'The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838', Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1839, oil on canvas - The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fhealth-shots%2F2016%2F07%2F18%2F486473548%2Fgot-dense-breasts-that-can-depend-on-whos-reading-the-mammogram%3Futm_medium%3DRSS%26utm_campaign%3Dresearchnews&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Got Dense Breasts? That Can Depend On Who's Reading The Mammogram
A large study suggests that radiologists vary widely in their assessment of density, a risk factor for breast cancer. And density is just one factor in breast-cancer risk, the researchers underscore.
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Federal and Utah health officials are investigating a case that may be the first instance of Zika spreading from one person to another in ways other than via mosquito bites, sex or the placenta.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPhysicsWorld%2F%7E3%2FKufzxGQBc4s%2Finternational-conference-on-soft-materials-icsm-2016&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2016) Conference: 12 Dec 2016 - 16 Dec 2016, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. science
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fdan-jacobson%2Fstate-needs-more-than-jus_b_11057576.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dgreen%26ir%3DGreen&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 State Needs More Than Just Cap And Trade In California, we're up close and personal with the effects of climate change. Between the worst drought in California's history, fires across the state, 26 million dead trees in the Sierra Nevada, massive heat waves, and rising sea levels, there's no doubt that climate change is real -- and California is ground zero.
This week, the California Air Resources Board released new regulations to extend the Cap and Trade program that began in 2006 -- a move that will help bolster the governor's plan to keep California on a path toward clean energy and climate leadership. It's an important step, but the Cap and Trade program alone will not solve our climate problem -- we need to ban on oil drilling and fracking in our state.
It's common knowledge that when the bathtub is overflowing, the first thing to do is turn off the water. Our state is trying to sop up the water on the floor but isn't turning off the tap.
The tap in our case? Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The source of these greenhouse gas emissions? Oil and gas. One key solution is to turn off the tap in California is to radically reduce the amount of gas and oil we are pulling from our ground to both use in our state and sell to the rest of the world.
A recent inventory of greenhouse gases released by the state shows we're making progress on reducing emissions, but we still have a long way to go. In 2014 California had already reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by almost 10 percent compared to 2004. However, we are still releasing 441.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gases each year -- placing California in the top 10 when states are ranked by highest emission level. (I did not know this fact -- i assume you have a source? Should we cite it?)
And that number is just what's released in our state. It doesn't account for the dirty oil that is extracted from California and burned in other parts of the world.
Our state is doing great with solar energy and clean cars, but it has to get real about our outsized carbon footprint and commit to a steady decrease in oil drilling and fracking, first targeting drilling near homes and schools, as well as cutting back on drilling for fuels that emit particularly high levels of carbon dioxide. These are urgent first steps needed to protect our children and families. We can also start by retraining our workers for jobs in fields that bolster California's economy without destroying our climate. By 2030, we can phase out all oil drilling and fracking.
It's an ambitious plan, but there isn't an alternative if we want to protect our state. Californians are no strangers to climate leadership, and we can get the job done.
To be clear: a ban on oil drilling and fracking requires action from the governor. But in the meantime, there are steps we can all take. Trucks and cars are responsible for most of California's greenhouse gas emissions. Buying an electric car, choosing public transit, and contacting legislators to demand increased funding for mass transit are ways we can all move this process along. Governor Brown can also release funds collected from the oil industry to fund programs that help low-income Californians get cleaner cars.
Another important piece of this puzzle is solar power, which can heat our water, power our computers, and keep our air conditioners running. Solar power works -- and it works best when we need it the most. We can all urge utility companies to invest in clean energy and offer more options for Californians to invest in solar power.
Already, California stands out as a leader in solar power and clean cars, with over 200,000 electric cars in our state. By limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that businesses are allowed to release or requiring them to pay for credits when they exceed that limit, Governor Brown's efforts to extend cap and trade may help too.
But these steps alone don't get to the root of the problem. The next job for Governor Brown is to find ways to contain carbon and keep it in the ground. If our state is serious about leading the battle for our climate, we need to phase out oil drilling and fracking.
Dan Jacobson is the Legislative Director of Environment California and is on the steering committee of Californians Against Fracking, a coalition working to win a statewide ban on fracking and other dangerous oil and gas extraction activities in California.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2F2097846-hummingbirds-unique-way-of-seeing-prevents-them-from-crashing%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Hummingbirds' unique way of seeing prevents them from crashing Dare-devil fliers that can hover, fly backwards and go at more than 50 kilometres per hour rarely crash here's why gaia
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fchris-corbett%2Fon-the-200year-birthday-o_b_11031378.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dgreen%26ir%3DGreen&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 On the 200-year birthday of Frankenstein is it time to worry about the story becoming real? It was a dark and stormy night two hundred years ago this June when Frankenstein was first animated in a Swiss chateau by the 18 year old Mary Shelly. She created the legendary monster after a challenge by Lord Byron who had invited a group of young British literary types to spend the summer on the shores of Lake Geneva. Climate change caused by a volcano in Indonesia created endless rainy weather that meant they spent a lot of time indoors pursuing their respective writing efforts. After some evenings recounting German ghost stories while drinking local wine and consuming opium Byron challenged the assembled writers to each create their own similar tale. Shelly was feeling pressured, being asked every morning if she had succeeded. Finally several days later during a night where she couldn't sleep she wrote her 'waking dream' around 2am about a doctor in nearby Geneva who animated a creature made of scavenged body parts. (The mood must have been conducive to scary stories as another member of the group, John Polidori, wrote a short story that eventually became The Vampyre; the first vampire story in English with the theme later being amplified in Bram Stoker's Dracula.)
At that time, Galvanism was the newest scientific research being conducted in Europe where electricity was used to animate dead tissue, giving thought to the possibility of reanimating dead bodies. Shelly had seen demonstrations of scientific experiments at the Royal Institute in London, and knew how electricity could be used to recreate movement in dead muscles. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Shelly noted, "galvanism had given token of such things". This is probably why she used electricity as the source of life for the creature built out of body parts from dead people.
In her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein Shelley said, 'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.'
Exactly two hundred years later a New York Times headline announced in June: 'Project aims to synthesize entirety of Human DNA. Ethical issues include the possibility of babies with no biological parents'. So if Boris Karloff scared you in the original 1931 Frankenstein movie (or soon Javier Bardem who is being tipped to be the new monster in an upcoming remake) you should be really afraid now. One of the points in Shelly's book was that the good doctor was trying to play god and it had disastrous results after a potentially promising start. Are we now also at the same crossroads?
