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Have you noticed all the buzz surrounding the Higgs boson? Do you have any idea what it is or what it means? You're not alone.

Let me help you brush up just in time for CERN's big announcement on July 4, 2012. What does the Higgs particle have to do with bombs and giraffes? You'll have to click to find out. And join the conversation by leaving a comment below. Come on, talk nerdy to me!

CLICK HERE FOR FULL TRANSCRIPT

The video below is a brilliant explanation of the Standard Model by Henry Reich of Minute Physics. You can subscribe to his YouTube channel here.

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6 Famous Symbols That Don't Mean What You Think

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Incredible Photos Of A Massive Chinese-Built Ghost Town In The Middle Of Angola

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Everything You Need To Know About Gold In 4 Pie Charts

 

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These First-Person Accounts Of Torture In Syrian Prisons Are Terrifying

Since the beginning of anti-government protests in 2011, the Syrian government has arrested thousands of people, allegedly subjecting them to torture and imprisonment without due process.

A disturbing report released by the Human Rights Commission offers terrifying glimpses into the torture in these prisons. One prisoner tells the HRC:

"The guards hung me by my wrists from the ceiling for eight days. After a few days of hanging, being denied sleep, it felt like my brain stopped working. I was imagining things. My feet got swollen on the third day. I felt pain that I have never felt in my entire life. It was excruciating. I screamed that I needed to go to a hospital, but the guards just laughed at me."

Here's a graph showing how many prisoners are crammed into one cell compared with maximum occupancy in Europe:

And some terrifying stories and sketches:

 

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At 3,000 years old this wood and leather toe is the worlds oldest known prosthetic.

 

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Do You Know That Ramly Burgers Are Banned In Singapore?

Text and Images by Sheere Ng @ Makansutra

Did you know that the beloved and hugely popular Ramly burger – a Malaysian makan icon which we love to eat at local Hari Raya pasar malams or food fairs – is not the real deal at all?

In fact, the only authentic thing about the Ramly Burgers in Singapore is the wrapper.

That’s because the Ramly beef and chicken patties, the essence of what a Ramly burger is all about, has been banned in Singapore for some time.

According to Mr. Vivek, Director of Hassenah Singapore, a local distributor of Ramly products, the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore’s (AVA) main point of contention with Ramly burgers is that one of the factory’s sources of beef for its beef burgers is from India, which is not one of the approved sources of beef by the AVA.

Instead, what you get are burger patties with brand names such as Tasty, Sultan Burger and Armiya, all made locally.

So who is Ramly and how come his burgers became so popular?

Founder Ramly Bin Mokni is a Malaysian who together with his wife, Shala Siah Binti Abdul Manap, created the burger recipe in 1979.

They were selling burgers over a mobile kiosk at Kuala Lumpur and it became so popular that they subsequently sold their unique patties, along with their egg-wrapping way of cooking the burger, to the other street vendors.

The street vendors later named this burger Ramly Burger, after their supplier.

Ramly and his wife, who till then had been making the patties at home, opened their first factory five years later. Today, the Ramly Burger brand can be found everywhere in Southeast Asia from Singapore and Thailand to Philippines and Indonesia.

“They have created a product with a very Asian taste suitable for Asian palates,” says Mr Vivek, Director of Hassenah Singapore, a local distributor of Ramly products. Besides patties, Ramly also manufacturers other products such as fish fillet, frankfurter, nuggets, fried chicken, buns, and sauces like chilli and mayonnaise.

Out of all of those items, only the wrapping paper, mayonnaise, and frozen seafood like octopus balls are distributed in Singapore.

To understand why such a burger is popular in Singapore and why it has people clamouring for more is partly due to the way it is cooked:

The patty cooks on a hot plate, alongside a thin omelette, some onions and cabbages. When ready, the patty is wrapped in that omelette “skin” and topped with the vegetables, followed by mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce and Chilli. The whole concoction sits between two soft toasted sesame buns.

It is this technique and method which makes a Ramly burger, but that is not the whole story. The other real secret is the addictive special spice mix sauce which you do not get here in Singapore, but only altered and “evolved” versions.

If you want the real Ramly experience, the nearest place a Singaporean can taste a Ramly burger is across the causeway.

However, this is not to say that you can’t get a good Ramly-style burger using locally produced patties.

After all, authentic or not, what matters is how it tastes.

For those who are interested, the Ramly Burger recipes, in Malay, are available on the company’s website: http://www.ramly.com.my/

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German Polls Show Support For Marijuana Legalization And A Ban On Bestiality
6-07-2012

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced the "Dialogue on Germany's Future", the intent was to "stimulate a nationwide debate and gain food for thought and recommendations for public policy action", according to Fraunhofer ISI. As part of the plan, an online poll was created for Germans to voice certain ideas on issues important to them.

Well, hopefully Merkel's got a big appetite because she's got more than enough food for thought now.

The appetizer wasn't much of a suprise, with 152,000 Germans voicing their support for the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana, according to Reuters.

But the second course, also focusing on decriminalization, maybe did; 93,000 Germans expressed their support of overturning a 1969 that decriminalized sexual abuse of animals, aka bestiality — a somewhat controversial law due to be revised (a German newspaper earlier this year warned of the rise of "animal brothels").

For her third course, Merkel was given a healthy dose of 157,000 German opinions on the Ottoman Turks systematic massacre of countless Armenians after World War I. With Turkey continuing to resist calling the massacre a genocide, Germans supported making it illegal to deny labeling it genocide. Given Turkey's attempts at joining the EU and their strong trading relations with Germany, Merkel quickly rejected this notion.

And for dessert, a few other popular policy ideas: planting trees to commemorate German reunification, increased political support for home births, and increasing the affordability of artificial insemination.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/german-polls-show-support-for-marijuana-legalization-2012-7#ixzz1znUWwp3z

 

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Why Alcohol Could Be More Dangerous Than Heroin

Michael Kelley | Jul. 4, 2012, 2:20 PM

We've covered the study by former UK drug czar David Nutt that found alcohol to be the most dangerous drug in the country by far when 20 drugs were rated on how much harm each caused to users and to others.

Nutt just came out with a new book, Drugs Without the Hot Air: Minimizing the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs, and last week told the Guardian that research into mental illness is hampered by the prohibition of drugs such as psilocybin and LSD.

This chart from Nutt's study is pretty staggering:

 

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Remember to hang your SINGAPURA FLAG.

 

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