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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

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In ancient times, people enjoyed the food that was available. Ancient civilisations enjoyed the occasional treat of fruit or nuts rolled into honey. This, in essence, is considered the first candy.

In general , it wasn’t until sugar was manufactured during the middle ages that people began to enjoy more sweets. Even then, sugar was so expensive that it was a treat reserved only for the wealthy on special occasions. However, starting in about 3000BC there is a discernable and traceable history of many of the foods that delight the sweet tooth.

According to food historians, the first culture to show evidence of baking skills and interest were the ancient Egyptians. However, they were more bread-like and instead of sugar, they were sweetened in honey. The word cake is of viking origin, from the norse word ‘kaka’.

Cakes have their part to play in ancient beliefs and superstitions. Many of these still continue today and with such a rich history and connection of humans with cake, it is no wonder that they remain such an important part of our lives.

Ice cream can be dated as far back as 3000BC and perhaps was the first ‘dessert’. Ice cream was actually an invention of the Chinese, however, it was much more like flavoured ice than it was truly an ice cream. While Marco Polo may have brought the ice cream making technique to Europe from his travels, it was Catherine de Medici that brought sorbet in fashion in Italy. While the exact point at which flavoured ices became ice cream as it is generally thought of today, is not known; however, by the mid-1800s recipes for how to make ice cream were in wide circulation.

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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

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Gelatin, the main ingredient in Jell-O, has been an after dinner delicacy for the wealthy, dating all the way back to at least the 15th Century. The tasteless, odorless protein is made by extracting collagen found in connective animal tissues, from boiled bones of animals.

By the early 19th Century, desserts made of gelatin weren’t just popular with well-to-do Europeans, but Americans as well. Thomas Jefferson was known to serve gelatin desserts at official banquets. In 1845 the recipe was revised and gelatin, now called ‘Jell-O’ was now 88% sugar, but none of that mattered because now gelatin actually tasted good.

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Rhubarb, the ‘pie plant’ is widely known as a sour plant that is only used in desserts with a lot of sugar — making it the perfect dessert fruit. However, rhubarb was originally cultivated for medicinal purposes. It wasn’t until the early 20th Century that rhubarb began to be known for its use in pies.

Another medicinal plant, licorice is related to legumes like peas. However, it was also used as a flavouring in drinks and in other food. Rest assured, nowadays it’s manufactured with synthetic materials that don’t have any medicinal properties.

Chocolate is thought to have been brought back to Europe from explorations in Mexico and Central America. It was used in a spicy drink with cinnamon and in fact, cocoa beans themselves are very bitter. It’s the addition of sugar (and milk sometimes) that makes the confection sweet as it’s commonly enjoyed today.

Like rhubarb, the original marshmallow was actually a white flower from a certain plant that had medicinal properties. Marshmallows, the kind that are enjoyed in s’mores today, aren’t recorded as even existing until the mid-nineteenth century.

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THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

4 We’ve all heard it before: a scientist, working in a secret laboratory buried deep in the heart of a dormant volcano, suffers an unfortunate mishap and is doused in radioactive chemicals/gamma rays/mutagenic DNA. Next thing you know, he is transformed into a crime-fighting guardian of justice. He also then starts throwing terms like ‘Quantum Physics’ and ‘Particle Physics’ around. After watching enough episodes of The Flash and Quantum Leap, we have decided to give you guys a crash course on both of these subjects.

What is Quantum Physics?

What is Particle Physics?

Quantum physics is the study of the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller microscopic levels. In the early 20th Century, it was discovered that the laws that govern macroscopic objects do not function the same in such small realms. ‘Quantum’ comes from Latin meaning ‘how much’. It refers to the discrete units of matter and energy that are predicted by and observed in quantum physics. Even space and time, which appear to be extremely continuous, have smallest possible values.

Particle physics studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called ‘high energy physics’, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal circumstances in nature, but can be created and detected during energetic collisions of other particles, as is done in particle accelerators. Modern particle physics research is focused on subatomic particles, which have less structure than atoms.

What’s special about Particle Physics?

What’s special about Quantum Physics?

A particle physicist is someone who looks to see how these particles exist and interact. The field of particle physics evolved out of nuclear physics, and the two are still closely correlated. The particles that are dealt with in this field are governed by quantum mechanics. This signifies that they may show both wavelike and particle qualities. The overarching goal of particle physics is to identify the most simple objects of which matter is composed of, and to understand the integral forces that drive their interactions and combinations.

In the realm of quantum physics, observing something actually influences the physical processes taking place. Light waves act like particles and particles act like waves (called wave particle duality). Matter can go from one spot to another without moving through the intervening space (called quantum tunnelling). Information moves instantly across vast distances. In fact, in quantum mechanics we discover that the entire universe is actually a series of probabilities.