In April 2015, researchers from Sun Yat-sen University in China used gene-editing techniques to alter human embryos for the first time in history. And a U.S. federal biosafety and ethics panel recently gave a university the go-ahead to conduct research on genetically modifying humans. While it could mean future generation have inherited diseases like cancers removed from their genes there are more questions than answers
If scientists can create life to their own specifications is it not pure ego to think humans are better able to do this than letting nature find it's own way? And what kind of manipulations and interests will guide such efforts leading to potential misuse of the knowledge. We live in a world that today sadly has very low moral standards and people of immense wealth and power who do as they please. Will countries create super beings to go to war on their behalf or else try to create perfect societies with individuals having Einstein IQ's and movie star looks? In Europe, the organizations questioning the safety of genetically modified foods call these staples 'Frankenfoods' as a nod to scientists trying to be superior to nature. I don't know enough details about the young science and the jury is still out on the subject regarding potential long-term health issues and benefits but when it comes to custom made humans perhaps a little more research should be done. And also ethical considerations need to get taken into account before a new monster is unleashed.
Shelly's Frankenstein didn't start out as a bad creature but after being rejected by it's creator and society it turned evil. Perhaps scientists should first focus on solving a few of the worlds existing problems before creating more potential issues. Maybe going forwards is really going backwards in disguise?
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Duplin County, North Carolina is the epicenter for industrial swine production in the United States. Housing an estimated 2.2 million hogs, this dot on the map shoulders more than its fair share of the world's swine production load. I showed up last summer to film the stories of those trying to protect the water, land, and air that these hog farms influence so profoundly.
First, what's the problem? Everyone loves pig right? Vitamin B (bacon) is certainly a staple of my brunch diet. In short, the sheer number of hog farms that have slid into this predominantly minority, low-income community has stressed its environment to the max. A pig produces about ten times as much waste as a human does, yet has almost none of the regulations on how it's disposed.
In North Carolina, contract farmers working under the umbrella of a far away corporation have few choices on how to handle the hog waste from the scores of animals they are forced to grow to stay profitable. This waste typically flushes into “lagoons” then when the that fills up, farmers spray the tepid liquid waste filled with the most unimaginable grossness on to fields as fertilizer. This works in many cases, but all too often overstressed farmers (no one has it easy here) over-apply and allow runoff into local streams, all the while pumping the air full of toxic stench. The standard industry response that “it's not that bad” doesn't cut it for some.
Duplin County resident René lives immediately adjacent to a hog waste sprayer.
Enter René (family name withheld.) She lives in the same neighborhood she grew up in, a house handed down from her mother. In the late 1990s an industrial swine “farmer” set up a spray field across the street from her house. Several times every week, the “farmer” pumps this grotesque cocktail of pig excrement into the air 20 yards from her front door. René has developed respiratory issues, and can't go outside without quickly becoming hoarse. She no longer can hang clothes to dry or work in her garden, lingering outside just long enough to get to her car to go to and from work.
Despite these hardships René still manages to smile and get along with her life. Although she has much to be afraid of, she carries no fear, no hatred, and says she'll speak out until her last breath. Her story is not unique, but her courage is.
A Dead Truck hoists dead a dead box into the truck bed.
Numerous groups are taking on the science behind what's happening to the air and water around these “farms.” Devon Hall, co-founder of Rural Empowerment Association for Community Health (REACH) is spreading the scientific gospel as a way to empower these communities to speak up about these injustices. The Waterkeeper Alliance also leads countless research efforts to document, in clear black and white, what these polluters are doing. Merely imagining breathing in pig excrement and drinking tainted water supplies doesn't do much to convince an industry-owned government of anything. Duplin County is finding science as savior and rising up to prove, in no uncertain terms, it is that bad
The Water Is for Fighting projectdocuments the challenges facing our nations freshwater resources. Corey Robinson is a filmmaker and Young Explorer Grantee collecting these stories through film, still pictures and words.
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fgreater-good-science-center%2Fwhy-your-office-needs-mor_b_11057648.html&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Greater Good Science Center: Why Your Office Needs More Nature He notes that most companies and interior designers pay scant attention to nature and sunlight exposure, or neglect them in order to keep costs down. But, he suggests, if we want to improve well-being at work, we may want to look at environmental factors more closely.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Falan-w-silberberg%2Fcyber-security-attacks-ne_b_11020902.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dscience%26ir%3DScience&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Cyber Security Attacks = Need to get trained. Every day another hack. Another breach. Someone's data getting exfiltrated, dumped and sold. Is it you today? Your company? Your organization?
How often do you hear about someone you know dealing with either identity theft, compromised banking or social media credentials or their information out on the web being sold? Medical, Identity, Financial, Legal, Political, Business. All for sale. It used to be that this information was dumped out onto the "dark web" and then sold to hackers or crooks.
Now the information is freely being sold on the open, non dark web as well. Money buys access to credentials, to personal information, to embarrassing information, to information you long thought was not ever going to be seen by others.
Has your company provided real life cyber security training? Have you been run through a test or role playing? No? The average company, government agency, non profits and other employers simply have not yet stepped up to the need to fund and execute on cyber security training. True for not just the most senior tech executives, but for everyone from the CEO and Board to the average employee. We should all be able to teach our kids the basics on how to be safe from cyber attacks.
There is a new digital divide. It is about those who have been trained to deal with cyber threats, whether personal or business; and those who have not. The need for State and Local authorities to partner with the private sector to offer real life, and timely cyber security training and role playing is growing every week. Private sector companies and training organizations can only do so much on their own. The initiative has to be larger than that as the problem transcends any one of us by ourselves.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fthe-conversation-us%2Fsexting-might-actually-be_b_11053660.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dscience%26ir%3DScience&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Sexting Might Actually Be A Sign Of A Committed Relationship By Rob Weisskirch, California State University, Monterey Bay
Why do people sext? Why do they send racy or naked photos or videos and sexually loaded texts?
For a short-term hookup, sexting might seem like a direct way to get what you want - or at least try to. But according to my research, sexting is actually most likely to occur within a committed relationship. Some research suggests that people often engage in sexting after being coerced by romantic partners or to avoid an argument with their romantic partner. So perhaps anxiety and concern about what your romantic partner thinks about you promote behaviors like sexting.
As a human development researcher who studies how technology influences relationships, I wanted to understand if people who are anxious about dating or about what their partner thinks of them are more likely to sext.
So where does this relationship anxiety come from?
One of the major theories regarding relationships is called attachment theory. It suggests that the way you related to your caregiver as an infant (and vice versa) shapes how you come to view relationships later in life.
If your caregiver was attuned to your needs and responsive, you will develop a secure attachment. That means you are comfortable with close relationships because your experience paid off - Mom or Dad was there when you were distressed or hungry or cold. From that experience, you learned that relationships are safe and reciprocal, and your attachment anxiety is low.
But if your caregiver was not so attuned to your needs, was intrusive or inattentive, you might develop what is called an insecure attachment. If something you wanted emotionally or physically (like comfort) went unfulfilled, you might end up anxious about relationships as an adult. You might realize that relationships may not be trustworthy, not invest in close relationships, and avoid intimacy all together.
Do people sext because of relational anxiety?
My colleagues, Michelle Drouin and Rakel Delevi, and I hypothesized that people who were afraid of being single or had dating anxiety and who were, at the same time, anxious or insecure in their attachment style would be more likely to sext. We also thought these singles would be more likely to sext their romantic partners, even when their relationship wasn't very committed.
