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Spicy Surprise 

 We got some yellow pepper plants from the neighbour.  But in this bunch which was supposed to be mild, there was a plant of something like Ghost Peppers.  We first realized it at the cottage, when the daughter-in-law started screaming.  Then, I did a man thing, and tasted a bit.  OMG!  We couldn't tell any difference by look alone, and none of us wanted

Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn 

 Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn I came across THIS ARTICLE in New Scientist and was impressed by the way so many concepts are combined.  There is a cluster of meteor impacts (21 of them) dated in the Ordovician after 466 million years ago. If you undo the subsequent movements of the continents you find most of the impacts were near the equator of the period.  There is a period starting in 466Ma and lasting for 40 million years where there is a higher level of chondrite [...]