The Social Media Revolution: Is It Really Different this Time?

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Social media on mobile devices “is a totally new species of power and influence…the methods used to play on people’s ability to be addicted or to be influenced are probably different this time,” says Tristan Harris, social media activist and co-founder at the Center for Humane Technology in the recent Netflix documentary, “Social Dilemma.”

Referring to social media addiction and related side-effects, Harris continues:

“There’s this narrative that, you know, we’ll just adapt to it, we’ll learn how to live with these devices, just like we’ve learned how to live with everything else. And what this misses, is there’s something distinctly new here.

Harris strikes a chord. “Social Dilemma” one of was Netflix’s top Fall movies for 2020 and it’s easy to see why. The concern over social media causing mayhem in the period leading up to the presidential elections was a hot topic and, with the recent announcements of government action against Facebook and Google, it continues to dominate the current news cycle.

A Wall Street Journal review of the movie says “The most urgent question posed by “The Social Dilemma” is whether democracy can survive the social networks’ blurring of fact and fiction. It draws attention to Harris’ question about the impact of social media, “Imagine a world where no one believes what’s true.” Can the stakes be higher than living in a world where no one believes what’s true?

Seeing the Future Through a Rear-View Mirror

But is there something distinctly new? Is it really different this time? Or have we been through this before and pulled through more or less intact? Society has had to deal with similar challenges in the past. Social media is only the latest of a number of prior information revolutions, so we have from where to learn about today’s social dilemma.

Let’s take a brief look back at previous information revolutions, starting with the invention of the written word.

Invention of Written Language

In our current world of information overload, it is hard to conceive of a time when information was transmitted exclusively by word of mouth. Historian and philosopher Walter Ong, in his seminal study of oral societies points out that even today, “of the 3000 languages spoken today that exist today only some 78 have a literature…[and], hundreds of languages in active use are never written at all.” (Ong, 2002, p. 7). So, the idea that information could be transmitted using symbols scrawled on a papyrus, scratched into a cave wall, or engraved into a clay tablet is anything but obvious.

Try and imagine the revolution in thought and deed needed to transform spoken sounds into a form that could be stored, accurately replicated, and preserved for posterity. The range of technologies needed to support a written language is vast; specifically, an instrument for writing, some form of ink or paint, prepared surfaces upon which to record the message, and an agreed upon set of coded symbols to represent ideas or words. (Ong, 2002, p. 81). Unlike later developments, writing probably evolved over hundreds of years from cave paintings to something we can call an actual written language.

The idea that someone’s thoughts could outlive them with perfect fidelity was not universally celebrated. The observation that new forms of information were unnatural and dangerous recurred with each new information revolution.

Ancient Greece began as oral society. Writing appeared sometime in the 8th century BCE, but it took time to catch on. By the time Plato appeared on the world stage, writing had been around for several hundred years, but it was still sufficiently novel to cause Plato concern.

In Phaedrus (The Dialogues), Plato laments that writing “gives your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.” (Plato)

What worried Plato was an inherent disconnect between information producers and consumers. He felt that the information consumer’s inability to question its producer would lead them to misinterpret the producer’s intent. The result would lead to misunderstanding and confusion.

Plato wasn’t alone. As strange as it sounds to our 21st century ears, for most of history, speech was considered more authoritative than the written word. Case in point, witnesses in medieval courts were believed over legal documents, because witnessed could be challenged and made to defend their statements in a way that documents could not. (Clanchy, 2012)

It reasonable to assume that nobody argued with Plato when he said this time, it’s different” when he raised concerns about the written word.

The Invention of Printing

The appearance of printed books in the 15th century was considered the next major revolution in information technology. As with the appearance of the written word, the print revolution introduced a broad range of supporting inventions need to printed books practical, from the printing press itself, to less obvious inventions such as paper, distribution networks, and a sufficiently literate audience to buy the finished works.

Unlike the written word revolution, the invention of the printing press didn’t introduce a new form of communication, it ‘merely’ enabled the previous generation of books and manuscripts to scale to heretofore impossible proportions. (In this regard, there are some important similarities between the adoption of print technologies as with the adoption of social media.)

The onslaught of new reading material created a new problem, namely, information overload. Prior to the invention of the printing press, most people had access to few books, if any at all. Historian Michael Clapham observed that:

“A man born in 1453, the year of the fall of Constantinople, could look back from his fiftieth year on a lifetime in which about million books had been printed, more perhaps than all the scribes of Europe had produced since Constantine founded his city in AD 330.” (Eisenstein, The printing press as an agent of change , 1980, p. 45) quoting (Clapham, 1957, p. 37)

While Clapham probably underestimates the number of available books prior to the advent of the printing press, his point about scale is valid.

Harvard historian Ann Blair explores the tools invented to fight information overload following the appearance of the printing press. In her book, Too Much to Know, Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age, Blair draws attention to the struggles of 16th century Swiss polymath Conrad Gesner caused by the sudden availability of (too) many books. Gesner wrote “the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.”

To Gesner, the appearance of the printed book made it impossible for the first time in history (at least in Europe), to read every book available. The risk of missing an important book could lead to not knowing the truth. Gesner’s solution was “to prevent this danger, by separating those books which we must throw out… from those which one should save and within the latter between what is useful and what is not.” (Blair A. M., 2010)

Inundated by too much to read from too many different sources, Gesner’s solution was to focus on books written by reputable sources. In essence, Gesner may have been the first person to propose a solution to overload by filtering information using reviewers and recommendations.

