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...Просто страны, где меньше верят в Б-га, а больше в глобальное потепление; где склонны не к семейным ценностям, а к моральному релятивизму; где не держатся за суверенитет, а открываются миру - так вот, опыт показывает, что эти страны выигрывают в глобальной конкуренции. Увы. Эволюция as usual, ничего личного ( Read more... )

...The conventional explanation for controversy over climate change emphasizes impediments to public understanding: Limited popular knowledge of science, the inability of ordinary citizens to assess technical information, and the resulting widespread use of unreliable cognitive heuristics to assess risk. A large survey of U.S. adults found little ( Read more... )

I've met countless people believing that "baby carrots" are, literally, carrot "babies" that are harvested before they are fully grown. In fact, "baby carrots" are fully grown substandard carrots that are hacked into 2" pieces and polished down in a potato peeler to look like the small ones ( Read more... )

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It's a well-kept secret in food chemistry that "wasabi" has absolutely nothing to do with the real wasabi. The stuff admired by our gourmets is horseradish paste mixed with a food dye. A couple of days ago, I was nearly poked into the eye explaining this bit of chemistry in an upscale Japanese restaurant...

...The green paste on your plate might ( Read more... )

unless I see his long-form death certificate ;-|

...In fag heads, cholesteric liquid crystal type ordering of DNA reveals strong bi-axial correlations, a consequence of the chiral structure of ds-DNA.Physics of DNA: unravelling hidden abilities encoded in the structure of ‘the most important molecule’. AA Kornyshev, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2010, 12, 12352-12378 ( Read more... )