INDONESIA — Picture this: A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds and shaking walls, people rush out of their homes, thinking that an earthquake is in progress. All they see is a twisting trail of debris in the mid-day [...]
October 23, 2009
Are square A and B the same color? They are. Are too. The illusion, called the same color illusion, illustrates that purely human observations in science may be ambiguous or inaccurate. Even such a seemingly direct perception as relative color. Similar illusions exist on the sky, such as the size of the Moon near the [...]
October 20, 2009
MOSCOW — The mayor of Moscow, famous for seeding clouds to prevent rain during parades, is escalating his war on weather with plans to slash this year’s snowfall by one-fifth in the Russian capital. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s office will marshal the Russian air force and air-defense systems to intercept advancing storm fronts and hit them [...]
October 17, 2009
Hōnen Matsuri(Japanese for “Harvest Festival”) is a fertility festival celebrated every year on March 15 in Japan. Hōnen means rich harvest in Japanese, while a matsuri is a festival. The Hōnen festival and ceremony celebrate the blessings of a bountiful harvest and all manner of prosperity and fertility. The best known of these festivals takes [...]
October 15, 2009
Two illegal immigrants were found outside a Mexico/Texas border town asleep on top of bundles of marijuana. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was following footprints left by six people near Brownsville Saturday morning when he came upon the group sleeping atop more than 350 pounds of pot, the Houston Chronicle reports. Four of [...]
October 11, 2009
I am currently on vacation and thought I might entice you to do the same by giving you glimpses of some rather odd places to stay. No, I do not have the luxury of staying in one these accommodations which you are seeing over this next week or so. HANG OUT LIKE A TEAMSTER For [...]
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October 27, 2009
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