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(En español: Anestesia) Anesthesia is medicine that doctors and nurses give to make people feel comfortable when they're having surgery, stitches, or other things that might be painful. There are different types of anesthesia: general and local. General anesthesia is cool because it helps you fall asleep for a little b...
A student has sent me five questions on the issue of man-made climate change. As they may be seen as typical, I answer them here on the Klimazwiebel. This may be useful – for the student, who will be able to read the comments of the readers of the blog, – for the bloggers to better understand the issues and concerns am...
Pub. date: 2007 | Online Pub. Date: September 15, 2007 | DOI: 10.4135/9781412952651 | Print ISBN: 9781412924702 | Online ISBN: 9781412952651| Publisher:SAGE Publications, Inc.About this encyclopedia Measures of Association/Correlation Coefficient Ronald S. Landis In many situations, researchers are interested in evalua...
(Question - how does this compare to the distribution for frankish coins?), but certainly suggesting that there was direct contact between the Byzanitine empire and the British successor state in Cornwall, based around Tintagel. Of course Byzantium does not mean Istanbul. The sixth century Byzantine empire had successf...
The Very First Coffee Maker Coffee makers are common kitchen appliances we use to brew coffee minus the trouble of boiling water separately. Many diverse styles of coffee makers use a lot of various brewing standards. The usual units use coffee grounds which are placed typically in a paper filter in a funnel which is t...
Most Active Stories KRWG.ORG-The Region's Home Page Wed July 11, 2012 Did The Great Recession Bring Back The 1930s? Originally published on Wed July 11, 2012 12:00 pm The long economic downturn that began in late 2007 came to be known at the Great Recession –- the worst period since the Great Depression of the 1930s. E...
Study: 1 in 5 US residents do not have access to the internet, smartphones breaking through social classes People of my generation had the chance to experience what I like to call the Big Tech Bang. This made-up term refers to the beginning of the communications era. I remember the days when even house phones were a lu...
In The Past: In The Future: Because of new inventions we’re also going to face a lot of ethical problems. According to Wikipedia the definition of ethics is: Ethics is a branch of philosophy which seeks to address questions about morality, such as what the fundamental semantic, ontological, and epistemic nature of ethi...
Religion in Africa is varied. There are many tribal religions in which there is more than one God. Also, in Northern Africa Islamic and Muslim religions are common. Near Southern Africa, mix religions are common due to immigration and multiculturalism. Many countries in Africa use democratic or republic government syst...
Display Lists Tutorial Display Lists are about performance. It is a simple way of enhancing your OpenGL application making it run faster. In order to follow this tutorial you should know the basics of GLUT and OpenGL. If there is anything that is not quite clear please let me know and I'll try to improve it. Your feedb...
The Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education was founded in 1954, and welcomes more than 80,000 visitors every year with a variety of hands-on programs, science exhibits, wildlife encounters, gardens and more. These are some of the museum's ongoing exhibits: - Invertebrate Corner. Get up close to a Tarantula, Bl...
F O X J E T The Foxjet 600 was unveiled in 1977, and did not proceed beyond the manufacturing of several marketing mockups and a few parts. The concept itself was very good, but the program failed for lack of "reality check" tools available to Tony Fox. The aircraft startup environment is unforgiving when the unique ch...
Numerous aquifers located under Sahara By Mohand Ouali for Magharebia in Algiers – 07/02/06 Studies show that the Sahara aquifer basin is one of the largest in the world. It stretches across territory belonging to Algeria, Tunisia and Libya and is made up of two main deposits, the Terminal Complex and the Continental I...
Coping with Trauma and Disaster Dealing with the stress of war These tips from the American Psychological Association for teachers of children and teens can be used by anyone to learn how to deal with the daily stress of media coverage of the war and worry for family and friends in the military. This is an excellent re...
|The urban populace is often cautioned about the vegetables they eat, especially green leafy vegetables, as they are increasingly grown with untreated sewage water. With mounting water scarcity, farmers in the peripheries of urban areas are known to increasingly use sewage or wastewater to grow vegetables, food crops a...
Ask yourself the following questions, answering each one always, often, sometimes, or never. - Do you think about food constantly, so that you feel controlled and defined by it? - Do you eat large amounts of food in a short period of time, feeling you can’t stop? - Do you think you are overweight, but others tell you t...
