Artichoke

It's no secret that the vegetarian component of our meals is no different variety. The reason for this harsh climate and culinary conservatism. In this we are lagging behind even the neighbors of Europe, which is still exotic for us artichoke has long been a popular table decoration.

Artichoke - a completely unique meal. This is not a vegetable or fruit. Artichoke - a flower! To be exact, a perennial herbaceous plant, aster family is visually similar to a thistle. In the food basket of the future used unopened flower which blossoms into adulthood beautiful purple or blue buds. Homeland of the plant - North Africa. Currently, artichoke grows in Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, South America and California. Almost all the "buds" that come to the U.S. market, are grown in California - the town Kastrovill even claims to be the world capital of the artichoke. Every year it selects the queen of the plant. The most famous of them was Marilyn Monroe in 1949.

On the island of Sicily, people say that regular use of artichokes rejuvenates. And they derive excess cholesterol and relieve swelling. Edible "buds" are useful for older people and patients with atherosclerosis - the disease prevents the development of the dried leaves and roots. The ancient Greeks and Romans considered artichokes a delicacy and an aphrodisiac. The inhabitants of Greece attributed to this plant properties that contribute to the birth of boys.

     

Israel will stop to cooperating with United States

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel on behalf of his head Avigdor Lieberman, has developed a new plan for the development of foreign policy. According to the document, Israel must become less dependent on its main strategic partner - the United States. This newspaper The Jerusalem Post, in an arrangement which proved to be a copy of the plan. The three key components of the new foreign policy should be to strengthen ties with those states which did not aspire to work the previous government's efforts to reassure the international community in the chances of an immediate solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and "zero tolerance" towards all manifestations of anti-Semitism in the world. In the opinion of staff, Avigdor Lieberman, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel to the previous leaders were, in essence, "the Ministry of Palestinian Affairs." The document notes that the U.S. has been and remains "the world's best friend of Israel", but now the government intends to cooperate with other countries on the basis of common interests. For decades, Israel has "no attention" to entire regions and continents, for example, in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Central and South-East Asia, according to officials from the Foreign Ministry. Also, they are not satisfied that all relations with Washington earlier built around the conflict with the Palestinian Authority. Avigdor Lieberman was the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the results of elections to the Knesset in 2009. His party Israel Our Home "took third place and signed a coalition agreement with Likud, whose leader, Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Lieberman warned foreign countries against interfering in Israel's policies, observers say, so he responded to the desire of the United States and other countries to speed up the solution of the Middle East conflict. Lieberman has repeatedly stated that no concessions to the Palestinians.

     

The revolution in physics! Found a strange anomaly!

In the experiment with the Tevatron and the results analyzed by physicists in one of the leading accelerator centers, anomalous event.

Birth of muons, elementary particles, occurred at a considerable distance from the collision of a proton-antiproton beams. And not in pairs, as predicted, but in the form of jets.

In the published report on arxiv.org already said that it is impossible to explain the result within the existing concepts, and informal sources of new experimental data is characterized as a potential revolution in physics, wrote Lenta.ru.

Today is the Tevatron Collider with the highest energy particles. The honor he will select only the Large Hadron Collider, after repairs and running. International team of physicists (article signed by more than 400 authors from 51 research centers around the world) worked with the CDF detector has analyzed data collected in the course of many months of experiments on proton-antiproton beams.

Since the energy of the colliding protons and their antiparticles is sufficiently large (almost 2 trillion electron-volts) - in the collision process becoming visible effects associated with the birth of new particles (the kinetic energy of protons moving in the mass of the produced particles) and the interaction between quarks. In some processes, in particular, there were short-lived and decays with the birth of two mesons, particles with a b-quark.

Special detector to monitor such events and its electronic circuit allows us to trace the trajectory of muons with high accuracy to the place of their occurrence. These data have become a sensation. Muons, which should have been born at a maximum distance of a few millimeters from the place of collision of beams (more spawned two short-lived muon particle simply does not fly), flew more than an order of magnitude, and even had time to leave the vacuum pipe. In addition, there were too many for the Standard Model, it can not obtain muon jets, even in a familiar area near the collision of particle beams.

