Have a friend who is determined to battle the advancement of his gut. I thought of the Scientific 7-Minute Workout, by Gretchen Reynolds.
“The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each, while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.”
I am trying to get away from using a pencil and paper for my art projects. There are many tools for the artist out there like the iPad, Surface and Dell XPS 18. Now along comes the Adobe “Project Mighty” connected pen. This pen might just revolutionize the way we jot down our ideas and expand upon them. The future is not quite here, we will have to wait a bit more. I will get in line for one of these pens. I will miss my pencil sharpener.
Do not let Howie Mandel know this but microbes are good for you. The human body hosts more than ten thousand different kinds of microbes. Most of them help the immune system in fighting other microbes and diseases.
Lactic acid bacteria are used to make yogurt, cheese, sour cream, buttermilk and other fermented milk products.
Vinegars are produced by bacterial acetic acid fermentation.
Yeast is used in the manufacture of beer and wine and for the leavening of breads. It is also involved in fermentations to convert corn and other vegetable carbohydrates into ethanol to make beer, wine, or gasohol; but bacteria are the agents of most other food fermentations.
Other fermented foods include soy sauce, sauerkraut, dill pickles, olives, salami, cocoa and black teas. (via-life-materials.com)
There are those who believe that man never landed on the moon. Darryl Cunningham explores these silly scientific notions that are falsely consumed by society. Who knew that reading about science could be fun.
Is hydro-fracking safe? Is climate change real? Did the moon landing actually happen? How about evolution: fact or fiction? Author-illustrator Darryl Cunningham looks at these and other hot-button science topics and presents a fact-based, visual assessment of current thinking and research on eight different issues everybody’s arguing about. His lively storytelling approach incorporates comics, photographs, and diagrams to create substantive but easily accessible reportage. Cunningham’s distinctive illustrative style shows how information is manipulated by all sides; his easy-to-follow narratives allow readers to draw their own fact-based conclusions. A graphic milestone of investigative journalism!
I marvel at the sun, there is still so much we do not known about this giant ball of fire. Here is a three minute clip of the sun in the span of three years.
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun’s mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others. Wikipedia
The thing about Spring is that it brings bugs out and lots of them. I just hate ants in the house. French entomologist ( fancy name for bug lover) Eugène Séguy loved bugs so much he illustrated them a whole bunch. Clearly he was the Gregor Samsa of the Art Deco world.
Eugène Séguy (1890 – 1985) was a French entomologist who published many portfolios of illustrations and designs from the turn of the century to the 1930s who worked in both the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. Séguy wanted to use his artistic skill to glorify the sublime beauty of nature, creating what he called a ‘world of sumptuous forms and colours.’
I was never that good at chemistry and never liked to stay out in the cold. If you ever wanted to know the chemistry of the snowflake, then you are in luck. The only ice I like is in my soft drink.
This a week of learning. What is the universe? Physics in a minute. Mind you I could do without the phone salesman pitch at the end of the video. Somebody has to pay the bills. Someday they will have advertising all over the universe. Even on Uranus.(lol)
The universe has been busy as of late sending celestial rocks our way. What is the difference between a comet, asteroid, meteoroid, meteor and meteorite? Get to know your rocks with “Name That Space Rock,” by illustrator Tim Lillis of Narwhal Creative.
This has to be the coolest bed sheet and pillow set ever. The astronaut duvet cover by Dutch company Snurk should be a hit easily. Astronauts are cooler.
NASA astronauts have perhaps the coolest patches on the earth, maybe the universe. Here is a miniature comprehensive sticker collection from Flickr of the best of the lot.
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The Post Office (USPS) is honoring the greatest industrial designers that shaped our daily lives. The things we use daily that we take for granted and some believe they were there forever. If not for these people we would still be peddling our cars like Fred Flintstone. The 12 stamps pay homage to the male dominant designer world and will be released in July in 2011 for your approval. [Read more...]
By the end of 2011 somebody on this planet will become the 7th billionth person to be born. Since 1880 we had a population of only 1 billion people, we increased seven fold. Just how big can we sustain as a race? Seven billion can fit into Los Angeles shoulder to shoulder if you are able to to imagine the size of the area.
There so much we still have to learn about the sun. New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Professor Philip R. Good and the Big Bear Solar Observatory have given us a new glimpse into the sun and the sunspot. No longer a black blotch but a detailed Van Gogh like surface of yellow and orange, the sunspot is seen in a whole new light.
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Mike Brown is the man who killed Pluto. He is the planet killer in 2005 who started the debate that Pluto is not a planet. His discovery of a tenth planet made him notoriously hated by Pluto planet lovers. Astronomy has not had an uproar since Copernicus was fingered out for his believes. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown is an amusing look into his work.
Filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is Mike Brown’s engaging first-person account of the most tumultuous year in modern astronomy—which he inadvertently caused. As it guides readers through important scientific concepts and inspires us to think more deeply about our place in the cosmos, it is also an entertaining and enlightening personal story: While Brown sought to expand our understanding of the vast nature of space, his own life was changed in the most immediate, human ways by love, birth, and death. A heartfelt and personal perspective on the demotion of everyone’s favorite farflung planet, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever dreamed of exploring the universe—and who among us hasn’t?