This file contains translations from the Anglo-Saxon of the following works: ''Genesis A'', ''Genesis B'', ''Exodus'', ''Daniel'', and ''Christ and Satan''. All are works found in the manuscript of Anglo-Saxon verse known as ''Junius 11.'' These works were originally written in Anglo-Saxon, sometime between the 7th and...
Physical Education plays a critical role in educating the whole student. Like other academic courses of study, physical education is based upon rigorous national standards that define what students should know and be able to do as a result of participation. Physical education is unique to the school curriculum as it is...
Capitalizing on a growing body of evidence that comics can encourage reluctant readers to read more and talented students to gain in knowledge and creativity, The Maryland State Department of Education has partnered with Diamond Comic Book Distributors and elicited the help of members of local school systems, higher ed...
Flashing and Drainage Flashing is a crucial component in modern masonry walls. Whereas solid, multi-wythe masonry walls mostly constructed before the 1900s manage water infiltration through absorption and evaporation, modern masonry walls must accommodate moisture penetration by providing a collection and drainage syst...
The answer appears to be yes, that we can construct such numbers at present. The techniques that have been used recently have their roots around 1985 when elliptic curves were first applied to cryptography and factorization and when personal computers with RAM by the megabyte became common. I would like to thank Charle...
Date: Jan 2, 2013 7:10 PM Author: Jerry P. Becker Subject: A Long Winter's Nap From Connect [College of Education + Human Development], University of Minnesota, Volume 7, No. 1, pp. 18-19. Winter 2013. See A Long Winter's Nap Less than 20 years ago, discoveries about teen sleep began changing school start times in Minn...
Roy Stafford examines how genre can be applied in teaching about non-film texts Some suggestions for how to approach the issues of globalisation and hybridity in the media classroom Primary and Secondary students can benefit from making their own media production. Tom Barrance outlines some ground rules to make the pro...
As the temperature rises, so do your opportunities to commune with nature. Do not let poison ivy ruin your plans! One beautiful summer day, Joanna recruited her two young children to help her work in the backyard. After working in the vegetable garden, she and her kids turned their attention to the patch of weeds growi...
Detection of protandry and protogyny from infructescences |Sycamore index page| |Invasive Woody Plants|| As described in the Sex Expression section sycamore trees may be protandrous when their inflorescences start with a sequence of male flowers followed by a sequence of female flowers, or protogynous when the reverse ...
3,950,000 first language speakers (1980), out of 6,500,000 in the ethnic group in Turkey (1993 Johnstone); 938,000 in Syria (1993); 480,000 in Germany, 51,000 in Armenia (1979), 25,000 in Kazakhstan; 14,000 in Kyrghyzstan (1993), 2,933 in Turkmenistan, 20,000 in Azerbaijan (1989 census), 33,000 in Georgia (1993); 4,000...
Is a known Type I and Type III allergen that can sometimes cause infections in the human skin, nails, and eyes. A Common saprobe frequently isolated from soil, plant surfaces, seeds, grains, fruits and other food, human skin and nails. Common indoors in humid areas such as bathrooms, kitchens, poorly maintained HVAC sy...
When I was a kid my parents took my sister and I to Autoworld in Flint, Michigan. It was supposed to be an amusement park dedicated to educating the world on the importance and innovation of the auto industry. One of the first things visitors saw upon entering the complex was a robot that welcomed you to the “wonderful...
Fighting the gypsy mothby Bob Kelleher, Minnesota Public Radio Officials are planning their attack on an expected gypsy moth infestation in northeast Minnesota. Last year, researchers trapped more moths in Cook County than they've ever trapped in the entire state. With treatment, they think they can keep the forest pes...
Kypriakí Dhimokratía (Greek) Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti (Turkish) Coat of Arms |Anthem: Ymnos pros tin Eleutherian 1 ||Nicosia (pop. 200,686) 4) 35°08′ N 33°28′ E ||Greek and Turkish Tassos Papadopoulos 2 |From the UK 16 August 1960 16 August 1960 3 9,250 4 km² (161st) 780,133 5 (155th) $ 16,745 (n/a) $ 20,669 (n/a) |1. "Ymnos...
Jason was the son of King Aeson, whose throne was usurped by his brother. To saveJason, he sent him for fostering to another King. He was to return when he was old enough to be able to retrieve a special sword and sandals from under a heavy rock. When he did return to claim his inheritance from his uncle,, the uncle ag...
