Sunday, August 26, 2018
Tragic Coincidence
An excerpt from USA Today -
John McCain dies 9 years to the day after Ted Kennedy — of the same kind of cancer
By John D'Anna, Arizona Republic
PHOENIX – U.S. Sen. John McCain died nine years to the day after his good friend Sen. Ted Kennedy — both of the same kind of cancer.
McCain, R-Ariz., died Saturday a little more than a year after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that affects roughly 10,000 Americans a year.
Kennedy, D-Mass., a close friend of McCain's in the Senate, was diagnosed in May 2008 and died Aug. 25, 2009.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/25/john-mccain-dies-9-years-day-after-ted-kennedy-same-cancer/1102340002/
John McCain dies 9 years to the day after Ted Kennedy — of the same kind of cancer
By John D'Anna, Arizona Republic
PHOENIX – U.S. Sen. John McCain died nine years to the day after his good friend Sen. Ted Kennedy — both of the same kind of cancer.
McCain, R-Ariz., died Saturday a little more than a year after he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare form of brain cancer that affects roughly 10,000 Americans a year.
Kennedy, D-Mass., a close friend of McCain's in the Senate, was diagnosed in May 2008 and died Aug. 25, 2009.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/25/john-mccain-dies-9-years-day-after-ted-kennedy-same-cancer/1102340002/
Spaghetti Mystery Solved
An excerpt from CNN -
Spaghetti mystery that stumped famous physicist is finally solved
By Don Lincoln
Until this month, however, it was unknown if it is even possible to break a stick of spaghetti into only two pieces. Spoiler: It is. And researchers Ronald Heisser of Cornell University and Vishal Patil of MIT and their co-authors figured it out. All it takes is a twist.
If you take a stick of spaghetti and twist it before you bend it, you can break the stick into two. When the initial fracture occurs, energy is released as occurs in a normal break, but rather than propagating through the stick and breaking it, the energy goes into relieving the tension induced by the twist.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/opinions/spaghetti-mystery-feynman-lincoln/index.html
Spaghetti mystery that stumped famous physicist is finally solved
By Don Lincoln
Until this month, however, it was unknown if it is even possible to break a stick of spaghetti into only two pieces. Spoiler: It is. And researchers Ronald Heisser of Cornell University and Vishal Patil of MIT and their co-authors figured it out. All it takes is a twist.
If you take a stick of spaghetti and twist it before you bend it, you can break the stick into two. When the initial fracture occurs, energy is released as occurs in a normal break, but rather than propagating through the stick and breaking it, the energy goes into relieving the tension induced by the twist.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/25/opinions/spaghetti-mystery-feynman-lincoln/index.html
Navigating the Mixed-Race Experience
An excerpt from the Guardian -
The mixed-race experience: 'There are times I feel like the odd one out'
By Alex Moshakis
Last year the photographer Tenee Attoh began taking portraits of multiracial friends and acquaintances against a mottled black background at the Bussey Building in Peckham, southeast London. Attoh is half-Dutch on her mother’s side, half-Ghanaian on her father’s, and identifies as mixed-race. Born in the UK, she spent most of the first 23 years of her life in Accra and Amsterdam, shuttling between cities and cultures, an experience she found enlightening but problematic. “On the one hand it allows you to develop a different understanding of the world,” she says of her duality. “But there’s still a lot of ignorance in society. People perceive you as either black or white, and you’re not – you’re mixed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/26/the-mixed-race-experience-there-are-times-i-feel-like-the-odd-one-out-
The mixed-race experience: 'There are times I feel like the odd one out'
By Alex Moshakis
Last year the photographer Tenee Attoh began taking portraits of multiracial friends and acquaintances against a mottled black background at the Bussey Building in Peckham, southeast London. Attoh is half-Dutch on her mother’s side, half-Ghanaian on her father’s, and identifies as mixed-race. Born in the UK, she spent most of the first 23 years of her life in Accra and Amsterdam, shuttling between cities and cultures, an experience she found enlightening but problematic. “On the one hand it allows you to develop a different understanding of the world,” she says of her duality. “But there’s still a lot of ignorance in society. People perceive you as either black or white, and you’re not – you’re mixed.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/aug/26/the-mixed-race-experience-there-are-times-i-feel-like-the-odd-one-out-
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Brilliant Response
‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful pic.twitter.com/bEqOAYpxEL— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 21, 2018
Freedom!
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
Animal crackers have been caged for 116 years. Pressure on Nabisco helped free them.
By Taylor Telford
After more than a century of imprisonment, Barnum’s cracker creatures are roaming free — until they meet their mushy demise in the mouths of children, anyway.
After pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Nabisco has rolled out a redesign of its Barnum’s animal crackers box — which takes its name from the famed circus — that historically featured animals behind bars. Now, the box shows the animals in formation, asserting their freedom on the savanna.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/08/21/animal-crackers-have-been-caged-for-116-years-pressure-on-nabisco-helped-free-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3863073f6771&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Animal crackers have been caged for 116 years. Pressure on Nabisco helped free them.
By Taylor Telford
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| Nabisco’s redesigned box appears on the shelf of a grocery store in Des Moines. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) |
After more than a century of imprisonment, Barnum’s cracker creatures are roaming free — until they meet their mushy demise in the mouths of children, anyway.
After pressure from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Nabisco has rolled out a redesign of its Barnum’s animal crackers box — which takes its name from the famed circus — that historically featured animals behind bars. Now, the box shows the animals in formation, asserting their freedom on the savanna.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2018/08/21/animal-crackers-have-been-caged-for-116-years-pressure-on-nabisco-helped-free-them/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3863073f6771&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
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