Asian Stocks Mixed After China's Rate Hike

Asian stock markets were mixed Monday after China's central bank raised interest rates over the weekend in a bid to rein in soaring inflation.

Asian Stocks Mixed After China's Rate Hike

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Bond Prices Rise; Wall Street Ends Mixed

The Federal Reserve chairman said that the economy was struggling to become “self-sustaining” without government help.

Bond Prices Rise; Wall Street Ends Mixed

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Mixed Reaction to F.C.C. Internet Plan

The chairman’s proposal, forbidding service providers from blocking lawful content and requiring them to tell consumers how they manage networks, faces an uncertain path.

Mixed Reaction to F.C.C. Internet Plan

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Brazil nut effect: why larger mixed nuts "float" to surface

Video link. While I'm thinking about particle physics, here's something that might interest those of you who puzzle over why the dried fruit often ends up on the top of your cereal, or why cashews and Brazil nuts often end up pouring out on top in a can of mixed nuts. It's because of a phenomenon called granular convection, also known as the muesli effect or the Brazil nut effect. Shaking the contents of a container effectively liquidizes them, causing the bigger ones to float and cluster together. The phenomenon has been of interest to scientists since the 1930s....

Brazil nut effect: why larger mixed nuts "float" to surface

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