Greenland melte ice-land many areas by big Global Warming! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka/NGO

Greenland melte ice-land many areas by big Global Warming! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka/NGO
http://www.nature.com/news/180-000-forgotten-photos-reveal-the-future-of-greenland-s-ice-1.20335?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20160728&spMailingID=51926878&spUserID=MjA1NjgwMDI1NwS2&spJobID=963948046&spReportId=OTYzOTQ4MDQ2S0

Behind Saturn

Behind Saturn
What's behind Saturn? The first answer is the camera itself, perched on the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting behind the planet with the most grand ring system in our Solar System. The unusual perspective places Cassini on the far side of Saturn from the Sun so that more than half of Saturn appears dark -- a perspective that no Earth-based observer could achieve. Behind Saturn, in the context of the featured infrared image, is Saturn's moon Tethys, visible as the small speck above the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern that encompasses Saturn's North Pole.

Tethys actually orbits Saturn right in the ring plane, which places the 1000-km moon much farther from Cassini than the planet itself. Cassini has been studying Saturn and its moons for 12 years, but, unfortunately, its amazing mission will soon come to an end. In order to protect life that may exist on or inside Saturn's moons, the robotic spacecraft will be directed to crash into Saturn's thick atmosphere next September.  

Image & info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The Grand Finale - Read & Learn:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/grand-finale/overview/

#space   #science   #nasa   #cassini   #saturn

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Messages, mentions with the same question:
"Why I cannot comment on any of your posts? Even I circled you or I follow one of your collections"

Well is very simple, I restricted the comments, only the people I circle can comment. Why? Because moderation of comments is time consuming. We are all different and on social media platforms we tend to act - a bit or a tone - crazy, because behind a keyboard we feel much more confident.

I'm not a business looking to attract more clients, I'm not a blogger...I don't care who circles me or not and I have 0 interest on becoming a social media guru. I simply started to use this platform so I can show to Matt (my 9yo son) that he can learn something new everyday even on social media.

The internet is full of interesting and gasmic information but there's also a lot of crap. Everyone has a choice...you can learn something even if you "waste" time on social media.
Therefore I'm not interested on spending time with comments moderation.

If G+ settings regarding commenting would be different perhaps I'd reconsider. For example people who follow a collection they could comment on the posts in that collection. But till then I'm sticking with "extended circles" as a setting for commenting on my public posts.

Here it is again:
If you think you have something interesting/new/weird/creepy to say/comment on any of my posts ping me and I'll add you to my circles.

#addacomment   #Gnonsense   #entertainmyfusimotors

Thought of the day - Convergence of Appearance.

Thought of the day - Convergence of Appearance.
Convergence (in a relationship) suggests that the longer you're with a partner (decade/s) the more you resemble each other.

Had a nice conversation with a friend of mine today on this subject. I mean, we've all seen, or maybe know couples who refer to themselves in the plural, have matching shirts, similar hairstyle, and — oddly — even seem to look like each other. Oh, they even tend to have same preferences. What's the catch? Is it commodity?

Why would people start to morph slowly into their partners?
One theory comes from psychologist Robert Zajonc of the University of Michigan in 1987 - Zajonc and his team asked volunteers to match photographs of men and women based on their facial similarity, and found that couples who'd been married for 25 years were overwhelmingly paired together.

Zajonc thought it was because a long life together meant shared experiences that left similar lines on faces, and that couples would therefore begin to look more similar.
Zajonc's theory of emotional face-mirroring was based on a basic principle: We imitate the people we're around the most. This phenomenon, called "unconscious mimicry," has been known for ages.

My conclusion:
If you live with an earthling for more than a decade you might become One Mixed Being.

Question:
Who's gonna be the "lost" one? Or is a 2way road?

Study:
http://annenberg.usc.edu/sites/default/files/2015/04/29/Convergence%20in%20the%20Physical%20Appearnce%20of%20Spouses.pdf

Articles:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mysteries-love/201505/are-we-attracted-people-who-look-us
http://www.livescience.com/8384-couples-start.html
https://mic.com/articles/111010/there-s-a-disturbing-fact-about-the-people-we-choose-to-be-with#.F05pJFojV

#personalnonsense   #couples   #convergence

The "Unit Circle" is a circle with a radius of 1.

The "Unit Circle" is a circle with a radius of 1.
Because the radius is 1, we can directly measure sine, cosine and tangent.

What happens when the angle, θ, is 0°?
cos 0° = 1, sin 0° = 0 and tan 0° = 0

What happens when θ is 90°?
cos 90° = 0, sin 90° = 1 and tan 90° is undefined

The "sides" can be positive or negative according to the rules of Cartesian coordinates. This makes the sine, cosine and tangent change between positive and negative values also.

