Friday, November 26, 2010

Very Strange- Bananas Sweeter when they're exposed to Music

The bananas are delivered to the the Toyoka Chuo Seika firm from the Philippines in the form of ordinary, unripe fruit.Mozart’s String Quartet 17 and Piano Concerto 5 in D major, as well as other works, are then played continuously for a week over speakers in the fruit's ripening chamber and the magic begins.
The fruit company's Isamu Okuda confirmed to the Japan Times that the organisation is convinced the process makes the bananas sweeter - and consumers of the fruit agree.Sales of the yellow wonders, otherwise known as the 'Mozart bananas', are up over last year's equivalent, non-music-exposed fruit since they were introduced last July.

Chemistry Professor deadly lab blast

MULHOUSE, France - A professor at a chemistry college in eastern France was fined 8,000 euros and given a suspended jail sentence on Thursday for causing a lab explosion that killed a colleague and gravely injured a student.The accident occurred in 2006 when professor Alain Louati went out for lunch and an open bottle of highly inflammable ethylene triggered an explosion that tore through his laboratory in the city of Mulhouse, near the German border.The blast, which blew out windows and ceilings and blackened walls, killed a professor in a room above the lab and injured a high-school student in an adjacent room. The young woman suffered severe fractures to the head and body, was temporarily in a coma and was left handicapped.
A court in Mulhouse found Louati, 62, guilty of involuntary homicide and causing injury by negligence and gave him a suspended 18-month prison sentence.

Rare postage stamp worth $347,500

 BERLIN - Half a rare German postage stamp which dates back to 1872 has fetched some 261,000 euros ($347,500) at auction in the southern German town of Bietigheim-Bissingen, a spokeswoman for the auction house told Reuters on Thursday.She said a German collector purchased the well-preserved half stamp, which originates from the northern German town of Syke, despite its hefty price tag because it was so rare.
“Stamps were in short supply in Syke between 1872 and 1874 so it was decided that they should be cut in half as a makeshift solution,” she said. “But because this was only done for a short period, very few letters actually bear these halved stamps.”She said the winning bidder from north Germany was able to secure the stamp, which had an asking price of 120,000 euros, only after a lengthy duel with a bidder from south Germany.The stamp was particularly valuable because it was featured as the cover picture on a book written about Syke’s collection of halved stamps by Rolf Rohlfs in 1982.

What a Location- Fetish club operating next door to primary school

A fetish club with its own dungeon and spanking bench is operating in a barn next door to a primary school.
Angry neighbours have complained after hearing "screaming and whipping. The Old Barn, next to St Mary's Primary School, in Warrington, Cheshire, offers afternoon dominatrix sessions and kinky parties. Mum Debbie Gleave, who lives nearby, said: "I've complained so many times. My children are terrified to go into the garden."But the local council said the owners did not need a licence and police said nothing criminal was going on.A spokesman for the barn said: "We are open to discussing any concerns."


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