Carbon …

Following on from Carbon free sugar, it has to be observed that the general populace are woefully ignorant of the basic building blocks of life.

Carbon dioxide is essential for life as we know it. The fundamental reaction is photosynthesis. Carbon dioxide is split, the carbon combined with water makes sugar, the oxygen is released into the atmosphere. Prior to the life forms that developed photosynthesis the atmosphere was devoid of oxygen, no oxygen no higher animals at all.

The chemistry of life is the chemistry of carbon. The four essential forms of food, alcohol, protein, carbohydrate and fat are all great examples of organic chemistry, the chemistry of life. Just kidding about the alcohol being essential, nice but not absolutely essential.

But can you believe it, in a survey conducted in the streets of Perth …

  • 37% of people were so convinced carbon is pollution that they think it would be a worthwhile aim to reduce the carbon content of their body.
  • About a quarter of the population  would rather not eat food with carbon in it.
  • 44% of respondents wished to eliminate carbon and carbon dioxide from food and drink altogether.
  • while 28% of respondents didn’t think there is any carbon or carbon dioxide in food and drink in the first place.

The author of the survey was unkind enough to write …

A staggering 37% of carbon-based-life-form respondents are keen on reducing carbon in the human body. Perhaps the amputation of an appendage at the end of the leg will be the new way to reduce one’s carbon footprint.

And that’s only part of the story, read more <HERE>.

 

 

Intellect free …

Jo Nova brings this advert to our attention …

domino-carbon-free-sugar

You may already be laughing or perhaps crying. If not, may I remind you that sugar is sucrose which is one molecule of glucose joined to one molecule of fructose by a glycosidic bond …

Sucrose

Those things marked C are Carbon atoms. Take all those out and you are left with 22 hydrogen atoms and 11 oxygen atoms … in other words 11 molecules of water.

Next time you have a glass of water think of it as carbon free sugar.

Next time you meet someone talking about carbon pollution you can suggest they switch to Domino sugar …

 

Negative review …

Recently it was suggested to me that I try a particular Thai restaurant, it sounded good, I decided I would.

I googled it to get the address and found not only its address but a scathing review of its decor, its food and its service. In word of mouth I trust.

When I got there I found two Thai restaurants just a few doors apart …

Reviews on social media can easily be corrupted. Peter Hook, the director of communications of Accor Hotels for the Asia Pacific area, has been ordered on leave of absence after he was discovered posting negative reviews online for rival companies under a fake name. He admitted to posting the reviews on Trip Advisor.

The reviews were posted on the travel website which allows the public to share their personal experiences and is based on a rating system of one to five stars. Reviewing under the handle Tavare, Mr Hook joined the website in 2006 and has contributed 105 reviews.

Makes you wonder if one Thai restaurant got its hooks into the other …

CFMupU …

The Supreme Court has found that the CFMEU broke the law in orchestrating the outbreak of thuggery in Melbourne’s CBD last year. The protests were intended to bring GROCON to heal. Justice Cavanough found the union guilty of contempt on five separate days in August and September, during which police were attacked and their horses punched. Union boss John Setka, who has a string of convictions was singled out for special mention.

Federal and State Labor politicians are leading members of the CFMEU fan club. The Socialist Left faction welcomed the union back into its ranks earlier this year, it is the faction of the Victorian  opposition leader who has refused refused to criticise the union’s illegal actions, saying, “I’ve not read the judgment”.

Could it be that he is in their pocket?

AUSTRALIA’S most militant union has been quietly underpinning the Labor Party’s finances, donating more than $9.1 million since the start of the Cole royal commission, placing intense pressure on the Gillard government over the future of industrial relations policy.

Analysis of political donations shows the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has been the biggest donor to the ALP national office since the turn of the century as well as one of the core contributors to the party’s state branches.

As the CFMEU today embarks on one of its most controversial public protests in years, The Australian has obtained a detailed analysis of how Labor profits from the union, explaining the party’s reluctance to distance itself from its at times violent tactics.

Climate models …

Wikipedia …

In particle physics, antimatter is material composed of antiparticles, which have the same mass as particles of ordinary matter but have opposite charge and quantum spin. Antiparticles bind with each other to form antimatter in the same way that normal particles bind to form normal matter. For example, a positron (the antiparticle of the electron, with symbol e+) and an antiproton (symbol p) can form an antihydrogen atom. Furthermore, mixing matter and antimatter can lead to the annihilation of both, in the same way that mixing antiparticles and particles does, thus giving rise to high-energy photons (gamma rays) or other particle–antiparticle pairs. The end result of antimatter meeting matter is a release of energy proportional to the mass as the mass-energy equivalence equation, E=mc2 shows.

Well obviously.

But wait, what about anti-information?

Resurrection …

Mother nature unleashed her power on Oklahoma the other day causing tragic loss of life, loss of homes and enormous financial loss. A whole neighbourhood was destroyed. From Australia, where we know only too well the hurt that natural disasters can inflict, we wish you all the best.

The first responders, obviously, did an amazing job but nothing can compare with the medical service there. By nightfall Monday the death toll stood at 91 and counting, today it’s down to 24.

Civilising influence …

Quotes are from their ABC …

Before he was stabbed to death, the victim was knocked over by a blue car which then rammed into a lamp-post.

The attackers pounced on him in a busy residential street.

Witnesses said they shouted “Allahu akbar” – Arabic for “God is greatest” – while stabbing the victim and trying to behead him. A handgun was also found at the scene.

The victim was a soldier. He was hacked to death near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London. The perpetrators were keen to get their message out, happy to perform for the cameras of witnesses.

Both men appeared to have converted to Islam after being raised by Christian immigrant families, reports in British media said.

Their adopted religion does not seem to have been a civilising influence …