Super wingnut Rand Paul wants to cut 62% of the FDA's budget. And in a nice bit of synergy (nice, that is, for food-borne bacteria), he wants to reduce the Center for Disease Control's budget by 28%, and the National Institute of Health's by 37%.
Visionary!
He also wants to eliminate everything in the US Department of Education except the Pell Grant program. Luckily, the need for Pell Grants will likely be greatly reduced, once school standards have crumbled nationwide.
My head is suspended over a goldfish bowl. A glass straw is between my lips. Clouds of smoke are wafting into my face and lemon tart swirls around my mouth.
Only it’s not a big slab of calorific lemon tart spooned up from a plate. This is ‘breathable’ lemon tart.
Instead of eating it, the tart is being pumped out of a futuristic machine that looks like a glorified goldfish bowl — called Le Whaf. And, rather than a triangular slice, this lemon tart looks like a puff of smoke.
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To make the machine work, just press the ‘on’ switch. Within a minute, a cloud of tiny droplets forms in the goldfish bowl.
The cloud can be dispensed from a nozzle on the side of Le Whaf. It then stays suspended inside the glass for a minute before it sinks.
The process going on inside the machinery of Le Whaf is more complicated. It’s filled with special crystals (called piezoelectric crystals) that vibrate rapidly when Le Whaf is switched on, thereby creating ultrasound waves.
These waves create alternate low and high pressures through the liquid which make it bubble and then transform it into tiny liquid droplets that look like a cloud.
So, it's a giant cool-mist humidifier. I bet it will cost more than $30, though.
40 years from now, when we're all best friends with all the Arab nations, and some other group has become Enemy #1, there will be millions of doddering old fools who still think every day is 9/12/01. They'll be walking around waving their canes and screaming about "jihad" at anyone who looks remotely middle-eastern.
I'm sure most of us know people who even now refuse to buy Japanese or German cars because of WWII, right?
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