The Daily Populous

Wednesday April 25th, 2018 day edition

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Saltzberg studies high-energy particle physics and high-energy neutrino astronomy, using radio-detection techniques when he's not working as The Big Bang Theory's science consultant.

Every week, Saltzberg attends the show's live taping at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, Calif.

He fills in the blanks, as in an episode where Dr. Sheldon Cooper, a puffed-up theoretical physicist, keeps bumming rides from a neighbor.

The scientist got involved with The Big Bang Theory in 2007, when the show was little more than a theoretical construct.

The set designers asked him to show them some real graduate students' apartments, so they could see how young scientists really live.

But he adds that he thinks this sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, is more important than his work in the lab.

"It's hard to fathom, when you think about 20 million viewers on the first showing — and that doesn't include other countries and reruns. »

Apple will start paying $16 billion in back taxes to Ireland

Authored by businessinsider.com

Apple has to pay €13 billion, or about $16 billion, as part of a record-breaking back tax judgment from August 2016.

Here's an EU graphic that shows how Apple was able to have a large amount of revenue that wasn't taxed in any jurisdiction — even Ireland, where Apple subsidiaries were based.

Now Ireland will collect the penalty, it said on Tuesday, although there's still a chance Apple could get the money back. »

Metabolic and Fatigue Profiles Are Comparable Between Prepubertal Children and Well-Trained Adult Endurance Athletes

Authored by frontiersin.org

Furthermore, the post-exercise recovery kinetics of VO 2 , HR, and [La] in children and endurance athletes were faster than those of untrained men.

To conclude, prepubertal children were observed to be metabolically comparable to well-trained adult endurance athletes, and were thus less fatigable during high-intensity exercise than untrained adults.

Furthermore, it is presumed that untrained adults rely less on oxidative metabolism and therefore fatigue faster during high-intensity exercise than prepubertal children and well-trained adult endurance athletes. »

Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow

Authored by thedailybeast.com

Thomas Roberts, host of that year’s Miss Universe pageant, confirmed to The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Trump was in Moscow for one full night and at least part of another.

Roberts continued: “During the after-party for the Miss Universe event, Mr. Trump offered to fly me and my husband back to New York.

Roberts’ retelling of those days in Moscow represents one of the first public contradictions of the timeline Trump offered Comey. »

As teachers plan to descend on Colorado capitol, lawmakers propose jail for striking

Authored by abcnews.go.com
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The proposed law pitched by two Republican legislators threatens jail time for any educator caught "directly or indirectly inducing, instigating, encouraging, authorizing, ratifying, or participating in a strike against any public school employer.".

The jail term proposed by the prime sponsors of the bill, state Sen. Bob Gardner and Rep. Paul Lundeen, is six months.

And here are two Republican legislators who've come out with a bill that is a clear attack on public school teachers in the state.". »