%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2F2104625-warming-strengthens-typhoons-that-batter-asian-coast%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Warming strengthens typhoons that batter Asian coast Worse to come as rising sea temperatures close to Asian mainland pump extra energy into typhoons at landfall gaia
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2016%2F09%2F04%2Fgiant-panda-endangered_n_11866312.html&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 The Giant Panda Is No Longer Listed As Endangered The giant panda, long a symbol of the conservation movement, is no longer listed as endangered, according to the International Union for Conservation ...
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Human guinea pigs to be subjected to more testing after arrival
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%feed http://twitter.com/DolphinPaige/status/772825434257883137 1) The giant panda is no longer an endangered species 2) The eastern gorilla is critically endangered #CITES https://t.co/9bFt2j9XhN https://t.co/9bFt2j9XhN
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%feed http://twitter.com/liuyuan/status/772803593363722240 China said today it still considers giant #panda an endangered species & will maintain its @CITES Appendix I status https://t.co/0Qq0FFq3jl https://t.co/0Qq0FFq3jl
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fenvironment%2Fshortcuts%2F2016%2Fsep%2F05%2Fgiant-panda-animals-removal-endangered-list&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Take that, extinction: giant pandas and the other animals fighting back
Fans of the panda are celebrating its removal from the endangered list and it's not the only species to have been pulled back from the brink
The most famous thing about pandas, apart from them spending all day eating bamboo and not having sex, is how endangered they are. However, the animal has just been moved off the “endangered” species list by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Although the giant panda is still considered “vulnerable”, its population is much healthier there are thought to be 1,864 adults, and although there isn't a definitive number of cubs, the total population now exceeds 2,000. It is, noted the IUCN report, “a positive sign confirming that the Chinese government's efforts to conserve this species are effective”. Few conservation measures have been as intensive or high profile. The work included increasing the number of panda reserves, protecting forests (such as reforestation and banning logging in panda habitats) and creating “corridors” so isolated wild panda populations can mix and strengthen the gene pool. Anti-poaching patrols, and moving humans out of reserves also helped. Pandas are still at risk, particularly from a reduction in bamboo availability due to climate change, but it shows conservation efforts pay off. Here are some other animals that have been brought back from the brink:
%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fellen-kanner%2Fmeatless-monday-go-with-t_b_11765574.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Dgreen%26ir%3DGreen&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Meatless Monday: Go with the Grain -- it's Whole Grains Month Happy Labor Day and happy Whole Grains Month. From amaranth, the It whole grain of the moment, to old friends like brown rice and oats, they're all winners. Celebrate them, enjoy them all September long. Your body will thank you.
A new Harvard study links increased whole grain consumption with reduced mortality risk. The secret's in the bran and the germ. That's where grains offer complex carbs for good energy and a host of vitamins, minerals and nutrients. They have fiber to balance blood sugar, lower cholesterol and make your tummy happy. Up to a quarter of whole grains' protein and nutrients and almost all of the fiber get buffed away in processing. You deserve the whole goodness of whole grains.
The more grains you eat, the greater your health benefit. No wonder nutritionists and other experts love them.
You may love them for their flavor, and that makes the folks at Oldways Whole Grains Council happy. Back in 2003 when the Whole Grains Council launched, whole grains were hard to find or worse, hard to eat. The first wave of whole grain products were whole-hearted and earnest, but alas, tasted like pencil shavings.
In just over a decade, whole grain products have become more popular, more palatable and more accessible. Grab a cranberry oat scone with your morning joe. Upgrade your panini by swapping out white bread (how meh) for multigrain. Need an afternoon energy boost? Skip the latte and munch on a granola bar. Watching the game at your local bar? Have some whole grain pretzels with that beer. Or have some popcorn -- that's a whole grain, too. Whole grains are everywhere, in your favorite products and on the menu at your favorite restaurants. Look for them. You'll be well-rewarded.
During Whole Grains Month, spot a whole grain product when you're out and about, snap a pic, post on Instagram with the hashtag #spotwholegrains and you could be a winner. Just like whole grains are.
Kitchri
Another rice and beans recipe? You betcha. Rice and beans are, after all, the most important dish in the world. This one, kitchri, which means mixture, hails from India. It's beloved in Ayurvedic medicine for its soothing, nourishing properties. One taste and you'll agree.
And what a triple-header, it's got brown rice for Whole Grains Month, mung beans for the International Year of Pulses and with made with staple ingredients that pretty much cook by themselves, it's easy to make. Why should you struggle in the kitchen? It's Labor Day, after all.