We gave 459 unmarried, heterosexual, undergraduate students an online questionnaire to learn more about how relational anxiety influences sexting behavior. It covered questions measuring their sexting behaviors, relationship commitment needed to engage in sexting, their fear of being single, their dating anxiety and their attachment style (secure or insecure). Half of the people who took the survey were single, and about 71 percent were female.
We found that people in romantic relationships -- whether of long or short duration - were more likely to have sexted than those who did not have romantic partners. There were no gender differences for engaging in sexting, except that males were more likely than females to have sent a text propositioning sexual activity.
We also found that, generally, dating anxiety from fear of negative evaluation from the romantic partner (basically, worrying about what your partner thinks of you) and having a more secure attachment style (i.e., comfort with intimacy and close relationships) predicted if someone had sent a sexually suggestive photo or video, a picture in underwear or lingerie, a nude photo or a sexually suggestive text.
We expected to find that anxiety would prompt people to sext but were surprised that comfort with intimacy related to sexting behaviors. We also expected to find that sexting would occur in relationships without a lot of commitment, meaning that we thought that sexting would be part of the wooing.
But it turns out that people who are comfortable with close relationships (a secure attachment style) and also worry about what their partner might think of them are more likely to engage in sexting, but only if there some level of commitment in the relationship.
So our hypothesis was only partially confirmed.
What's dating anxiety got to do with it?
What this tells us is that people may be concerned with pleasing their partner's desire -- or perceived desire -- to engage in sexting and that it is the comfort with intimacy in relationships that may allow sexting to occur. And, when there is greater relationship commitment, this continues to be the case.
It appears that there is less stigma and greater comfort with sexting, provided that one perceives that his or her partner wants to sext and if there is a degree of relationship commitment.
So, a little sexting within a relationship might not be too bad.
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Cenote Angelita (Angelita means little angel) is a deep water sinkhole and dive site. There is a cloud of hydrogen sulfide at around 30m formed by the decomposition of organic matter in the absence of oxygen. The cloud combined with the debris mound from the collapse of the sinkhole roof gives the surreal illusion of an underwater lake and island.
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This picture was taken an early summer morning, my friend and I had been up since the middle of the night and waited in the sun's first rays. We had just come from our hiding place after being photographed red deer and wild boar, and we were on our way to the car when I saw these amazing rays of the sun, I asked my friend to go ahead on the road to try to catch him in the right position. And it succeeded. I took this photo a few years ago, I published it in two other social networks, and it has unfortunately been stolen several hundred times... and I have also found the image on book covers... But I've never gave my permission.....but why complain....this image must have appealed to many. It is one of the few pictures I have taken I am satisfied with.
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The hidden monster at the center of Galaxy NGC 1068 can be seen in close-up in the view above from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NuSTAR's high-energy X-rays eyes were able to obtain the best view yet into the hidden lair of the galaxy's central, supermassive black hole. This active black hole -- shown as an illustration in the zoomed-in inset -- is one of the most obscured known, surrounded by extremely thick clouds of gas and dust.
"Although we have only detected five of these hidden supermassive black holes, when we extrapolate our results across the whole Universe then the predicted numbers are huge and in agreement with what we would expect to see," said George Lansbury, of the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, at Durham University.
For the first time this past fall, 2015, astronomers were able to clearly see hidden monsters that are predicted to be there, but have previously been elusive because of their 'buried' state. An international team of scientists announced having found initial evidence that poinst to a large population of hidden supermassive black holes in the Universe. Using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) satellite observatory, the team detected the high-energy x-rays from five supermassive black holes previously clouded from direct view by dust and gas.
"For a long time we have known about supermassive black holes that are not obscured by dust and gas, but we suspected that many more were hidden from our view," says Lansbury."Thanks to NuSTAR, for the first time we have been able to clearly see these hidden monsters that are predicted to be there, but have previously been elusive because of their 'buried' state."
The Hubble Space Telescope color image above shows one of the nine galaxies targeted by NuSTAR. The high energy X-rays detected by NuSTAR revealed the presence of an extremely active supermassive black hole at the galaxy center, deeply buried under a blanket of gas and dust.
The research, led by astronomers at Durham University, UK, supports the theory that potentially millions more supermassive black holes exist in the Universe, but are hidden from view.
The scientists pointed NuSTAR at nine candidate hidden supermassive black holes that were thought to be extremely active at the center of galaxies, but where the full extent of this activity was potentially obscured from view. High-energy x-rays found for five of the black holes confirmed that they had been hidden by dust and gas. The five were much brighter and more active than previously thought as they rapidly feasted on surrounding material and emitted large amounts of radiation.
Such observations were not possible before NuSTAR, which launched in 2012 and is able to detect much higher energy x-rays than previous satellite observatories. Although we have only detected five of these hidden supermassive black holes, when we extrapolate our results across the whole Universe then the predicted numbers are huge and in agreement with what we would expect to see."
Daniel Stern, the project scientist for NuSTAR at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, added: "High-energy X-rays are more penetrating than low-energy X-rays, so we can see deeper into the gas burying the black holes. NuSTAR allows us to see how big the hidden monsters are and is helping us learn why only some black holes appear obscured."
The research was funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
The Daily Galaxy via University of Durham
Image credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA
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“The fungi collected at the accident site had more melanin than the fungi collected from outside the exclusion zone,” says Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “This means the fungi have adapted to the radiation activity and as many as twenty percent were found to be radiotrophic—meaning they grew towards the radiation; they loved it.”
SpaceX and NASA are preparing the next cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, which contains over 250 different research investigations that the space station crew will carry out over the next few months, including seven strains of fungi straight from Chernobyl, the world's worst nuclear disaster. The microbes will be grown by the crew in microgravity for two weeks before the samples are returned to Earth.
On April 26, 1986, technicians at Chernobyl's infamous reactor #4 were conducting routine systems testing when the reactor was struck by an unexpected power surge that triggered a chain of events that ultimately caused a complete meltdown, which blanketed the area in deadly radiation, turning it into a barren wasteland. During the incident, scientists estimate that the power plant released as much radioactive material into the environment as 400 atomic bombs, similar the one that devastated Hiroshima, Japan.
“Berkeley National Lab has an agreement that allows them to collect samples from the Chernobyl accident site,” explained Venkateswaran (Venkat for short), who is heading the program to send colonies of these fungi up to the space station. “Following the accident, fungi were the first organisms to pop up in the radiation-soaked environment and scientists wanted to understand how they can thrive in such an environment.”
Venkat and NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab are just one part of a multi-institutional partnership that proposed this study, which aims to better understand how the fungi shield themselves from radiation into order to survive. The team thinks that melanin, the same dark pigment humans have in our skin, helps to shield the fungi from harmful radiation and helps convert that radiation into a food source.
Observable molecular changes within the fungi were isolated to the species collected at and around ground zero. This tells researchers that these changes were brought about by cellular stress from the radiation. They want to duplicate this process to see if new drug therapies can be derived from the fungi. Eight different species of fungi (seven from Chernobyl and one previously grown on station) will be exposed to the stresses of microgravity. The fungi colonies will grow on board the ISS for 14 days, before being returned to Earth. After the samples are returned to JPL, Venkat and his team will compare them to identical strains of fungi grown on the ground.