My 6 year old is having the hardest time getting those letters right! Does anyone have some good ideas to help with this?? by ElectraSpySeptember 26, 2011 at 5:05 PM I was dyslexic & a specialist created a little story about each commonly reversed letter. I was 6 & still remembered them! I made these little poster help...
2012-2013 Service Learning Courses Hispanic Literature in Translation—"Defiant Acts: Spanish and Latin American Theatre" Isabel de Sena This course will explore the full spectrum of theatre from the early modern period in Spain and colonial Spanish America to contemporary theatre on both sides of the Atlantic, includin...
As with prototype trains, gauge is the measure of the distance between the rails. Standard Gauge has two different meanings with model trains: 1. On prototype railroads in most of the world, the majority of tracks are laid in a common, or "standard" gauge. This gauge of 4 feet 8.5 inches began evolving as the standard ...
Topographic maps are digital, graphic maps that portray the horizontal position of planimetric features using lines and symbols. Contours are derived from a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) to represent the elevation of the ground. Ground control is set for this product. Aerotriangulation is performed to determine the posit...
Table of Contents Once you have built and installed a package, you can create a binary package which can be installed on another system with pkg_add(1). This saves having to build the same package on a group of hosts and wasting CPU time. It also provides a simple means for others to install your package, should you di...
The summer is upon us and it is typically the time when we are most active with outdoor activities. But studies still show that less than 25% of the population exercise on a regular basis. According to the U.S. Public Health Service, many of us still have misconceptions about exercising. Here are some of the most commo...
Harmful algal blooms, once considered mainly a problem in salt water, have been appearing with increasing severity in the Madison lakes, and a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has geared up to understand the when, where and why of these dangerous "blooms." No longer just a smelly, unsightly nuisance,...
February 06, 2012 Examining the insect's seven centimeter long fossil wings under microscope, researchers were able to see how the prehistoric male katydid employed stridulation, i.e. rubbing body parts together, to produce a song to attract a female. Given the insect's morphology, biomechanical experts were then able ...
Biodiversity does not reduce transmission of disease from animals to humans, Stanford researchers find New analysis pokes holes in widely accepted theory that connects biodiversity abundance with a reduced disease risk for humans. More than three quarters of new, emerging or re-emerging human diseases are caused by pat...
Download Video (25 MB) Kids should think twice before picking on early maturing girls or late maturing boys in their class. A new study links violent conduct in schools to some students’ timing in puberty. According to University of Florida researchers, children who go through puberty at different times then most of th...
Japan Fleeing to Okinawa FILE - In this March 16, 2011 file photo, a woman holds her child at a shelter after being evacuated from areas around the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged by last week's major earthquake and following tsunami in Fukushima city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Experts and the government say th...
Varanasi, India — A couple years ago, one of India’s leading industrial houses announced a revolutionary new household filter that would for the first time bring affordable, safe drinking water to millions of homes. The Tata Swach combines the inexpensive carbon of burnt rice husks with silver nano-particles to kill an...
Devices made from gallium arsenide could enable optical communication that is 1000 times faster than today's electronic communication. Solid State Electronics journal - Ultrafast nonlinear optical effects in semiconductor quantum wells resonantly driven by strong few-cycle terahertz pulses Intraexciton transitions in s...
To Be or not to Be is a question that has been asked many times before. We were curious what happens if we visualize this passage of Shakespeare’s classics as a text network (using the polysingularity method) and then read the text through the network. What are the other possibilities contained within the passage? Here...
A short history of the use of lime as a building material beyond Europe and North America Carran, Dorn; Hughes, John; Leslie, Alick; Kennedy, Craig. 2012 A short history of the use of lime as a building material beyond Europe and North America. Journal of Architectural Heritage, 6 (2). 117-146. 10.1080/15583058.2010.51...
Ivory (French ivoire; Italian avorio; Latin ebur), dentine, the tusks of the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, and other animals: a tough and elastic substance, of a creamy white, taking a high and lasting polish, largely employed in the arts since pre-historic times, and used extensively in making or adorning ecclesiast...
Today Novozymes, the world leader in bioinnovation, announced an exploratory research agreement with Sea6 Energy, an India-based company, to jointly develop a process for the production of biofuels from seaweed. The research alliance will use enzymes to convert seaweed-based carbohydrates to sugar, which can then be fe...
1. Teachers Should Teach Both Sides There are tens of thousands of different religious views concerning creation. It is simply impossible for all of these views to be presented. Furthermore, none of the theories are based in science and therefore have no place in a science classroom. In a science class, students can de...
