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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Q: Does sugar make kids hyperactive?

A: There have been no definitive studies proving this to be true, while a variety of studies have shown it to be false. What is true is that sugar is a readily available source of energy, and kids tend to be hyperactive at events where lots of sugar is served, such as birthday parties, Halloween, and Christmas. One double-blind survey showed that parents tended to claim their children were hyperactive when they were told the kids had just consumed large amounts of sugar, even though the children had not been given sugar, and in spite of the fact that their behavior had not substantially changed.

Q: Will listening to Mozart make babies smarter?

A: Listening to Mozart does soothe a baby somewhat, and learning to play a musical instrument will help develop the brain, but there is no evidence proving that Mozart makes babies smarter.

Q: Does shaving hair make it grow back darker?

A: No, but it will give each hair a blunter end after being shaved.

Q: Why does asparagus make pee smell funny?

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• The word xenia has a variety of meanings.

To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of hospitality, generosity, and courtesy shown to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s Pageeffect 2 the of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, a community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton.

• Xystus is an architectural term, referring to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes would exercise during inclement weather.

To the Romans, the xystus was the garden walkway in front of the porticoes, where they planted flower beds.

• Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used for scraping bones, while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long flat bone located at the center of the chest.

• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of our words use it for a prefix.

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Q & A ABOUT THE BODY (cont) called mercaptan which is also found in onions, garlic, rotten eggs, and skunks. Not everyone contains the specific enzyme responsible for breaking that enzyme down in the digestive tract, so about half of the population will have stinky urine after eating asparagus. Sometimes it shows up in urine as quickly as 15 to 30 minutes after consuming asparagus. Even Benjamin Franklin described the odor as “disagreeable” in his essay on flatulence called “Fart Proudly.”

Q: Do cucumbers make your eyes less puffy?

A: Not really, but cold water does, and cucumbers are mostly made of water, and they are usually pretty cold. A cold wet wash cloth would probably do just as well.

Q: Should you put a steak on a black eye?

A: The thought is that the steak provides coolness and a little pressure, aiding in preventing swelling, but doctors say that bacteria on the steak would make it a bad choice. Instead, just use an ice bag or a sack of frozen vegetables.

Q: Do spicy foods cause stomach ulcers?

A: No, stomach ulcers are caused by the bacteria Helicobacter pylori, and also by overuse of OTC anti-inflammatory medications such as aspirin and ibuprofen.

Q: Why do men have nipples?

A: When the fetus is developing, it follows a female template first. When the embryo is six weeks old, the male characteristics kick in if the baby is to become a boy. So the nipples are formed before sex of the baby is determined.

Q: Does sitting close to the TV hurt your eyes?

A: No, but many people with poor eyesight naturally sit close to the TV. Q: Will playing brain-training games make you smarter?

A: Playing brain-training games makes you better at playing brain-training games, but won’t make you smarter.

Q: Can a contact lens end up on the back of the eyeball?

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surface of the eyelid has a thin, moist lining called the conjunctiva. At the back of the eyelid, the conjunctiva folds back and becomes the outer covering of the white part of the eyeball.

The continuous nature of the conjunctiva from the eyelid to the eyeball makes it impossible for anything to get behind the eye and become trapped there.

Q: Does melatonin help ease jet lag?

A: Yes. A number of different studies showed that taking 2 to 5 mg of melatonin at bedtime for up to four days eases jet lag.

Q: If you get bitten by a snake, should you suck the poison out?

A: No. Wash the area, immobilize it, keep it lower than the heart, and get to a doctor ASAP. Tourniquets are dicey because they can cause more damage than the snakebite if not property applied.

Q: Can consuming poppy seeds make you test positive for drugs?

A:Yes, because heroin and morphine are derived from poppy seeds and the tests are looking for a particular chemical found in both the drugs and the seeds from which they are derived.

Q: Can a hair sample be used in a drug test?

A: Yes. Trace amounts of drugs circulating in the body are deposited in the hair follicle and stored in the hair shaft as it grows. These residues cannot be washed out of the hair.

Q: Can you sober a person up by putting them in a cold shower or giving them coffee?

A: No. Alcohol is metabolized at a set rate and nothing will increase that rate. Coffee and cold showers simply result in a wide awake drunk.

Q: Does heavy prolonged drinking kill brain cells?

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Q: Is red wine good for you?

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Q: Does smoking marijuana help glaucoma?

A: Yes, but you’d have to smoke about ten to twelve joints per day.

Q: Why do your fingers get wrinkled after being in the water a long time?