As he pored over a stack of new books, we can easily imagine Gesner contemplating the danger to society as he thought to himself, “We had a lot of information before, but this time it’s different.”

Newspapers for the Masses

Fast forward a few hundred years to the early 1800s when the ‘penny press’ newspaper revolution was taking off in the US. Supported by advertising (like today’s social media), these papers were priced at just one cent, far below the cost of competing newspapers, which made them available to the masses. The first penny paper, The Sun was introduced in New York in 1833. Wildly popular, the Sun’s circulation reached 10 times that of competing papers within a single year of publication. Penny papers provided the masses access to daily news (and ads) for the first time. (Kovarik, 2015)

Why were these papers successful? For one, the papers focused on sensationalist stories and hoaxes, the kind of stories that draw people in, precisely the same kind of stories exploited on social media to sell Facebook ads. Then, as today, people continue to be drawn to the extreme and the absurd, whether the stories are true or not.

One can imagine Benjamin Day, publisher of The Sun sitting in his office, telling his staff, “This time, it’s different.”

The Telegraph

The next information revolution occurred shortly after the penny paper, with the introduction of the telegraph in the middle of the 19th century.

The impact on society brought on by electric telegraph is hard to exaggerate. Consider this: the telegraph enabled a person to transmit text for the first time in history, from one place to a geographically remote location, in almost real-time. Prior to the telegraph, the maximum speed of information transfer was the speed of a horse, train, or ship. It took weeks to send a message from New York to London. Using the telegraph, that time was reduced to a few seconds.

Like the written word, the success of the telegraph required a new code of agreed upon symbols, e.g. Morse code. It also leveraged several concurrent developments, such as electricity and railroad tracks (for rights of way).

The telegraph introduced an immense compression of time and space that was completely novel in its day. For the first generation that experienced the telegraph, this was pure magic. So, it’s easy to imagine a telegraph operator in London who has just received a message from New York, thinking to themselves “This time, it’s different.”

The Graphic Revolution

The mid-19th century saw another information revolution — photography, which was the first of several visual inventions that became part of ‘the graphic revolution.’ Subsequent inventions include graphic posters, movies, and of course, television.

Like earlier information revolutions, each of these inventions relied upon a set of new supporting technologies. Photography introduced a new breed of cheap cameras and an ecosystem for developing and printing photos. Movies spawned a new industry of writers, actors, and directors, and television required networks of stations with writers, reporters, and technicians to generate and deliver content.

Television was to pictures what the telegraph was to text. TV could magically transmit live pictures from one part of the world to another, instantaneously. Television contributed to a new form of information overload called ‘pseudo-events.’ Historian Daniel Boorstin coined the term pseudo-event as an event produced for the sole purpose of generating media attention and publicity, for example, a press conference or a presidential debate. With politicians and PR agencies creating pseudo-events for TV, artificially staged events became topics of news in their own right. Today, airwaves are filled with pseudo-events, such as endless hours of pundits analyzing presidential tweets and sound bites. Boorstin points out that the pseudo-event ushered in an age where it became ‘more important that a statement be believable than it is true.’ To highlight his point, Boorstin observes that how we judge a candidate’s demeanor during a debate is more important than what they actually say.

Boorstin also highlights a new phenomenon introduced by television, namely, the expectation for instantaneous answers. Critiquing the 1960 presidential debates, Boorstin writes “Every inquirer knows that the most thoughtful and responsive answers to any difficult question come after long pause… nonetheless, the electronic media cannot bear to suffer a pause of more than five seconds… the television watching voter was left to judge, not on issues explored by thoughtful men, but on the relative capacity of the two candidates to perform under television stress.

Boorstin’s five seconds would seem like an eternity to today’s Facebook users who expect an instantaneous emoji response to every post.

Boorstin’s iconic 1962 book about the graphic revolution The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America screams “This time, it’s different.” (Boorstin, 1962)

The Internet and Web 2.0

The recent Internet and subsequent Web 2.0 revolutions have enabled anyone with a computer and a data link to create content and post it online for everyone on the planet to see.

Similar to the printing press, Web 2.0 technologies amplify existing media formats, by enabling a new scale of content generation and audience reach. With so many people writing blogs, posting to Facebook, or sending out tweets, Web 2.0 re-introduces the problem experienced with the invention of the printing press; too much information to process. Gesner’s lament about “the multitude of books leading to a barbarous society” rings as true today as it did in 1545.

Oftentimes, the proposed solution to a problem brought on by one technology is another technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) is one such technology proposed to solve the problem of Internet information overload. AI is used by Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media companies to rein in information overload by personally prioritizing and presenting only the most ‘relevant’ information. In a 2008 cover story for The Atlantic, entitled Is Google Making Us Stupid, information researcher Nicholas Carr raised concerns that artificial intelligence algorithms are “spitting information at us and are destroying our ability to read, or think, deeply because they are filling those quiet spaces and filling them with content; information overload.”

Carr, like Gesner before him, is saying … “this time, it’s different.”

Mobile Devices and Social Media

Carr’s article appeared as the mobile smartphone and social media revolution was taking off. When Carr published his article in 2008, Facebook had a ‘mere’ 100 million users; today Facebook has 2.6 billion monthly average users, with an incredible 96% of them accessing the social media platform from mobile devices.

This is world that Tristan Harris addresses in the Social Dilemma when he says, “this time, it’s different.”

Is It Different This Time?

