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Friday, April 19, 2013
Today in History
| 1539 | Emperor Charles V reaches a truce with German Protestants at Frankfurt, Germany. | |
| 1689 | Residents of Boston oust their governor, Edmond Andros. | |
| 1764 | The English Parliament bans the American colonies from printing paper money. | |
| 1775 | The American Revolution begins as fighting breaks out at Lexington, Massachusetts. | |
| 1782 | The Netherlands recognizes the United States. | |
| 1794 | Tadeusz Kosciuszko forces the Russians out of Warsaw. | |
| 1802 | The Spanish reopen New Orleans port to American merchants. | |
| 1824 | English poet Lord Byron dies of malaria at age 36 while aiding Greek independence. | |
| 1861 | The Baltimore riots result in four Union soldiers and nine civilians killed. | |
| 1861 | President Lincoln orders a blockade of Confederate ports. | |
| 1880 | The Times war correspondent telephones a report of the Battle of Ahmed Khel, the first time news is sent from a field of battle in this manner. | |
| 1927 | In China, Hankow communists declare war on Chiang Kai-shek. | |
| 1934 | Shirley Temple appears in her first movie. | |
| 1938 | General Francisco Franco declares victory in the Spanish Civil War. | |
| 1939 | Connecticut finally approves the Bill of Rights. | |
| 1943 | The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi rule begins. | |
| 1960 | Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs. | |
| 1971 | Russia launches its first Salyut space station. | |
| 1977 | Alex Haley receives a special Pulitzer Prize for his book Roots. | |
| 1982 | NASA names Sally Ride to be the first woman astronaut. | |
| 1989 | The battleship USS Iowa's number 2 turret explodes, killing sailors. | |
| 1993 | The FBI ends a 51-day siege by storming the Branch Dividian religious cult headquarters in Waco, Texas. | |
| 1995 | A truck bomb explodes in front of the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. |
Oldest European Medieval Cookbook Found
A 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest known European Medieval food recipes.
Apartment Resident Leaves Water Tap On All Winter, Creates Ice Mountain
Wen Hsu of Jilin, China didn't want his water pipes to freeze. So, just as many people around the world, he turned on the tap. And left it on...all winter:
Wen Hsu, 58, had lived on the seventh floor of the property scheduled for demolition to make way for a new shopping centre for 35 years and when developers managed to buy all the other flats in the building - he was left as the only resident.
As winter approached and it got colder Hsu was worried that the uninsulated water pipes running up through the unused and unheated flats below him would freeze, leaving him without running water. So in order to keep the temperature of the pipes above freezing he simply switched on the tap – and then diverted the warm water to flow down the side of the building.
Siri, the keeper of secrets
Robert McMillan writes: "Not everyone realizes this, but whenever
you use Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled digital assistant, she remembers
what you tell her. How long does she remember? Apple isn’t saying. And the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned."
Man Called 911 to Complain about Mom
Sometimes
it helps to talk to someone and vent about your parents, but just don't
call 911, mmkay?Vincent Valvo, 19, was arrested for calling 9-1-1 twice to complain that he 'didn't like how his mom was talking to him.Not surprisingly, alcohol was involved: More
Police arrested Valvo outside his Vero Beach home at 4:30 a.m. after he made the second phone call. In both calls, Valvo complained about his mom.
Judge Holds Himself in Contempt of Court When His Cell Phone Rings in Court
Judge
Raymond Voet of Ionia County, Michigan has a simple rule: if your cell
phone goes off in court, you will be held in contempt of court and fined
$25. He's consistent about enforcement. When his own cell phone rang,
he imposed the penalty on himself. It's a new phone and Judge Voet
wasn't sure how to operate it. But that excuse didn't cut it:"That's an excuse, but I don't take those excuses from anyone else. I set the bar high, because cell phones are a distraction and there is very serious business going on," he said. "The courtroom is a special place in the community, and it needs more respect than that. I tow a tough line, and I got to back it up this afternoon."
At the next recess, Voet held himself in contempt of court, fined himself $25, and stated on the record "If I cannot live by the rules that I enforce, then I have no business enforcing these rules."
From mice to humans, comfort is being carried by mom
There is a very good reason mothers often carry their crying
babies, pacing the floor, to help them calm down. New research published
in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 18 shows that [...]
Why Do Humans Cry?
Researchers abuzz over caffeine as cancer-cell killer
Researchers from the University of Alberta are abuzz after using
fruit flies to find new ways of taking advantage of caffeine’s lethal
effects on cancer cells—results that could one day be used to advance
cancer [...]