Working in the field of high energy physics, scientists are still quite accurate in the estimates. But experimenters integrity is beyond doubt, they are honestly described the results obtained. Eschewing the theoretical constructs and pointing out that work with the Tevatron and data analysis are continuing.

In addition - some theoretical explanations for the phenomenon of open (and they will follow in the coming months) can be verified and the Large Hadron Collider.

     

Chinese miners dug a UFO?

Last week in the village of Huang Jiangxi Province (China) in clearing ground for coal mine workers found a strange stone blocks - a disc with a small bulge in the middle. They began to dig further: from the ground shows another Kamenyuki - ideally similar to the first, then more ...


Total miners dragged ten identical blocks. Their diameter - about 3 meters, weight - 400 kilograms. In Huang, archaeologists have already arrived, but so far they have no assumptions about the purpose of these artifacts.

One could assume that these disks by some ancient Chinese ceremonial objects, if not earlier findings. In 1938, an archeological expedition, who worked on the border with Tibet in the spurs of the range of Bayan-Khara-Ula, found a strange graveyard - hundreds of caves carved into the rock, each of which lay in one body. Surprising is not the way burial - in Tibet, nearly half the population lives in natural or excavated caves - and the fact that all the corpses of growth did not exceed 115 centimeters.

In the expedition was the anthropologist, who determined that the mummified creature in structure and differ from the Chinese treatment of Tibetans and other peoples living in this part of Asia. All scientists have found 716 graves. In each of them at the feet of the dead lay a small stone disk. Some of them are on the ancient Chinese language has been written about certain devices, migrate to the place 12 thousand years ago. Like, some people drove vehicles - loot. Talk about other tribe - the ham. But neither they nor the other in Chinese history is unknown. When it came time to return, then archaeologists have brought with them a dozen of these artifacts. But, after already reaching the war with Japan, World War II and the "cultural revolution" 60's, when Red Guards smashed the institutions and museums, not a single disk is not preserved. Propane and the report of the expedition, which had been given the exact coordinates of an unusual cemetery. Believe every word in science is not accepted, so the experts long believed the story a myth. Moreover, it is unclear where in the war-torn country were found funds for an expedition to the outback, writes "Komsomolskaya Pravda - Ukraine".

This was the case until 1994, when one of the Austrian engineers working under contract in China in a suburb of the museum one of the oldest cities in China, Xi'an, found something suitable under the description "Disk Drop. Although these stones are no characters, drawings on them clearly depict something cosmic. But no clear interpretation has so far not appeared.

Now Chinese archaeologists will explore the stone disks found in Jiangxi Province. They hope to have a petrified crust, which formed due to the peculiarities of the local climate, may also be drawings or inscriptions telling the story of the mysterious drop.
 
     

Real Madrid beat Espanyol in the championship of Spain

Spain's championship leader Catalan Barcelona and Real Madrid have won another victory in the matches of the 21 th round of Examples.

Catalans in their own stadium "Nou Camp" beat Getafe 2:1, while playing with 26-minute tenfold. Red card was shown to defender Gerard Pique. And at the last minute of the meeting "blue garnet" and does remain vdevyaterom. The field was removed, Rafael Marquez. The first account in a meeting open wards Josep Guardiola. Already on the sixth minute of the hosts brought forward Lionel Messi. The advantage of "Barcelona" on 67 th minute doubled Xavi Hernandez. The guests scored the only goal of ending the mast with a penalty imposed for a foul in the penalty area Marquez. We Getafe a penalty realized Roberto Soldado.

Royal Club, in turn, got more confident of victory over Espanyol, scoring three unanswered gate opponent the ball. The winners excelled Sergio Ramos (fifth minute) and Kaka (30-minute) and Gonzalo Higuaín (90 minutes). After this victory, Real Madrid, won a third victory in a row, scored 50 points. Backlog of leadership in the national championship Barcelona is five points.

     

Google will share data with U.S. intelligence

According to sources, the deal between Google and the National Security Agency will take weeks, considering, as quoted in Washington Post, "the sensitivity of the topic.
Neither the Google, nor the National Security Agency does not intend to find out who was responsible for cyber attacks in December 2009.