Is Harris right? Is it really different this time? The question is much more complex than it seems at first blush.

Historians use several models to compare historical events and developments, but the domain is less developed than one might think. A 2000 Association for Information Management (ASLIB) Proceedings article entitled A Distant Mirror? The Internet and the Printing Press highlights problems comparing different periods, but concludes that “nonetheless, an examination of an earlier communications revolution may provide lessons for understanding the one currently underway,” without providing guidelines for how to perform that examination. (Bawden D. a., 200).

Telematics professor Chris Bissell breaks down the difficulty of analyzing information revolutions in history, by raising the following points:

  • Which revolution? — the printing press was accompanied by a host of contemporaneous inventions like mass-produced paper, new kinds of ink, new book distribution methods, new accounting practices, and many others. None of these inventions existed in a vacuum, they all worked in concert to create something new. So exactly which revolution are we are talking about? There are many ways to look at the same events and reach different conclusions. This is true for all major events in history, and information revolutions are no exception. (Shapin, 1996)
  • What is information? — information is a broad term used to describe anything as atomic as a string of digital bits to business report, to a literature masterpiece. When comparing information in history, a good definition is needed to clarify the nature of the investigation.
  • What is ‘the’? — “the word ‘the’ implies that a completely unprecedented and unique event has occurred.” In the context of an information revolution, when exactly did the event occur? For example, did a revolution occur when the first book was printed or when the availability of printed books reached a sufficient level that drove social change? The same question can be asked about Facebook. Did a revolution occur when Harvard students began sharing information on an internal network or did one occur when Facebook reached its 100 millionth user? (Bissell, 2011)

A Framework for Historical Comparison

In a recent article entitled, The Case for the Technological Comparison in Communication History, communications professor Jerome Bourdon lays out five methods for comparing two technologies across different historical periods. The five methods are as follows:

  • The determinist comparison — technology-driven narratives that adhere to a linear notion of causality. This is how most of history textbooks are written.
  • All-encompassing comparison — extends the determinist method to encompass more than two comparisons. It tries to isolate the specific contribution of technologies to more global developments without making the technology a central factor in human history.
  • Discursive comparison — examines how different technologies were talked about at the same relative stages of their maturity; for example, comparing experiences from the first generation of telegraph users with those of first-generation Internet users.
  • Deconstructing comparison — explores technologies as a collection of related developments. For example, this method might compare the printing press and the Internet ‘revolutions’ as a collection of literacy education, equipment, and business practices during the relative eras.
  • One-dimensional comparison — closed comparison that compares only a single aspect common to two or more technologies across different periods of history. An example would be to examine changes in reading patterns following the invention of the printing press and upon introduction of the Internet.

In this article, I have mixed and matched some of these methods to show how complex the question and its analysis can be.

There is Hope Ahead

While it is not easy to answer the question ‘is it different this time?’ there is something to be learned from previous widespread adoptions of new information technologies. Because regardless of how we define information technology revolutions, or their impact on society, one thing is true — throughout history, many people feared the use of new information technologies. And while many of those people had good cause for worry, the fact is that we are still here.

So, while today’s addictive technology and manipulative algorithms seem insurmountable, I cautiously opine that there is reason to be optimistic.

We aren’t out of the woods by any means and Harris’ organization provides a valuable service by spotlighting the excesses of the social media platforms by exposing the tricks and methods used by those firms to keep us engaged. But if history is any guide, we will eventually right the ship, whether it is through awareness, legislation, regulation, new competition, or a combination of these or other methods. And we will still be asking ourselves, “Is it different this time?”

Bissell, C. (2011). ‘The Information Revolution:’ Taking a Long View. In M. a. Ramage, Perspective on Information (pp. 21–35). New York: Routledge.

Blair, A. (2003). Reading strategies for coping with information overload ca. 1550–1700. Journal of the History of Ideas, 64(1), 11–28.

Blair, A. M. (2010). Too much to know: Managing scholarly information before the modern age. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Boorstin, D. J. (1962). The image: A guide to pseudo-events in America. New York: Atheneum.

Bourdon, J. (2018). The case for the technological comparison in communication history. Communication Theory, 28(1), 89–109.

Carr, N. (2008). Is Google making us stupid? Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 107(2), 89–94.

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The histogram reveals two primary elevation groupings: the continents, several hundred meters above sea level, and the oceanic abyssal plains, roughly 4, meters below sea level. This distribution indicates that the crust of the ocean floor is fundamentally different from the continents, which has been confirmed by countless research studies. The dramatic steepening of the hypsographic curve at mountains and oceanic trenches can only be maintained by a dynamic Earth. On geologic timescales, such features would quickly erode or fill in with sediments. Coastal Hypsographic Curve. Figure 2 shows an enlarged hypsographic curve spanning the coastal zone to m elevation.

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How do I read the hypsometric curve? Reading a cumulative percent graph An introduction to the hypsometric curve The hypsometric curve from Marshak "Earth - Portrait of the Planet" 2nd ed. You may want to print a copy of the hypsometric curve to work from.

Your textbook may have a slightly different version. The hypsometric curve is the graph on the right hand side of this page. This curve is typically used to demonstrate that the Earth has two types of crust, continental and oceanic. Although there is other information on this plot, our focus is the dark red curve that crosses the plot. Note that the red line crosses the y-axis at about 6 km. How do I read the graph? Focus on the dark red curve.