NASA and the world's space agencies have future missions planned for Mars, and as we move towards exploring the Red Planet and other worlds in the Solar System, having radiation-resistant plants will be a key factor in success. At JPL, Venkat has become a leading expert in identifying microbes and preventing them from catching a ride on spacecraft. He has discovered and named 25 new organisms, including 15 since joining JPL.
The Daily Galaxy via Motherboard and JPL
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%feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/27770434564/ Mars Express spies a nameless and ancient impact crater
Space Science image of the week is this striking perspective view from ESA's Mars Express. It shows an unnamed but eye-catching impact crater on Mars. This region sits south-west of a dark plain named Mare Serpentis (literally ‘the sea of serpents'), which in turn is located in Noachis Terra (literally ‘the land of Noah').
Noachis Terra is one of the oldest known regions on the Red Planet, dating back at least 3.9 billion years— in fact, the earliest martian era, the Noachian epoch, is named after it. Noachis Terra is representative of ancient Mars' surface, which is characteristically peppered with craters that have been preserved for billions of years, although many have degraded over time.
The crater visible on the top right of this image is around 4 km deep and 50 km in diameter. At its very centre is a small depression known as a central pit. These are common in craters on rocky worlds throughout the Solar System, especially on Mars, and are thought to form as icy material explosively vaporises and turns to gas in the heat of the initial crater-forming collision.
The outer walls around the crater are slightly raised above its surroundings. These stacked deposits may have formed during the impact that carved out the crater itself. As a rocky impactor slammed into the surface of Mars it likely compacted the loose and powdery material — small-grained dust and soil dubbed ‘regolith' — to form a small plateau that has stood the test of time.
Just within the crater walls are channels and valleys threading and weaving down the inner slope — these are thought to have been carved and sculpted by running water. This water, locked up within the soil as groundwater and ice, would have melted as the Sun illuminated the crater walls, driving fluvial erosion processes and sketching thin lines down towards the centre of the crater.
This image was created using data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera's stereo channels (resulting in this oblique perspective) as well as its colour and nadir channels (creating the colour). The data were obtained on 29 July 2015 during orbit 14680. The resolution is approximately 14 m per pixel and the image is centred at 37° East and 35° South.
The image is a perspective view from a series that includes a colour nadir view, a colour-coded digital terrain model and a 3d anaglyph.
Credit:ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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%feed http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/28043088920/ Hubble Spots a Secluded Starburst Galaxy
This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light-years away from us, and is currently experiencing an extraordinarily high rate of star formation — a starburst.
Normal galaxies produce only a couple of new stars per year, but starburst galaxies can produce a hundred times more than that. As MCG+07-33-027 is seen face-on, the galaxy's spiral arms and the bright star-forming regions within them are clearly visible and easy for astronomers to study.
In order to form newborn stars, the parent galaxy has to hold a large reservoir of gas, which is slowly depleted to spawn stars over time. For galaxies in a state of starburst, this intense period of star formation has to be triggered somehow — often this happens due to a collision with another galaxy. MCG+07-33-027, however, is special; while many galaxies are located within a large cluster of galaxies, MCG+07-33-027 is a field galaxy, which means it is rather isolated. Thus, the triggering of the starburst was most likely not due to a collision with a neighboring or passing galaxy and astronomers are still speculating about the cause. The bright object to the right of the galaxy is a foreground star in our own galaxy.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA and N. Grogin (STScI)
Clover thrips (Haplothrips leucanthemi) collected in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and photographed at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (sample ID: BIOUG14496-D03; specimen record: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_RecordView?processid=SSGBA5010-14; BIN: http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Public_BarcodeCluster?clusteruri=BOLD:AAB3613)
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%feed https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/18-24-july-2016/dt-association-launches-dt-heroes-campaign/ D&T Association launches D&T Heroes campaign Spun by Heatherwick Studio, image by Susan Smart
The D&T Association has launched its D&T Heroes campaign, which it says looks to “promote and celebrate the value of design”.
Running for at least six months, D&T Heroes encourages anyone to submit their favourite designer, product or object spanning everything from industrial to technology design to its various social media sites.
Delivered to the Department of Education and Department for Business Innovation and Skills
The responses will be then collated into a book featuring the best British and international design heroes, complete with comments from design experts, before being signed by organisation partners and supporters and delivered to the Department of Education and the Department for Business Innovation and Skills.
Organisations that have signed up in support of the campaign so far include the RSA; Crafts Council; Creative & Cultural Skills; Design Museum; V&A; The Institution of Civil Engineers and The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
The campaign and the forthcoming book are intended to act as “a powerful statement about the importance and relevance of design and technology in education, industry and society”, according to the D&T Association.
Introduced into D&T curriculum in schools
From September, the campaign will also be launched in schools as a teaching resource that supports the D&T curriculum at several Key Stage levels.
The planned introduction of the book into school curriculum is designed to inspire pupils, teachers and parents to participate in the campaign, but will also act as “visual history” of design and technology that could be used as the basis for activities such as homework assignments, Design Week understands.
%feed https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/18-24-july-2016/designers-share-projects-student-days/ Designers share projects from their student days Matt Baxter, creative director, Baxter and Bailey
“If the past is another country, the language they speak there is very exotic. Let these words instantly transport you back to 1992: Safmat, Omnicrom, Syquest, Zip, Jaz, Quark, Bromide and (whisper it) SCSI Probe. My time at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle was filled with such linguistic delights (as well as Viz and massive Stottie cakes). It's difficult to name a single stand-out project, as everything felt like such a revelation: using prehistoric Macs for the first time, the squeegee-powered joy of screenprinting, setting metal type, messing around with Hasselblads and Super-8s… all new, all amazing. But the project where it all came together was the final year D&AD student brief set by Pat Baglee, then of the charity Scope. Through that project, I understood the full range of skills required of me as a designer: listener, thinker, planner, writer, conceptualiser, typographer, photographer, art-worker. Design, I then realised, was brilliant. And flipping hard work.”
Greg Quinton, executive creative director, The Partners
“Well, I did a packaging project for The Science Museum. Each item became a practical scientific experiment. Who knew that you can boil water in a paper bag or look over walls with a poster tube? (Other items included a hot air balloon bag and something fun with postcards, etc.) Yes, the type was lousy (it was hand spaced!), the logo went too far. Would I do it differently now? Sure, but the concept of encouraging you to think about the science that is around us every day is spot on. In fact, it's more relevant to the museum now than when I did it. Maybe they should call me?”
