Sunday, January 19, 2014

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk..."

"That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

Truth.



Clear pictures of Sunday bomb suspect | Bangkok Post: breakingnews
"CCTV footage has given a clear picture of the suspect responsible for Sunday afternoon's hand grenade attack on protesters at Victory monument that left 28 people injured, police said.  Pol Gen Ek said the suspect apparently wanted to toss the grenade into a tent behind the rally stage, which is reserved for PDRC leaders and staff and reporters, but missed the target. The device hit the roof of a nearby coffee shop and exploded. He said he felt sorry for the bombing incident and promised to implement better safety measures for the protesters.  Pol Maj Gen Tawatchai Mekprasertkul, chief of the Central Scientific Crime Detection Division, said the gun used by the suspect was a .38 revolver. He fled into Ratchawithi Soi 14 near Khlong Samsen where he hired a motorcycle taxi driver. Police already know where he got off the motorbike.  It was too early to say if the attacker was the same person behind the Friday’s bombing on Banthat Thong road, although the hand grenades used in the two incidents were of the same type."


"Researchers in England have reassuring news for coffee lovers worried that their daily dose of java may leave them dehydrated: a few cups of joe count the same toward a person’s fluid needs as an equal amount of water. The belief that caffeinated drinks such as coffee could cause dehydration is based on a 1928 study that demonstrated caffeine’s diuretic effect. Since then, only 2 studies have tried to show whether evidence exists to support that belief. Results were mixed, so investigators at the University of Birmingham in England devised new research to compare whether drinking coffee affected hydration differently than water consumption...

“Consumption of a moderate intake of coffee, 4 cups per day, in regular coffee-drinking males caused no significant difference across a wide range of hydration indicators compared to the consumption of equal amounts of water,” Killer said. She and her colleagues noted that public health recommendations to exclude caffeinated beverages from daily fluid needs or to drink a glass of water for every cup of coffee or tea consumed “should be updated to reflect [our] findings.”"


"Toilet seats are actually quite clean, and those bacteria they do harbor are mostly harmless. Over at Slate, microbiologist David Coil explains why he'd sooner lick a porcelain throne than a cell phone – and why neither is likely to do him any harm." - Bacteria in the media: Toilet seats aren’t germy, and cellphones aren’t dangerous.


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