2007.09.30
Big news --
LA Times:
LSU slips past USC for top AP ranking.
"LSU is No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time since Nov. 2, 1959."
WSJ (subscription):
Historic Surge
In Grain Prices
Roils Markets.
"What's changed is that powerful new sources of demand
are emerging. In addition to U.S. government incentives
that encourage businesses to turn corn and soybeans into
motor fuel, the growing economies of Asia and Latin
America are enabling hundreds of millions of people to
spend more on food."
2007.09.25
Nature:
Earth's mantle in a spin.
"Jung-Fu Lin at the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, California, and his colleagues took some
iron-containing minerals known as ferropericlases and
subjected them to the brutal high temperatures and
pressures of the lower mantle -- the layer of the inner
Earth lying just above the core, in some places more
than 2,000 kilometres beneath the surface."
2007.09.16
The problems of having a family tree without enough branches --
Wikipedia:
The Ancestry of King Charles II of Spain.
"His great-great-great grandmother, Joanna I, (Joanna
the Mad) ... became completely insane early in life; the
fear of a taint of insanity ran through the Habsburgs.
Charles descended from Joanna a total of 14 times --
twice as a great-great-great grandson, and 12 times
further."
> I found all 14 on the chart!