Typically you will be given a value for one of these variables, and you will determine the value of the other. When you are given a percentage, read it on the horizontal axis and go up until you reach the curve.

On the other hand, when given an elevation, you draw a horizontal line to the curve, drop a line down to the bottom axis and read the percentage. This is easier to understand using an example. Now, draw a line across to the vertical axis at approximately 0. Try this on your own first with the blank hypsometric curve above. If you get stuck, you can peek at the answer below:.

Hypsographic Curve of Earth's Surface from ETOPO1

Hypsometric curve[ edit ] Hypsometric curve of Earth as a histogram. A hypsometric curve is a histogram or cumulative distribution function of elevations in a geographical area. Differences in hypsometric curves between landscapes arise because the geomorphic processes that shape the landscape may be different. When drawn as a 2-dimensional histogram, a hypsometric curve displays the elevation y on the vertical, y-axis and area above the corresponding elevation x on the horizontal or x-axis.

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The Conductor

The conductor stands at the front of the orchestra on a podium, facing the musicians, because it is thanks to him or her that such a large number of people are able to play music completely in sync with each other! Using a baton, or even their bare hands, the conductor communicates a plethora of information through gestures to their colleagues in the orchestra, such as tempo (the speed at which the music is to be played), the dynamics (the different levels of intensity of sound and volume), and the articulation (note lengths and attacks). The right hand usually indicates the beat, and the left hand is generally used for expression, communicating the conductor’s desired musical phrasing.

In preparation for a concert, the conductor leads the rehearsals in order for the musicians to efficiently learn and refine each musical passage. A conductor spends an enormous amount of time before the rehearsals even begin by studying, analyzing and annotating their score, a large book which tells the conductor what the different instruments in the orchestra are to play at any given time. This preparation helps the conductor to understand what messages the composer wishes to communicate with their music. He or she must then decide how to best transmit these feelings and emotions found in the music through the orchestra.

The conductor is a leader, and as the head of a team, they must be convincing enough to enable the musicians to come together to communicate a common message with their music. He or she uses their face, eyes, and whole body to express the emotion they wish to convey and make sure that this message is transmitted to the audience. A conductor could, for example, demonstrate the fervency of a passage with large movements of their body, and inspire sadness by limiting their gestures to a minimum. A conductor’s body language, personality, and interpretation of the score all contribute to how the musicians react and play the music. The conductor’s instrument is the whole orchestra itself!

Throughout history, the role of conductor has generally been occupied by men. Today, however, more and more women are studying the craft and are making prominent international careers! The OM gives special attention to female conductors and promotes them in its musical programming.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain

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When a conductor is given the title of “Artistic Director” of an ensemble, it means that he or she is responsible for the artistic vision of the organization, deciding which pieces the orchestra will perform, and which soloists or other conductors will be invited to play throughout the season. The Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, is one of the most renowned conductors in the world. In addition to his title with the Orchestre Métropolitain, which he has held for over 20 years, he is also the Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Metropolitain Opera in New York. Most conductors are named Artistic Director for a specified number of years, usually five to ten years. The Orchestre Métropolitain has the rare honour of having him as Artistic Director for life!

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January 27, 2021

Six decades of ‘Memories dun Neno Labrego’

Santiago de Compostela, Jan 7 (EFE) .- The Royal Galician Academy (RAG) and the Xunta de Galicia have celebrated this Thursday the 60th anniversary of “Memorias de un neno labrego”, the masterpiece of the writer Xosé Neira Vilas and which follows being the reference book of Galician schools.

On the occasion of the commemoration of the anniversary of the most representative work of the writer from Vila de Cruces (Pontevedra), numerous representatives of the Galician culture paid tribute to a milestone in the Galician 20th century narrative.

The Minister of Culture, Education and University, Román Rodríguez, has emphasized the capacity of this work to, 60 years later, continue to transmit “pride in the language and a love for literature since childhood, as well as for having awakened the passion for reading to many generations of Galicians and Galicians ”.

Six decades after Neira Vilas’ book saw the light, it continues to be the “most read and translated” work in Galician literature as it was translated into languages as diverse as Catalan, English, German, Russian, for example. French, Czech, Italian or Chinese.

In addition, it also has a Braille edition, while theatrical, audiovisual, musical and pictorial adaptations have also recreated Balbino’s experiences.

The event was attended by the president of the Neira Vilas Foundation, Fernando Redondo; the president of the Royal Galician Academy, Víctor F. Freixanes, and the president of Editorial Galaxia, Antón Vidal, the documentary ‘A legacy of the future’ was presented, a new audiovisual content that brings relevant data about Neira Vilas, her time and her work.

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Local Housing Allowance (LHA)

Local Housing Allowance (LHA) is a way of calculating and paying Housing Benefit for people who rent from a private landlord. It uses a flat rate allowance based on the size of the tenant’s household and the area in which the property is rented to decide the maximum amount of Housing Benefit they will receive. Local Housing Allowance does not take account of how much rent you pay. The rate of LHA that tenants receive will be looked at each year.

Other circumstances, such as the money that the tenant has coming in or other people living in the household, will still affect the amount of benefit paid, so the tenant may not always receive the full rate of LHA.

How do I find out more?

If you have any questions about Local Housing Allowance you can contact us. You can also find more detailed information about Local Housing Allowance on the GOV.UK website in the external links section.

Local Housing Allowance Rates

The following table shows the LHA rates for Carlisle City Council. The Rent Service will provide the Council with the LHA rates on an annual basis.  The rates are effective from the first day of the financial year.

