The foreign press seems aghast at watching democracy in action causing fights, but this UK writer in the right wing telegraph likes it and tries to explain it , and the WaPost puts it into political perspective.
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I am hearing about the severe heat crisis in the US. I suspect they will eventually find thousands dead of heat death (so far only a few reported), but the number will be lower than the 14000 reported in France in 2003 because in the US even the poor have air conditioners and TV's.
even tightwad gov Christie will help pay the electric bills for running your aircon.
something to remember the next time you read about the US and their wasterful "energy use".
related item: Freakonomics wonders how US mobility is related to the availability of airconditioning, and now is down because everyone has already moved south...
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Hidden oxygen in deep space.
Goldsmith, who works at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, details that oxygen was observed in the Orion nebula in dense gas clouds. Accumulated within ice particles that cover grains of dust floating through space, the gas is released when stars forming in nebulas nearby heat particles.
in a related item: check out a collection of eclipse photos HERE.
includes an oldie but goodie:...taken from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-earth journey home from the Moon. This view was created when the Earth moved directly between the Sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft.
NASA
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in a related item: Best microscopic images of the day.
This one is: "nanoparticles obtained by hydrothermal synthesis using microwave heating
Gallery HERE.
Headsup Gizmodo
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Big brother is watching you...the undeletable cookie is the newest thing for private companies to see where you've been and what you're buying...
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The recent storms have caused some deaths (mainly from mudslides or swept away trying to cross streams), and another is on the way, but the big story is that they have to keep closing the Manila schools due to flooded streets.
GMA looks at the reason: housing built along draining streams end up blocking water drainage.
The MMDA said it will not be able to declog 57 percent of stagnant waterways in the metropolis, because many are too narrow to dredge and those wide enough have been encroached upon by squatters who have built houses on top of or along them.
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Frankenfood article on Golden rice: lots of hype about it, but Oryza (a rice business publication, not a "green" biased one) notes the bad news: not enough vitamin a in it and it won't grow in some of the areas where it is needed the most.
Sigh.
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there is an old proverb: Selling coal to Newcastle.
well, here is the Headline of the day:
US exports millions of chopsticks to China
and this article explains the different types of chopsticks and how to eat with them.
PleatedJeans has an illustration on how to use chopsticks:
And no, here in the Philippines, we use a spoon and fork, or eat with our fingers (e.g. crab, fish with bones).
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