Try it yourself:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/unit-circle.html

Animation credit: Charlie Deck

#math   #processing   #animation   #geometry   #unitcircle

Amazon Dams project!

Amazon Dams project! Southern Amazon were burnt many places, so those areas become still dryed, if Government want to make dams, few Hydrogen Energy makr few volumes, many loss or dams will be dead rock! By 2010, Amazon's forests made about 8 Billion tons Carbon emission! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/NGO　

Do Amazon's forests continue to burn ot not?

Do Amazon's forests continue to burn ot not? Amazonas, Matto Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Acre are especially Crisis! Can stop fires or not? Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/NGO
http://plus55.com/business/2016/06/amazon-fires-increase-500-percent-2016

A Huge Solar Filament Erupts

A Huge Solar Filament Erupts
Filaments sometimes explode off the Sun. Featured, a huge filament had been seen hovering over the Sun's surface for over a week before it erupted late in 2010. The image sequence was taken by the Earth-orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in one color of ultraviolet light. The explosion created a Coronal Mass Ejection that dispersed high energy plasma into the Solar System.

This plasma cloud, though, missed the Earth and so did not cause auroras. The featured eruption depicted how widely separated areas of the Sun can sometimes act in unison. Explosions like this will likely become less common over the next few years as our Sun goes through a Solar Minimum in its surface magnetic activity.

Info via APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Video credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO AIA Team

What is Solar Minimum? Read & learn:
http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml

#space   #nasa   #SDO   #sun   #science

Why should physicists study history?

Why should physicists study history?
For one reason, to understand the importance of diversity in cultivating new ideas: "Marietta Blau (1894–1970) developed the nuclear emulsion technique—critical to the emergence of the field we now call particle physics ... As a Jewish woman in interwar Austria, Blau ... was doubly excluded. Women were often refused entrance to laboratories, sometimes on the grounds that their hair was too flammable. Jews were rarely allowed to hold high-ranking positions even before the rise of the Nazis.

Such restrictions meant that if Blau wanted to study particles, she had to develop cheap, portable detectors that could be made with commonly available materials. With her techniques from the margins, she created an essential observational tool that was utterly surprising to those in the largely homogenous physics community of the time."

Great reading via Physics Today:
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/69/7/10.1063/PT.3.3235

Photo:
Marietta Blau (1894–1970), as a Jewish woman in interwar Austria, was excluded from the center of physics action. From the margins, she created the nuclear emulsion technique.

Photograph, from 1937, courtesy of the AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives.

#physics   #womeninstem   #history

High Risk areas cause Big Global Warming!

High Risk areas cause Big Global Warming! I appear Zero Moving or taking rest long times for industrial parts! 2-3month! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka/NGO

Solar and Wind Energy make plan by USA, EIA database, Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN...

Solar and Wind Energy make plan by USA, EIA database, Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/NGO

Melted ice-land in Greenland's case! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/

Melted ice-land in Greenland's case! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/

World Air pollution of Top 12 countries!

World Air pollution of Top 12 countries! Can change good or continue? Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/NGO

Can we do and make more ambitious environmental plans & actions!

Can we do and make more ambitious environmental plans & actions!? Now we must do, so Dangerous Zone come by 2025! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/

Can do and make more ambitious environmental plans & actions!?? Badman Nishioka

Can do and make more ambitious environmental plans & actions!?? Badman Nishioka

More checking our environmental policy for ways of 1.5-2C Degree now!

More checking our environmental policy for ways of 1.5-2C Degree now! Can we stop to rise up 2.7-3.5C? Badman Nishioka/rainforest group/
http://aosis.org/small-islands-propose-below-1-5%CB%9Ac-global-goal-for-paris-agreement/

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/ Kuwait recorded 54C!

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/ Kuwait recorded 54C! Northern areas of Earth rise up temperature continuing!
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36841072

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/ Can we make Paris Agreement!

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/ Can we make Paris Agreement!?? We must make and act more ambitious actions now! Temperature become to rise up 2.7C the end of Century! So all fires stop! Stop melted ice in Northern Poles areas! Ban to dig for fuels development in Northern Poles areas!
Stop Deforestation! Reducing Land Use Change! Making more no-lossing energy of constructions! Using Renewable energy! Global Diets! Making foods in domestic areas and reducing long trancefer and re-using wastle foods! Reducing wastle! Keeping waters and foods!
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374

Can we do Degree 1.5-2C?

Can we do Degree 1.5-2C? Monthly report, this year will above 1C rising, making more ambitious plans and actions! Seeing many database by NOAA, NASA, Carbon Brief.com and other! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/
Ours rainforest action group must stop many fires, deforestation!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5aceb360-8bc3-4741-99f0-2e4f76ca02bb

On last year, the fires places were crashed to extend developments and palm oil & timber's plantations area in...