This inexpensive DIY project makes starting or growing plants a whole lot easier by automatically keeping the soil at just the right moisture level. All you need is a 2 liter bottle and some string. ASBloom shows you how to make these clever planters on the Skruben blog. Basically, you cut the bottle in half, and threa...
This is a guest post by Bianca of Latino Sexuality and of The LatiNegr@s Project. I’ll be cross-posting and blogging! Read a bit more about me when we introduced The LatiNegr@s Project team. cross posted from my Media Justice column by Bianca Laureano You may want to bookmark this post for future reference. For many of...
The Crossing the line certificate (SAFR 14028, HDC 0034) commemorates an equator crossing, a seafaring milestone. This certificate, dated February 10, 1910, was made out to E. Schwerin while a Mariner aboard the S.S. MARIPOSA (built 1883; steamer), and was issued by the Oceanic Steamship Company-Tahiti Line. The docume...
« Previous | Next » How are mental disorders diagnosed and treated? This session explores the two main categories of psychological treatment – behavioral therapies and medical (drug) therapies. For OCD, depression and ADHD, we'll look at the current scientific understanding of these disorders and compare methods of tre...
- Wasse r (1) (remove) - Influence of natural organic matter on the mobility of arsenic in aquatic systems, soils and sediments (2008) - The element As is today recognized as one of the most dangerous inorganic contaminants and threats for the world’s water resources. Arsenic is ubiquitious in the earth crust and human...
Skete of St. Andrew (Athos) The Skete of Saint Andrew, also the Skete of Apostle Andrew and Great Anthony in Karyes is a monastic institution on Mount Athos. It is a dependency of Vatopaidi Monastery and is the site of the Athonias Ecclesiastical Academy. The Skete had its origins when Athanasius II (Pattelarus) as Pat...
John Smyth (c. 1570-1612) is an important figure in Baptist history, mainly because of his commitment to religious liberty, a believer’s church, and “baptism” of believers. He was not, however, the founder of Baptists (Wikipedia is wrong.). His baptism was not technically baptism as it was done by affusion (pouring) an...
Le Corbusier, assumed name of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887-1965) was a Swiss architect. His functionalist approach to town planning in industrial society was based on the interrelation between modern machine forms and the techniques of modern architecture. His concept, La Ville Radieuse, developed in Marseille (1945...
Through June of 2012, renewable energy was right behind natural gas in terms of the most new energy generating capacity being installed in the United States, with wind making up most of the renewables push. And now Business Insider has flagged the numbers for the remainder of the year. Last week, they reported that win...
Here's another chance to play geographical detective! This natural-color image from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) represents an area of about 372 kilometers x 425 kilometers, and was captured by the instrument's vertical-viewing (nadir) camera in December, 2000. Only some of the following 9 statement...
Scientists have produced the most extensive map of Arctic sea-ice thickness yet using just two months' worth of data from the European Space Agency's ice mission, CryoSat-2. Data from the satellite has also helped them create an updated map of ocean circulation in the Arctic, and a topographical relief map of Antarctic...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers have devised a method that may allow clinicians to use higher doses of a powerful chemotherapy drug that has been limited because it is toxic not only to tumors but to patients' kidneys. The research, conducted in laboratory animals, marries chemistr...
Major Section: HISTORY Example: :pe fn ; sketches the command that introduced fn and ; prints in full the event within it that created fn.See logical-name. Pe takes one argument, a logical name, and prints in full the event corresponding to the name. Pe also sketches the command responsible for that event if the comman...
Multiplies x by 2^y. This is equivalent to shifting the binary representation of x to the left by y bits. Bitwise logical operations on numbers. These forms compute the bitwise AND, inclusive OR, exclusive OR, and equivalence (a.k.a. exclusive NOR), respectively. These macros expand into calls of binary functions such ...
This phenomena has been explained by the Zetas and is thoroughly documented on this blog. While the "official" cause of such massive fish kills is often attributed to hypoxia (lack of oxygen), what is conveniently excluded in these opaque explanations is that high concentrations of dissolved methane essentially expels ...
WPA Rule 3. Eight Ball The Rules of Play From World Pool-Billiard Association (Effective 1/1/08) Eight ball is played with fifteen numbered object balls and the cue ball. The shooter’s group of seven balls (one through seven or nine through fifteen) must all be off the table before he attempts to pocket the eight ball ...
