Daily Fail
Sometimes you see something so unbelieveably stupid that it instantly gives you a headache for the rest of the day. This is an example of such a thing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1323610/Natures-Lucozade-How-A-lists-favourite-coconut-water-effective-sports-drink.html
My eye of course was drawn by the word 'Lucozade' in the headline, we at FNS towers are long-standing fans of the incredible healing powers of the revered orange beverage. Reading the said article however had effects wildly different to healing;
Coconut water has become the latest celebrity craze after studies showed that fluid extracted from young green coconuts is naturally full of isotones – the kind of electolytes which are added to sports drinks to aid hydration. [emphasis mine]
Let's have a look at the Wikipedia article for 'isotone' - "Two nuclides are isotones if they have the same neutron number N, but different proton number Z."
Somehow I doubt that is what this article refers to.
Probably it is either some kind of moronic misunderstanding or charlatanesque misrepresentation of the word 'isotonic', a word commonly used to market sport drinks and meaning that two solutions have the same osmotic concentration when compared. This is important for example when something is going to be administered by a drip; if the drip is too watery or too concentrated (i.e. not isotonic) compared to your blood, then bad things will happen (your blood cells for example will either shrivel or explode). For a sport drink this is somewhat less important. As for containing 'isotones', this makes about as much sense as saying that a warm coat contains particles of warm.
Methinks the Mail is printing bloody adverts as 'news' again.
Anyway, if we're talking sport drinks or electrolytes, Brawndo can't be beat. It's got what plants crave.
No FNS tonight
There will be no Friday Night Smoke tonight, Gav is attacking his house with a variety of dangerous power tools again.
We will return to the air at some point in the near future- watch this space or follow http://twitter.com/fnsradio for updates. Or don't, it's entirely up to you.
In the meantime, this is what 105 tonnes of burning cannabis looks like:
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322448/Mexican-soldiers-burn-105-ton-mountain-cannabis-seized-drugs-raid.html
Yes, I have been reading the Daily Mail. I read lots of papers, dontchaknow.