Twinned Rainbows Formation Explained By New Research
A twinned primary rainbow produced through computer simulation. The rainbow is split because of the interaction of light with two types of water drops: some smaller, spherical ones, and some larger water drops that become nonspherical.Double rainbows had their fifteen minutes of fame on the Internet. Now get ready for their even more mysterious cousins: twinned rainbows. New research has suggested an explanation for these exotic shows of color.
Paul Quinn College In Texas Removes All Pork Products From Campus
The healthy food movement is taking over in a big way, and colleges are not being left behind. Kombucha and kale chips stock campus stores, attempting to curve bad food habits.
Paul Quinn College in Texas even instituted a ban on pork.
As the school's president Michael J. Sorrell explained, pork is an unhealthy meat that can lead to a variety of health issues. Paul Quinn College, which is a historically black college, has been refining its dining options since Sorrel took office five years ago, and cutting pork was the next big step.
"We know there are many negative health consequences of consuming pork (eating pork can lead to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, cancer, sodium retention and heart problems, not to mention weight gain and obesity)," wrote Sorrel in a news update to the campus on August 8.
"Therefore, as a part of our continued effort to improve the lives and health of our students, Paul Quinn College and its food service partner Perkins Management have collaborated to create a pork-free cafeteria. From this semester forward PQC will no longer serve dishes containing pork. That applause you hear in the background is the blood pressure of our students, faculty and staff."
Removing pork is hardly Sorrell's most surprising initiative towards providing Paul Quinn with healthier food options. In 2010 the school's football team program was eliminated, and the extra field was turned into a garden to grow vegetables and fruit. They sell the fresh produce on campus and in local markets to the surrounding area.
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Bravo! Mr. Sorrell . . . Bravo!
World Food Crisis Looms If Exports Are Restricted, U.N. Warns
ROME, Aug 9 (Reuters) - The world could face a food crisis of the kind seen in 2007/08 if countries restrict exports on concerns about a drought-fuelled grain price rally, the UN's food agency warned on Thursday, after reporting a surge in global food prices in July.
A mix of high oil prices, growing use of biofuels, bad weather, soaring grain futures markets and restrictive export policies pushed up prices of food in 2007/08, sparking violent protests in countries including Egypt, Cameroon and Haiti.
Concern about extreme hot and dry weather in the U.S. Midwest sent corn and soybean prices to record highs last month, driving overall food prices higher again and reversing the Food and Agriculture Organisation's forecast for declines this year.
"There is potential for a situation to develop like we had back in 2007/08," the FAO's senior economist and grain analyst Abdolreza Abbassian told Reuters.
"There is an expectation that this time around we will not pursue bad policies and intervene in the market by restrictions, and if that doesn't happen we will not see such a serious situation as 2007/08. But if those policies get repeated, anything is possible."
School snack laws may help prevent weight gain
Vendors say these items are healthier than some machine snacks. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
Students gained less weight over three years if they lived in states that restricted the sale of unhealthy snacks at school than kids in states without those laws, a study has found.
The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, also found that students in states with the restrictive laws who were overweight or obese in fifth grade were less likely to be that way by eighth grade than students in other states.
Air Pollution Linked With Stillbirth Risk
Air pollution has been linked to a number of breathing problems, mainly in developing countries, and now a new preliminary study looking at pollution levels in New Jersey has found an increased risk of stillbirths among women exposed to specific pollutants."We found that different pollutants are harmful in different trimesters of pregnancy," said Dr. Ambarina Faiz, an instructor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. For example, exposure to a high level of nitrogen dioxide was particularly harmful during the first trimester, she said.
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Faced with wave of media criticism over Iran issue, Netanyahu coddles writers who support him
During the past week alone Netanyahu personally called two writers, an Israeli and an American, to praise them for backing his stance.
Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 12, 2012.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is trying to
persuade the Israeli public to support an attack on Iran’s nuclear
facilities, has been bombarded daily by dozens of articles, opinion
pieces and media analyses conveying a totally opposite message.
Other than his “home newspaper,” Yisrael Hayom, most of the media in
Israel, Europe and the United States have expressed their opposition to
an attack on Iran. In such an atmosphere, it’s no wonder that Netanyahu
regards any article that doesn’t totally rule out a unilateral Israeli
attack on Iran as precious and even makes a point of expressing his
satisfaction to the writer.
Why Do Israeli Media Keep Predicting War with Iran?
A
frenetic pounding of the war drums appears designed to create the
impression that Israel will attack Iran before the U.S. presidential
election. Whether that's Netanyahu's real intent remains a mystery
If the White House believes November will arrive without any nasty surprises in the Iran nuclear standoff, it is not taking seriously the feverish chatter throughout Israel‘s media positing an imminent Israeli attack on the Islamic Republic. The front pages of the four main Israeli dailies last Friday reflected what appeared to be a concerted campaign to create the impression that Israel is preparing itself to start a hot war with Iran sometime over the next 12 weeks, notwithstanding objections by the U.S. and other Western powers — and, indeed, by much of Israel’s security establishment.
Hundreds flee Spain wildfires that killed 2 firefighters, destroyed hundreds of acres in Garajonay National Park
Massive blaze may have started when a car broke down and caught fire when its hood was lifted, officials say
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Firefighters of Alcoy and Elda try to extinguish a fire in Torre de Macanes near Alicante.
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Pope's butler leaked papers to shock 'corrupt' Church, judge says
Pope Benedict XVI's butler will be tried on a aggravated theft charge over the leaking of hundreds of secret papers from the pope's personal apartment to an Italian journalist, a Vatican spokesman said Monday.
The butler, Paolo Gabriele, acted out of a desire to combat "evil and corruption everywhere in the Church," according to a report by a judge investigating the case.
"I was certain that a shock ... would have been healthy to bring the church back onto the right track," the judge, Piero Antonio Bonnet, wrote in his report released Monday by the Vatican.
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Lost Egyptian Pyramids Found?
Two possible pyramid complexes might have been found in Egypt, according to a Google Earth satellite imagery survey.
Located about 90 miles apart, the sites contain unusual grouping of mounds with intriguing features and orientations, said satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol of Maiden, N.C.
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