Chris Hayess comments on his MSNBC program regarding heroism provided another opportunity for the hard right to engage in its favorite pastime. Over Memorial Day weekend, Hayes paid tribute to the bravery and the sacrifices of the men and women who serve our country, but then had the temerity to wonder whether the word...
The world’s first authorized test in people of a treatment derived from human embryonic stem cells has been cleared to begin by the Food and Drug Administration. The trial will test cells developed by Geron Corporation and the University of California, Irvine in patients with new spinal cord injuries. The F.D.A. had in...
When the word went forth: "O earth! swallow up thy water and O sky! withhold (thy rain)!" and the water abated and the matter was ended. The Ark rested on Mount Judi and the word went forth: "Away with those who do wrong!" 11:44The Bible and the Qur'an both relate the eponymous story of Noah's Ark. In the Qur'an's vers...
There are three parts to this post. First I want to explain the four ways we speak of causes. Second I want to relate these four ways to the causes that are the subject of modern science. Third, we will see how it is possible for God to act in ways to which modern science modern science cannot even relate, let alone co...
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cardinals from England| “The Cardinal protector of England was an appointed crown-cardinal of England from 1492 until...Cardinal protector of England “John of Toledo (died 1275) was an English Cistercian abbot and Cardinal. Created cardinal in...John of Toledo “Henry Benedict St...
- The Rock River Times - http://rockrivertimes.com - Pet Talk: Precautionary travel tips for pet owners Posted By Jim Hagerty On May 18, 2011 @ 12:00 am In Online Exclusives | No Comments From College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University Most summer days are filled with outdoor activities and times spent on vac...
Garden Cities of To-morrow by Ebenezer Howard Among the many 'utopian' proposals of the 19th century, this particular short text stands out. Howard was a 19th century British reformer and city planner. He was influenced by Bellamy's Looking Backwards. He saw new, planned towns as a necessary counterbalance to the squal...
How much do you know about our Constitution? If you’re like most Australians your answer would probably be, “not much”! We all know there is something called “The Constitution” and we know that the Constitution has been a good thing, yet we know very little about what’s in it, or how it works in practice. The Constitut...
Analyzing the dynamic hydrologic conditions of the Sandhills is critical for water and range management, sustainability of the Sandhills ecosystem as well as for dune stability. There are complex models available to quantify both surface and subsurface hydrological processes. However, we present in this study an applic...
Parks in this Network Southwest Alaska Network The SWAN I&M Program is one of 32 National Park Service I&M Networks across the country established to facilitate collaboration, information sharing, and economies of scale in natural resource monitoring. It is comprised of five national park units, each of which contain a...
A small room in Xultún indicates that the Mayan calendar goes well beyond 2012. In 2008, William Saturno, who works at the Archaeology Department at Boston University, US, began a systematic archaeological investigation in the Maya ruins of Xultún, northeastern Guatemala. Xultún was first reported in 1915, and it is...
Slides (ppt, pdf) Many of the greatest advances in imaging technology (motion pictures, electron microscopes, MRI, etc.) enabled us to capture and see the world in ways that were not previously possible. It's reasonable to expect that imaging breakthroughs of the future will continue to bend the limits of what we can a...
When I recently priced out a new PC, I opted for one that had as a standard feature error correction code (ECC) memory -- a type of system memory that supports advanced error correction. I was concerned that without ECC, I'd be more prone to memory errors and was willing to pay a little extra for the insurance policy. ...
This is the homepage for a course focusing on evolution, the nature of science, and how to write well. The course focuses on Burgess Shale and starts with "Wonderful Life" (Gould, 1989), to study arthropods, evolution, and geologic time from this point, but also analyze why Gould is such an effective writer. The course...
Visualization of Model Output Visualization of output from mathematical or statistical models is one of the best ways to introduce introductory geoscience students to the results and behavior of sophisticated models. Example of good sites include: - Climate Impact of Quadrupling Atmospheric CO2: An overview of GFDL Cli...
Once the preserve of science fiction, increasingly sophisticated robotic devices are vying for a place side by side with humans in the real world. At Italy's Sant'Anna university, a bionic arm commanded by the human brain or a limb extension that allows rescuers to lift rubble after earthquakes are just some of the fut...
Two years ago, I wrote a post over at Feministe calling out Google Doodles – described by Google as “changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists” – for pretending women haven’t existed for most of history. At the time, I counted ...
Click To Enlarge The history of a school is the story of a community and of the social issues that shape education. The creation of the New York City public high school system was the culmination of the major educational reform movement in the United States in the 19th century. "Morris High School and the Creation of t...