On last year, the fires places were crashed to extend developments and palm oil & timber's plantations area in peatlands, the 52% fires points were making those peatlands! Arigatou, Wetlands International Indonesia! Mr. Nyoman, members of WLIP! Badman Nishioka/rainforest group/

Making potencial Air pollutions of top 12, and made CO2 emissions on last year!

Making potencial Air pollutions of top 12, and made CO2 emissions on last year! Indonesia made 16.5 Billion tons, Amazon, Alaska were each 1 Billion tons by Fires on last year! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/NGO/Osaka

We must change to stop air-conditions of pollution, others, Now we check more!

We must change to stop air-conditions of pollution, others, Now we check more! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/
http://theconversation.com/the-global-impact-of-air-conditioning-big-and-getting-bigger-62882?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2024%202016&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2024%202016+CID_2ec6bce9f5eb9ab0d74fe65975dce817&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=The%20global%20impact%20of%20air%20conditioning%20big%20and%20getting%20bigger

What is a myoclonus?

What is a myoclonus?
In its simplest form, myoclonus consists of a muscle twitch followed by relaxation. A hiccup is an example of this type of myoclonus. Other familiar examples of myoclonus are the jerks or "sleep starts" that some people experience while drifting off to sleep.
Do you ever have the inexplicable feeling that you’re falling just as you’re drifting off into a deep sleep?

Most people who have experienced this describe it as the sudden sensation of tripping, leaping or falling into a void. Some might just keep on sleeping, but the majority of people wake up with a rapid heartbeat feeling scared.

Perhaps you’ve heard explanations like your soul is leaving your body or you’ve been possessed by dark forces when it happens, but none of this is true. This is called a myoclonic jerk and is a normal physiological process. 

When we sleep, we go through several sleep cycles, each consisting of four different stages. The sensation of falling down occurs during the first stage of sleep, called NREM. There are a few theories about why this happens. One is that when your muscles relax as you’re about to fall asleep, your brain gets confused sometimes and thinks you’re falling. As a result, your muscles react by tensing up, so you ’catch yourself’ before you fall. Other scientists believe it’s a reflex that humans developed during the evolutionary process to prevent them from falling out of the trees where they once slept.

These simple forms of myoclonus occur in normal, healthy persons and cause no difficulties. When more widespread, myoclonus may involve persistent, shock-like contractions in a group of muscles. In some cases, myoclonus begins in one region of the body and spreads to muscles in other areas. More severe cases of myoclonus can distort movement and severely limit a person's ability to eat, talk, or walk. These types of myoclonus may indicate an underlying disorder in the brain or nerves.

Read & learn:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/myoclonus/home/ovc-20166171
https://www.sleepassociation.org/patients-general-public/sleep-myoclonus/
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/myoclonus/detail_myoclonus.htm

#neuroscience   #myoclonus   #sleep

Blue Danube Analemma

Blue Danube Analemma 
The Sun's annual waltz through planet Earth's sky forms a graceful curve known as an analemma. The analemma's figure 8 shape is tipped vertically at far right in this well-composed fisheye view from Budapest, Hungary. Captured at a chosen spot on the western bank of the Danube river, the Sun's position was recorded at 11:44 Central European Time on individual exposures over days spanning 2015 July 23 to 2016 July 4.

Of course, on the northern summer solstice the Sun is at the top of the curve, but at the midpoints for the autumn and spring equinoxes. With snow on the ground, the photographer's shadow and equipment bag also appear in the base picture used for the composite panorama, taken on 2016 January 7. On that date, just after the winter solstice, the Sun was leaving the bottom of the beautiful curve over the blue Danube.

Image & info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit & Copyright: György Soponyai

#space   #science   #analemma   #astrophotography

July 28th is reserved to Karl Popper

July 28th is reserved to Karl Popper
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."

Today is the birthday of the philosopher of science Karl Popper, born in Vienna, Austria in 1902. Popper set out to explain what distinguishes scientific theories from nonscientific ones—essentially, science from pseudoscience. Yes there's the scientific method, but that didn't satisfy him; plenty of theories (Popper cited Marx's theory of history and Freud's psychoanalysis as examples) are supported by observation and empirical evidence but not necessarily scientific.

Focusing on Einstein's general theory of relativity, Popper proposed that scientific theories must be falsifiable—they must make "risky" predictions that, if they don't show up in observations, refute the theory. "The scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability," he wrote. Popper is considered one of the greatest modern scientific philosophers.

Read The Logic of Scientific Discovery:
http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/popper-logic-scientific-discovery.pdf

Bio:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/

#history   #KarlPopper   #philosophy   #science

Unprecedented Alzheimer’s drug slows disease by 80 percent

Unprecedented Alzheimer’s drug slows disease by 80 percent
A drug that targets tau tangles in the brain has produced strong results in a large clinical trial, slowing the progression of the disease in hundreds of people.

