Saturday 14 May 2011

random wikipedia infobytes (4?) and maybe other stuff

wow, its been a while since i posted anything.  i've been doing assignments. usually they would not stop me doing this, but it was very difficult writing 7000 words on what happens to a plant when it catches fire.

i have also decided that a new post each day is not necessary; only a few people see each one, so leaving each post on top for 3-4 days gives it ample time to be seen. as usual, i am constantly thinking on ways to improve this blog, and can't help but share my ideas with whoever manages to read it. i like to think i am working with the viewers of this blog to make it as good as a blog written by me can be. if you have any suggestions or anything at all to say about the blog, put it in the comments.

ok, now for some random, hopefully interesting (and correct!) information about the world we live in, brought to you thanks to the good people at wikipedia. which means you, i guess. so give yourselves a pat on the back for being awesome, and... stuff!

the top listing album in the first week of 1966 was herp alberts tijuana brass "whipped cream and other delights."
i'm not sure i really want to know what the other things are, but maybe i'm looking at that with modernised eyes. i'm currently trying to get herp alperts tijuana brass' 'green peppers' to play in the background on this blog, but there doesn't seem to be an app for doing that.

an interesting thing about the KGB, the soviet secret service: they had an 'active reserve,' which means people who work undercover, doing certain jobs, like a scientist, or a journalist, a doorman in a hotel, translators, telephone engineers, and janitors and stuff. they are all undercover KGB agents in their own country, who have to write a report on everything they've seen and heard of any importance each month.
they were refered to as 'the eyes of the master.'
the article also states that the numbers of these agents increased after the fall of communism.

i got 'agriculture' by clicking random page. if you have some experience clicking random page, you'll know how amazing it is to get such a broad topic. i just felt i had to share.

a 'prestopped nasal consonant' is a sound, used actively today in some languages, produced by the nose.
I kid thee not.
 behaving linguistically like a single consonant, it seems very similar to a snort. i'm guessing this is what a 'snort of derision' is reffered to in the phonetic world.

my next post, hopefully in about 3 days, will be about dichloroacetic acid. it has been claimed by canadian scientsits to be a cure for cancer, and pharmaceutical companies are accused of not wanting to fund this cure because it cannot be patented.
being a denizen of this world, i wouldn't be surprised if a genuine cure for cancer was lost to the murky shadows of indifference because people weren't able to profit from it, but i think its best to do more research, and while i'm at it, i'll post it on here for anyone that wants to see. i do the research, so you don't have to, but you probably already did, if you're actually interested in it.

i'd like to say about it now, however, before i do proper research, that from the knowledge i have attained from uni about cell biology, and i did a course solely on that, the science behind it seems genuine. ingenious, even.

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