COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, SEpTEmBER 11, 2021
Teen navigates opposing currents of reality, religion
they make apply to my friends,
but I’m afraid to give them my
opinion. I’m unsure whether I
should say anything at all. Can
you help me? — Keeping Quiet
in California
Dear Keeping Quiet: You
are free to think the way you
do, and to support your friends.
However, you are not likely to
change the way your parents
feel on this subject. Your friends
have come out to you, but not to
your parents. If you out them to
your parents, they may forbid
you from seeing those friends. In
two years, you will be 18, legally
an adult and more able to express
your thoughts with fewer nega-
tive ramifications. If I were you,
I’d wait.
Dear Abby: I’m a 16-year-old
girl, and I’ve been strug-
gling a little bit. My family is
super-Christian. They believe
that members of the LGBTQ
community are sinful because of
who they are. I do not agree.
I have a small group of
friends. Two of them have
come out to me as bi and gen-
der-fluid. When my family talks
about gay people, they say hor-
rible things. I want to tell them
what they are saying is wrong
and that the mean comments
Dear Abby: My husband
was annoyed and upset by a
cricket in the house. He had
used insect spray, but it was
still chirping, so he asked me to
take care of it. I told him I didn’t
know how to get rid of a cricket,
since we didn’t know where it
was exactly. He was banging
around the utility room. I called
his name and asked him where
he had sprayed — no answer.
I asked again. No response. I
then used his full name, and he
got upset that I did! He said it
was disrespectful and that I was
“treating him like a child.”
I apologized if I had hurt his
feelings, but he’s still upset with
me because I don’t agree it was
disrespectful. Am I wrong? Is
posted on her Facebook page that
she was having a sale because
it was her birthday. I thought it
was greedy and inappropriate,
as I was always taught that it’s a
breach of etiquette to announce
that it’s your birthday, especially
as an adult. Am I right? Or am
I reading too much into this? —
Bothered in the East
Dear Bothered: You are
reading too much into this.
There is nothing wrong about
people revealing that it’s their
birthday. It doesn’t obligate
anyone to fork over anything
more than their good wishes. If
you decide to shop the sale, all
you have to do is say, “How nice!
I hope you are enjoying your
special day.”
it disrespectful to use your hus-
band’s full name when trying
to get his attention? — Sad in
Nevada
Dear Sad: It’s not disre-
spectful if you can’t get him to
respond any other way. I don’t
know what your husband’s rela-
tionship was with his mother.
Perhaps she used his full name
when he ignored her as he did
to you when he was “playing
cricket.” The next time he tells
you to take care of something
you can’t handle, pick up the
phone and hire a professional.
That way you won’t have to
inconvenience your husband.
Dear Abby: The owner of a
store I shop at every week, who
I believe is in her 40s, recently
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Research on beards, wads of gum wins 2021 Ig Nobel prizes
SALT LAKE CITY —
Beards aren’t just cool and
trendy — they might also
be an evolutionary develop-
ment to help protect a man’s
delicate facial bones from a
punch to the face.
That’s the conclusion
of a trio of scientists from
the University of Utah who
are among the winners of
this year’s Ig Nobel prizes,
the Nobel Prize spoofs that
honor — or maybe dis-
honor, depending on your
point of view — strange sci-
entific discoveries.
The winners of the 31st
annual Ig Nobels being
announced Thursday, Sept.
9, included researchers who
figured out how to better
control cockroaches on U.S.
Navy submarines; animal
scientists who looked at
whether it’s safer to trans-
port an airborne rhinoceros
upside-down; and a team
that figured out just how
disgusting that discarded
gum stuck to your shoe is.
For the second year in
a row, the ceremony was a
roughly 90-minute prere-
corded digital event because
of the worldwide coro-
navirus pandemic, said
Marc Abrahams, editor of
the Annals of Improbable
Research magazine, the
event’s primary sponsor.
While disappointing in
many ways because half the
fun of a live ceremony is the
rowdy audience participa-
tion, the ceremony retained
many in-person traditions.
