Lemon Bath
Friday, March 13, 2015
Big California Quake Risk
The risk of a major earthquake hitting California in the next
30 years has risen dramatically, according to improved forecasting
techniques.
Artificial Photosynthesis
Scientists have discovered a missing link in the development
of artificial photosynthesis, a possible way of creating liquid solar
fuel.
The Corrugated Galaxy
Teenagers arrested for stealing goat to ask girl to prom
Police in Milton, Georgia, arrested several teenagers and charged them with theft for stealing a goat.
Police were called out to Bethany Church Road on Saturday night after a man reported suspicious activity outside his home.
The man told police his dog started barking and he saw two unknown
vehicles parked on the side of the road. He then noticed four males near
his home. The man said he confronted them and told them he had a
shotgun.
The man says as the boys jumped into their trucks and took off, he noticed one carrying something large and loading it into the truck as well. Police stopped a white truck matching the description down the road and found a goat inside the vehicle.
The man told them the goat belonged to his neighbor. One teen told police he stole the goat because he thought he would ask a girl to prom by saying “will you goat with me to prom.” The goat’s owner arrived, picked up his goat and told police he wanted to press charges. All four boys were charged with theft of livestock.
The man says as the boys jumped into their trucks and took off, he noticed one carrying something large and loading it into the truck as well. Police stopped a white truck matching the description down the road and found a goat inside the vehicle.
The man told them the goat belonged to his neighbor. One teen told police he stole the goat because he thought he would ask a girl to prom by saying “will you goat with me to prom.” The goat’s owner arrived, picked up his goat and told police he wanted to press charges. All four boys were charged with theft of livestock.
More Myth Than Reality
A politician is spinning a tale about big bad wolves, but a
fact check finds that people have a greater chance of being killed by an
elevator than a wolf.
Amur Tiger Family
For the first time, conservationists have spotted an Amur
tiger dad leading his family along a snowy trail in Russia's Far East
forests.
Missing dog rescued from middle of icy river
Police and firefighters helped rescue a dog trapped on the ice on the
Charles River in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on Sunday morning.
Jared Bartels, the dog's owner, was hiking with his dog, an 8-year-old
golden retriever poodle mix named Cooper in Elm Bank on Saturday
afternoon. At some point, the dog got spooked and ran off.
Bartels and his friend searched for Cooper on Saturday night and resumed Son unday morning, passing out fliers.
A person who saw one of the fliers called 911 and reported Cooper was approximately 40 feet out in the Charles River.
Three firefighters wearing waterproof suits went into icy water to
rescue the dog. The rescue took approximately 15 minutes.
Authorities said the dog was shivering and scared.
Bartels said he was relieved to be reunited with the family dog. He said
his three children would have been heartbroken if Cooper was lost.
Antarctic Song
A team of Australian and New Zealand researchers has tracked
scores of blue whales off Antarctica, as the world's largest animals
began their songs.
A True Blue Blood
Being a blue blood in the Antarctic turns out to be a very good thing, especially if you're an octopus.
7-Foot-Long 'Sea Monster'
Today's tiny shrimp had gigantic ancestors that were
easy-going creatures, making today's predatory shrimp look like bullies
by comparison.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
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Today in History
1496
The Jews are expelled from Syria.
1507 Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain.
1609 The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789 The United States Post Office is established.
1809 Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.
1863 President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
1879 The British Zulu War begins.
1884 Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903 The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.
1909 British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain.
1911 Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912 Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1917 Russian troops mutiny as the "February Revolution" begins.
1930 Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India.
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1933 President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
1938 German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union)of Austria and Germany.
1944 Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1945 Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.
1959 The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1984 Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985 The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
1507 Cesare Borgia dies while fighting alongside his brother, the king of Navarre, in Spain.
1609 The Bermuda Islands become an English colony.
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony.
1789 The United States Post Office is established.
1809 Great Britain signs a treaty with Persia forcing the French out of the country.
1863 President Jefferson Davis delivers his State of the Confederacy address.
1879 The British Zulu War begins.
1884 Mississippi establishes the first U.S. state college for women.
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1903 The Czar of Russia issues a decree providing for nominal freedom of religion throughout the land.
1909 British Parliament increases naval appropriations for Great Britain.
1911 Dr. Fletcher of the Rockefeller Institute discovers the cause of infantile paralysis.
1912 Juliet Low founds the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia.
1917 Russian troops mutiny as the "February Revolution" begins.
1930 Gandhi begins his march to the sea to symbolizes his defiance of British rule in India.
1933 President Paul von Hindenburg drops the flag of the German Republic and orders that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
1933 President Roosevelt makes the first of his Sunday evening fireside chats.
1938 German troops enter Austria without firing a shot, forming the anschluss (union)of Austria and Germany.
1944 Great Britain bars all travel to neutral Ireland, which is suspected of collaborating with Nazi Germany.
1945 Diarist Anne Frank dies in a German concentration camp.
1959 The U.S. House of Representatives joins the Senate in approving the statehood of Hawaii.
1984 Lebanese President Gemayel opens the second meeting in five years calling for the end to nine-years of war.
1985 The United States and the Soviet Union begin arms control talks in Geneva.
A Sea of Firecrackers Exploding
What could possibly go wrong?