James Greenfield, creative director, Studio Koto
“My time at university was at the beginning of the digital revolution as we know it now. A lot of time was invested in the learning of applications such as Macromedia Director and After Effects without any guidance from tutors who were oblivious to the power of these programs. As a result, my learning was at times chaotic and not the best use of my precious college time. It was against this backdrop of banging my head against a wall that I decided to stop my projects being driven by the software and let the ideas come first. I created a rather ropey identity for an internet radio station named ibiza.fm, an innovation idea where DJs would broadcast sets direct to listeners all over the world, without a Radio1-like partner in-between. In 2000, this was still ahead of the times and it reflects many of the services that exist today sixteen years later. It was my first step towards learning the best brands use great ideas delivered with great technology. Without that combination, you're a step behind.”
What was your best or favourite project you produced as a design student? Let us know in the comments section below.
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The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition invited artists from across the country to submit their best works in the art of portrayal. The dazzling variety of media and diverse approaches to the exploration of “self” and “other” challenge preconceived notions of portraiture and expand visitors' imaginations.
This competition and resulting exhibition “The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today” showcases excellence and innovation with a strong focus on the variety of portrait media used by artists today. The juried competition results in an exhibition of about 50 finalists, with the prizewinners announced at the opening.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.nationalgeographic.com%2F2016%2F07%2F18%2Fit-takes-a-village-for-effective-conservation-projects-insights-from-the-urban-caracal-project%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 It Takes a Village for Effective Conservation Projects: Insights from the Urban Caracal Project
By Laurel Serieys, Joleen Broadfield, and Max Allen
A portrait of a caracal from our study area in Cape Town (Photo by Urban Caracal Project)
In running the Urban Caracal Project there have been a number of learning opportunities. One of our most important insights is that by prioritizing public outreach we have built a strong community support group without which the project would be impossible. The community support has not just been integral to large-scale funding efforts, but also help with special project needs that sometimes seem impossible. It is when the community has stepped up that some of the most gratifying and memorable leaps in project success have happened. In our case, the African proverb of “it takes a village” is particularly apt, as it has taken a village to make the Urban Caracal Project successful.
The story of Tyger, a young male caracal that was the 16th that we radio-collared, is memorable on multiple fronts. First off, he is a survivor. As is common for our urban caracals, Tyger was hit by a car in the northern suburbs of Cape Town late last year. While most vehicle collisions end in death for caracals, Tyger was lucky that he escaped with only one broken leg. Perhaps more importantly, he was lucky that the community took action to ensure his survival; community members called the Cape of Good Hope SPCA who brought him in for rehabilitation. “Only a broken leg” is not a promising diagnosis for a wild carnivore because their survival depends their ability to travel far to hunt and find mates. For the lucky Tyger, however, the SPCA was optimistic that if the leg could heal, he would survive. And so the SPCA worked tirelessly to rehabilitate him, first with surgery to fix his broken leg, and then careful monitoring and feeding him as he healed and rebuilt his strength.
A photo of Tyger (Photo by Urban Caracal Project)
Within a couple of months Tyger was ready to be radio-collared and released. With the help of more community members, South Africa National Parks, the SPCA, the City of Cape Town and a handful of international volunteers, we were able to release him into the Tygerberg Reserve. This reserve is the nearest patch of natural habitat that is large enough to be able to support caracals near the suburbs where Tyger was initially found. Because of our limited number of available collars, we used a radio-collar that had only half of it's battery life left after it was recovered from the body of another caracal (Berg Wind, who had died from disease). But it would allow us to monitor his movements briefly, and whether he survived his release post-rehabilitation.
The 55 km dispersal route taken by Tyger
We expected that Tyger would remain in, or nearby, the reserve until his radio-collar ran out of battery power. But after only 10 days of laying low in the urban reserve, Tyger started an unexpected journey. He found a narrow strip of relatively connected habitat to make his exit from the reserve (map above), and then headed straight north all the way to Malmesbury! All told this was a 55 kilometer trek, suggesting that his leg was not a hindrance.
Tyger himself taught us important lessons. He is the only caracal we have radio-collared outside of our isolated, urban Cape Peninsula study area. As a young two year old male, he appears to have been in dispersal mode (looking for an unoccupied territory to call his own). Successful dispersal is important for wild cats because it is a natural deterrent to inbreeding in populations. Our data is suggesting that our Cape Peninsula population is severely isolated by urbanization, and so far we have not seen any individuals successfully disperse outside of our study area. Our early data suggests that in this landscape isolated by a sea of water and dense urban development, successful dispersal may not be possible.
Tyger's story could be one of success. As we expected, Tyger's collar reached the end of its battery life in mid-March, and at that time he seemed to have settled down in the Malmesbury area. The last of his movements spanning approximately 6 weeks suggest he was exploring a potential territory of his own.
A map of Tyger's new territory
To ensure that the project caracals are not stuck wearing radio-collars for the entirety of their lives, we use multiple measures to ensure that the collars drop off. We then attempt to recover the collars to ensure it has indeed fallen off of the animal and to recover the data from the collar that we could not remotely access. When the battery on Tyger's collar died we were able to send a signal remotely, through a web interface, to the radio-collar to have it fall off. The “drop-off” activation through the website has proven effective on other caracal studies in South Africa, but it doesn't always work. Therefore, we followed up to recover the collar in the areas where Tyger's radio-collar collected data. We spent days and days driving around trying to hone in on a radio-signal. Unfortunately we had no luck; we were not even able to hear the signal.
In cases like these, where we cannot hear the radio-signal from collar from the ground, it can be more effective to fly over the area to listen for the collar from above. As lead researchers on the project, we'd never even considered flights because of our limited budget. But we grew desperate to recover the collar, and with the knowledge of how far our community had carried the project to that point, we got creative. We reached out to our community supporters once again and posted a request on our Facebook page for volunteer help in scheduling a flight. Amazingly, our community came through yet again, and Ross Leighton and Stephan Moser from The Morningstar Aviation Club were able to get us up in the air within 12 hours of our Facebook post.
Despite the help, we were not able to find the radio-collar. But after the flight we could take solace in the fact that we had done all we could. After all our exhaustive searching, we now believe the collar fell off of Tyger and was then buried in sand. This is a problem we have seen in the past, and as the collar gets buried in sand the signal became too faint to hear.
A portrait of one of our female caracals (Photo by Urban Caracal Project)
The caracals on our project are resilient and adaptable. They seem to do remarkably well even in landscapes fragmented by agriculture and urbanization. But because this is in an environment where increasing fragmentation is occurring, it is important to try to retain what habitat connectivity remains; not just for caracals, but for the many other species that are trying to survive in the urbanizing landscape. Urbanization is the principle threat to global biodiversity conservation, and habitat loss and modification due to urbanization is going to continue at a rapid pace across the globe. It is important that if we want to try to protect biodiversity in the changing landscape, we protect areas that animals can move through to maintain functional habitat connectivity in fragmented landscapes.
It seems daily that we find ourselves counting our blessings to be doing the work within the supportive community of Cape Town. Our Cape Town “village” has helped this project function on many fronts, financially and logistically, as well as with their enthusiastic interest! So the project continues to survive and even thrive despite the various challenges that always crop up on large field projects.
