ‘tap on the shoulder’ to be aware of the possible consequences of June 15th total lunar eclipse. There is a noticeable cycle of escalation in earthquake and volcanic activity within two weeks prior and/or two weeks after a full lunar eclipse.

to read more, go to:    http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/publish/article-9162531044.php

 

 

Another Earth inside Earth?

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Parallel world hidden inside Earth

06.06.2011

It seems that scientists find more and more evidence to prove the existence of parallel worlds. Physicists at Stanford University managed to calculate the hypothetical number of universes that were formed as a result of the Big Bang. According to them, the Big Bang created 101016 universes. It is quite possible, though, that they may exist inside one another, including our planet. Therefore, there is probably another Earth hidden inside planet Earth.

The hollow Earth theory can be traced back to ancient periods of the history of human civilization. Ancient wise men believed that there was a whole underground world with its underground creatures living inside the planet. It may seem to many that it is only a primeval and naïve perception of the structure of the world.

to read more, go to:    http://english.pravda.ru/society/anomal/06-06-2011/118121-parallel_world-0/

 

A “Poop Burger”

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JUNE 18, 2011 1:41 PM PDT
Japanese scientist creates ‘poop burger’? Surely not
by Chris Matyszczyk

Are you going to be having a burger today? Bacon? Cheese? Pickle? How about feces? I am not being facetious. I am not even being fecetious.
For Digital Trends informs me of a trend that might just have your digits twitching involuntarily.
It seems that a researcher from the alleged Okayama Laboratory in Japan has taken it upon himself to take the concept of “waste not, want not” to a new and delirious level. Mitsuyuki Ikeda is clearly not a man who is faint of heart or of stomach. On allegedly being approached by the Tokyo Sewage company, which was concerned that it was in possession of just so much sewage mud, Ikeda digested the problem very carefully. He poked and prodded at the sewage, actions which revealed that it was rather full of protein, thanks to all the bacteria that was embedded in its sludge. “Why,” he reportedly said to himself, “there is meat in this mud. And there is no murder involved.”

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20072270-71/japanese-scientist-creates-poop-burger-surely-not/#ixzz1PfMmigRS

Crows Attack Police Officers

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Angry Crows Attack Police Officers In Everett, Washington

06/10/11 01:18 PM ET   AP

EVERETT, Wash. — Police in Everett, Wash., have found themselves in a flap with some unusual suspects: an angry flock of birds.

Crows have been attacking officers in the parking lot of the Everett Police Department’s north precinct station. They’ve been swooping down and dive-bombing the officers as they walk to and from their cars.

Lt. Bob Johns says he recently was flanked by the aggressive birds and “got zinged.” He says, “They’re like velociraptors.”

The Daily Herald reports one officer tried to use his siren to scare away the crows. The birds responded by decorating his car with droppings.

to read more go to:   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/10/crows-attack-police-cops-washington_n_874970.html