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A: Cheerios Teacher: What can you tell me about the Dead Sea? Student: I didn didn’t even know it was sick

Teacher: Where is the English Channel?

Student: I don’t know, my TV doesn’t pick it up

Q: Why were the early days of history called the dark ages?

A: Because there were so many knights

Q: What did Mason say to Dixon?

A: We’ve got to draw the line here

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Q: What is a math teacher’s favourite sum?

A: Summer

Q: Why did the teacher turn the lights on?

A: Because her class was so dim

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

World wide weird Hi light Get your weekly dose of unusual and funny news from across the globe!

Baffling discovery Mount Everest might have been scaled by thousands of people since Sir Edmund Hilary first accomplished the feat in 1953 but it turns out it is not the world’s highest mountain. At 8,848 metres above sea level, statistics suggest that the mountain in Nepal should be the highest point on earth. And when compared to its nearest rivals outside the Himalayas it dwarfs them — it is almost 2,000 metres bigger than the next best, Aconcagua in the Andes. But, technically speaking, the mountain is not the highest point on earth — just the highest when measured from sea level. That honour actually goes to the lesser known Chimborazo in Ecuador. t’s altitude is far lower than Everest’s — 6,310 metres — but if you stand on its peak you are actually closer to space. It is all to do with the curvature of the earth. Our planet may be a sphere but it is not perfect. It is flatter at the poles but bulges slightly at the middle making its radius 13 miles greater than the equator. What this all means is that if you are talking about highest points, Chimborazo is king. It is 3,971 miles from the earth’s centre compared to Everest’s 3,965.8 miles. METRO.CO.UK

Egg-y history Since 1973, every year on the Monday following Easter, people in Bessières, France make a giant omelette, using 15,000 fresh eggs. Legend has it that when Napoleon and his army were travelling through the south of France, they spent one night near Bessières.

Napoleon ate an omelette prepared by a local cook, and he enjoyed it so much that he ordered the townspeople to gather all the eggs in the village and to prepare a gigantic omelette for his army the next day. The people who attended this event shared the food. The Giant Omelette Brotherhood of Bessières also cooks this kind of giant omelettes on demand all over in France. NBCNEWS.COM

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Bus-ter needs a home A bus depot worker has appealed for someone to give a new home to a dog abandoned on a London bus. The Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross was found sitting alone by the driver of the 158 to Stratford one night. The bus was taken out of service to the Stagecoach garage in West Ham, but the dog refused to get off. Staff fed and kept him warm until he could be collected by Newham Council’s animal welfare team the next morning. Bus depot worker Ricky Hatton took a picture of the dog and put it on social media in the hope a new home could be found. He said, “When I arrived around 6:30am he’d been there all night. I gave him food, water and my bodywarmer. I nicknamed him Bus-ter. I’m hoping he’s found a new loving home.” Bus driver Amos Paul Mak reportedly posted on Facebook that he wanted to take the dog home but it was against the animal welfare council’s regulations. NEWS.SKY.COM A tall order Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giraffe for the first time, uncovering DNA quirks that help explain how the tallest animals on earth developed their remarkably long necks. Being a giraffe is not easy. To pump blood two metres up from the chest to the brain calls for a turbo-charged heart and twice the blood pressure of other mammals. Giraffes also need special safety valves to let them bend down for a drink and raise their heads again without fainting. By comparing the genome of the giraffe with its closest relative, the short-necked okapi, scientists have unpicked part of the puzzle by pinpointing changes in a small number of genes responsible both for regulating body shape and circulation. This suggests that the development of a long neck and a powerful heart went hand in hand, driven by a relatively small number of genetic changes. The unraveling of the genetic factors behind the giraffe’s remarkable cardiovascular system could also be instructive for human health, since the animals appear to avoid the kind of organ damage often found in people with high blood pressure. The more fundamental question of why giraffes evolved their long necks remains open, however. UK.REUTERS.COM

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

6 This is perhaps the most unconventional of films in this list, and if you don’t like experimentation in narrative, you might find it jarring at times. But the story of Harvey Pekar, an ordinary American file clerk who is also a comic book writer is one of the best biopics that I have seen. Pekar is the classic outsidersomeone who has more things to hate about the world than there are stars in the sky, or so it seems. A social recluse, Pekar has to beat such odds as cancer to keep living in what he considers to be a miserable planet. By turns funny and heartfelt, the movie also has one of the best performances by the talented Paul Giamatti.

