Five Tracks

Posted by Miss Cellania in Car & Vehicle on April 21, 2009 at 9:51 am


This picture of tracks in Lakehurst, New Jersey looks quite intriguing. Can you guess what they are for?

in order for a plane to safely land on an aircraft carrier without racing off the end, its tailhook needs to be ‘caught’ by arresting cables attached to the carrier’s deck (see here). these cables need to be extremely strong and durable but also flexible enough so as not to stop the plane too quickly. these 5 test tracks, located at navair in lakehurst, are dedicated to testing these very systems and the emergency barricades.

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Ice Cream Causes Breathalyser False Positives

Posted by Alex in Food & Drinks on January 25, 2009 at 2:26 am

Have to take a breathalyzer test? Whatever you do, don’t eat ice cream beforehand. Here’s what one Australian man found out the hard way: Bubble O’ Bill ice cream treat will cause the test to come up positive for alcohol!

Prosecutors inquired why the machine had registered a "fail," which prevents the car from starting, despite the man’s claims that he had not been drinking.

The man claimed the alcohol reading was the result of eating a Bubble O’ Bill ice cream treat and Magistrate Rod Crisp ordered a test to be performed to back up the claim. Police recorded the man’s blood alcohol content as 0.00 and performed the test a second time after he took a few bites of Bubble O’ Bill, yielding a 0.018 reading.

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Red Pen = Aggressive Color = Bad for Kids' Mental Health!

Posted by Alex in Baby & Kids, Medicine on December 13, 2008 at 2:25 pm

School officials in Queensland, Australia, are worried about the mental health of kids, so they suggest that teachers don’t use red pen to mark homeworks and tests because red is an aggressive color!

Other tips include structuring time for peer tutoring every day, apologizing to students when necessary and asking students to conduct a "personal skills audit" where they focus on their individual strengths rather than their weaknesses.

The kit, designed to help Queensland teachers address mental health in the classroom, suggests social and emotional wellbeing has been linked to young people’s schooling, among other things.

The education aid has sparked a row in parliament, with deputy opposition leader Mark McArdle calling it "kooky, loony, loopy lefty policies."

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