Local Housing Rates

The rates below are effective from 1st April 2020.

Size criteria Weekly LHA Rates Monthly LHA Rates
1 Bed in a shared house £68.00 £295.48
1 Bed self-contained (bedsit or flat) £80.55 £350.01
2 bedrooms £97.81 £425.01
3 bedrooms £120.82 £524.99
4 bedrooms £155.34 £674.99

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Friday, October 18, 2019

Surveying Solar Storms by Ancient Assyrian Astronomers

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba study ancient cuneiform records for evidence of unusual solar activity 2,700 years ago, and identify three possible magnetic storms by matching the dates with tree-ring radioisotope data

 A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets that mention unusual red skies with radioisotope data to identify solar storms that likely occurred around 679 to 655 BCE, prior to any previously datable events. This work may help modern astronomers predict future solar flares or coronal mass ejections that can damage satellite and terrestrial electronic devices.

Humans have been looking to the skies for as long as we have been around. Some of the observations made by ancient Assyrian and Babylonian astrologers more than two millennia ago survive in the form of cuneiform records. These rectangular clay tablets were messages from professional scholars to kings who had commissioned astrological observations for the purpose of discerning omens—including comets, meteors, and planetary motions.

Now, a team led by the University of Tsukuba has matched three of these ancient tablets that mention an unusual red glow in the sky with the carbon-14 concentrations in tree rings and demonstrate how they are evidence of solar magnetic storms. These observations were made approximately 2,700 years ago in Babylon and the Assyrian city of Nineveh, both of which are mentioned contemporaneously in the Bible. For example, one tablet says, “red covers the sky,” while another mentions a “red cloud.”

These were probably manifestations of what we call today stable auroral red arcs, consisting of light emitted by electrons in atmospheric oxygen atoms after being excited by intense magnetic fields. While we usually think of aurorae as confined to northern latitudes, during periods of strong magnetic activity, as with a solar mass ejection, they may be observed much further south. Moreover, because of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over time, the Middle East was closer to the geomagnetic pole during this period in history.

“Although the exact dates of the observations are not known, we were able to narrow the range considerably by knowing when each astrologer was active,” senior author Yasuyuki Mitsuma says. Based on tree-ring samples, there was a rapid rise in radioactive carbon-14 in the environment during this time, which is associated with increased solar activity.

“These findings allow us to recreate the history of solar activity a century earlier than previously available records,” explains Mitsuma. “This research can assist in our ability to predict future solar magnetic storms, which may damage satellites and other spacecraft.”

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Citation: “The Earliest Candidates of Auroral Observations in Assyrian Astrological Reports: Insights on Solar Activity around 660 BCE.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters (DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab42e4)


What Is the Proper Way to Interpret Mold Reports

Posted on: October 20, 2014 | By: Michael T. | Air Quality, mildew, mold inspection, mold remediation, mold removal, mold testing, san francisco

Mold Reports

What Is the Proper Way to Interpret Mold Reports
By Dr. Harriet Burge, EMLab P&K’s Director of Aerobiology

When samples are sent to the lab for analysis, the recovered data is presented to you in a report that provides concentrations or presence/absence information for the organisms of interest. Figuring out what all of the columns mean can be a challenge. However, some of this data can be very helpful in interpreting the data.

Most spore trap reports include columns for the amount of air sampled, the number of spores counted, an extrapolation of this count if only part of the slide was counted, and a calculation of spores/m3 of air for each type of spore. In some cases only the extrapolation count is presented. Let’s assume that the entire sample was counted and the actual number of spores seen is recorded on the report.

The amount of air sampled is usually listed in liters. The number of liters sampled is derived from the flow rate of the sampling device (often between 10 and 15 liters/min) and the length of time the sampler was operated. So if you collect a 5 minute sample at 15 liters/minute you have collected 75 liters of air.

Concentrations are listed on the report in terms of spores/m3 of air. Therefore, the number of spores counted is converted to spores/m3 by dividing the spore count by the amount of air sampled in cubic meters.

So how does this information help you? Let’s say the report lists a concentration of 13 Stachybotrysspores/m3 of air. How many actual spores were counted to reach this number? We look at the spore count for Stachybotrys and see that only a single spore was seen. With only a single spore captured on a sample there is a significant chance that that one spore was the only one present in the entire room. It could also represent the calculated concentration, or it could be a gross underestimate of the actual number. These situations have similar probabilities. Note that if you had collected a 10 minute sample at 15 liters/minute you would have collected 150 liters or 0.150m3, and if only one spore were seen, the calculated concentration would be about 7 spores/m3.

Statistically, the probability of a calculated number representing the actual concentration becomes significant at an actual count of about 10 spores. This represents a concentration for a 5 minute sample at 75 liters/min of 133 and for a 10 minute sample 67. This explains, in part, why we tend to consider spore counts less than 200 of little quantitative importance, regardless of the taxon.

Of course, concentrations are not the only aspect of the data that are important. The consistent presence of even low levels of some taxa is likely to indicate growth somewhere in the space. For example,Stachybotrys tends to be found in very low levels and infrequently in outdoor air. If it is consistently present in indoor air then an indoor source is probably present. Remember, however, that as far as exposure is concerned, low concentrations of these fungi are not of concern.

Now let’s consider a dust sample analyzed quantitatively for culturable fungi or bacteria. On the dust sample report will be columns that indicate how much dust was actually used in the assay, how many colonies were recovered, and the calculated colony forming units/gram of dust. So you send in a sample that weighs 1 gram.

