He used a toaster oven, and he even made his own vortex mixer, based on a tutorial by another scientist maker.

And this thing is the second vortex to be built in the world, in a two and a half meter drop on a river.

And it turns out that the insects flap their wings in a very clever way, at a very high angle of attack that creates a structure at the leading edge of the wing, a little tornado like structure called a leading edge vortex, and it's that vortex that actually enables the wings to make enough force for the animal to stay in the air.

So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness.

If China enters the vortex, its trade partners will not be able to pull it out this time. So the key question for China s government is whether the country can do so on its own.

One could easily conclude that the world is being sucked into a vortex of instability. But the past month featured some hopeful moments, and pausing to study them is imperative to avoid succumbing to pessimism.

And of course, the waylakama spin, the trajectory of the route, is marked by holy mounds of Earth, where coke is given to the Earth, libations of alcohol to the wind, the vortex of the feminine is brought to the mountaintop.

Though I am, by nature, an optimist, I have to admit that it is very difficult not to be pessimistic as 2014 comes to a close. Nonetheless, we must not submit to panic and despair, or allow ourselves to be drawn into a vortex of negative inertia.

But some observers, such as Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman and former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, continue to doubt whether QE can really be effective. As Krugman recently put it, a deflationary vortex is dragging down much of the world economy, with falling prices causing an inescapable downward spiral in demand.

NEW DELHI The problems and dilemmas confronting Pakistan s leadership including a deepening vortex of mutual suspicions, sectarian killings, and brazen terrorism are almost too numerous to count. And that leadership whether civilian, military, and also the now politically active judiciary has proven congenitally ineffective, leaving the country with a broken economy and a paralyzed political system.

A breakthrough might compel a phase of intense diplomacy, giving Iran a pathway to diplomatic normalization and opening the door for grand bargains that could begin to restore order and stability to the rest of the region. A breakdown, by contrast, though unlikely to lead immediately to war, could easily foment developments that lead in that direction, and the region as a whole could be pulled even deeper into the current vortex of chaos and violence.