The drug, called LMTX, is the first to produce really promising results in a large phase III trial, in which potential therapies are pitted against a placebo in hundreds of recipients. Drugs do already exist for Alzheimer’s, but these generally have only a modest effect.

The trial involved 891 people who already had mild or moderate symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. Some received LMTX alone, others took it in conjunction with other treatments they were already taking, and the rest received a placebo.

At the end of the 15-month trial, tests of mental ability revealed that those taking LMTX alone had deteriorated significantly more slowly than those taking placebo – both in terms of cognition, and their ability to continue carrying out every-day tasks, such as dressing and feeding themselves. 

Article:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2099108-unprecedented-alzheimers-drug-slows-disease-by-80-per-cent/

Photo: Tangles in the brain
THOMAS DEERINCK, NCMIR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

#neuroscience   #alzheimers   #research   #tautangles

Herschel's Eagle Nebula

Herschel's Eagle Nebula
A now famous picture from the Hubble Space Telescope featured Pillars of Creation, star forming columns of cold gas and dust light-years long inside M16, the Eagle Nebula. This false-color composite image views the nearby stellar nursery using data from the Herschel Space Observatory's panoramic exploration of interstellar clouds along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy.

Herschel's far infrared detectors record the emission from the region's cold dust directly. The famous pillars are included near the center of the scene. While the central group of hot young stars is not apparent at these infrared wavelengths, the stars' radiation and winds carve the shapes within the interstellar clouds.

Scattered white spots are denser knots of gas and dust, clumps of material collapsing to form new stars. The Eagle Nebula is some 6,500 light-years distant, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake).  

Image & info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit & Copyright: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project

#nasa   #space   #science   #ESA   #Hubble   #EagleNebula

Green Peace say and act to make no more Soys Development & Make Zero Deforestation!

Green Peace say and act to make no more Soys Development & Make Zero Deforestation! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/NGO
http://m.greenpeace.org/international/en/high/news/Blogs/makingwaves/brazilians-just-stood-up-for-zero-deforestation-amazon/blog/54478/

World's Deforestation made 15% Carbon Emission each year by Woods Hole Research Center!

World's Deforestation made 15% Carbon Emission each year by Woods Hole Research Center! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/NGO
http://whrc.org/project/global-carbon/

Save Amazon! Stop! Fires and Deforestation!

Save Amazon! Stop! Fires and Deforestation!
Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://climatenewsnetwork.net/drought-dries-up-amazons-green-lungs/

Amazon burnig by NASA! Please see State of Amazon area! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka

Amazon burnig by NASA! Please see State of Amazon area! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://www.globalfiredata.org/updates.html

Abrupt plate accelerations shape rifted continental margins

Abrupt plate accelerations shape rifted continental margins
New research suggests that the movement of tectonic plates has oscillated between slow stretching and sudden shifting. You can explore these movements on a cool interactive website.

Give it a try here:
http://portal.gplates.org/cesium/?view=rift_v

Research:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18319.html

h/t skunkbear

#science   #geology   #Pangea   #naturalphenomena

Sometimes, home has a heartbeat.

Sometimes, home has a heartbeat.

#personalnonsense

Critical thinking

Critical thinking

#science   #education   #neildegrassetyson   #wordsofwisdom

Puzzling a Sky over Argentina

Puzzling a Sky over Argentina
Can you find the comet? True, a careful eye can find thousands of stars, tens of constellations, four planets, three galaxies, and the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy -- all visible in the sky of this spectacular 180-degree panorama.

Also, if you know what to look for, you can identify pervasive green airglow, an earthly cloud, the south celestial pole, and even a distant cluster of stars. But these are all easier to find than Comet 252P/LINEAR. The featured image, taken in el Leoncito National Park, Argentina in early April, also features the dome of the Jorge Sahade telescope on the hill on the far right.

Have you found the comet yet? If so, good for you (it was the green spot on the left), but really the harder thing to find is Small Cloud of Magellan.  

Image and info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit & Copyright: Sergio Montúfar;
Acknowledgement: Planetario Ciudad de La Plata / CASLEO observatory

#space   #nasa   #milkyway   #science   #universe

25 July is reserved to Rosalind Franklin

25 July is reserved to Rosalind Franklin
Today is the birthday of Rosalind Franklin, the pioneering x-ray crystallographer who made essential contributions toward determining the structure of DNA. She was born in London in 1920.

Franklin received a PhD in physical chemistry from Cambridge in 1945. Her work in the early 1950s exposed elusive structural details about the composition and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which encodes genetic information for all single-celled and multi-celled organisms on Earth.

