<div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, arial; line-height: normal; margin: 10px;"><img class="alignleft alignnone size-full wp-image-2113" style="border: 00px solid black; float: left; margin: 8px;" title="4822896-4-4" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/4822896-4-4.jpg" alt="4822896-4-4" width="312" height="350" /><em>The tall, sleek, curving Vdara Hotel at CityCenter on the Strip is a thing of beauty.</em>

<em>But the south-facing tower is also a collector and bouncer of sun rays, which -- if you're at the hotel's swimming pool at the wrong time of day and season -- can singe your hair and melt your plastic drink cups and shopping bags.</em></div>
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<em>Hotel pool employees call the phenomenon the "Vdara death ray."</em>

<em>A spokesman for MGM Resorts International, which owns Vdara, said he prefers the term "hot spot" or "solar convergence" to describe it. </em>

Full story at <a href="http://www.lvrj.com/news/vdara-visitor---death-ray--scorched-hair-103777559.html" target="_blank">Las Vegas Review Journal</a>

Thanks <a href="http://badscience.net" target="_blank">Ben Goldacre</a></div>