Those included real Nobel
laureates announcing the
Elise Amendola/The Associated Press, File
The 2019 Ig Nobel award is displayed at the 29th annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2019. The spoof prizes for weird and sometimes head-scratch-
ing scientific achievement were presented online in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
times with the fleece still
on, sometimes sheared.
They then dropped weights
on them.
The sample with
the fleece still attached
absorbed more energy than
the sheared samples.
“If the same is true for
human facial hair, then
having a full beard may
help protect vulnerable
regions of the facial skel-
eton from damaging strikes,
such as the jaw,” they said.
“Presumably, full beards
also reduce injury, lac-
eration, and contusion to
the skin and muscle of
the face.”
prizes, and the world pre-
miere of a mini opera called
“A Bridge Between People,”
about children who lit-
erally build tiny suspen-
sion bridges to join two
angry adults.
No faces were punched
for the beard study pub-
lished in the scientific
journal Integrative Organ-
ismal Biology.
Instead, University
of Utah scientists Ethan
Beseris, Steven Naleway
and David Carrier used
a fiber epoxy composite
to simulate human bone,
and sheepskin to act as
the human skin — some-
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It’s obvious that those
wads of discarded chewing
gum found on sidewalks
around the world are pretty
revolting.
But just how revolting?
Researchers from a
Spanish university deter-
mined the already-chewed
gum that has been stuck
to the sidewalk for three
months is teeming with
nasty bacteria.
It sounds like a silly
study, but as usual, there
was some method to the
madness.
“Our findings have
implications for a wide
range of disciplines,
Former soccer player
dies after 39 years
in a coma
PARIS — Jean-Pierre
Adams, the former France
and Paris Saint-Germain
defender who spent 39
years in a coma, has died.
He was 73.
In a poignant tribute
on Monday, Sept. 6, PSG
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Baker City
called him the club’s “glo-
rious elder.”
“His joie de vivre, his
charisma and his experi-
ence command respect.
Paris Saint-Germain offers
its condolences to his
family and loved ones,”
PSG said in a statement.
Adams, cared for by
his wife, Bernadette, has
been lying in a coma at
his home in the southern
French city of Nimes since
1982.
He was injured in a
match and required knee
surgery. During the oper-
ation at Lyon Hospital, an
anaesthetic error saw him
fall into a coma.
As a young boy, Adams
left his home country of
Senegal with a passion for
soccer.
He was spotted by
Nimes in 1970 and went
on to score 10 goals in 98
matches for the club before
playing almost 150 games
and scoring 17 goals for
Nice.
Adams moved on to PSG
in 1977 and played there for
two seasons. He then ended
his playing career in 1981
after brief spells with Mul-
house and Chalon.
He won his first cap for
France in 1972 and went
on to play 22 times for Les
Bleus.
Even though Adams was
relatively short for a central
defender at 5 feet 10 inches,
he formed an imposing
partnership with Marius
Tresor.
The last of Adams’ inter-
national appearances was
away to Denmark in 1976.
including forensics, con-
tagious disease control, or
bioremediation of wasted
chewing gum residues,”
Leila Satari, Alba Guillén,
Àngela Vidal-Verdú, and
Manuel Porcar from the
University of Valencia
wrote in their paper, which
was published at Nature.
com.
A team of U.S. Navy
researchers won for fig-
uring out a cheaper and
more effective way to con-
trol cockroaches on subma-
rines. The 1971 study that
appeared in Journal of Eco-
nomic Entomology found
that traditional methods
such as carboxide fumiga-
tion and use of the pesticide
malathion were not good
enough.
They found that using
the pesticide dichlorvos was
less expensive and more
effective.
The goal is to return next
year’s ceremony to its tra-
ditional home at Harvard
University’s Sanders The-
atre, Abrahams said, but
much depends on whether
the pandemic is under con-
trol and what kind of travel
restrictions are in place
around the world.
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