āTHE next time someone asks me whether Iām unwell, Iāll be sure to say that my cells are despondent,ā Su Chiang informs us, after receiving an email from E. A. Martinez of LinearDynamics-Energy.com.
The email, entitled āRadioactive Particulate Deflection Technologyā, is addressed to āPredominant Medical Communityā. In it, Martinez announces: āWe are the manufacturers of The XCL Power Producer. We provide energy at zero emissions and in doing that at zero emissions, we create a resonance field, at 5 overā¦
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āEssentially, what this means for your medical staff, university, and patients, is that we manufacture an apature [sic] that can heal the human body without surgery or medical inductors (medications). How this works, is in direct correlation to the molecular structure on the sub cellular level in the despondency of the cell membrane. As you may know, most cells in the human body turn clockwise in normal cell structure. Counterclockwise is the despondencyā¦ā
The email continues in this vein for several more paragraphs, without once making any kind of sense.
Mystery promotion of the week: a shop Daniel Smith passed in Upway, Victoria, Australia, displayed a sign outside offering āTraditional Chinese and Quantum Biofeedback Medicineā
Heart failure ānot very seriousā
THIS is quite puzzling. Liam Graham recently read the āInformation for the userā leaflet in a pack of Boots Ibuprofen caplets. Possible side effects of the drug are listed under two categories.
First, there are the āserious side effectsā, such as blood in stools. If one of these side effects occurs, the user is advised to āstop taking the caplets. See a doctor at once.ā
āFair enough,ā says Liam. It is the second category that confuses him. āThese other effects are less serious,ā according to the leaflet. āIf they bother you talk to a pharmacist.ā This list includes ākidney problems, which may lead to kidney failureā and āhigh blood pressure, heart failureā.
Liam canāt quite understand why these effects are categorised as āless seriousā than the earlier ones. He also wonders whether one would be in a fit state to talk to a pharmacist after being ābotheredā by heart failure.
He has posted a copy of the leaflet at .
Tapping feet to move the earth
USERS of some hand-held devices have, in the past, been frustrated that they couldnāt display online content delivered by Adobeās Flash software such as Google Maps. āKind and clever Tom Strapps provided a website at to rectify this,ā says Richard Keyworth.
Sadly, the site has disappeared. Feedback is inquiring whether this has any connection with Googleās copyright policy people, who may well have regarded this reuse of their maps as unauthorised ā even though their employer has argued that using bits of other peopleās content ā such as snippets of books ā is āfair useā.
Or is it something to do with Tom being cleverer than he is aware? When we checked his online map last year, it gave the elevation of our office as 35.98628234863281 metres above mean sea level. That could well be described as precise. But when we tapped our foot on the floor, the figure didnāt change, despite the flexibility of the underlying London clay. We are trying to contact Tom about an even cleverer real-time version of his map, displaying the earth moving as we tap.
WE RECENTLY asked for readersā ideas on how to help Charles Croll lay slices of a biscuit mixture ācut side upā in a baking tray, when the pieces had been sliced from a roll and were therefore mostly cut on both sides (5 January). This challenge irritated some readers as an example of Feedback pedantry. Others responded with lateral thinking.
Neil Wickens saw two possible solutions. One of these was to ābake them at the centre of the Earth, in which case both sides will be āup'ā. The other was to āsend one set of sides, via quantum entanglement, to me here in Australia and I will bake them for Charlesā.
David Aldred had an equally original solution. This was to use a Mƶbius strip baking pan. āBoth sides of each slice would be up ā or down, or both,ā he claims.
āIt is, I think, less messy if you use these pans in zero gravity,ā he adds.
FINALLY, those of us who live in the UK and other parts of northern Europe have experienced bitterly cold weather in recent weeks. Even so, Nic Plum was startled to read this sign at a petrol station forecourt in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire: āDue to weather the air is frozen.ā
Nic hadnāt realised it was quite so cold and wondered whether he needed another layer of clothing. Then he noticed that the sign was taped over the machine for inflating tyres.
