Igniting the mix of hydrogen and air caused the eggs to explode. The whole thing was enclosed in a plastic bag, so that when the egg blew apart, the researchers could collect all the fragments and measure their sizes.

They found that as the explosive pressure increased, there were more fragments, but fewer large pieces.

Eggs catapulted on to the ground by rubber bands also broke into a predictable distribution of pieces, but generally there were fewer bits than after an explosion.
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The mathematical equations that predict the number of pieces of each size can be described by something called a power law, the team reports in a paper on the physics website arXiv.

tunnel advertising

n. An advertisement consisting of a series of illuminated screens in a subway tunnel, each projecting one image from a sequence to create an animation effect as the train goes by.

Guardian: Do women really need help with parking, I wonder aloud, before being sternly reminded that this is not a car designed for women, but one designed for all people. It just happens to have been designed by women. "There are many things that a man will appreciate but that, perhaps, they just didn't think of," says Elna, unwittingly encapsulating perhaps the entire gender divide. "Our saying is that if you meet the expectations of women," Elna whispers conspiratorially across the dashboard, "you exceed the expectations of men."

BBC: The whole front of the car is moulded in one piece which can be removed only by a Volvo mechanic.

"Honestly, the only time I open the bonnet on my car is when I want to fill up washer fluid," said Tatiana Butovitsch Temm.

"Do we need to have a one metre square hatch for that or could we do it in another way?

"So we shifted the filling station for washer fluid to the side of the car, next to where you fill up fuel, and we closed the bonnet for good."

Futuristic images of elderly Japanese going through rinse and dry cycles in rows of washing machines may evoke chills. But they also point to where the world's most rapidly aging nation is heading.

This spring Japanese companies plan to start marketing a "robot suit," a motorized, battery-operated pair of pants designed to help the aged and infirm move around on their own. Then there is the Wakamaru, a mobile, three-foot-high speaking robot equipped with two camera eyes. It is used largely by working people to keep an eye on their elderly parents at home.

All talk of sin aside, these creatures obviously possess some kind of nuclear capability. What's our government doing to contain this possible new terrorist threat? I mean, honestly, we don't want to wait for a mushroom cloud to do something about these nuclear terrorist shrimp. They may be in cahoots the Stalinist crab army!