Franklin determined the density of DNA and its helical shape, and her photographs proved crucial to James Watson and Francis Crick's double-helix model. In April 1953 a paper by Franklin appeared third in a series of studies in Nature describing DNA structure, with Watson and Crick's paper appearing first. That's just one of the reasons that Franklin's contributions have been overlooked over the years. Franklin died in 1958 from cancer at age 37.

Bio:
http://www.biography.com/people/rosalind-franklin-9301344

Article:
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/article/56/3/10.1063/1.1570771

#history   #RoslaindFranklin   #DNA

Too long pipeline in Canada's oil transportation! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka

Too long pipeline in Canada's oil transportation! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/new-brunswick/energy-east-pipeline-route-crosses-961-waterways-report-1.2740677

Axis of oscillation

Axis of oscillation

Nice work by Charlie Deck

#math   #processing   #animation

A Romanian cave sealed for 5.5 million years is slowly being cataloged, with some interesting finds.

A Romanian cave sealed for 5.5 million years is slowly being cataloged, with some interesting finds.
Movile Cave has an atmosphere so dangerous that the few scientists who have so far been allowed to visit must use breathing equipment, thanks to low levels of oxygen and high levels of hydrogen sulphide in the air. Most creatures in the cave are thought to have been sealed in over five million years ago, and then evolved features to deal with the dark, such as losing their eyes and growing longer legs and antennae.

The ecosystem relies entirely upon chemosynthetic bacteria that extract carbon from the air without the aid of light. The most numerous bacteria use carbon dioxide, and others get their carbon from methane. The bacterial film on the water and walls is where all the nutrients enter this ecosystem, and it’s the only known example of such a system. Small animals eat the slime, and larger animals eat them.

Article:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-living-in-romanias-poison-cave

Photo: An unidentified leech from Movile Cave
Credit: Thierry Berrod, Mona Lisa Production/SPL

#biodiversity   #coolcritters   #MovileCave   #exploration

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.

#wordsofwisdom

Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions

Deep Magellanic Clouds Image Indicates Collisions
Did the two most famous satellite galaxies of our Milky Way Galaxy once collide? No one knows for sure, but a detailed inspection of deep images like that featured here give an indication that they have.

Pictured, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is on the top left and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is on the bottom right. The surrounding field is monochrome color-inverted to highlight faint star streams, shown in gray.

Perhaps surprisingly, the featured research-grade image was compiled with small telescopes to cover the large angular field -- nearly 40 degrees across. Much of the faint nebulosity is Galactic Cirrus clouds of thin dust in our own Galaxy, but a faint stream of stars does appear to be extending from the SMC toward the LMC.

Also, stars surrounding the LMC appear asymmetrically distributed, indicating in simulations that they could well have been pulled off gravitationally in one or more collisions. Both the LMC and the SMC are visible to the unaided eye in southern skies. Future telescopic observations and computer simulations are sure to continue in a continuing effort to better understand the history of our Milky Way and its surroundings.  

Image & info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Image Credit & Copyright: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN) & David Martinez-Delgado (U. Heidelberg)

#space   #nasa   #milkyway   #LMC   #SMC   #science

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high...but still, if you do, be prepared.

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high...but still, if you do, be prepared. And don't forget to take a couple of pills for sore muscles ;)

#mountaines   #trips   #personalnonsense

Amazon s forests keep & don't destroy, one of keys for saving Climate Change!

Amazon s forests keep & don't destroy, one of keys for saving Climate Change! Amazon has 100 Billion carbon sink, (17% ,2010 levels) now many fires burnt widely areas, that matter are carefully! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36856428?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=c48f3d678b-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-c48f3d678b-303459165

Ms Littlebricksfusion, Arigatou!

Ms Littlebricksfusion, Arigatou! Nice Falcon! Fly, flying for freedom! Badman Nishioka/HUTAN Group/rainforest action group/

Originally shared by Vladlen Nikulin

We can Fly.

©Felix Hernandez Rodriguez
https://500px.com/photo/149887069

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/ FAO report 2016

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/ FAO report 2016
http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/e91b36ac-c4af-45d3-8ba0-e4d806ad25da/

State of the World's Forests 2016 | FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

http://www.fao.org/publications/sofo/en/

One of good news by this report, secondly forests keep and native species Reforestation make nearly invaluable...

One of good news by this report, secondly forests keep and native species Reforestation make nearly invaluable forests! Ours supprting Reforestation become success, the wild Orangutan returned back Reforestations forest in Indonesia! So our eco-tour go to plant making Green Corridor in Tanjung Puting National Park. But we stop making fires, request to work the local Government! Badman Nishioka/HUTAN Group/rainforest action group/Osaka/
http://theconversation.com/good-news-on-rain-forests-they-bounce-back-strong-storing-more-carbon-than-thought-49189

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/ Rising CO2 & rising temperature make to damage, Northren areas...

Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/ Rising CO2 & rising temperature make to damage, Northren areas in Alaska, Greenland, Finland, Norway, Northren Siberian forests will full down 20% by continuing Global Warming at different "Science" report! So fullng down Northren Forests become to make CO2, CH4, lossing Oxygen, many trouble make! Carefully in this year! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka/NGO
http://theconversation.com/rising-co2-levels-are-changing-how-fast-forests-cycle-water-40746

EU consider, analysis more down Carbon cost by using Renewable Energy!

EU consider, analysis more down Carbon cost by using Renewable Energy! Badman Nishioka/ rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://carbon-pulse.com/22619/

EU nations targets for reducing GHG emissions ranging from Zero to 40% achieve Goal at least 40% reducing below 1990...

EU nations targets for reducing GHG emissions ranging from Zero to 40% achieve Goal at least 40% reducing below 1990 levels by 2030! In the World there must make more ambitious actions! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN10017B?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=c2a5625e59-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-c2a5625e59-303459165

Carefully!

Carefully! Ban to dig development in Northern Poles areas including Greenland, Alaska, Northern Siberia! One of scientist showing data, Sea levels ar 6m over! This reported about 1m rise up Sea's levels,
Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/melting-greenland-glacier-threatens-to-raise-sea-levels-for-decades-a6732331.html

Nothing ambitious plans & actions cause many floods to rise up Sea levels, big damage, big economic loss, and...

Nothing ambitious plans & actions cause many floods to rise up Sea levels, big damage, big economic loss, and peoples living in small islands must escape the different islands or more high lands by 2060!
Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/climate-change-related-flooding-one-billion-people-risk-2060-warns-charity-a7031241.html

If we make no ambitious plans & actions of Global Warming, big Climate Change for example Japan, by 2030, we loss EU...

If we make no ambitious plans & actions of Global Warming, big Climate Change for example Japan, by 2030, we loss EU 1.5 Trillion each years by Independent news! Badman Nishioka./rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/global-warming-climate-change-economic-effects-jobs-too-hot-to-work-india-china-a7143406.html?utm_source=Daily+Carbon+Briefing&utm_campaign=199bc9b39b-cb_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_876aab4fd7-199bc9b39b-303459165

‘Floating Piers’ on Lake Iseo

‘Floating Piers’ on Lake Iseo
These four images from the Sentinel-2A satellite show Lake Iseo in northern Italy – the site of the ‘Floating Piers’ installation by the Bulgarian–American artist, Christo.

The first image from 19 April shows the lake’s Monte Isola (island), but as time progresses the floating dock takes form and, in the final image from 21 June, is covered with yellow fabric. The walkway is about 16 m wide.

The installation allows visitors to ‘walk on water’ from the lakes eastern shore to two islands.

Visiting the piers is free and accessible 24 hours a day, weather permitting, until 3 July 2016.

Image & info via ESA
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/06/Floating_Piers_on_Lake_Iseo

Reference:
http://www.thefloatingpiers.com/#introduction

#esa   #space   #theFloatingPiers

The United Nations make many Targets ,one of Target is Making Clean Energy!

The United Nations make many Targets ,one of Target is Making Clean Energy! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka

Originally shared by Nishioka Yoshio

The United Nations appear Targets, this is Target No.7-Making Clean Energy! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/energy/

Can we go to more ambitious plans, models for SDGs effective Goals, if we loss or don'make those actions, why we do...

Can we go to more ambitious plans, models for SDGs effective Goals, if we loss or don'make those actions, why we do Targets of Goal? Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/Osaka
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?page=view&nr=1102&type=230&menu=2059

Ours used many metarials, fuels, waters, those increasingly problems talk few not make targets including the UN,...

Ours used many metarials, fuels, waters, those increasingly problems talk few not make targets including the UN, conference of Climate Change, Meeting of Forest issues, IPCC, Other, since 1970, so we shall make to reduce Targets or Goals by 2025! Important! Making Global Diets!
Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group!
http://theconversation.com/how-do-we-uncouple-global-development-from-resource-use-62730?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2021%202016%20-%205282&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2021%202016%20-%205282+CID_11440d368621339a701357c1f4444a85&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=How%20do%20we%20uncouple%20global%20development%20from%20resource%20use

Microburst

Microburst
A microburst is a localized column of sinking air (downdraft) within a thunderstorm and is usually less than or equal to 2.5 miles in diameter. Microbursts can cause extensive damage at the surface, and in some instances, can be life-threatening. There are two primary types of microbursts: 1) wet microbursts and 2) dry microbursts.

