THE WATERCOOLER
Pokemon Go, just not here
THOUGH little Pokemon are popping up all over the planet, in people’s bathtubs, dog houses and nearby parks, players of the explosively popular app are not welcome to play their game in certain locations. Both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Arlington National Cemetery in Washing DC area have issued pleas for players to not enter these memorials spaces intent on playing their game. There is a time and place for everything, and not now, so it seems like a fair call. We’d no more go to these kinds of locations and start belting out an opening tune from a musical. With the uptake on the app breaking records, it’s sadly a statistical reality though there’ll be someone out there who just won’t get it.
Entomo-whatophagy?
Mmmmmm. Eating insects for food? It’s not new, but thankfully Mcdonalds have not found out how popular it is. National Geographic have issued a spiel on Snapchat about what bugs taste like. If you can get past the images and not listen to you brain screaming at you to “move away now!”, here’s what we will hopefully never see as a “side” to replace fries. Giant water bugs taste like a salty Jolly Rancher candy. Oh, yes, American lolly reference, which is like a super sweet hard boiled candy and I highly doubt any creature with six legs would ever taste like that. Scorpions apparently taste “funky and bitter” like spoiled crab meat. I’ll have to take their word on that! Grasshoppers, a popular snack in many countries not surprisingly tastes like spicy popcorn which I will never order on my next trip to Readings. “Hi, can I have a jumbo bucket of grasshoppers please?”
Inside peek to the Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula isn’t something you eat. It’s the left over of a massive explosion of a star in the Taurus constellation and it’s mighty pretty. Astronomers have been observing it since the invention of a telescope capable of doing so but now we have Hubble and this week that marvel of modern star gazing revealed for the first time the best pics yet. Six and half thousand years after the star exploded there’s still a lot of activity there and Hubble has pictured it in high resolution colour. The remaining star has shrunk to just 20 miles across but still has the mass of our sun so there’s lots going on but most striking is the colours of the rainbow the energy being produced there is creating.
Like father, like son
OH dear, here we go again? (I cannot stand repetition. I need more spontaneity in my life!) but clearly the son of wanted/presumed/is dead Al Qaeda terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, doesn’t think so. He’s calling for revenge for the assassination of his dad. It’s not possible he just found out, is it? Anyway Hamza Bin Laden has threatened the USA in a 21-minute speech. Apparently the aging commanders of Al Qaeda have struggled to attract newcomers to the fray with ISIS hogging all the limelight it seems Hamza is the new poster boy. Groan. Peace, love and underpants people!