Effects of cold water

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

micowhichicle.blogspot.com/

Nano technology

A LITTLE RISKY BUSINESSNov 22nd 2007The unusual properties of tiny particles contain huge promise. Butnobody knows how safe they are. And too few people are trying to findoutWAVING a packet of carbon nanotubes accusingly at the assembledAmerican politicians during a hearing last month in Congress, AndrewMaynard was determined to make a point. The nanotechnology expert atthe Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, DC,had bought the tiny tubes on the internet. They had arrived in the postalong with a safety sheet describing them as graphite and thusrequiring no special precautions beyond those needed for a nuisancedust.

http:// www.economist.com/subscriptions/offer.cfm?campaign=168-XLMT

Art(?) fetches money

Art.view
Quick fix
Nov 10th 2007From Economist.com
Laughing all the way to the Banksy
THE phenomenon of Banksy, an English graffiti artist, seems to have got out of hand. Banksy, who trades heavily on his anonymity, began drawing on walls alongside streets in north London and Bristol, his hometown.
But his stencils—often of rats making mordant political jokes—have come in from the cold streets to the prosperous warmth of London galleries and auction houses. Record prices for Banksies have been repeatedly set and exceeded over the past nine months.
The rush began in February, when Sotheby's sold seven of Banksy's works in oil, enamel, acrylic and spray-paint. Bonhams took up the baton, and set the pace in April, selling Banksy's "Space Girl and Bird" for £288,000. This autumn, Bonhams has auctioned another 11 Banksies, and Bloomsbury no fewer than 21.