ON THIS DAY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY (18th February 1896)
Fritz Heider was born.
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Fibrils Flower on the Sun
When does the Sun look like a flower? In a specific color of red light emitted by hydrogen, as featured here, some regions of the solar chromosphere may resemble a rose. The color-inverted image was taken in 2014 October and shows active solar region 2177. The petals dominating the frame are actually magnetically confined tubes of hot plasma called fibrils, some of which extend longer the diameter of the Earth. In the central region many of these fibrils are seen end-on, while the surrounding regions are typically populated with curved fibrils. When seen over the Sun's edge, these huge plasma tubes are called spicules, and when they occur in passive regions they are termed mottles. Sunspot region 2177 survived for several more days before the complex and tumultuous magnetic field poking through the Sun's surface evolved yet again.
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The inspirational tech guru who’s owning cerebral palsy like a boss
Disability doesn’t mean disadvantage. And Farida Bedwei, a celebrated software engineer from Ghana, is proof of that.
Born in 1979, Bedwei was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of one — cerebral palsy is an incurable neurological disorder that affects body movement and muscle coordination but does not interfere with the ability to learn.
Bedwei has steadfastly refused to let her disability affect her career trajectory. Today, as the co-founder and chief technical officer of software company Logiciel, she is considered one of the most powerful women in financial technology on the continent — in 2013, South Africa’s CEO Magazine named Bedwei the most influential woman in business and government in Africa for the financial sector.
Her greatest achievement, Bedwei says, is the development of a cloud software platform that is being used by 130 micro-finance companies nationwide. These institutions administer loans to their customers by sending a code to their mobile phones via SMS. That code can be exchanged for money at any branch, making small loans available immediately.
Here, Bedwei reveals how tech can transform lives and how she defied the odds to find success.
gneissgneissbaby: text-mode: Los Prismos Basálticos, Mexico....
Los Prismos Basálticos, Mexico. Nature goes blocky.
columnar basalt FTW
February 17th 1801: Jefferson elected PresidentOn this day in...
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
John Adams (1735 - 1826)
February 17th 1801: Jefferson elected President
On this day in 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected third President of the United States. The results of the 1800 presidential election were contested, as Jefferson won the most Electoral College votes but did not have a majority. Per the Constitution, the issue was turned to the House of the Representatives, who elected Thomas Jefferson President of the United States and Aaron Burr as Vice-President. They therefore defeated President John Adams and his running mate Charles Pinckney. Both Jefferson and Adams were well known figures in the newly independent United States, as both were Founding Fathers; Jefferson famously drafted the 1776 Declaration of Independence from Britain, and Adams served as the first Vice-President under George Washington. After Jefferson was elected, he took the oath of office on March 4th 1801, and served in office until 1809 when he was succeeded by James Madison.
Top Grossing Bollywood Film Of All Time
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) is the top grossing Bollywood film of all time, adjusted for inflation. Without inflation, it would be last year’s film PK. Again, starring Shahrukh Khan.
can you describe the "milli vanilli scandal" in one sentence?
for science (okay it’s for an assignment and i want outside perspective)
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John Oliver is Coming for You Next, Big Tobacco Companies
From beating up on Uruguay to bullying poor Togo (to say nothing of the garbage being thrown Australia’s way), these predatory, selfish, and disgusting actions are unconscionable any way you slice it. Which is exactly why we’re thrilled Oliver and his disgustingly hilarious new mascot, Jeff the Diseased Lung in a Cowboy Hat, are on the charge.
John Oliver is masterful in this segment of Last Week Tonight.
Dawn Approaches: Two Faces of Ceres
These two views of Ceres were acquired by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Feb. 12, 2015, from a distance of about 52,000 miles (83,000 kilometers) as the dwarf planet rotated. The images have been magnified from their original size. The Dawn spacecraft is due to arrive at Ceres on March 6, 2015. Dawn's mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital ATK, Inc., of Dulles, Virginia, designed and built the spacecraft. JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The framing cameras were provided by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany, with significant contributions by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig. The visible and infrared mapping spectrometer was provided by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, built by Selex ES, and is managed and operated by the Italian Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome. The gamma ray and neutron detector was built by Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, and is operated by the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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