Serve with a fresh green salad, pair with a spicy curry, or give kitchri the bowl treatment -- spoon 3/4 cup of kitchri into a bowl, top with any number of goodies, including:
curry-roasted vegetables and tofu
wilted greens with chili and garlic
chopped tomatoes
toasted cashews
mango chutney
lime pickle
coconut raita
Kitchri keeps covered and refrigerated for several days.
1 cup brown rice 1 cup mung beans soaked overnight and sprouted, if you like 1 tablespoon coconut oil 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1 sprig curry leaves (optional) 6 cups vegetable broth or water 1 cinnamon stick sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste chopped cilantro to serve
Rinse brown rice, pour into a bowl and cover with cold water. Let rice sit and soak for an hour. Rinse and drain well.
In a soup pot, heat the coconut oil over medium-high heat. Add the cumin seeds, turmeric and curry leaves. Stir to coat spices with oil and continue cooking, three to five minutes, until the spices are fragrant and the curry leaves start to frizzle.
Pour in the drained brown rice and the mung beans. Stir to combine with the spices. Raise heat to high, add the vegetable broth or water and drop in the cinnamon stick. Bring everything to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to medium.
Let kitchri cook for about an hour, stirring now and again, until thick, creamy and risotto-like but not soupy.
Let kitchri rest for five to 10 minutes. Season generously with sea salt and pepper. Remove cinnamon stick and curry leaves. Top with a handful of chopped cilantro and enjoy.
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgo.theregister.com%2Ffeed%2Fwww.theregister.co.uk%2F2016%2F09%2F05%2Fchubby_chinese_students_refused_bunk_up%2F&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 Chubby Chinese students refused top bunk
Policy to prevent plummeting 'plump' pupils pushed out
The great war against the big-bellied is well under way in China, with certain uni students at a hall of residence told to bed down in the bottom bunks to avoid potential damage caused by falling fatties.…
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Finternational%2Fgermany%2Frise-of-populist-afd-a-problem-for-merkel-and-germany-a-1110954.html%23ref%3Drss&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 The Rise of the Populists: A Problem for Merkel and Germany The state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania gave the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany a significant boost. It is a challenge for Chancellor Merkel and the entire country. general
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%feed http://redirect.viglink.com?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fthe-conversation-africa%2Fhow-agriculture-can-be-in_b_11864504.html&key=ddaed8f51db7bb1330a6f6de768a69b8 The Conversation Africa: How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm Tawanda Marandure, Stellenbosch University and Kennedy Dzama, Stellenbosch University
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%feed https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/29-august-4-september-2016/new-3d-printing-pen-aimed-professional-designers/ A new 3D printing pen aimed at professional designers
A new 3D printing pen aimed specifically at designers has been created, and its makers hope the device will be more cost and time effective than a 3D printer.
The 3Doodler Pro is a new version of the 3Doodler developed in 2013, with additional features intended specifically for product designers, architects, engineers and artists.
The original pen enables users to “draw” out solid structures on a surface or in the air, using a polycarbonate material.
The updated version lets users design with a range of plastics, including those replicating wood, copper, bronze and nylon, and also includes a temperature range of 100°C to 250°C and speed dials, alongside a fan so users can control the cooling of plastics. These features enable designers to create models more quickly than the last pen allowed.
It also has a stronger internal drive system, meaning it can be used for longer and more intensively, says Faraz Warsi, creative director at 3Doodler.
“Imagine being able to draw furniture prototypes in wood, hand-draw custom jewellery pieces in copper or bronze, add detail to material in nylon, or create instantaneous 3D models in polycarbonate,” says Warsi. “Designers will now have a tool that will allow them to use these materials in a brand new way.”
The pen also aims to speed up the design process, which can take longer when using professional machinery such as a 3D printer, he says.
“To create something with a 3D printer, you'll need to own a 3D printer, which can be expensive, knowledge of how to use specialist CAD software, and time for the product to print,” he says. “With a 3Doodler Pro, you can create a 3D structure exactly at the moment that inspiration strikes. The ability to make professional models, without the time and money spent on waiting for a 3D print, will be an invaluable asset to designers.”
The pen also comes with a storage case, a portable battery pack, a custom nozzle set and 100 strands of specialty plastic.
The 3Doodler Pro, which went on sale this week, is available to buy for $249 (£187) from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and will soon be available to buy worldwide online from the official site.