The Urban Caracal Project is a cooperation between the Cape Leopard Trust, the University of Cape Town, University of California, Santa Cruz, the City of Cape Town, and South Africa National Parks, and the many private landowners around Cape Town. For updates on the project check out our project page: http://www.urbancaracal.org/ and give our facebook page a like: www.Facebook.com/UrbanCaracal.
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The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also called lesser panda, is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. Taken at the River Safari, Singapore.
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Falan-farago%2Fobama-to-florida-gov-rick_b_11052260.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dgreen%26ir%3DGreen&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Obama Should Tell Florida Gov. Rick Scott: This Emergency Is Yours... Own It
It is the zenith of hypocrisy for Gov. Scott to plead for federal assistance on the algae bloom catastrophe when his entire record is hacking, whittling and chopping federal authority into little, little pieces. And not just any federal authority -- specifically federal rules to regulate fertilizers and specifically federal actions to hold Florida accountable.
Many decades ago, the U.S. EPA "delegated" full responsibility to Florida to manage the state's water pollution regulations while preserving the federal right to protect all Americans' air and water quality.
Tight control of pollution, it turns out, is the last thing that top campaign funders -- like Big Sugar -- want. As a result, the Republicans war against the U.S. EPA has been unremitting. Florida's GOP has been on its own jihad against federal authority, claiming states' rights in favor of local jurisdictions except -- of course! -- when it comes to the threat by local jurisdictions to clamp down on fertilizer pollution by Big Ag. Then the state steps in!
Now in Florida, all the little piggies have their hands out to the federal government. If I were President Obama, I would be... livid.
Governor Scott blames the president, but in his six years as governor he has branded his bona fides by; a) rejecting federal authority, b) spurning federal assistance (ie. Obamacare), c) knee-capping state environmental agencies and science staff, d) cutting regulations specific to forms of pollution causing the algae blooms and e) lobbying against rule making by the U.S. EPA to regulate fertilizers.
One can almost hear President Obama saying: Florida, you have to figure this one out for yourselves. You want me to come to the rescue for your governor's fuck-ups?
President Obama, of course, is well aware how Florida works. It takes two seconds to understand the GOP practice of maintaining, buffing and shining polluters' privileges through gerrymandered districts. Just like the way one can trace the algae bloom back to excess phosphorous and nitrogen used by Big Sugar, one can trace the deformation of districts to outsized campaign contributions by polluters intent on maintain control legislatures whose pollution-control laws affect their profits.
If I were President Obama, and you -- the reader -- were Florida Governor Rick Scott, and you asked me to declare a federal emergency of counties afflicted by toxic algae blooms, I'd be tempted to say:
"Really? You and the Florida legislature worked like mad dogs to reject, refuse and to deny the ability of the U.S. EPA to regulate fertilizers including nitrogen and phosphorous, the cause of the algae blooms. And you want the federal taxpayer to rescue you because of your own stupidities? When the federal government offered to assist in regulating fertilizers, you said 'no thanks'. Then you set the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida loose on Congress. When we have tried to move Everglades restoration forward, your administration has pushed back against any efforts to put tighter restrictions on phosphorous and nitrogen flowing from sugar fields owned by your buddies, the Big Sugar cartel. So who are you kidding with your complaints about the federal government not stepping in and being active? We tried. You denied. We promoted the U.S. economy and environmental stewardship and you demagogued against pollution control laws because they "kill jobs". You kicked us out and then you cut your own agencies' science staff to the bone. Next time you call, give me some good news; like you support buying enough land in the Everglades Agricultural Area to stop the use of Florida waterways as sacrifice zones for Big Sugar."
This emergency is yours, Governor. Own it.
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Each year since 1994, the Pew Research Center has asked about priorities for the President and Congress. Of the eighteen issues Pew examined in early 2016, 47% said "protecting the environment" should be a top priority. The issue ranked low--thirteenth of 18 issues the pollsters examined...These low rankings don't mean that Americans no longer care about the environment. Having a clean and healthful environment is a core value for most people. What the responses probably tell us is that Americans think policymakers, regulators, and activists are paying sufficient attention to environmental issues and that they want them to turn their attention to more pressing concerns...On occasion, however, a specific environmental problem can elevate the general issue in importance. Is the unsafe lead level in Flint Michigan's drinking water such a problem? We know from work by survey organizations such as Gallup that problems people can see in their communities such as air and water pollution tend to concern Americans more than issues that seem distant. As Gallup noted in a release in March, polluted drinking water and pollution of rivers, lakes and reservoirs "have consistently topped Americans' concerns during the 27 years the organization has been measuring environmental attitudes." This year, 61% told Gallup they worried a great deal about pollution of drinking water, and 56% gave that response about polluted waterways. Concern about both was up slightly from 2015.
Bowman identified other surveys indicating that the public was increasingly concerned about the quality of the tap water they were drawing from public water systems. I believe that concern over tap water is part of the growing movement for locally-sourced food, physical fitness, and what has been termed "wellness." The underlying source of support for environmental protection is a growing understanding of the relationship between a toxic environment and human health.
People wearing face masks in Asia to filter out air pollution, the popularity of bottled water, growing concern about the impact of football and boxing on the human brain, fast food salad meals, bans on public smoking, increases in auto safety equipment--all of these trends are part of a growing knowledge of health risks, and people are willing to take action to reduce those risks. For many people, a clean and healthy environment is deeply related to an effort to manage health risks, and they will therefore support government action to reduce pollution.
Flint, Michigan's lead pollution crisis has affected public opinion throughout the United States. Unlike pollution that comes from a single factory or effluent discharge, pollution from an entire water infrastructure is more difficult to identify and decontaminate. Repairing a water system requires expensive analysis and testing to determine the source of contamination. In the case of Flint, some of the worst contamination was within households or at the point the household connected to the city's system.
One of Flint's most profound national impacts has been the growing number of schools that have begun to regularly test their drinking water for lead and other toxic substances. Flint has also focused local governments on the condition of their aging water infrastructure. Lead and some other toxics do not come from lakes, aquifers or streams that are our sources of water, but from aging pipes and pumping stations that often have lead pipe, solder and other chemicals that end up in household water. Sometimes the contamination is within the home plumbing system.
Some of the United States' more developed, urbanized and populated cities include water, sewage, transport and electrical infrastructure that are a century old and in various stages of deterioration. As people learn that these expensive but essential resources are decaying and could harm their health or economic wellbeing, it possible that support for infrastructure reconstruction may grow. The costs of debt service, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure may raise taxes, but if costs are presented as "user fees" rather than general taxes, the American public may accept them. Smart grids could be built to transform our energy system, and mass transit and water infrastructure may make it possible to build cities that can support greater population density with lower environmental impacts.
All of these investments in urban sustainability will require political support from voters and leadership from political, business, and thought leaders. Engineers and other experts have been discussing America's deteriorating infrastructure for decades. An effort to develop "green" infrastructure has helped to wed concern for the importance of concrete and steel to the role that natural plantings, drainage, and ecosystem services can play in filtering toxics and absorbing the hydraulic impacts of major storms.