In the laboratory the dust is sieved, then a small portion is separated for analysis. This small portion we will say for simplicity’s sake is 100 milligrams. The sample is suspended in liquid (let’s say 1ml) and 0.1 ml of this suspension is placed on a culture plate. This is a simplification of the process but should suffice for this discussion.

As an example, let’s assume you recover 10 fungal colonies on the plate. What does this mean in terms of cfu(colony forming units)/gram of dust? In order to discover this concentration we have to account for the small amount of dust actually used in the analysis and for the small amount of the suspended sample we used for plating. If we used 100mg of dust (0.1g, and 0.1 ml of the suspension then we have to multiply the 10 colonies by 100 (or divide by 0.1×0.1=0.01. Thus, our result is 1,000 cfu/gram of dust. Actually, we would report cfu/gram of dust for individual taxa.

So if we had 1 Stachybotrys spore on the culture plate, the final concentration of Stachybotrys colony forming units would be 100 per gram of dust. This sounds like a significant number, but note that it is based on a single Stachybotrys colony.

In actual practice, most labs dilute the original suspension by factors of 10 and incubate all of the plates. Then the plate with the most appropriate number of colonies for each taxon is chosen for calculating cfus. If the most concentrated dilution (which is essentially 1:10) is overloaded, then the 1:100 plate (or a higher dilution) is chosen. This procedure sometimes leads to low counts for individual taxa, especially if there is an abundance of one fast growing fungus. In these cases, as discussed above, it is important to consider the low colony counts if quantitative assessments are being made.

The bottom line: it is important to note the number of spores or colony forming units on which the reported concentrations for any type of quantitative sampling are based. If the number of spores or colonies (by taxon) is less than 10, then extreme caution should be used in interpreting the data quantitatively.

This article originally appeared in the January 2010 issue ofIndoor Environment Connections. Reprinted by permission.

Dr. Harriet Burge   About Dr. Harriet Burge
Dr. Harriet Burge is EMlab P&K’s Director of Aerobiology and Chair of EMLab P&K’s Scientific Advisory Board. Widely considered the leading expert in indoor air quality (IAQ), Dr. Burge pioneered the field more than 30 years ago. She has served as a member of three National Academy of Sciences committees for IAQ, including as Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Health Effects of Indoor Allergens.View Dr. Burge’s Curriculum Vitae.

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Test: PSAT Critical Reading

Adapted from "Taking a Second Look: An Analysis of Genetic Markers in Species Relatedness" by Joseph Ritchie (2014)

Phylogenetics is the study of genetic composition in various species and is used by evolutionary biologists to investigate similarities in the molecular sequences of proteins in varying organisms. The amino acid sequences that build proteins are used to construct mathematical matrices that aid in determining evolutionary ties through the investigation of percentage similarities. The study of these matrices helps to expose evolutionary relationships between species that may not have the same overt characteristics.

Species adapt and evolve based on the pressures that exist in their environment. Climate, food source, and habitat availability are only a few factors that act on species adaptation. These stressors can alter the physical characteristics of organisms. This divergence in evolution has made it difficult to determine the interrelatedness of organisms by analyzing their physical characteristics alone.

For instance, looking only at physical characteristics, the ghost bat resembles a pigeon more than a spider monkey; however, phylogenetics has found that the amino acid sequences that construct the beta hemoglobin molecules of bats are twenty percent more similar to those of mammalian primates than those of birds. This helps reject the assumption that common physical characteristics between species are all that is needed to determine relatedness.

The differences produced by divergent evolution observed in the forest-dwelling, arboreal spider monkey and the nocturnal, airborne ghost bat can be reconciled through homology. Homologous characteristics are anatomical traits that are similar in two or more different species. For instance, the bone structure of a spider monkey’s wrist and fingers greatly resembles that of a bat’s wing or even a whale’s fin. These similarities are reinforced by phylogenetic evidence that supports the idea that physically dissimilar species can be evolutionarily related through anatomical and genetic similarities.

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Is Maratha Are Rajput?

Why do Rajputs use Singh?

The Rajputs started using Singh in preference to the classical epithet of “Varman”..

Who killed Ahmad Shah Abdali?

In 1747, Nader Shah was assassinated by his own guards. The guards planned the murder so secretly that Abdali’s regiment could not rescue him. One of Ahmad Shah’s wives told him that Nader was killed. Ahmad, along with his army, rushed to save him, but when they reached, their leader, Nader, had already died.

Is Maratha lower caste?

Marathas, on an average, are as poor as Brahmins and other forward castes, but less poor than OBCs and SC-STs. … The average years of education for Marathas is 6.58, which is lower than Brahmins by 2.18 years, but is similar to other forward castes and OBCs, and 1.22 years more than the SC-STs.

Who is better Maratha or Rajput?

YES, The ‘Maratha Empire’ was much bigger and stronger than the Rajput Kingdom. The Mughals and Marathas successfully established the biggest ‘Empires’ of India namely the Mughal Empire and Maratha Empire.

Are Maratha shudra?

Yes.. Marathas are Shudras. The Peshwas are Brahmins.

What caste is Shinde?

Shinde (Marathi: शिंदे) is a clan of 96 kuli maratha of Kunbi origin. Variations of the name include Scindia, Scindhia, Sindhia, Sindia, Sindhe and Shinday.

Why did Maratha lost Panipat?