Five Benefits of Sunlight You Probably Never Knew About
by Lisa Garber
1. Benefits of Sunlight - Sunlight Helps Kill Pain
In a 2005 study, patients staying on the well-lit side of their hospital unit, thereby receiving about 46 percent greater sunlight exposure, experienced less perceived stress, took 22 percent less analgesic medication hourly, and incurred 21 percent less pain medication cost. Whether they were exposed to sunlight through glass or with windows open is not stated in the study. Natural brightness of sunshine may very well have had these effects on the patients, but keep in mind that some aspects of sunlight, like the ignition of vitamin D production, doesn’t happen through glass.2. It Can Help You Lose Weight
Sunlight affects our metabolism to the point of helping to burn subcutaneous fat, according to a study published in The Journal of Investigative Dermatology. Vitamin D and weight loss are closely tied, with the vitamin being regularly inversely correlated with visceral fat and obesity. One study published in Anticancer Research found that the greater the levels of vitamin D among Hispanics and African Americans, the lower their adiposity, including abdominal obesity.Want to burn fat? Spend between 10 and 30 minutes in the sunlight, depending on your skin pigment, in the two hours on either side of noon without sunscreen daily in the summer. Winter months will require longer periods in the sun, food rich in vitamin D, or even moderate supplementation.
3. Sunlight Via Solar Cycles May Determine Lifespan
Researchers of a study published in Medical Hypothesis say:“Persons conceived and likely born during the peaks (MAX approximately 3 years) of approximately 11-year solar cycles lived an average 1.7 years less than those conceived and likely born during non-peaks (MIN approximately 8 years). Increased energy at solar MAX, albeit relatively a small 0.1 percent increase from MIN, apparently modifies the human genome/epigenome and engenders changes that predispose to various diseases, thereby shortening lifespan.” The researchers believe that this sun-derived variation in the genome may be intended to help us adapt to a changing environment.
4. Sunlight Makes You More Alert at Night
Subjects felt more alert in the evening after 6 hours of daylight exposure compared to those who, in the same study, were only exposed to artificial light. The latter group became sleepier in the evening. For those of us working late into the night (or just trying to stay awake through a movie), spending more time in the sun may help.5. Plants Aren’t the Only Ones to Convert Sunlight to Energy
Melanin is a paradoxical thing: it adds pigment to our hair and skin and reduces damage to DNA, but an excess of it can turn malignant (melanoma). Researchers who published their seemingly outlandish hypothesis in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine say that the melanin in our skin may act as solar panels and ingest energy from the sun, just like plants, by converting gamma and ultraviolent radiation into metabolic energy.“Animal inability to utilize light energy directly has been traditionally assumed,” write co-authors Goodman and Bercovich. They cite the avian pectin, a strange organ that “may help cope with energy and nutrient needs under extreme conditions, by a marginal but critical, melanin-initiated conversion of light to metabolic energy, coupled to local metabolite recycling. … Melanin and the pectin may have unexpected lessons also for human physiology and medicine.”
Nine Adventure Travel Hoaxes
It's
much easier to tell a story about a trip or an expedition that you
didn't take than to actually make the trip. But the tallest tales are
figured out to be hoaxes eventually. For example:Frederick Cook almost certainly set foot in many places where previously no person had before—but the New York-born explorer is also seen as one of modern exploration’s most notorious fraudsters. He participated in three significant expeditions between 1891 and 1903, two of them into the Arctic and the latter a circumnavigation of Alaska’s Mount McKinley, also known as Denali. In 1906, he set forth on another McKinley outing, this time returning home to report that he had summited the 20,320-foot peak, which had never been climbed before. The claim stood the test of time for only three years, when the true story came spilling out: Cook had taken his summit photo on a tiny mountain 19 miles from McKinley’s peak.Suspicions about Cook's Mount McKinley climb escalated after his claim to have reached the North Pole in 1909 was disputed. But that's another story in the list. The nine stories at Smithsonian include swimming, racing, sailing, and several mountain summits. More
Applicants Wanted For A One-Way Ticket To Mars
So it is perhaps not surprising that Mars One has already received thousands of prospective applicants. But there is no return - unlike the mission which hopes to fly to Mars and back in 2018.
Saturn's System May Contain 'Born Again' Moons
There's evidence to suggest the majestic Saturnian system was
re-born out of a violent demolition derby less than 4 billion years
ago.
A Dozen Fascinating Gorges Around The World
Gorges are much more common in arid areas than in wet areas because physical weathering has a greater effect in arid zones. The word 'canyon' has a Spanish origin with many being found in the United States while Europeans prefer to use the term 'gorge.'
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