A: The epidermis, the outer layer of skin, absorbs water over time. Because the skin on your fingers (and feet) is thicker than the skin on the rest of your body, it absorbs the most water.

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• The Chinese have made noodles for centuries, using a technique where the noodles are stretched, twisted, and folded again and again.

Their word for these noodles is “lo mein” or “lamian” meaning literally “pulled noodles.”

• The Japanese have trouble pronouncing the letter “L” so they call these noodles “ramen.”

Because of the stretching and folding, the noodles are time-consuming to create.

• When World War II ended, Japan suffered widespread food shortages. The U.S. was supplying Japan with wheat flour which was made into bread. A man named Momofuku Ando wondered why the wheat was being made into bread, which Japanese don’t typically eat, when it could be made into noodles, which is one of their favorite foods. When he asked the Ministry of Health, the response was that there were too few noodle factories in Japan, and they were too small and too unstable to furnish Japan with the required amount of noodles.

Bread was easier, cheaper, and quicker to make.

When he saw a long line of people waiting to get a bowl of ramen noodles, Momofuku Ando decided to do something about the noodle shortage.

• He spent a long time experimenting with noodles, but the texture was never quite right.

Then one day after his wife had finished making dinner, he threw some noodles into the hot oil leftover from making tempura. This was his “eureka” moment: The flash-fried noodles were dehydrated and riddled with perforations that made them cook quickly when boiled. Instant noodles were born.

• “Chikin Ramen” was first released on the market in Japan in 1958. It was considered a luxury item, selling for six times as much as traditional noodles did on the Japanese market, but the price quickly dropped.

• The company Momofuku Ando founded is called Nissin Foods, an acronym composed of the first letters of the Japanese phrase “making a clean and great taste every day.”

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This of course must all be considered in the context of the United States’ new Space Force. “The Outer Space Treaty does allow the presence of the military in space—they have been in space since the beginning— but they are restricted in what they can do,” Professor Joanne Gabrynowicz, Director Emerita of the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air, and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law, told The Daily Beast. “For example, they could not do anything with nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction—those are strictly prohibited in space.” There are further restrictions over military presence on heavenly bodies like the Moon, which according to the treaty “shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes.”

Those legal restrictions would severely hamper Trump’s more gung-ho visions of an operative “Space Force,” but the president’s primary obstacle to its creation may be more terrestrial. The five extant branches of the U.S. military have long opposed the formation of another branch—the first since the formation of the Air Force more than seven decades ago—space-based or otherwise.

Military hostility to the creation of a “Space Force” may be due in large part to concerns that the new branch’s budget would come out of their own pockets.

Current allocations for the Air Force’s space procurement appropriations represent a huge portion of the branch’s overall budget—satellites are pretty expensive, after all—which might explain the Pentagon’s (continued oin the next column)

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TOP RAMEN (cont’d) While Momofuku Ando was on a promotional tour of the U.S., he met with a group of grocery store executives in L.A. Because there were no dishes available, the businessmen got out Styrofoam cups, broke the ramen noodles in half, and filled the cups with boiling water. This spurred a new idea, and within a few months, Nissin released Cup Noodles.

• Momofuku Ando’s final invention was “Space Ram,” a vacuum-packed ramen created specifically for a Japanese astronaut aboard the Discovery space shuttle in 2005.

• By the time Momofuku Ando died in 2007 at the age of 96, worldwide demand was 40 billion servings per year, which averages out to about 14 bowls for every person on Earth per year. China is the top consumer, eating 44% of world consumption, followed by Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, and the USA, which eats 4 billion servings a year. South Koreans consume the most per capita, averaging 69 packages per person each year.

• There are 29 Nissin plants in 11 countries employing 22,000 people. Nissin makes a net profit of over $3 billion a year.

• At around 13 cents per package, ramen could theoretically sustain a person for 365 straight days at a cost of only $142.35. The only true vegetarian flavors are Soy Sauce (or “Oriental”) and Chili. Each package of ramen contains about 56 yards (51 m) of noodles, equal to the length of two basketball courts.

• There is a Ramen Museum in Japan dedicated to the history of the product and the legacy of Momofuku Ando. About half a million people visit every year. The company is now run by Momofuku Ando’s son.

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plainly unenthusiastic response to President Trump’s directive.

If there were a war in space, the United States is the country that has the most to lose. We have more important assets in space than any other nation—we have communications satellites, remote sensing satellites, we have all sorts of stuff up there, weather satellites, things that observe the earth. Every communication on Earth, most of it goes through a satellite, somehow.

When you think of how much stuff there is in space, fighting a war there puts all of those assets at risk.