Actually, nothing did. This inflammatory activity was conducted safely. There were no reported injuries or damages resulting from it.
Polite thief broke into car to firstly steal an ‘itchy’ blanket and again to return it with charming note
A homeless thief in Australia who broke into a car to “borrow” a blanket
anonymously returned the stolen item to the owner with a cheeky and
heart-warming thank you note.
Great-grandfather Bert Palin, 82, said he parked his car in Redfern, New
South Wales, while visiting family but didn’t realise it had been
broken into until he arrived home the next day and found a note from the
culprit in the boot.
“I was getting (my wife’s) walker out of the boot when I saw the blanket
that we normally toss in after using for picnics, folded neatly with a
note,” Mr Palin said.
The note read:
“Hi, I borrowed your blanket for a little while because I was cold and
didn’t have anywhere to go. I hope you accept my apology for taking your
stuff without asking.
Kind regards, Blankt (sic) theif :)
P.S. The blank is really itchy.”
Mr Palin said he was surprised to see the note and learn someone had broken into his car twice - once to take the blanket and a second time to return it. “It was obviously a male or female of some education to have written it the way they did and to break into my car then say ‘thank you’ and ‘PS your blanket was itchy’ … it was breathtaking,” he said.
“I washed the blanket after that because I was concerned about it being itchy.” Mr Palin said there was no sign of any damage to the car as a result of the break in. “The boot just had a plastic clasp that must have been easy to open,” Mr Palin said. “I’ve been passing the note around and people are amazed ... (my grandson) couldn’t stop laughing.” Mr Palin said he accepted the thief’s apology but that if he could say anything to him or her it would be: “keep out of my car”.
Mr Palin said he was surprised to see the note and learn someone had broken into his car twice - once to take the blanket and a second time to return it. “It was obviously a male or female of some education to have written it the way they did and to break into my car then say ‘thank you’ and ‘PS your blanket was itchy’ … it was breathtaking,” he said.
“I washed the blanket after that because I was concerned about it being itchy.” Mr Palin said there was no sign of any damage to the car as a result of the break in. “The boot just had a plastic clasp that must have been easy to open,” Mr Palin said. “I’ve been passing the note around and people are amazed ... (my grandson) couldn’t stop laughing.” Mr Palin said he accepted the thief’s apology but that if he could say anything to him or her it would be: “keep out of my car”.
The Aftermath of Hiroshima
This year marks 70 years since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After Germany surrendered to the allies in May of 1945, The United States, China and Great Britain demanded that the Japanese unconditionally surrender as well, or be subject to "prompt and utter destruction." Japan refused those demands.In early August of 1945, the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which remain the only times that the atomic bomb was used to fight a war. The destruction in Japan was widespread, and up to 240,000 people were killed in the first four months. Many more succumbed to illness from radiation in the following years. On August 15, Japan surrendered.
Shown here are two photographs from a collection at Vintage Everyday that illustrates the horrors of such nuclear devastation. Be warned that a few of the photos show injured people. Such images are an important testament to the terror of war and a cautionary tale against the use of nuclear weapons.
Black Ooze
Reducing Fertility
Being ‘laid off’
Alzheimer's Battle
Researchers make some interesting new finds, as they try to uncover the cause of this horrible disease.
Calvin and Hobbes Was "Our Only Popular Explication of the Moral Philosophy of Aristotle."
The late political scientist James Q. Wilson described “Calvin and Hobbes” as “our only popular explication of the moral philosophy of Aristotle.” Wilson meant that the social order is founded on self-control and delayed gratification—and that Calvin is hopeless at these things. Calvin thinks that “life should be more like TV” and that he is “destined for greatness” whether he does his homework or not. His favorite sport is “Calvinball,” in which he is entitled to make up the rules as he goes along.
Day-in, day-out, Calvin keeps running into evidence that the world isn’t built to his (and our) specifications. All humor is, in one way or another, about our resistance to that evidence.
7 Strange Ways Your Brain Can Fail You
When Louis Victor Leborgne died in 1861, aged 51, he had been virtually speechless for 21 years. Not completely speechless: He could speak one word, “tan”. Over and over again: “Tan. Tan.” In the months before he died, a doctor called Pierre Paul Broca, a language specialist, had become interested in his case. Leborgne was apparently still intelligent, still aware of his surroundings, still capable of telling where he was and how long he’d been there. But he’d lost all use of language, reported Broca:
He could no longer produce but a single syllable, which he usually repeated twice in succession; regardless of the question asked him, he always responded: tan, tan, combined with varied expressive gestures. This is why, throughout the hospital, he is known only by the name Tan.
After Leborgne’s death, Broca examined his body, and found a lesion in the posterior inferior frontal gyrus – a brain region now known as “Broca’s area”.
Bright Minds: Stained Glass Tributes to Tesla, Turing, and More
The Wellcome Trust's Best Science Photos of the Year
Scanning electron microscope view of a boll weevil
The
Wellcome Trust has announced the finalists in their 2015 Wellcome Image
Awards, which celebrate the best in science photography. A panel of
nine judges will select from the images of the finalists. The winning
entry will be anmounced at a ceremony on March 18th, 2015.See more of the finalist photos here, and visit the Wellcome Images Website to see winners from the past year.
