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POPSTravel: 36 hours in Sacramento Too long to clip – click through for the rest, including shopping, dining, wine tasting, at least one bar that serves absinthe, farmers' markets, and bicycling.
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POPSFree stuff in the SF Bay Area: Johnny Funcheap's favorite things to do From the SF Bay Guardian's annual Free Issue. More: get sweaty by donning your blades or old-school roller skates and join the Midnight Rollers' weekly Friday Night Skate. A large group of skaters embark from the Ferry Plaza on a 10-mile dance party/skate tour of the city, which includes plenty of stops for ice cream, Frisbee-throwing, and a chance for slowpokes to catch up… Macy's Union Square puts on free monthly cooking demonstrations in the Cellar, where top local chefs reveal their secrets for dishing up creative yet healthy meals. Not only do you get to learn skills like how to barbecue like a grill master, expertly pair chocolate and wine, or make a brunch worth waking up early for, you also get to sample the yummy delights the experts have cooked up. It's like watching your favorite cooking show on the Food Network, but getting to magically reach inside the TV to grab a taste.
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POPSEdgar Degas: Focused on present a Realist,a Master A French pioneering master.Some say father of Impessionist movement in 19Centuary, he said their was "too much agony to be other than a realist, I,m not a mere impressionist".Broke Victorian taboo,s with nudes not in religious or classical settings and took years over his works,,skilled in painting,pastels exquisite sculpture.No stranger to controversy he depicted "Lions @ little rats" aristocricy in top hats preying on the ballerinas."The Flower of the gutter" a sculptor of a 14 year old ballerina.Reworked his paintings for years ."The Dance Class" his most famous about 1870ish.
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POPSEvolution in a Bottle Over time the bacteria evolved to better suit their environment, adapting to replicate faster on the all-glucose diet. But one colony suddenly took off, consuming the previously indigestible citrate - a molecule that literally would not fit through the original bacteria's membrane. A new breed of E. Coli had evolved to consume the available resources and, over a multi-generational evolutionary battle, came to outperform the original glucose eaters. Because of the daily samples, there is now a complete genetic paper trail of the changes (although full identification and understanding of the changes will take a little longer). This is an incredible breakthrough in evolutionary research, and a pretty nice argument to break out in the creationism 'debates' ("Prove evolution!" "Okay, I've got it right here IN THIS BOTTLE!")
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POPSAbsinthe Goes From Banned Drug to Legal Liquor Breaux's research — finally published this spring in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (.pdf) — and that Wired story have helped change absinthe's image from drug to drink. The US has been slowly peeling away its ban, and in March, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approved the sale of absinthes that were "thujone free" (containing less than 10 parts per million).
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POPSAbsinthe: How does it alter the mind??? An interesting clip from Techoccult on experiments done with Absinthe (which is illegal in the US) and on what exactly causes altered states of consciousness in its imbibers...
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POPSAbsinthe's mystique cops a blow 70% Alcohol would make anyone see green elephants. A researcher also pointed out that when absinthe was most popular, there were no restrictions on drugs such as opium, and cocaine, which are controlled today, so many episodes of 'absinthe' madness may have been a result of taking a number of drugs in combination, with some of the drugs taken not being mentioned.
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POPSAbsinthe Wormwood (in French, absinthe; in German, Wermut) is an herb with a perennial root system from which arise branched, firm, leafy stems that are almost woody at the base and reach a height of two to three feet. Its flowers are tiny, greenish-yellow and globular, and its indented leaves have a silvery-gray sheen. The species was cultivated from the Middle Ages to the early part of the 20th century.
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POPSNo USA Freedom for Drinkers USA one of the few countries to ban Absinthe, an alcoholic drink. Are we still the land of the free, or are other lands more free than us in the USA?
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