Conflict in space could even put human activity in space itself at risk.

One of the really serious issues in space is orbital debris. If you start doing military activities in space that cause assets to break up or be destroyed, you’re risking a substantial addition to the debris field problem.

Such a debris field could cause a runaway series of collisions between satellites in low-earth orbit. The ensuing debris cascade could effectively destroy global communications satellite capabilities for decades.

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Fall has become a season that’s synonymous with home improvement, but homeowners need not wait until the leaves begin changing colors to start planning their next projects. The following are a few items homeowners can add to their fall home improvement to-do lists.

Roof inspection Less precipitation tends to fall during the warmer months than during the late fall and winter. As a result, homeowners may not be aware of leaky roofs until autumn has come and gone. But waiting until winter to inspect the roof can prove disastrous, as weather conditions will not be conducive to inspection and increased precipitation may result in potentially costly (continued in next column)

• Napoleon Bonaparte wasn’t short. His height was listed at 5’2”, but that was in French feet. In modern imperial measurements, he was about 5’7” (1.7 m) which was average at the time. He tended to surround himself with guards chosen for their height and strength, making him seem smaller by comparison.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer in the 1800s most famous for writing the drama “Faust.” His name, Goethe, is pronounced “Gerta” and not “goath.”

• You can’t see the Great Wall of China from space. No human structures are visible from space, aside from cities lit up at night.

• Wolves don’t howl at the moon. They howl to communicate regardless of the time of day or the phase of the moon.

• People never used to say “ye” instead of “the.” The word “the” used to be written by a Middle English character called a “thorn” which looked like “ye” but was pronounced “the.”

• Black holes are not holes; they are very dense objects with incredible gravitational pull.

• Buddha was not fat. The popular statues depicting a chubby “laughing Buddha” are representations of the 10th century folk hero Budai.

In Japan he is known as one of the Seven Lucky Gods, and in Taoist and Shinto culture, he is the god of happiness and plenty.

• The Moon does not have a “dark side” that is always hidden from the Sun. The Moon rotates around the Sun just like the Earth does, so all surfaces are illuminated at times. However, the Moon is locked into place with one side perpetually facing the Earth, meaning that the opposite side facing away from Earth cannot be seen from Earth.

• Bats are not blind. They have perfectly good eyesight and also navigate using echolocation.

• Bagpipes originated in the Middle East centuries before they ever reached Scotland. (continued on next page) Home improvement projects

(continued) damage. Leaky roofs can be easily identified by looking for water stains on interior ceilings. Once you see a stain, you can climb onto the roof to identify the location of the leak and fix it before winter rains and snowfall turn the problem into something much larger.

Inspect your ceilings for signs of leaking after a strong rainfall, and then address any leaks immediately.

Gutter cleaning While some homeowners prefer to delay their gutter cleaning projects until late fall, those whose homes are surrounded by trees may need to schedule two such projects. Gutters clogged with leaves and other debris can cause serious roof damage, and that damage can extend all the way inside a home. In addition, clogged gutters make great nesting areas for insects or critters. Always stand on a ladder when cleaning gutters, wearing gloves to remove items by hand and dropping leaves and debris into a trash can below. Standing on the roof and leaning over gutters greatly increases your risk of injury. If the gutters are clear when you first examine them in early fall, you can wait until later in the season to give them a complete and thorough cleaning.

Once you have finished clearing the gutters, you can use a hose to run water through them and the downspouts to confirm everything is functioning properly.

Window and doorway inspection Before temperatures start dropping once again, homeowners will want to inspect their windows and doorways for leaks. Over time, cracks can develop around windows and doorways, and while such cracks are rarely noticeable when the weather outside is warm, they can be quite obvious and very costly if they remain unsealed come the start of winter. Cold air can enter a home through cracks around windows and doorways, and many homeowners who don’t suspect leaks may respond by turning up the thermostats in (continued in next column)

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(continued) their homes. That can prove quite expensive over a full winter. Choose a windy autumn day to place a hand by windows and external doorways in your home to see if you can feel drafts. If you can, seal these cracks as soon as possible.

Patio cleanup Patios are popular hangouts during spring and summer, and that can result in a lot of wear and tear. Once you store patio furniture for the winter, inspect your entire patio to determine if it needs any refurbishing. While certain patio projects may be best left for spring, you can still clean any stained areas around the grill and look for cracks in the sidewalk that need to be addressed.

Preparing for fall home improvement projects ahead of time can help homeowners complete projects in a timely manner and ensures they won’t be forced to brave the winter elements when refurbishing their homes.

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