FEAST OR FAMINE

I adore caviar. Caviar are the eggs of the sturgeon fish. Only the eggs from the sturgeon is called caviar, whereas eggs from other fish are called roe, such as salmon roe. The sturgeon produce caviar after 8 years. I like most caviar, but recently I had Ossetra Royal (Caviar Malossol – pure salted) from Caviar Petrossian Paris. It was a dark caviar with a distinctive and firm nutty taste. The species of sturgeon is Acipenser Guldenstadti (Ossetra Sturgeon). The Petrossian caviar has three grades: classic, royal, and Tsar Imperial. The main differences in the grades are the taste, size, and colour. I also like the Prunier Malossol caviar, from the sturgeon species Acipenser Baeri from Siberia. The tradition of Malossol – the pure salted flavour – is a technique that has been developed for almost 100 years. I adore caviar served with blinis or bread, creme fraiche, and boiled small potatoes. The caviar should be ...

As I saw a young boy blowing bubbles, it reminded me of a song. The song, I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles , was written in 1918. American composer John Kellette wrote the music and the lyrics are credited to Jaan Kenbrovin (a collective of three songwriters: James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent). The Lyrics are: I’m forever blowing bubbles Pretty bubbles in the air They fly so high, nearly reach the sky Then like my dreams they fade and die Fortune’s always hiding I’ve looked everywhere I’m forever blowing bubbles Pretty bubbles in the air. I’m dreaming dreams, I’m scheming schemes I’m building castles high They’re born anew, their days are few Just like a sweet butterfly And as the daylight is dawning They come again in the morning. I’m forever blowing bubbles Pretty bubbles in the air They fly so high, nearly reach the sky Then like my dreams they fade and die Fortune’s always hiding I’ve looked everywhere I’m foreve...

Georgianjournal.ge The Georgian Journal reports that the famous Ali and Nino sculpture in the Black Sea resort of Batumi has been damaged during relocation (Georgian Journal, August 27, 2015). Ali and Nino are a male and female couple immortalized in a metal sculpture that lights up at night – and the couple, who face each other, seemingly merge together. The novel Ali and Nino, written in 1937, is a love story between Ali Khan Shirvanshir, an 18-year-old Muslim boy in Azerbaijan, and Nino Kipiani, a 17-year-old Christian from Georgia. It is a love story that has endured the test of time. Tamar Kvesitadze created the Ali and Nino sculpture in 2011. It is seven metres high, of steel and lights, and every ten minutes the figures move toward each other and merge as one. Georgianjournal.ge The municipality decided to relocate the sculpture due to salt water damage of its foundation. The foundation platform will be repaired and made to withstand the corrosion of...

A project that reproduced 100 experimental psychology studies found the results of more than 60 were not as strong as researchers originally claimed. A study, over a period of years from 2011, that attempted to conduct exactly the same experiments as 100 psychology studies published in psychology journals were often unable to replicate them (The Strait Times, August 29, 2015).   The results of this study appear in the Science journal. The psychology studies replicated included tests of personality, relationships, learning, free will, and memory. More than 60 studies did not have the same results as the published results. A psychologist from the University of Virginia conducted the Reproducibility Project. His team recruited more than 250 researchers, identified 100 studies published in 2008 in psychology journals, and rigorously reconstructed each of them in collaboration with the original researchers. The Reproducibiltiy Project found no eviden...