Sadashivrao Bhau was there upon made commander in chief of the Maratha Army, under whom the Battle of Panipat was fought. … This was strategically a major loss for the Marathas, since Shuja provided much-needed finances for the long Afghan stay in North India.

Are Maratha Brahmins?

Gradually, the term Maratha came to denote an endogamous caste. From 1900 onwards, the Satyashodhak Samaj movement defined the Marathas as a broader social category of non-Brahmin groups. These non-Brahmins gained prominence in the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement.

Who defeated Ahmad Shah Abdali?

Later troops of 20,000 horsemen of Timur Shah Durrani was defeated and captured by Sikhs. This resulted in insecurity in mind of Adina Beg, who invited the Marathas, who had taken Delhi to come to Punjab and recapture Lahore. Sikhs and Marathas rout Afghans from Lahore by March 1758.

Did Sadashiv Rao died in Panipat?

Sadashivrao Peshwa (3 August 1730 – 14 January 1761) was son of Chimaji Appa (younger brother of Bajirao I) and Rakhmabai (Pethe family) and the nephew of Bajirao Peshwa….Sadashivrao BhauBorn4 August 1730 Pune, IndiaDied14 January 1761 (aged 30) Panipat, IndiaSpouse(s)Umabai Parvatibai14 more rows

Does Maratha and Rajput are same?

Marathas are warriors and hence kshatriya of Maharashtra. Rajputs are warriors and kshatriyas for Rajasthan. Many rajputs and maratha have same ancestral links. … Marathas are warriors and hence kshatriya of Maharashtra.

What caste is Maratha?

The term Maratha is used in three overlapping senses: within the Marathi-speaking region it refers to the single dominant Maratha caste or to the group of Maratha and Kunbi (descendants of settlers who came from the north about the beginning of the 1st century ce) castes; outside Maharashtra, the term often loosely …

Is Thakur a Rajput?

Thakurs are upper-caste Rajputs. They are a dominant landowning caste. Thakur is a term of respect used in different ways. It is sometimes used to describe Brahmins.

Are Rajputs rich?

Is Rajput a low caste?

The Rajputs, in states such as Madhya Pradesh are today considered to be a Forward Caste in India’s system of positive discrimination. … But they are classified as an Other Backward Class by the National Commission for Backward Classes in the state of Karnataka.


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    3. The mouse moves in the opposite direction to the hand, which is the four-wire connector connected to the touch screen control box and the touch screen.

    4. Touch no response to check whether the connection of the touch screen is connected. One of the connections to the keyboard port of the host (take the 5 volt touch screen working voltage from the keyboard port) is not connected. Please check the connection to observe the touch screen control box light, if not If the light is on or off, the control box is broken. Please replace it. If the confirmation is not the above, please remove the touch screen driver and restart the computer to reinstall the driver, or replace the driver with a newer version.

    Whether the device conflicts with the serial port resource in the host to check each hardware device and adjust it. For example, after some NICs are installed, the default IRQ is 3, which conflicts with the IRQ of COM2. In this case, the IRQ of the NIC should be changed to the unused IRQ. It may also be that the computer motherboard and the touch screen control box are not compatible. Please replace the host or motherboard. If the touch screen is used for a long period of time and some areas of the touch screen cannot be touched, it may be that the touch screen is broken, please replace the touch screen.

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While nobody plans to become addicted or dependent on a substance for mental or physical relief, addiction still remains a life-threatening disease. Physical wounds tend to heal faster, but emotional scars of our life affect us the most. Events like trauma, work-related stress, rape, bullying, physical or mental abuse, domestic violence, witnessing violence, near death experiences leave us struggling to cope up.

In order to cope up with such mentally stressful events, people resolve to substance abuse or addiction. It can be drugs, alcohol, food, chocolate or even an activity such as gambling, working too much. People often use the word addiction casually referring to someone or themselves as coffee addicts, shopaholic or workaholic, but addiction is much deeper than that.

What is Addiction?

Clinically speaking, addiction is a brain disease in which a person involves themselves in the use of a substance or in a behavior that is rewarding in such a way that they want to repeatedly pursue it without giving up. Despite its detrimental consequences, it makes them feel better or feel good. Addiction activates the brain’s pathway of reward or reinforcement by stimulating the pleasure factor.

As a result, the feeling of craving happens in our brain when the person picks up an environmental cue like smelling the beer, seeing the corner where the dealer can be found. Since addiction affects the brain’s functions, the patient may not even be aware that their behavior is causing trouble for themselves and others.

Understanding Addiction – How the brain gets affected

One of the most complex organs of our body – the brain is affected by addiction in the following three critical areas:

  1. Brain Stem – Basic bodily functions like eating, sleeping, heart rate etc. It links the brain with the spinal chord that runs down the back of our body enabling us to undertake important activities
  2. Limbic System – It is a bunch of brain structures that stimulate emotional responses like feeling pleasure when eating chocolate or drinking alcohol
  3. Cerebral Cortex – It is our central thinking and decision-making capacitor that helps us to process information, plan and solve problems

Understanding Addiction: The Role of Neurotransmitters

The neurons in our brain communicate with other neurons throughout the body by sending electrical impulses or signals. The substance of abuse interfere with the brains processing and produce excessive amounts of neurotransmitter. This alters our mood leading to greater pleasure than normal.

