METRO Thursday, November 5, 2009 D We would like to invite you to an OPENING MORNING on Sat. 7th November at 10.00am sharp. Facilities at our school include: Small Classes Pre-School After School Care until 6pm Homework Club Canteen available from 8.00am Limited places available for September 2010 Boys from 4 years upwards for Junior School Boys & Girls from 3 years upwards for Pre-School; JUNIOR SCHOOL 89 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2 FURTHER INFORMATION: 01 644 9593 / 676 2586 OFFICE@CUS.IE For information contact; Conference & Banqueting T: 01 6073900 E: info@ocallaghanhotels.com Subject to availability. Conditions apply. Celebrity DJ Papillon @ The OCallaghan Alexander Hotel Halleluia Gospel Choir @ The OCallaghan Davenport Hotel Traditional Christmas @ The OCallaghan Mont Clare Hotel www.ocallaghanhotels.com This Christmas theres a party for everyone at OCallaghan Hotels Payout for couple over fake cake IT IS one of the magical moments that make any wedding day cutting the cake. So Aimee and Tony West were understandably annoyed when their knife hit a block of white polystyrene beneath the chocolate icing. The cakes a fake, shouted the brides mother. Aimee, 27, said: It was a terrible shock I felt so embarrassed. The couple had paid 270 (300) to confectioner Creative Cakes in Llanelli, west Wales, for their three-tiered treat. But four hours before the evening reception, Mrs West discovered the bakers had forgotten to bake their cake. They admitted their mistake and said: Dont worry, well get you a cake, she said. Yesterday, a court awarded the Wests 310 (345) compensation. Jesus a woman? Protest says No HUNDREDS of protesters have demonstrated against a play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual woman. Up to 300 people held a candlelit vigil outside a theatre on the first night of Jesus, Queen Of Heaven. They said the portrayal of Gods son as a woman was totally blasphemous. The play by transsexual writer Jo Clifford is being staged as part of Glasgows Glasgay! arts festival, which is partly funded by taxpayers. Glasgay! producer Steven Thomson told the BBC: This work is not intended to incite or offend anyone of any belief system. However, we respect the right of people to disagree with that opinion. X-rays beat the Model T as best invention everBy Ross Mcguinness There was extraterrestrial activity on The sean oCasey Bridge yesterday when Al1x the robot hit Dublin to help promote the Toys 4 Big Boys show at the RDs, which opens today. Helping Al1x get used to his new surroundings was five-year-old ine Redmond Picture: Joe Keogh roboToT THE X-ray machine has been voted the most im- portant modern invention in the history of sci- ence. The device beat other contenders such as the locomotive Stephensons Rocket and Model T Ford car. Nearly 50,000 votes were cast by visitors to Londons Science Museum and online via its website. The X-ray machine topped a poll marking the museums centenary year with 9,581 votes. Penicillin came second, followed by the DNA double helix, the Apollo 10 capsule, the V2 rocket engine, Stephensons Rocket, the Pilot Ace one of the first computers, the steam engine, the Mod- el T Ford motor car, and the electric telegraph. Katie Maggs, associate curator of medicine at the Science Museum, said: Im thrilled to see the incredible development of the X-ray machine rec- ognised in the museums centenary year. X-rays have radically changed the way we see and understand our world our bodies in particu- lar. The British Secretary for Culture Ben Bradshaw said: Any competition that pits the Apollo 10 spacecraft against Stephensons Rocket and the DNA double helix against the Model T Ford is bound to provide talking points a-plenty. The ten iconic objects are featured in a special Centenary Journey trail through the museum. X-rays were discovered in November 1895 by German physicist, Wilhelm Rntgen. He was later awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on electro- magnetic radiation. SIZE HIM UP: Fed up with play-away fellas, ladies? Then check the length of the ring finger of the next guy you meet. Primates with longer ring fingers than their second fingers (such as baboons) are more promiscuous than those where the difference is less, such as gibbons. The digit difference is down to how much androgen hormones they are exposed to in the womb, said Liverpool university researchers. qUakE EcHo: If you feel the rumblings of a small earthquake, fear not. It may not herald a devastating quake as previously thought but be the echo of an earlier one. Small quakes felt recently in the central US are actually aftershocks of magnitude 8 earthquakes which happened in 1812. Aftershocks go on for long times inside continents, said Prof Seth Stein. Star gaZErS: When you wish upon a star, anything your heart desires will come to you. Well, star gazers have solved a mystery of a supernova that sits 11,000 light years from Earth. They have identified a 20km-wide remnant of the exploding star as the youngest neutron star ever, just 330 years old. The Canadian researchers say they now have access to the complete life cycle of a supernova. If you have a story for MiniCosm please e-mail us at news@metroireland.ie MINICOSMSCIENCE & DISCOVERY IN BRIEF X-rays: Voted the most moden invention Genome zoo to explain evolutionA NEW project to create a genome zoo containing the complete genetic codes of 10,000 vertebrate species was yesterday outlined by scientists. The scheme relies on DNA-sequencing technology so new that it will only become available in the next two years. The Genome 10K project involves gathering thousands of animal specimens from zoos, museums and university collections around the world and unravelling their DNA blueprints, or genomes. Nobel Prize-winning geneticist Professor Sydney Brenner, from the Salk Institute in California, said: The most challenging intellectual problem in biology for this century will be the reconstruction of our biological past so we can understand how complex organisms such as ourselves evolved. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html