Based on the real-life story of Christy Brown, this movie has the legendary Daniel Day-Lewis playing the lead role. But even the stature of the actor pales when compared to Brown’s accomplishments an artist suffering from cerebral palsy, Brown had control over just one limb of his body-the left foot.

And with that one limb, he was able to create brilliant pieces of art and writing.

Listening to Johnny Cash is just about the best thing you can do when you’re feeling under the weather. The man in black always has words of wisdom and some enchanting tunes to share with you. Walk The Line has Joaquin Phoenix playing Cash with a verve you would expect from an actor of his calibre. The movie portrays Cash’s early years and his relationship with June Carter, played brilliantly by Reese Witherspoon in an Oscar winning performance. All the pathos and the joys which enrich his songs, this movie gives you a view of where it all came from.

A Beautiful Mind is the story of the economic Nobel laureate John Nash. A genius who could juggle with numbers as beautifully as an accomplished pianist could play the keys. But Nash was plagued with hallucinations and paranoia due to schizophrenia. Manoeuvring through his life without losing his beautiful mind was a struggle of a lifetime for Nash and the subject of the movie.

Imagine that you are a king of a powerful country. But your country is now ravaged by war. Aside from making strategic decisions, it’s also your responsibility to inspire your people — by delivering a great speech, of course. Only one tiny problem though, you stammer. That’s the predicament King George VI faced when he had to make the momentous radio broadcast declaring Britain going to war with Germany in 1939. The movie focuses mostly on the king’s relationship with his Austrian speech therapist, Geoffrey Rush, who helps him reach for the microphone with confidence. Colin Firth as the king delivers not just a speech but what may be his career’s best performance.

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

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What it’s about: With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction-level plan. The film hit theatres on May 20, 2016.

Help the X-Men fight the force threatening the future of mankind by finding the words given below in the puzzle: SIDE GIFTED MUTANTS APOCALYPSE MANIPULATION WAR STUDENTS LEGEND POWER AGENTS SHOWDOWN FIGHT END SCHOOL TRAINING

THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE, MAY 22, 2016

• The 4’5” actor was born in Morristown, New Jersey on June 11, 1969 to Diane, an elementary school music teacher, and John Carl, a retired insurance salesman. He was born with achondroplasia, which is a common cause of dwarfism where the body is formed perfectly but the long bones in the arms and legs, those that are modelled in cartilage, don’t grow very long.

• Dinklage is of German, English and Irish descent, and is related to the German Westphalian noble family ‘von Dincklage.’

• When he was a kid, he and his brother would put on puppet musicals for the whole neighbourhood.

They did a puppet version of the Who album, Quadrophenia and made drum kits out of tuna cans.

• To survive high school at 13 years old, he believed he was William Burroughs and had an ego to match.

• He was awarded a degree in drama from Bennington College in 1991.

• He lives in upstate New York with his wife, theatre director Erica Schmidt, and their daughter Zelig.

He enjoys tinkering with his herb garden while wearing old man sweaters.

• While growing up in New Jersey, his neighbour was Bruce Springsteen’s manager. Bruce used to hang out at Dinklage’s house and play the guitar, but since Dinklage was only two years old he doesn’t remember any of it and goes by stories his parents tell. His mom was apparently not impressed by the musician.

• George R R Martin knew he wanted Dinklage to play Tyrion from the beginning and HBO didn’t even ask him to audition before offering him the role. Unlike Tyrion, he doesn’t fancy himself a tough guy and has said that fight scenes featuring him are a big lie.

• He and Lena Headey were friends long before Game of Thrones and Dinklage was apparently the one who originally suggested her as Cersei.

• His breakout role was in 2003 The Station Agent, for which he received Independent Spirit and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Actor.

• In a video for PETA he explains why he is a vegetarian, “I like animals. All animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.”

• He is also an avid animal rights activist and is against testing on animals.

• He’s a notable stage actor and has starred in many Off-Broadway productions, including Richard III. • In 2007 he starred in Death at a Funeral and then in 2010 reprised his role in the American remake of the same film.

• He has a scar that runs from his neck to his eyebrow from an onstage accident when he was performing at CBGB with his old punk-funk-rap band Whizzy in New York. “I was jumping around onstage and got accidentally kneed in the temple,” he remembers. “Blood was going everywhere.

I just grabbed a dirty bar napkin and dabbed my head and went on with the show. We didn’t care much at the time about personal safety.”

• He used to turn down a lot of roles when he was just starting in the acting world, refusing to take any parts that used his height as a source of laughter and mockery — meaning he didn’t want to dress up as elves or leprechauns. “Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It’s one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice by media,” he says. He added that actors who happen to be dwarves can do their part to change that. “You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.”