%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/0PwotPkYyHc/week-in-review-the-top-headlines-from-voyage-to-alpha-centauri-to-the-human-quantum-brain.html Holiday Weekend: "Week in Review --The Top Headlines"
The "Galaxy's" most viewed headlines for the past seven days from the epic discovery of a potentially habitable planet in the nearby Alpha Centauri star system to China's report that it plans to build a manned radar station on the moon.
%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/3CbB0Ch9Hao/giant-comets-from-the-oort-belt-a-real-threat-to-earth-nasas-new-horizons-spacecraft-to-probe-1.html "Giant Comets from the Kuiper Belt Pose a Real Threat to Earth" --NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft to Probe These Outer Reaches
A decade ago, Stephen Hawking warned that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. This past December, a team of astronomers from Armagh Observatory and the University of Buckingham reported that the discovery of hundreds of giant comets in the outer planetary system over the last two decades means that these objects pose a much greater hazard to life than asteroids.
Giant comets, termed centaurs, move on unstable orbits crossing the paths of the massive outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The planetary gravitational fields can occasionally deflect these objects in towards the Earth. Centaurs are typically 50 to 100 kilometer across, or larger, and a single such body contains more mass than the entire population of Earth-crossing asteroids found to date.
Because they are so distant from the Earth, Centaurs appear as pinpricks of light in even the largest telescopes. Saturn's 200-km moon Phoebe, depicted in this image, seems likely to be a Centaur that was captured by that planet's gravity at some time in the past. Until spacecraft are sent to visit other Centaurs, our best idea of what they look like comes from images like this one, obtained by the Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, having flown past Pluto six months ago, has been targeted to conduct an approach to a 45-km wide trans-Neptunian object at the end of 2018.
Calculations of the rate at which centaurs enter the inner solar system indicate that one will be deflected onto a path crossing the Earth's orbit about once every 40,000 to 100,000 years. Whilst in near-Earth space they are expected to disintegrate into dust and larger fragments, flooding the inner solar system with cometary debris and making impacts on our planet inevitable.
Known severe upsets of the terrestrial environment and interruptions in the progress of ancient civilisations, together with our growing knowledge of interplanetary matter in near-Earth space, indicate the arrival of a centaur around 30,000 years ago. This giant comet would have strewn the inner planetary system with debris ranging in size from dust all the way up to lumps several kilometres across.
Specific episodes of environmental upheaval around 10,800 BCE and 2,300 BCE, identified by geologists and palaeontologists, are also consistent with this new understanding of cometary populations. Some of the greatest mass extinctions in the distant past, for example the death of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, may similarly be associated with this giant comet hypothesis.
"In the last three decades we have invested a lot of effort in tracking and analyzing the risk of a collision between the Earth and an asteroid," said Bill Napier of the University of Buckingham. "Our work suggests we need to look beyond our immediate neighborhood too, and look out beyond the orbit of Jupiter to find centaurs. If we are right, then these distant comets could be a serious hazard, and it's time to understand them better."
The researchers have also uncovered evidence from disparate fields of science in support of their model. For example, the ages of the sub-millimeter craters identified in lunar rocks returned in the Apollo program are almost all younger than 30,000 years, indicating a vast enhancement in the amount of dust in the inner Solar system since then.
The outer solar system as we now recognise it. At the centre of the map is the Sun, and close to it the tiny orbits of the terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars). Moving outwards and shown in bright blue are the near-circular paths of the giant planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The orbit of Pluto is shown in white. Staying perpetually beyond Neptune are the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), in yellow: seventeen TNO orbits are shown here, with the total discovered population at present being over 1,500. Shown in red are the orbits of 22 Centaurs (out of about 400 known objects), and these are essentially giant comets (most are 50-100 km in size, but some are several hundred km in diameter).
Because the Centaurs cross the paths of the major planets, their orbits are unstable: some will eventually be ejected from the solar system, but others will be thrown onto trajectories bringing them inwards, therefore posing a danger to civilization and life on Earth.
Following its historic first-ever flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons mission received the green light in July to fly onward to an object deeper in the Kuiper Belt, known as 2014 MU69. The spacecraft's planned rendezvous with the ancient object considered one of the early building blocks of the solar system -- is Jan. 1, 2019.
“The New Horizons mission to Pluto exceeded our expectations and even today the data from the spacecraft continue to surprise,” said NASA's Director of Planetary Science Jim Green. “We're excited to continue onward into the dark depths of the outer solar system to a science target that wasn't even discovered when the spacecraft launched.”
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