Support for funding infrastructure can come from the local level when leadership and public concerns match. For major projects this can present an enormous challenge. New York City's huge third water tunnel project was first authorized in 1954. The goal was to ensure that the city's supply of water from upstate New York would never be interrupted. The decades-long process of building a new tunnel to eventually permit the repair of two aging tunnels didn't start until the 1970s--and it's still being built today. Several times during its construction the city ran out of money and construction had to stop. New York City has spent nearly $6 billon on this critical part of its water system.
Despite that huge commitment, we learned earlier this year that even a project this essential could be subject to the political whims of the city's mayor. It turned out that Mayor Bill De Blasio had cut over $300 million from the project until excellent reporting by the Jim Dwyer of the NY Times exposed the cuts and caused a political uproar. While Mayor de Blasio's made a clumsy effort to shift blame for the water budget cuts to his staff, concern for the city's drinking water supply was so deep that the mayor reinstated the funds the very next day. We have seen similar expressions of support, like once people understood the water issue in Flint or when Charleston, West Virginia found its water supply polluted. The engineering and public health issues are complicated, but everyone shares the simple act of turning on the faucet and wondering if that liquid is safe for you and your family. The uncertainty of water supply quality can be used to build support for new infrastructure, but that support will disappear if the rebuilt water system is not competently, effectively and efficiently managed.
Despite the ideological noise of our political system, people know that the world they live in is not the same one they grew up in. In the United States, support for protecting the environment has been consistently high (typically 70%) since the 1970s. When a public health case can be made for investing in environmental infrastructure, the consensus can even be larger. But this must be presented against a backdrop of the nation's continued anti-tax and antigovernment mindset. People do not trust big institutions to protect them and doubt that the resources they are willing to invest will ever make it to the project they need. Infrastructure, by definition, is a community-wide project, and is a long-term, complex undertaking. Everyone needs to pay his or her share, and expects to be paid back in the form of increased service. Government has the challenge of regaining the public's trust. This may require public-private partnerships and other creative forms of program management to convince people that their money is not being wasted.
The potential is in place to obtain public support for infrastructure investment. People value a clean and healthy environment and have demonstrated over and over again a willingness to pay for it. Competent and mission-driven public servants, coupled with creative and technically-sophisticated private firms, could build on this support and modernize our infrastructure. This work will add to our national wealth and create jobs that cannot be outsourced.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fellen-kanner%2Fmeatless-monday-better-na_b_10972150.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dgreen%26ir%3DGreen&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Meatless Monday: Better Natured A couple times a year, I like to swap my stilettos for a pair of hiking boots and lose myself in nature. To celebrate the centennial anniversary of the National Park system, my husband and just spent a week of hiking in the Smoky Mountains. Home to elk, deer, wild turkeys, Canada geese, rabbits, and black bear, this temperate rain forest has thin topsoil but the ground is so saturated with moisture, it's spongy beneath your feet. The rocks and trees are furred with bright green algae. Skinny pines, some up to 200 feet high, tower overhead, their few upper branches taking in the nourishment of the sun. It feels lush, dense, rich, primeval. Yet much of it was homestead and farmed land until the park system took it over in the 1930s, less than a century ago. The lesson here -- nature can reclaim and heal. But you have to give it a chance.
The same century has wrought changes in us that are not natural, not healing. The Smoky Mountains are rich full-flavored, nutrient-dense, local produce -- every region in our country is. Yet what people flock to are chicken-fried steak and country ham at breakfast, barbecue at lunch and dinner, and fudge, ice cream and pancakes in between. This meat-heavy diet of largely processed food has had very large results. Us. I saw far too many people, both locals and tourists, carrying 50 to 150 pounds of extra weight. This goes far beyond enjoying a vacation treat or two. This kind of obesity adds up to poor health and soaring health costs -- up to $200 billion each year.
My blogs seldom focus on the connection between a plant-based diet and health because I assume the message is already out there. Even the government is coming around to encouraging a diet of nutrient-dense plant-based foods. But clearly, it's a message not everyone has received.
Does a meatless diet sound scary? Restrictive? The alternative -- a life sentence of diabetes, cancer and heart disease -- sounds worse.
Forget healing and nutrient-dense -- a plant-based diet can be downright indulgent. Along the river trail one day, I spotted small mushrooms popping out from the green forest floor -- apricot-colored with broad, flat caps with frilly edges -- chanterelles, aka Tennessee truffles.* With their nutty, umami flavor, and meaty texture, chanterelles are in no ways austere --they're a rare seasonal feast. I also spotted two of my favorite greens-- astringent dandelion and lemony sorrel -- growing wild. Were it not for a very few vegan-friendly dining options (thanks especially to Wild Plum Tea Room), I was ready to start foraging for food the way mountain locals have done for generations.
Nature can heal us, too. It won't take a century. It will take moving away from an animal-rich, processed diet and enjoying what a more plant-based diet offers -- big flavors, big health. "There's more to life than meat and potatoes," as one of the Smoky Mountain guidebooks put it. Start today, Meatless Monday. Let the healing begin. Naturally.
*Food foraging isn't guesswork. Learn how to identify what's safe.
Cat-Heads with Spinach and Mushroom Gravy (and no Cats)
Cat-heads are biscuits, big ones (cat-head-sized, if you're into hyperbole). Beloved in the south, they're tall, fluffy, and alas, traditionally made with lard. This vegan version may upset southern traditionalists, but their slight but pleasing tang and light texture honors the original without pork fat or harm to pig. No traditional milk-and-pork-fat gravy , but a plant-based one. Lemon zest can stand in for harder-to-find sorrel and everyday button mushrooms replace pricy chanterelles.
If like my dad, you prefer sweet to savory, skip the spinach and mushroom gravy, enjoy another southern tradition, biscuits and sorghum syrup.
For the biscuits:
-- Use a light hand with the dough. Even better, use a food processor. The whole batch comes together in minutes.
-- Chilled vegan butter. It keeps the dough cool so the fat melts into the biscuit dough only during baking.
-- Many southern cooks swear by White Lily flour, a soft wheat flour. I've adjusted by adding corn starch to unbleached all-purpose flour for lighter biscuits.
-- Biscuits always taste best fresh out of the oven.
1/2 cup unsweetened soy milk 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1-3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus additional for shaping biscuits 3 tablespoons cornstarch 4-1/2 teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder pinch sea salt 6 tablespoons) vegan butter or margarine, chilled 1 tablespoon vegan butter or margarine, melted (optional)
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a small bowl, whisk together soy milk and cider vinegar to make vegan buttermilk (mixture will clabber -- it's supposed to). Set aside.
In a food processor, sift together flour, cornstarch, baking powder and salt. Pulse a time or two to combine.
Pulse in the chilled vegan margarine and mix quickly, just until mixture becomes like coarse meal. Pour in vegan buttermilk and give a quick mix to form a damp dough.
Dust rolling surface generously with more flour. Turn out the biscuit dough. Knead oh-so-briefly, working in flour -- a tablespoon or two at a time -- just until dough loses its stickiness. Pat or roll out dough to 1/2-inch thick. Flour the rim of a glass or use a floured 2-inch or 3-inch biscuit cutter to form biscuits.