Wet microbursts are accompanied by significant precipitation and are common in the Southeast during the summer months.
It all starts with the development of a thunderstorm and the water droplets/hailstones being suspended within the updraft.  Sometimes an updraft is so strong it suspends large amounts of these droplets and hailstones in the upper portions of the thunderstorm.

There are many factors that can lead to evaporational cooling (sinking air) and therefore weakening of the updraft. Once this occurs, it is no longer capable of holding the large core of rain/hail up in the thunderstorm. As a result, the core plummets to the ground. As it hits the ground it spreads out in all directions. The location in which the microburst first hits the ground experiences the highest winds and greatest damage.

Watch: Microburst Over Phoenix, Arizona - July 18th, 2016
https://vimeo.com/175329108

Know more:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/?n=outreach_microbursts

Article:
http://mashable.com/2016/07/19/striking-microburst-photo-phoenix/#oSAuiXmcwEqo

#naturalphenomena   #microburst

Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions

Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions
The brain looks like a featureless expanse of folds and bulges, but it’s actually carved up into invisible territories. Each is specialized: Some groups of neurons become active when we recognize faces, others when we read, others when we raise our hands.

Understanding the amazingly complex human cerebral cortex requires a map (or parcellation) of its major subdivisions, known as cortical areas. Making an accurate areal map has been a century-old objective in neuroscience. Using multi-modal magnetic resonance images from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) and an objective semi-automated neuroanatomical approach, scientists delineated 180 areas per hemisphere bounded by sharp changes in cortical architecture, function, connectivity, and/or topography in a precisely aligned group average of 210 healthy young adults. They characterized 97 new areas and 83 areas previously reported using post-mortem microscopy or other specialized study-specific approaches.

Read the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/science/human-connectome-brain-map.html?_r=0

Paper:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature18933.html

#neuroscience   #research   #HCP   #brainpacellation

Dark Dunes on Mars (Horizontally Compressed)

Dark Dunes on Mars (Horizontally Compressed) 
How does wind affect sand on Mars? To help find out if it differs significantly from Earth, the robotic Curiosity rover on Mars was directed to investigate the dark Namib Dune in the Bagnold Dune Field in Gale Crater. Namib is the first active sand dune investigated up close outside of planet Earth.

Wind-created ripples on Earth-bound sand dunes appear similar to ripples on Mars, with one exception. The larger peaks visible on dark Namib dune, averaging about 3 meters apart, are of a type seen only underwater on Earth. They appear to arise on Mars because of the way the thin Martian wind drags dark sand particles.

The featured image was taken last December and is horizontally compressed to show context. In the distance, a normal dusty Martian landscape slopes up in light orange, while a rock-strewn landscape is visible on the far right. Curiosity unexpectedly went into safe mode in early July, but it was brought out last week and has now resumed exploring the once lake-filled interior of Gale Crater for further signs that it was once habitable by microbial life.  

Image & info via APOD
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS

#space   #nasa   #mars   #science   #exploration   #NamibDune

Todays Final is from Mr.Justin! Arigatou! Good message! Badman Nishioka/rainforest group

Todays Final is from Mr.Justin! Arigatou! Good message! Badman Nishioka/rainforest group

Originally shared by Justin Case

USA use Renewable Energy by 2040! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group

USA use Renewable Energy by 2040! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=26212

USA showed Clean Energy Plans! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group

USA showed Clean Energy Plans! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=26852

USA must reduce Nuclear Energy project! Proceed! By Obama Clean Energy Policy!

USA must reduce Nuclear Energy project! Proceed! By Obama Clean Energy Policy!
Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/ So old dangerous Nuclear Plants continue to shut down!
http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/

USA Say Bye-bye Nuclear, changing to Solar, Wind energy- Renewable Energy by 2025, 2030, that plans proceed!

USA Say Bye-bye Nuclear, changing to Solar, Wind energy- Renewable Energy by 2025, 2030, that plans proceed! Dangerous, high cost, not environment energy is Nuclear! Indeed! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/
https://theconversation.com/as-us-shutters-aging-nuclear-plants-cutting-emissions-will-become-more-costly-50047

USA peoples opinion increase to shut down Nuclear Energy Plants now!

USA peoples opinion increase to shut down Nuclear Energy Plants now! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/NGO/Osaka
http://www.gallup.com/poll/190064/first-time-majority-oppose-nuclear-energy.aspx

USA, Obama decided many Nuclear Energy Plants shut down, closed on last year, on next year more nuclear energy...

