Wednesday, May 23, 2007
FASCINATING PEOPLE, Part 6
Mark Twain (Sam Clemens): 'We should say "Thou shalt not kill" is too general, too sweeping. It includes the field mouse and the butterfly. They can't kill. And it includes the tiger, which can't help it'. He often had something to say about westward expansion, industrialization, the end of slavery, advancements in technology, big government and foreign wars. He made huge investments into new innovations (Tesla might have something to do with that), which brought him to bankruptcy. He declared himself an anti-imperialist. Later, he focused on human greed, cruelty and questioned the humanity of the human race. His mocking of Winston Churchill got him labeled as a traitor. Nowadays they mostly speak of him as a writer, journalist, and humorist. Pity!
Pcelica Maja
Americki naucni tim iz Nacionalne laboratorije Los Alamos (Novi Meksiko) uspio je da istrenira pcele da nanjuse eksploziv. Ovo bi istrazivanje moglo znatno da pomogne u smanjenju rizika od teroristickih napada.Istrazivaci tvrde da su uspjeli da istreniraju pcele da ispruze rilice koje inace koriste za sisanje nektara iz cvijeca kad god se nadju u blizini eksplozivnih naprava.Uspjeh je postignut tako sto su pcele izlagane mirisima raznih vrsta eksploziva nakon cega su nagradjivane zasladjenom vodom kad uspjesno prepoznaju eksploziv."Kad pcele nanjuse eksploziv jednostavno ispruze sisaljke. Ne morate biti strucnjak za zivotinjsko ponasanje da bi razumjeli sto vam zele reci"; rekao je voditelj istrazivanja Tim Harman za Reuters. Ni pcele nisu kao sto su nekad bile!
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