“The Kastle-Meyer Color Test (in the catalytic color test category) is another investigative tool for the presence of blod. It relies on a solution of phenolphthalein on a piece of filter paper or a swab that has been rubbed on the suspected bloodstain. Then the investigator adds a drop of hydrogen peroxide. If the paper or swab picked up any blood, it turns bright pink. However, it also turns pink in the presence of potatoes and horseradish, so care must be taken at the scene.” (The Science of Cold Case Files book, 161).

Preservatives in carpeting & hardwood floors can skew test results for whether or not a fire was started with the use of accelerants (kerosene, gasoline, etc).

Except, there are valid reasons for a person to have two blood types… for instance, it’s entirely possible you might have had a fraternal twin in the womb, that died as an embryo and your body absorbed some of it, and nobody would ever know until they tested your blood type. With 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies ending in miscarriage, and probably plenty more that end too early to notice, the chances of that are actually pretty high. But the blood doping test doesn’t take that into account at all. And that’s just one of the tests that are way too prone to false positives. So when someone is convicted of doping I always take it with a grain of salt.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E1DE1F39F934A25754C0A960958260

Yup, that sounds like most British amusement parks… I’m being harsh, Blackpool Pleasure Beach is pretty good, and Alton Towers, but for the most part we rely on mild thrills.

The seats are open air, on the exterior of a 300 foot tower you’re about to shoot up or down and the only thing between the rider and a very long drop to the pavement below is one of those plastic harnesses that comes down over your shoulders and buckles like a seatbelt between your legs. I like a little more insurance than that.

The huffing and puffing and blowing down of houses.

Always.

I don’t like amusement parks.

Ordinary sports… yes, we all understand the basic idea, a little genetic luck and a lot of hard training = more muscle and more skill = beating the rest of the competition. But the Megalympics… that’s where you’d see some creativity.

I suppose it might turn out that for any given event there’s an optimum form of human being, and once that’s been found the competition returns to being boring. But hell, even if that happened it’d still be fun to watch the first few times.

60%… that’s high.

What’s the scariest ride you’ve been on?

Quite a few of those, I’m sure, will be doing it with government help.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7409943.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4BtZ0oWbYY

As I don’t really understand sports, I don’t really understand why any one would cheat to win.