USA, Obama decided many Nuclear Energy Plants shut down, closed on last year, on next year more nuclear energy Plants will closed for the Future! Renewable energy, especially Solar energy is mainly! Badman Nishioka/rainforest group
http://theconversation.com/as-nuclear-power-plants-close-states-need-to-bet-big-on-energy-storage-62032?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2020%202016%20-%205276&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%2020%202016%20-%205276+CID_e16cb2664b53683509db8cc7dda9c5e0&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=As%20nuclear%20power%20plants%20close%20states%20need%20to%20bet%20big%20on%20energy%20storage

NASA show this!

NASA show this!
Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/NGO
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20160719/

By NASA. El Nino is ending now, but Most Hottest Year! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group

By NASA. El Nino is ending now, but Most Hottest Year! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/nasa-global-temperatures-2016.html?referer=http://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/national-aeronautics-and-space-administration?inline=nyt-org

Obama announce Clean Energy Saving-mainly Solar Energy Systems!

Obama announce Clean Energy Saving-mainly Solar Energy Systems!
To scall up Solar and Reduce energy Bills!
Supporting those of property Assesed Energy Financing!
Building an inclusive Solar Energy with companies, NGOs, Community leaders at 50% of householders and bussiness to use Solar systems!
Goal to install 300 MW of Renewable Energy in Fedarallcy Subsidized Housing by 2020, 2025 more scall up!
Thanks! Obama President! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/19/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-clean-energy-savings-all

This graph become the increasing Renewable Energy in USA by 2020, 2025!

This graph become the increasing Renewable Energy in USA by 2020, 2025! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/legacy/assets/images/ce/Projected-Renewable-Energy-Development-from-State-RES-Full-size.jpg

Forming Granular Plugs

Forming Granular Plugs
Imagine filling a narrow tube with a mixture of water and tiny glass beads. Then take a syringe and very slowly start drawing out the water. As the water gets sucked out of the tube, air will be pulled into the opposite end. The meniscus where the air and water meet sweeps up the glass beads like a liquid bulldozer.

As the experiment continues, pressure builds up and air starts filtering through the beads, changing the viscous and frictional forces the system experiences. Eventually, the grains break off, leaving a chunk of glass beads – known as a plug – behind. Keep draining the tube and more plugs form.

Watch video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYYnfKUddro

Paper:
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.028002

Source:
https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.028002

h/t FYFD

#physics   #granularplugs   #experiment   #research   #science

Climate change could cost the world $2 trillion over the next 14 years

Climate change could cost the world $2 trillion over the next 14 years
Donald Trump is about to become the Republican nominee for president, a man who has described climate change as a concept “created by and for the Chinese” and “bullshit.” Meanwhile, the United Nations released research Tuesday which indicates said “bullshit” could interfere with productivity, costing the world $2 trillion over the next 14 years.

Ironically, this also coincides with the 10-year anniversary of then-senator Barack Obama‘s climate speech that changed the face of politics.

Article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-costs-idUSKCN0ZZ1S9
http://thinkprogress.org/obama-oil-speech/

Source:
https://mic.com/articles/149157/republican-convention-2016-trump-climate-change-un-cost-trillions

#climatechange   #science   #research   #whenidiotscollide

Thought of the day - Bicameralism

Thought of the day - Bicameralism
So what exactly is bicameralism?
Bicameralism is a hypothesis in psychology that argues that the human mind once assumed a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind.

The term was coined by Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. In his book, psychologist Julian Jaynes uses the Iliad as a major supporting evidence for his theory of bicameralism, which posits that until about the time described in the Iliad, humans had a much different mentality than present day humans, essentially lacking in what we call consciousness.

He suggests that humans heard and obeyed commands from what they identified as gods, until the change in human mentality that incorporated the motivating force into the conscious self. He points out that almost every action in the Iliad is directed, caused, or influenced by a god, and that earlier translations show an astonishing lack of words suggesting thought, planning, or introspection. Those that do appear, he argues, are misinterpretations made by translators imposing a modern mentality on the characters.

The book is wonderful, if you have no clue what I'm talking about...give it a try.

Foot note:
If your religion requires you to hate someone you need a new religion...but if you hear your God's voice telling you to hate someone, well, you're psychotic!!!
Auditory verbal hallucinations, the experience of “hearing voices”, present us with an interesting paradox: the experiences are generated from within a single individual but are typically experienced as a social phenomenon—that is, a form of communication from another speaker. Consider a lobotomy ;)

#bicameralism   #brainicusidioticus   #psychology   #personalnonsense

Indonesian Government make the Moratorium 5 years for plantations!

Indonesian Government make the Moratorium 5 years for plantations! On last week, Sumatra was burnt rapidly actions now! On last year, 400,000 peoples got damage by fires hize, smogs! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka
http://news.trust.org/item/20160719111739-tl1sj

Burnt Amazon! Save Amazon! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka

Burnt Amazon! Save Amazon! Badman Nishioka/rainforest action group/HUTAN Group/Osaka