Archive for March, 2010
Chile quake moved entire city 3 metres to west
• March, 2010Chile quake moved entire city 3 metres to west THE massive earthquake which struck the west coast of Chile last month moved the entire city of Concepcion more than three metres to the west. Preliminary measurements drawn from global positioning stations showed that Concepcion, Chile’s second largest city, is now 3.04 meters further west than it was prior to the 8.8-magnitude quake which struck February 27. It was the fifth most powerful quake recorded since instruments have been available to measure seismic shifts and there…
French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment
• March, 2010French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted. For decades it was assumed that the local bread had…
Purple snow in southern Russia
• March, 2010Purple snow in southern Russia Prime Time Russia The morning after “Woman’s Day”, lots of people in Southern Russia couldn’t believe what they were seeing when they found purple snow in their streets. Multi-coloured snowfall had landed in Russia’s Stravropol region.
LHC Maintenance shutdown in 2011
• March, 2010LHC Maintenance shutdown in 2011 Katie Yurkewicz The LHC will shut down for about one year – but not until late 2011 What the BBC reported yesterday is true, but is not exactly news. A revised schedule for the LHC’s next few years was announced in early February by CERN. According to the revised schedule, the LHC will run at a maximum energy of 3.5 TeV per beam for a period of about 18 months, starting with the first collisions at 3.5 TeV per beam…