  • Dopamine – Surges in this neurotransmitter produce euphoric feelings with a strong sense of reinforcement. It triggers cravings to perform a certain behavior
  • Glutamate – A neurotransmitter that is key to the learning process of our memory interacts with dopamine to trigger the reward-related learning circuit of the brain. Addictive substances and behavior activate and overload this circuit enabling us to seek out the source of pleasure

The Road to Recovery

In order to get out of addiction, it is not just enough to say no, instead, say yes to other things that are more rewarding. A holistic approach towards the treatment of addiction is the most recommended path to recovery. One important step is to understand what you get from the substance or activity of addiction and how you can accomplish the same benefit through other unharmful means.

Since addiction is more of a mental disease, the road to recovery lies in your hands. First, try to accept your problem and seek medical attention to make simple lifestyle changes. Natural means of recovery like exercise, yoga, diet control, and natural supplements will work wonders to help get out of addiction.

In fact, naturopathic healing practices offer great outcomes when it comes to addiction treatments. Since addiction recovery at its core is more about developing a healthier life with greater rewards, naturopathy and addiction treatment go hand in hand. Naturopathy healing will help patients cultivate healthy habits for an addiction-free life without going back to relapse mode.

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Study abroad in… Evangelical America

Listen to this Moth episode here.

Where has the conversation gone?

You texted or did emails during a meeting

You put in headphones to avoid a conversation with someone

You emailed someone who sits near you instead of talking to them

You didn’t pick up the phone when someone called

You avoid a difficult conversation, instead opting to email it

You pulled out your phone during a lunch with coworkers

All of the above are conversation avoidance behaviors.

Do executives need to upskill?

Two thoughts from this report:

  1. Do executives think they need to upskill? Maybe their inability to see the training needs, new jobs, and workforce of the future is shaped by their inability to reskill.
  2. Americans who think their companies are going to invest in them and their future career are mistaken.

I need to put this glorious gif somewhere

My love (obsession?) for career education is deep. I could talk about how we train people for the job search and the future of work for hours (and sometimes I do). I love listening to peoples’ work lives. But I know career education isn’t the most entertaining subject. As much as I try there’s only so much I can do to transform traditional career advice like “research all the companies”and “LinkedIn is your power tool” into engaging content. Enter, gifs. I love gifs. My newsletters have them. My courses have them. Gifs help me liven up some of the driest parts of my career content (and really, when I say dry I mean desert-dry…)

Today I hit a major milestone in my gif appreciation: I made my own.

I teach people how to build soft skills, specifically negotiation, networking, and public speaking. Unfortunately developing these three skills make people feel incredibly uncomfortable. To deal with discomfort I drive home this motto: embrace awkward. Awkwardness is to be expected when we try new new things. Awkwardness happens with difficult conversations. Stepping outside our comfort zone is bound to be awkward. Avoiding awkwardness is futile. Instead, we should embrace it and power the the fuck through it.

Power-the-fuck-through-it doesn’t make for snappy, corporate friendly workshop copy, so Embrace Awkward is my go to motto.

Anyhow, I’ve enshrined my favorite career advice in a lovely gif for my upcoming course, How to Ask for a Raise.

My day’s work is complete.

Accent party

Your oral apparatus – lips, tongue, jaw, throat – functions likes a machine, a precision tool to produce the sounds of your native tongue. To learn a different accent you have to understand how that machine works, take it apart and reassemble it. – PRI World, Why People are Still Trying to “Lose” their Accent

This delightful episode takes you on a linguistic ride into people’s attempt to rid themselves of their accent. From immigrants to Bostonians to Southerners, people trying to lose their accents share their motivations and challenges.

This episode has it all: tonal languages, tongue stretches, survival words, writing accents into novels, and questioning why its still acceptable to make fun of people with accents. Listen as a Russian woman moves from a Russian accent in English, to a British one, to an American one. It’s an amazing linguistic feat.

So about that graduate program you’re thinking about doing

Start upskilling for AI now

In 2017, roughly 70,000 postings requested AI skills in the U.S., according to our analysis of job postings. That’s a significant change, amounting to growth of 252% compared to 2010. Burning Glass also found that demand for AI skills is now showing up in a wide range of industries including retail, health care, include finance and insurance, manufacturing, information and professional services, technical services, and science/research. – Burning Glass Technologies

I’ve been seeing AI skills pop up in random job posts. I’ve wondered if it’s part of a bigger trend. It’s hard to get perspective since I’m not in the job market. Amazon leads the hiring for AI skills by a mile but GM, Accenture and Deloitte are also investing heavily. The most in-demand AI skills:

software developer/engineer, data scientist, data mining/data analyst, data engineer, computer systems engineer/architect, medical secretary, systems analyst, product manager and business management analyst.

Medical secretary threw me for a loop. Maybe because they’re working with new AI medical technology? Regardless it’s time to upskill.

AI for the doctor’s office

SmartExam acts as a virtual physician’s assistant – an automated medical resident, if you will – that enables primary care providers to deliver efficient remote care while cutting costs and improving outcomes… The intelligent software dynamically interviews patients, using answers to garner more information and support providers in the care delivery process… SmartExam lets providers achieve as much, or more, in a two-minute virtual patient visit as the 20 minutes of provider time needed for an office visit, the company said… “It allows clinicians to operate at the tops of their licenses,” said Constantini. “They can focus on what they do best — diagnosis and treatment.” – Bright.MD raises another $8M for “virtual physician’s assistant” SmartExam

I wonder if current medical students are taught how to integrate AI software into their training.

So here’s to 2018, the year of the upskill!