\nI frequently read posts and comments on a blog hosted by a very smart physics & math fellow named Lubo\u0161 Motl, nickname Lumo. When he writes about the physics stuff, I often only understand a little of it.
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Feb1-Ester-Ledecka-150x150.jpg\")
\nOf interest this week is that he is from Czechia \u2013 for you old farts, that was once part of Czechoslovakia \u2013 now officially known as the Czech Republic.
\nBeing from Czechia, Lumo has been keeping his readers informed of the Country’s now famous daughter, namely Ester Ledeck\u00e1.
\nHere are 2 links to the posts. Maybe these provide some information that you haven’t seen if you have been watching or reading about the Olympics on American TV or other news reports.<\/p>\n
Link 1 FEB 17 after Gold for skiing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Link 2 FEB 24 after Gold for snowboarding<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n His perspective comes from this: “There’s a catch, however. For years, Ms Ester Ledeck\u00e1 has been winning medals in snowboarding. This is a gold medal from skiing! She borrowed the skis from Mikaela Shiffrin (the American … Item #2: Olympics Two – a five-ender <\/span><\/p>\n “ . . . a five-ender, is so rare it has only been topped once before in the history of the men’s or women’s Olympic final. And it effectively clinched gold for . . .<\/em>” the USA curling team. I’ve seen only one article about curling that mentions the mystery of the sport. Link to WSJ<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The activity requires concentration. Item #3: Snow<\/span> Item #4: The skunk won<\/span><\/p>\n Detroit man uses smoke bomb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n . . . The crawl-space became a home for skunks. The man had a few smoke bombs. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n Item #5: Do you have an old bicycle that needs a home?<\/p>\n <\/span> And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news.<\/p>\n John<\/p>\n * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News . . . . from John, awaiting Nancy\u2019s draft of her week\u2019s news. Item #1: Olympics One – Ester Ledeck\u00e1 I frequently read posts and comments on a blog hosted by a very smart physics & math fellow named Lubo\u0161 Motl, nickname Lumo. When he writes about the physics … Continue reading “TW’NSNN”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-1LD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6807,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n . . . “there are good reasons to think that a top athlete in one sport may be very good in another especially if the two are similar enough.<\/em>”
\nIf you are not interested in sports stories, move along.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Feb-2-USA-Curling-team-gold-300x120.jpg\")
US wins historic Olympic gold<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Feb-3-Curling-mystery.jpg\")
As the curler lets go, she or he gives the stone a little twist \u2013 this causes the 42 pound polished granite stone to “curl” at the end of its path, thus the name of the game.
\nIf you have ever put spin (English<\/em>) on a cue ball, you understand the concept.
\nThe curling stone doesn’t do what you expect it to do.
\nThe story I read is in the Wall Street Journal (with diagram shown here).
\nThe WSJ is a subscription service. I haven’t found any other.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Feb-4-Curling-Nina-Roth-150x150.jpg\")
\nNina Roth is pictured to the right.<\/p>\n
\nWe received about 2 inches of snow Friday evening. This morning the sky is blue with fluffy clouds. Very nice day with the temperature approaching 40+\u00b0F. The ski areas at the mountain passes are thrilled. They got more snow than we did, but not enough to close the roads. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Feb5-Bikes-on-a-fence-300x144.jpg\")
On a Bison enclosure in Saskachewan.
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