January 2012
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Ferroelectric Switching Discovered for First Time... →
shychemist:
Electrical response overlaid on the inner aortic wall. (Credit: Jiangyu Li, UW)
The heart’s inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before in mammalian tissues.
The researchers found that the wall of the aorta, the largest blood vessel carrying...
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Keystone XL Approval Bill Gets 44 U.S. Senators On... →
solitaryforager:
“If released all at once, the known tar sands resource is equivalent to 150 parts per million. As is the case with other fossil fuel sources, the amount in the air declines to about 20 percent after 1,000 years. Of course, only a small fraction of the resource is economically recoverable at the moment. But if you decide you are going to continue your addiction and build a big...
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Sea Shepherd Offers $10,000 Reward for Arrest and... →
“The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is offering a reward of $10,000 to any person who provides information to the authorities leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for shooting sea lions in Puget Sound. The information can be provided in confidence and the source can remain confidential.
Last year, Sea Shepherd offered a reward of $11,500 New Zealand...
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"A wise old owl sat on an oak. The more he saw the...
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“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Ram Dass (via lazyyogi)
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offbynone asked: First of all, I absolutely LOVE your blog! Secondly, I was wondering why you chose to go into journalism and photography instead of astronomical or physical sciences?
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Social media profiles and the Web now a fact of... →
ageofperil:
If there was any doubt in your mind that employers were now actively using social media and the Web as part of their process for background checks, look no further than this new course being offered by the largest organization representing private security professionals. Included in the course description is how to “track down anonymous users.”
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My laptop is being dumb and I may have to get it... →
I will try my best to get back into things right away, and get all the un-answered questions published with proper answers. Hopefully I get this sorted out sooner than later. Sorry if this causes any inconveniences.
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into-the-universe asked: Thanks for following! :)
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EXISTENTIAL ANGST GAME STRESSFUL: London 2012... →
amnestymidwest:
Meredith Alexander, appointed by London’s Mayor Boris Johnson to monitor the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), resigned in protest at the sponsorship deal with Dow due to its connection to the Bhopal disaster.
Dow owns US-based Union…
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initiumforever asked: I would love to see those pictures, haha. You should come, the nights aren't so cold, so you can spend all night lying on the grass and looking at the stars.
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universalnomad replied to your post: I haven’t a specific place in mind. By the way, anywhere away from the city is good. I live in Brazil, there are good places to observe the sky here. Is it too much asking you to post some pictures of stars taken by you?
i broke my tripod :/
NOOOO! That’s awful ]: I can barely afford the new lens I need right now, so a tripod is still a ‘wish...
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initiumforever asked: I haven't a specific place in mind. By the way, anywhere away from the city is good. I live in Brazil, there are good places to observe the sky here. Is it too much asking you to post some pictures of stars taken by you?
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universalnomad replied to your link: Well, hello tumblr. How are you?
hiii
hello doll, how are you!?
I’m sorry guys, drinking makes me overly talkative…overly type-ative..what ever you call it.
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initiumforever asked: This is, at least, AWESOME. I wish I could stay 1 year in a mountain just observing the sky all nights. I'm making a list of stars I've already seen, but I didn't leave the city yet and I haven't a telescope. I'm gonna buy one and travel to somewhere.
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initiumforever asked: Do you like to observe the night sky, the stars, recognizing constellations...? I love that.
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magusworkshop asked: Oh, y'know, trying to write and edit. How're you?
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Anonymous asked: I'm not shocked, it was just a curiosity I had. Of course it doesn't change anything.
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ticktockdeathclock-deactivated2 asked: It really bothers me that so many people are shocked by the idea that a woman runs a blog with scientific content... why is it so surprising?
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sickmr2-mike replied to your post: whats ur name?
Mae is such a lovely name.
Thank you very much. I love it very much, and I hold it with pride. I have a strong family tree, I’m glad I can carry it not only through out my genetics but my name as well.
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Anonymous asked: oh, you're a woman! I didn't know.
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Anonymous asked: whats ur name?
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initiumforever asked: Yes, you do. You do deserve 1000, 2000, 10000 followers. This blog is so full of information and cool stuff, everybody should follow you :)
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initiumforever asked: 400 followers? Really? You deserve so much more!
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400! I come home slightly tipsy and what do I see...
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NASA Study Solves Case of Earth's 'Missing... →
“Two years ago, scientists reported inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth’s heat and measurements of ocean heating. A NASA-led study found out where the “missing energy” went.”
Source:Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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The International Space Station. →
“Traveling about 240 miles above the northeast coast of Brazil, the unpiloted ISS Progress 46 Russian cargo ship docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station at 7:09 p.m. EST. The craft is delivering 2,050 pounds of propellant, 110 pounds of oxygen and air, 926 pounds of water and 2,778 pounds of spare parts and experiment hardware for a total of 2.9 tons of...
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“As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no...”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer (via whyiamvegan)
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What's a Second?
jtotheizzoe:
Random fact for today:
As a unit of time, a second used to be defined as
1/31,556,925.9747 of the length of the year 1900 at January 0
But is now defined as
“the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom”
So there ya go. It looks like this:
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savaka asked: How fast is the universe expanding?
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shychemist replied to your post: shychemist answered your question: Morgellons…
Sorry I can’t remember. It was either from one of the science doc makers (Horizon, NOVA or a CBC doc). I find it interesting because there hasn’t been any solid biological evidence, but it is also odd that it is so prevalent within the population.
Oh, that’s fine,. I figured if you did remember I’d...
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marievalenti answered your question: Morgellons Disease. What is it? Where did it come from? Where do we go from here?
I remember a friend telling me her cousin was experiencing this ages ago, and I’ve been following it ever since. It’s suspicious and scary.
[If you don’t mind me asking] - Did it ever go away for her cousin, or did it go unresolved? It is scary, but, I firmly believe we...
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shychemist answered your question: Morgellons Disease. What is it? Where did it come from? Where do we go from here?
I’ve heard of it. I saw a documentary about it a couple years back. I’m still not sure whether its a real condition or delusion.
Even if it’s a delusion, it’s appearing in thousands of different people of every possible origin, not in small, individualized cases....
