Day: December 25, 2017

Physics made the smallest Christmas card in the world The staff of the National physical laboratory (UK) have created the smallest Christmas card in the world. 200 million such cards will fit in a regular postage stamp. This was reported on the website of the laboratory. The card is made from a membrane of silicon nitride with a thickness of about 200 nanometers, coated with a layer of platinum. Greetings, signature, and snowman on the cover of physics engraved with a focused ion beam. Dimensions cards — 15 to 20 microns (for comparison, the thickness of a human hair is about 50-80 microns). According to the calculations the creators of cards, to cubic meter can fit seven quadrillion of these cards, that is more than 900 thousand for every person on Earth. During the download an error has occurred. In 2009 in the same laboratory as a Christmas gift made

The Second Snowflake In kindergartens and schools are a succession of Christmas parties, plays and tea. Moms in WhatsApp moan the last two weeks, unable to agree with than to have a tea party: tea or juice? To buy cakes or pizzas? And the costumes for the play? Buy or sew yourself improvised? And, of course, the most heated disputes arise over the allocation of roles. This year our class presents the play based on the tale Marshak “Twelve months”. Perfect choice, since no one without a role will not. Boys — months, Peter — Professor, because he even make-up is not necessary to impose. He and life of such a Professor, only small and not very boring yet. Loew — soldiers. Well, just because he is the tallest in the class. Girls are harder than boys. The main actress in our school troupe — Anya. Her mom almost every

As Charles Dickens taught the British to celebrate Christmas Charles Dickens was a foodie, and his works were introduced with the British festive food, which has not changed since the village Cratchit family at the table in his “a Christmas Carol”. “What is important to know about Dickens, says the historian Pen Vogler, pulling from the oven a baking sheet with caraway biscuits — is the fact that he knew what it was like to be hungry.” In his cookbook “Dinner with Dickens” it explores how cooking has influenced his work, and recreates the dishes of which this literary giant wrote in their works. Pen also shows how through food he drew characters and funny situations, and even highlighted social problems. For our meeting, Pen in haste even made a Christmas pudding, but, fortunately, there were no cereal. “Dickens as a child had no income in the food — continues