Chicken Eggs and MOAB, The Mother Of All Bombs

The chicken egg; Brexit bureaucracy threatens to separate children from parents; The Mother Of All Bombs.

The neighbour's chickens have been laying one to two eggs a day. Eggs does not describe them properly. These are monsters weighing in at around 80 g, compared to the 50 g of medium sized eggs we normally buy. Bird eggs are little miracles of nature. The yolk is formed first inside the chicken. It's coated with a membrane and followed by a coating of albumin, in turn coated with a membrane. These stages are completed within a couple of hours. Over the next 20 hours, the egg shell is added. All that on a daily cycle for a couple of years. Nutritionally, an egg is fantastic - a safely encapsulated store of  around 75 kilocalories of protein, fat and quite a number of vitamins and other nutrients. Boiled and scrambled eggs have been on the menu several times this week.

The Guardian highlights another case of Brexit bureaucracy potentially splitting a family with the parents being granted residency, but their UK born and schooled 15 year old son and 12 year old daughter were sent separate notices by the Home Office, notifying them that their applications for permanent residency had been refused. The parents are now reapplying on behalf of the children.

A couple of days after decrying the dropping of poison gas bombs and conventional barrel bombs in Syria, the US have dropped their largest bomb to date in action, the 21,000lb MOAB on a suspected ISIS complex of caves and tunnels in Afghanistan. Officially, MOAB stands for Massive Ordinance Air Blast, but its nickname is the Mother Of All Bombs. The impact is experienced as equivalent to a nuclear blast. Its principle effect is a massive blast wave up to a mile in every direction. So far there is no information on the effectiveness of the attack. The Russians have their own Father Of all Bombs. Apart from being bunker busting bombs, their objective is psychological, to instill terror.

Global nerves mounting in anticipation of North Korea's anniversary on Saturday, with a nuclear test being hinted at.

But let us not forget that other great Trump project, the wall at the border of Mexico. Give any architect a brief and they might come up with a much more imaginative solution. In this case it is for the border region to become the home of a furutistic hyperloop and separate shared nation. Business insider goes on to quote "The plan would cost approximately $15 billion — less than the $21 billion that the Department of Homeland Security estimated a border wall would cost. The designers also predict that their system would create $1 trillion in trade."  See http://uk.businessinsider.com/design-trumps-border-wall-hyperloop-2017-4.