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Call it a Black History Month Twofer. Tomorrow will be a twofer with a slight twist for the month and physics. You'll see what I mean.
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Robert H. Goodwin is kneeling, lower left. |
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Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl disappeared in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Jan 23, 2002 after telling his wife he was going to interview an Islamic group leader. AFP/Getty Images |
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Wilmer Souder, Physicist, National Bureau of Standards (precursor to NIST) |
This is an incredible breakthrough role!
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Octavia-Spencer-Play-God-Shack-Get-Details-70193.html
Over the years we've seen many actors portray God on the big screen, from George Burns to Morgan Freeman, but now it is apparently Octavia Spencer's time toe become omnipotent and all-powerful. This is because she is now in final negotiations to play God in an adaptation of the novel The Shack, which is now in the works over at Lionsgate.
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Topics: African Americans, History, Diaspora, Diversity in Science, Women in Science
Amazon:
* Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business,
Neil Postman
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstrader
Related Links:
Bill Moyers: The GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge, Mike Lofgren
Ohio Central History: The Know-Nothing Party
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The major role for the student is to well-study, work smarter not harder is a very common phrase which every student have to listen and also tried to follow that too. Every student has crowded schedule to complete their works, college, assignments, projects, social events and some other activates such make them too tired for study at home. For the smarter study, you need a perfect schedule including your all activities of the day which you have to follow strictly to cover up your studies. Instead of studying longer and harder, scientific research has proven ways on how the brain can process and learn information smarter and within shorter time spans. To study smarter UK Dissertation Help provider suggest some assure tips which help you
Concentrate on studies
Before the one or two months of exams students decide to study hard with the proper schedule, and that time they need more concentration towards their studies. Prepare a complete schedule and to-do list for a day and also to solve the previous year question paper which will help you to understand the pattern and also the efforts you have to give for that subject.
Create milestones
During exam time there is a lot of pressure and we have to manage all the things in the same time. Before starting any topic or subject just divide it into different parts which will help you complete your target and also have your own progress report that how much time taken to complete one task. Take a break of 5 min after every 30 min which will help you to get a refresh. Discipline yourself to study your toughest subject for 20-30 minutes a day or to solve 5-10 problems of your textbook every single day. A small daily effort piles up – after 30 days, just 5 problems a day pile up to 150 problems solved.
Smart study, instead of hard
Always study according to the timetable and when you study just completely concentrate on your subject avoiding all the destruction, keeping them and study for the whole day will never give you a positive result. Make sure before leaving the topic each and every concept should be clear, make proper and understanding notes with highlighting important points which help you during revision.
Keep track of your progress
Check you’re to do list daily before sleeping and make sure that have you completed your task of the day and it helps also to manage the time that which subject need more time to complete. Stay focus till your exams end it will help you to score more result.
Never give up
Practice, practice, practice until you don’t achieve your goal, never try to give up and remained focused on your goal. Never distract from any other thing until you achieve your goal.
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Topics: Biology, Exobiology, Exoplanets, Futurism, Mars, Space Exploration
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The sample appears as a dark area near the center of this micrograph of the diamond-anvil cell. Credit: X. Dong et al. Nat. Chem. 2017 |
Topics: Chemistry, Chemical Physics, Materials Science
Helium doesn’t play well with others. Beyond its noble gas designation on the periodic table, it has the lowest electron affinity—zero—among the elements, and the highest ionization energy. Scientists have managed to mechanically pack He atoms with other elements, but the He has little effect on those compounds’ characteristics.
Now an international team has presented evidence for a compound whose electronic structure and thus its physical properties are influenced by its He components. Researchers led by Artem Oganov ran a crystal structure prediction algorithm to play matchmaker for He and found that the compound Na2He should form at high pressures. The researchers shared their prediction with Alexander Goncharov and colleagues, who loaded He gas and solid sodium into a diamond-anvil cell at the Carnegie Institution for Science. After increasing the pressure to 140 GPa and heating the sample, Goncharov’s team noticed a marked shift in material properties. New peaks appeared in x-ray diffraction patterns, and the sample’s melting point rose to more than 1500 K; pure Na melts at about 550 K.
Scientific American: Helium compound may form under pressure, Andrew Grant
It would literally be decades before we found out this was a part of African American History, as the book and movie "Hidden Figures" reveals. We have been, and always will be a part of the fabric of this nation's progress forward. Regarding us as lazy, stupid, useless can only lead to the United States regression into third world status. It has the logic of shooting oneself in the foot and expecting "the other" to feel the pain.
I guess for my mother, it was t-minus six months and counting (I was happily gestating in her womb)...
It took chutzpah, moxie for a human being to consciously strap (at that time) himself to a large lit stick of dynamite with no guarantee that the procedure, though thoroughly calculated and considered, would not end in disaster.
So was this Marine Corp pilot, who confidently climbed into a Mercury rocket - Friendship 7, and took the first flight by an American to orbit the Earth.
Mercury - Gemini - Apollo: it would change our world with semiconductor-manufactured spinoff technologies that we now take for granted. It would change our focus, our nerve on what was possible. We would look to the stars and listen for signs of humanity's cousins.
50 years later: Godspeed, John Glenn
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Members of the Kappa Beta Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc perform a step show at the University of Memphis in 1999 Note that the average cane is about knee high (app. 2 feet), image source at site |
Topics: African Americans, History, Diaspora, Diversity in Science, Women in Science
Sun has baked me,
Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me
Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'--
But I don't care!
I'm still here!
I am the captain of my soul.
Step Afrika: What is Stepping?
The Art of Stepping: History of the Art of Stepping
University of Florida Multicultural Guide: What is Strolling?
Wikipedia: Gumboot dance
Wikipedia: Stepping (African-American)
Kappas on YouTube (Hey, I'm a member, so I'm GOING to be partial):
Howard Homecoming
Maniac Drew Brown (Cane Master)
Southern Province Step Show
The Art of Twirling
University of Miami, TEDx
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The Sun as seen by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (Courtesy: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA) |
Topics: Astrophysics, Heliophysics, NASA, Solar System
And in one post title, I've horribly dated myself again. Happy Friday, everyone!
Sunlight is slowing the rotation of the Sun’s outermost layers by stealing its angular momentum. That is the claim of researchers in the US and Brazil who have studied acoustic waves oscillating through the Sun’s visible surface – the photosphere – to determine how fast the Sun spins at certain depths.
It has been known since the 1980s that the outer 5% of the photosphere rotates more slowly than deeper layers. However, solar physicists do not understand why this slowdown occurs, its total extent and its effect on the Sun’s magnetic dynamo and solar wind.
To solve this puzzle a team led by Ian Cunnyngham and Jeff Kuhn of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii has observed acoustic waves at the limb (edge) of the Sun’s disc using the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which orbits Earth.
Bell ringing
The Sun is ringing like a bell as acoustic waves driven by turbulence crash through the plasma within its interior. The waves themselves, known as p-mode oscillations, have very low frequencies in the region of 3000 µHz and their harmonic patterns form the basis of helioseismology.
Cunnyngham and Kuhn’s team observed the oscillations at the solar limb, where the viewing angle makes it possible to determine how deep in the photosphere each oscillation is, allowing measurements of the rotation velocity at each depth. They found that the greatest amount of braking was occurring in the outer 70 km of the photosphere and that layers closest to the surface were rotating more slowly than deeper layers. This differential rotation could potentially twist localized magnetic field lines, affecting magnetic phenomena such as sunspots, active regions and even the formation of the solar wind.
Physics World: Photons are a drag on the Sun, Keith Cooper