Cross section of a cat's tongue
Pollen Grains, Asteraceae
Quantum Mechanics
Alien Life
The hunt for signs of life on planets beyond our solar system
should cast as wide a net as possible, some researchers stress.
Gliese 581d Might Exist After All
Does it exist or not? Astronomers are claiming that the
potentially habitable exoplanet is just noisy data, while others say
it's too early to discount the existence of Gliese 581d.
Dark Matter Factory
A dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way is humming with gamma
rays, leading astronomers to hypothesize that it could be filled with
annihilating dark matter particles.
Curiosity's Short Circuit
Engineers analyzing a problem with NASA’s Mars rover
Curiosity suspect an intermittent short circuit in its drill triggered
the protective software that automatically suspended science operations
on Feb. 27.
Venus' Mysterious Surface
Bouncing radar off Veuns' surface, radio astronomers have
built up a detailed, and beautiful, view of the planet's landscape
without leaving Earth.
'Rats with Wings'
Pigeons are everywhere! And in astonishingly diverse forms.
While it's an easy line to call them "rats with wings" and just dismiss
them, Trace finds there's actually much to love about pigeons, starting
with their crazy-cool flying skills.
Colors
Chameleons change color by tuning photonic crystal-like structures in their skin. See photos.
A new kind of trouble
Once on the brink of extinction, the now-flourishing fox is having too many deadly run-ins with humans.
Them As Count Bird Feathers
by Stephen DrewWetmore’s Comprehensive Feather-Counting Report
In 1936 Alexander Wetmore of the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C., gathered all of the reports he could find in which someone or other counted how many feathers were on particular birds:
“The Number of Contour Feathers in Passeriform and Related Birds,” Alexander Wetmore, The Auk,
vol. 53, 1936, pp. 159–69.
“The work of feather counting is tedious and exacting,” Wetmore admitted, “and yields small result relative to the labor involved.” Among Wetmore’s gatherings from his predecessors:
Dr. Jonathan Dwight found 3235 feathers on a male Bobolink taken in spring. R.C. McGregor has recorded 1899 feathers on a Savannah sparrow (presumably a western form) and 6544 on a Glaucous winged Gull both enumerations being made from study skins. Miss Phoebe Knappen has reported 11,903 feathers on an adult female Mallard obtained March 19, 1932 at Pohick, Virginia, the bird being one that had died from phosphorus poisoning.
Wetmore proceeded to have someone he could count on do some new counting on Wetmore’s behalf and for his credit:The actual labor of counting was done under my direct supervision by Marie Siebrecht (now Mrs. James Montroy) who, employed as an assistant, worked carefully and conscientiously at a long and somewhat tedious task...Wetmore kept records of where each bird entered his locus of control. Many came via a single collecting point:
I am indebted to Miss Phoebe Knappen for a number of birds killed by striking the Washington Monument during fall migration.Wetmore detailed how Montroy performed her function:
In this study contour feathers alone have been considered, the downs and filo plumes being disregarded. The feathers were plucked a few at a time by means of fine tweezers and were counted in lots of one hundred, a check mark being made for each hundred. At any interruption in the work the number counted was set down at once to avoid error....
The feathers as counted were placed in a glass beaker on which there was a paper cover held in place by a rubber band. By means of a small hole cut in the paper top it was possible to confine the feathers and to ascertain the weight of the plumage.....
With ordinary small birds one specimen was counted each day, two being handled on a few occasions. The work was exacting so that more prolonged effort was liable, through fatigue, to lead to errors.
Can You Legally Park a Horse in New York City?
On
November 25, 1783, General George Washington, mounted on a white
charger, marched the Continental Army into New York City as the last
British troops in that city evacuated. For many years, this event would
be remembered as Evacuation Day, an important holiday in New York City for more than a century.When General Washington dismounted from his horse, where would he have parked it?
Where would you park a horse--that is, tie it off and leave it alone--now?
Rhett Jones of Hopes & Fears thoroughly researched that question. As you might expect, NYPD cops can park their horses with great leeway. But what about those of us without government privileges? Jones eventually tracked down an answer in the New York City Traffic Rules, section 4-12.f, which says:
No person shall leave a horse unbridled or unattended in a street or unenclosed place unless the horse is securely fastened, or harnessed to a vehicle with wheels so secured as to prevent it from being dragged faster than a walk.So, basically, you just need a solid hitching post.
Man Finds Python in his Cereal Box
Jarred
Smith of Sydney, Australia was freaked out to say the least when he
tried to have a simple breakfast of Corn Flakes and got a Diamond Python
instead. The snake was coiled up so tight in his cereal box that a man
from NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service (WIRES) had
to tear the box to get it out. Read more on this story at the Daily Telegraph. (Warning: Aside
from the F bombs in the video that are bleeped out, there are two PG
words not censored, but they're nothing you couldn't hear on network
television.)
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The Daily Drift
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