Place biscuits on the rimmed baking sheet. Brush tops with melted vegan butter, if desired.
Bake for 15 minutes. Biscuit should be lightly golden, pillowy and fragrant. Best served at once, with a generous ladleful of gravy.
Makes 6 to 8 biscuits, serving 6 to 8.
For the spinach and mushroom gravy:
2 tablespoons olive oil 1 clove garlic, chopped 2 scallions, green tops and thick white stems, chopped 8 ounces mushrooms, chopped 4 ounces spinach leaves 1 handful sorrel leaves, if you can get them or 1 lemon, zested 1-1/2 teaspoons nutritional yeast 1/4 cup plain unsweetened soy milk sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add chopped garlic, scallions and mushrooms. Saute, giving the vegetables an occasional stir, for about 4 to 5 minutes, or until they're softened.
Cover and reduce heat to low, cooking another 10 minutes or until mushrooms have darkened and produced a nice amount of broth.
Add spinach leaves by the handful, the sorrel if you can get it, or the lemon zest if you can't. Stir just until the greens go limp, another minute or two.
Pour everything into a blender or food processor, scraping up any mushroom bits that stick to the bottom of the pan. Add soy milk and nutritional yeast. Give a quick puree until sauce thickens and becomes smooth and green. Season with sea salt and pepper. Spoon over biscuits or pair with any fresh vegetable.
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This post co-authored with Alex Hillbrand
Talks in Vienna to limit the super-warming chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the Montreal Protocol kicked into high gear on Friday and Saturday. The first phase of the nine-day negotiating session ended favorably in the wee hours of Sunday morning with agreement on key “challenges and solutions.”
That agreement paves the way for countries to spend the week ahead coming to terms on the central issues: ambitious schedules for freezing and phasing down HFC production and use in both developed and developing countries, and financial assistance to help developing countries achieve their phase-down commitments.
The upbeat mood of the first two days, evident in the words and actions of nearly all parties, further raises expectations that this is the year for agreeing on an HFC amendment.
The goal for the Vienna meeting is to get close enough to a complete agreement on phase-down schedules and financing provisions that countries can seal the deal on a final HFC amendment to the Montreal Protocol when they meet in Kigali, Rwanda, in October.
The stakes are high. Left unchecked, HFC production, use, and emissions are rising fast. An treaty amendment this year could prevent, between now and 2050, HFC emissions with a warming power equal to nearly three times the world's current annual output of carbon dioxide. This would be the biggest climate protection achievement of 2016 and help power the Paris Climate Agreement forward.
The Sunday-morning agreement addresses the main principles to govern financial assistance to help developing countries meet HFC phase-down commitments. The parties agreed to continue using the Montreal Protocol's Multilateral Fund (MLF) the mechanism through which donor countries helped developing countries phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and many other ozone-destroying and climate-damaging chemicals and to provide “sufficient additional financial resources” to help those countries meet new HFC commitments. They agreed on a list of activities eligible for funding, and on a process for the MLF to adopt detailed guidelines.
The Sunday-morning agreement reassures countries that the MLF will cover the costs of licensing patents where needed. Patent issues have been a point of contention in past negotiations, although recent research presented at the meeting has helped cut this problem down to a resolvable size. The agreement also asks the MLF to look at ways to support enhancing the energy efficiency of air conditioners and other equipment in tandem with adopting new refrigerants.
The agreement also opens the door for making certain exemptions available as the phase-down proceeds. This is a tried-and-true mechanism for addressing the fear that alternatives won't be ready for some uses when phase-down limits kick in. The possibility of hard-case exemptions makes it acceptable for countries to agree up front to ambitious reduction schedules.
Negotiators' enthusiasm palpably increased with every “challenge” met and “solution” found.
India and China are joining the U.S., Canada, Mexico, European Union and others in down-to-earth problem solving. Even Saudi Arabia, in the past an obstacle, is contributing to progress.
What's next? Negotiators will work all next week to develop the specific language of the HFC amendment, building from four existing proposals and the “solutions” adopted this weekend. On Friday and Saturday, ministers from around the world will convene for a high-level “Meeting of the Parties.” The U.S. will be represented by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy as well as high-level White House and State Department officials.
The goal is to get as close as possible to a final deal, so that the ministers can close the remaining gaps this week and in the months ahead, and sign the long-awaited HFC phase-down amendment to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali this October.
We'll provide further updates as the week's talks proceed.
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Stunning blue waters surround and pass through the tidal channels of islands in the Bahamas. Small tidal changes on the banks cause water to flow through the narrow channels between the islands, first in one direction and then the other. The darker blue sections of water are the deepest parts of the channels and the surrounding light blue color is more shallow (less than 25 meters / 80 feet). This photo was captured from the International Space Station and is courtesy of NASA
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Hollywood has already cast Jennifer Lawrence to star in a movie about the embattled biotech firm. How did founder Elizabeth Holmes go from self-made billionaire to an estimated worth of $0? Read on.
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'True importance of this work is not necessarily the data storage' head researcher
Nano-tech scientists have managed to create the world's smallest hard disk. The 500TB/inch2 disk can store a kilobyte of memory in a few tiny chlorine atoms, according to new research published in Nature Nanotechnology.…
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On July 18, 1482, the German printer Erhard Ratdolt published an edition of Pomponius Mela's De situ orbis libri III, Three Books on the Situation of the World.
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This is the view that you get from the terrace bar at the SkyLounge in the Hilton hotel in Tower Hill. They were nice enough to let me come by and set up my tripod at sunset and capture the evening view. I got the pink haze at the top of the frame as the sunlight reflected off the horizon.
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When doctors hurl toxic death at cancer cells, often a few will survive and come back. A family of enzymes called KDM5 histone demethylases is emerging as important for this resilience and drugs that inhibit KDM5 enzymes could be active in treating several types of cancer. A team of investigators obtained detailed structural information, showing how inhibitors of the KDM5 family interact with their targets by building a molecular model of the KDM5A enzyme, along with an inhibitor bound in the active site. Their findings could inform efforts to design more potent and selective anticancer drugs.
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This is the first image ever captured of blue jet lightning. It was taken at Arecibo Observatory in Chile. A team of researchers at Arecibo captured video evidence from the ground of this lightning phenomenon known as blue jet. The discovery is the first ground-based evidence linking the ionosphere with cloud tops in blue jet events. According to Victor Pasko of Penn State University, an electrical engineer working at Arecibo, pilots and others reported observations of red sprites and blue jets long before the first one was captured on video, and numerous undocumented reports of similar phenomena have appeared in scientific literature for over a century.
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This time we'll hear the sounds of Mars, if the enhanced Sky Crane works
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It isn't always easy for European authorities to prove that returning jihadists fought for Islamic State. But a new data leak from the terror organization could help. SPIEGEL has seen the books kept by IS bureaucrats. ![]("http://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/07182016-pod18_08-1560x1060.jpg")
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