23 janeiro 2017

Winter Hexagon over Manla Reservoir


If you can find Orion, you might be able to find the Winter Hexagon. The Winter Hexagon involves some of the brightest stars visible, together forming a large and easily found pattern in the winter sky of Earth's northern hemisphere. The stars involved can usually be identified even in the bright night skies of a big city, although here they appeared recently in dark skies above the Manla Reservoir in Tibet, China. The six stars that compose the Winter Hexagon are Aldebaran, Capella, Castor (and Pollux), Procyon, Rigel, and Sirius. Here, the band of our Milky Way Galaxy runs through the center of the Winter Hexagon, while the Pleiades open star cluster is visible just above. The Winter Hexagon asterism engulfs several constellations including much of the iconic steppingstone Orion.

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A man buried in Jiayi Cemetery in western China was found...



A man buried in Jiayi Cemetery in western China was found wrapped in a “shroud” of 13 cannabis plants. Thirteen plants were placed carefully covering his torso, like a fan, including the whole ones shown above.  It is clear they held some medicinal or spiritual importance. Or maybe, like people are buried with food and alcohol, he just wanted to enjoy some in the afterlife.

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How To Be A Terrible Person -- And A Great Problem Solver

In one of the most important scenes in The Ten Commandments, Moses descends from Mount Sinai with the sacred tablets and the Israelites gathered at the base of the mountain look at him with awe and reverence. De Mille shot the scene several times but was so disappointed with the expressions on the faces of the extras playing the part of Israelites that he finally called a break.

Suddenly a bell in the town church nearby began tolling and De Mille called the cast together. With his voice breaking, he announced that one of the members of the cast had just died, leaving a widow and eight children behind.

”Now, in his memory,” he said solemnly, “I ask for two minutes of respectful silence.” As everyone stood there, shocked and saddened by the news, the cameras began grinding away.

It turned out no one had died; it was just De Mille’s way of getting what he wanted on film. The resulting scene was considered one of the best in the picture.

from Hollywood Anecdotes by Paul Boller and Ronald Davis.

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New Weather Satellite Sends First Images of Earth


The release of the first images today from NOAA’s newest satellite, GOES-16, is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites. This composite color full-disk visible image is from 1:07 p.m. EDT on Jan. 15, 2017, and was created using several of the 16 spectral channels available on the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument.

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Originally published in the Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology in 1916 this was the first of three lectures Carl Jung presented at Clark University in September, 1909.

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January 23rd 1846: Abolition of slavery in TunisiaOn this day in...


Ahmad I ibn Mustafa


Illustration of slave market in Zanzibar

January 23rd 1846: Abolition of slavery in Tunisia

On this day in 1846, slavery was abolished in Tunisia by Ahmad I ibn Mustafa, Bey of Tunis, becoming the first Muslim country to abolish slavery. Tunisia was a hub of the Arab slave trade, shipping enslaved people and forcing thousands of slaves to work in domestic service and agriculture. Ahmad I, who was born to a slave mother and royal father, became monarch of Tunisia in 1837, the tenth from the Husainid dynasty. Ahmad had grand plans for Tunisia, intending to expand the army and navy and modernise the country’s education system. In 1841, the monarch was advised to ban the slave trade, and set about abolishing slavery in steps. Abolition began with a ban on exporting slaves in 1841, then closing the slave market in Tunis, and in 1842 declaring that all people born in the country were free. The monarch made the decision palatable by obtaining confirmation from Islamic scholars that slavery was forbidden, thus legitimising abolition in the Arab Muslim world. In a decree of January 23rd 1846, slavery was formally abolished in Tunisia and all remaining slaves were freed. There was some resistance to this measure, resulting in a second decree in 1890 which imposed sanctions on those who engaged in the slave trade. This second decree was issued by the French, who by then had established a colonial protectorate in the country.  Like in other countries which profited from the slave trade, emancipated slaves in Tunisia lacked equal access to social opportunity, leaving many former slaves impoverished and marginalised.

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