hi everyone and welcome to this week's
IC RT vlog this episode is actually our
30th episode in total and will continue
to provide more entertainment and
lifestyle news so for our first story
for this week Michelin has published its
2019 guide for the top restaurants in
Taipei this is only the second time
they've done this last year was the
first and there are a couple of new
entrants onto the list let me give you
the rundown this year twenty four
restaurants made it onto the list and
there were five new entrants so for our
three star category which is the highest
category in the Michelin rating system
we are still staying with la Palais
which is a modern yet Cantonese
restaurant and it is in the Palais de
Sheen in downtown Taipei that is still
the only three-star restaurant in Taipei
but for our to star category we've had
some major changes the two to star
category restaurants from last year they
are still in two-star category that is
tawa and raw they both serve modern
cuisine but with like a traditional
Taiwanese twist to it and they're both
very very popular and other interesting
restaurant to note a new entirely new
restaurant has jumped the 1 star
category and is directly landed in the 2
star category that restaurant is sushi
AMA moto it serves to classic Japanese
sushi
it only has 12 seats it's I've heard I
haven't been there you have to wait like
months to get a reservation and
apparently they import fresh fish from
Kyushu in Japan and then their rice
sushi rice is cooked with spring water
from Nagano also in Japan if you
actually get the chance to try it out
after waiting months for a reservation
you should do that and then if you're
interested in more everyday fare we also
have the Michelin's bib gourmand list
that list this year has 58 restaurants
in total or eateries 24 of those come
from night markets multi-meter ease or
even stalls for our second story for
this week it has to come after all of
the delicious
because after you hear the story there's
no way you would have an appetite for
any type of food even michelin-starred
restaurants this story what made
international headlines it was in the
BBC CNN The Guardian Washington Post a
29 year old woman she comes from God
show she went to sweeping with her
family while she was clearing away the
grass there was a gust of wind and she
felt something go into her eyes she
thought it was like you know dust or
some kind of like dirt she rinsed out
her eyes with water and left it at that
couple hours later she would came down
from the mountain from tomb-sweeping and
it was seriously painful and swollen she
almost could not see out of her eyes
fortunately she went to a doctor when
the ophthalmologist looked at her eye
under a microscope he saw a wiggling
insect leg this is why this had to come
after the food you see what I'm saying
he very carefully very carefully
extracted the insect tried to keep it
whole and not to break off any body
parts then he pulled out another one
after that another one after that
another one after that so there were
four of these insects in her eye what is
this thing aside from a creature from
our nightmares they say it is a holiday
or a sweat bee so it is a type of bee
usually three to four millimeters long
they do feed on nectar and pollen but
they are called sweat bees because they
are attracted to the salt and the
moisture in human perspiration so when
the doctor pulled the bees from her eyes
the doctor said that the bees were
feeding off of her tears he said they
were probably a little bit you know like
squished in and uncomfortable that they
were definitely alive okay so the bees
are alive and well they were sent off to
a research lab for research purposes
woman her eye was infected she had
cellulitis whoa whoa oh that's ironic
watching zoo
doctors also say that it's very
fortunate that she did not rub her eyes
when they were uncomfortable if she
killed the insects and the body parts
broke off near her eyeballs they could
have you know maybe infection worse and
she could potentially have gone blind
but she is expected to make a full
recovery
so that is the second story for today
anyway I'm going to turn things over to
our other newscaster Philip but before I
do very quickly make sure to remember to
check out the ICR T 40th anniversary
concert it is coming up in July we are
going to get all the greatest hits from
the past couple of decades it's gonna be
a good time okay Philip take it away
okay so the story that I'm bringing you
I'm really excited about because I'm
kind of a nerd so last night Taipei was
one of six cities that unveiled the
first-ever real photo of a blackhole all
the ones that you always see online
those are made by the computers and
artists this one is real what is this
photo this was done by the event horizon
telescope project Taiwan was part of
that project through the academia sinica
that is why my pay was one of these six
cities in the world that was able to
unveil it before everybody else so this
event horizon telescope project is a
collaboration of a bunch of countries
and about 200 people to explain why this
photo is so important you have to first
understand what a black hole is so a
black hole is made when a really massive
star dies it runs out of fuel and then
all that matter collapses in and there's
just so much of it basically breaks
physics and everything collapses into a
tiny tiny point called a singularity
where they say physics completely breaks
down they don't know what's in there
because when you cross that event
horizon which is the black part no light
comes out you need light to do
measurements basically a hole a black
hole yeah where we cannot do any tests
so that's what we don't know what
happens within that black area so how
does this work but you can think of
space-time as kind of like a blanket and
it gets bent when there's an object in
it when is a black hole is big enough it
gets bent so so so far down that
anything goes in does not come out so if
nothing comes out including light how do
you take a photo of it basically they
say that it would stay about two years
maintaining telescopes from all over the
world at this thing and there
during the radiation that's around the
black hole so what you're seeing really
is more like a shadow what's different
about is it's not just a shadow like you
know the Sun is on my head and you can
see my head on the ground this is a
shadow you point light even directly at
it it's a it's a shadow from the front
so again why is this so important the
black hole basically was predicted by
Einstein's theory of relativity it's not
necessarily a hole in the universe it
might actually be a hole in our
understanding of that theory of the of
relativity so if we can understand more
about black holes then we can understand
more about the universe around us and
who knows what else is gonna come out of
that hole and one more thing a little
bit of housekeeping or suppose on Monday
we have a conference and it's to
celebrate the 40th anniversary of the
signing of the Taiwan Relations Act it
actually happened yesterday on April
10th in 1979 you can check out our
social media if you want more
information on that conference thank you
for watching the IC RT blog bye