This elegant natural marbel trivet portrays the lovely image of the historical Waldseemuller Map. Taken from Exploring the Early Americas exhibit, this trivet depicts an image from one of the most historical documents created of early America. Dubbed "America's Birth Certificate," the Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 World ...
Fight the Heat with Deep Impact's Edible Comet 15 Jul 2003 (Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Newsletter for the Deep Impact mission Welcome to the nearly 7,000 of you who have told us you want to know more about the Deep Impact mission. We are currently in Phase C/D. During this 34-month period, the twin spacecraft -...
The Making of Arduino How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm The picturesque town of Ivrea, which straddles the blue-green Dora Baltea River in northern Italy, is famous for its underdog kings. In 1002, King Arduin became the ruler of the country, only to be dethroned by ...
Our Shoes Neckerchief is designed with colorful renderings of shoes in the Museumís Costume Institute collection. Featuring an array of styled pumps and heels, our neckerchief is fit to satisfy the true shoes enthusiast. From earliest times, footwear has served as a reflection of current fashion trends and designersí v...
Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” is not a true translation of the Hebrew. She claims she has carried out fresh textual analysis that suggests the writers of the great book never intended ...
There's one brewing in the midwest, another raging in the southeast and a third building in the southwest. They're regional, inter-state conflicts over distribution of dwindling groundwater resources. In the southeast, the Army Corps of Engineers is under simultaneous attack by lawsuits from Georgia, Florida and Alabam...
Allium family stinks so good Bulbous, smelly, yet oh so good is one description of the Allium genus, or onions. These popular rhizomes can be either perennial or biennial. The onion is native to the northern hemisphere, Ethiopia, South Africa and Mexico. Various species of onion have been cultivated since the earliest ...
Blended Learning | Viewpoint 5 Skills for Blended-Learning Teachers In the seventh installment of their monthly column, blended learning experts Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker outline the five skills that will increasingly be important for many teachers in the future. - By Michael Horn, Heather Staker As more schoo...
Video below. Federal officials are trapping and killing Canada geese in nine New Jersey counties. U.S. Agriculture Department spokeswoman Carol Bannerman confirms the "capture and removal" program is taking place for six weeks, the time the birds are molting and cannot fly. Hundreds of Canada geese will be removed from...
New underground lake is found in Wonder Cave of the Ozarks Springfield Leader January 27, 1921 page 1 and 10. "...pool of undetermined size discovered by explorer in Marvel Cave, Stone County By Harold Nelson "The natural wonders of Marvel Cave, located in Stone County, 50 miles south of Springfield, have gained furthe...
Continuing the Space Scenery series… Nebulae are clouds of dust and gas in space (the word ‘nebula’ comes the Latin for ‘cloud’). They usually have stars forming within them, which gives them the aesthetically pleasing quality of being lit from the inside. Visible in the southern sky, the Great Carina Nebula (also know...
I ride my bike to work. It seems so pure. We're constantly urged to "go green" -- use less energy, shrink our carbon footprint, save the Earth. How? We should drive less, use ethanol, recycle plastic and buy things with the government's Energy Star label. But what if much of going green is just bunk? Al Gore's group, R...
The Fourier transform takes an input function f (in red) in the “time domain” and converts it into a new function f-hat (in blue) in the “frequency domain”. In other words, the original function can be thought of as being “amplitude given time”, and the Fourier transform of the function is “amplitude given frequency”. ...
Ladies and Gentlemen, For this post, I will look at how the Younger Dryas (YD) the most-well researched of the Late Glacial abrupt climate shifts, supposedly cut-off the thermohaline circulation (THC) causing an abrupt cooling event. The THC, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), is the ...
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) and the Office of... At the Seventh Plenary meeting, it was decided to merge the previous Task Group 1 (International and administrative boundaries) and Task Group 2 (Core Geo-Database), highly related and complementary at different levels and scales, into ...
Interest area: Land Use The Bay Area is one of the most expensive and challenging housing markets in the country. On average, local households spend 48% of their income on housing, compared to 29% for the country as a whole, and just 12% can afford the median priced home. A quarter of Bay Area renters meet HUD’s defini...
(CNN) -- This week super fans from around the world are gathering in New York to celebrate the 159th birthday of the legendary consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Never mind that Holmes is a fictional character. To this day, in books, TV and movies, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation remains just as popular as he was ...