31 agosto 2015
Pluto in Enhanced Color
Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and images of our Solar System's most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in July, have been digitally combined to give an enhanced view of this ancient world sporting an unexpectedly young surface. The featured enhanced color image is not only esthetically pretty but scientifically useful, making surface regions of differing chemical composition visually distinct. For example, the light-colored heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio on the lower right is clearly shown here to be divisible into two regions that are geologically different, with the leftmost lobe Sputnik Planum also appearing unusually smooth. New Horizons now continues on beyond Pluto, will continue to beam back more images and data, and will soon be directed to change course so that it can fly past asteroid 2014 MU69 in 2019 January.
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americansorg: After 15 Year Battle India Finally Wins The War...
After 15 Year Battle India Finally Wins The War On Tetanus
A year after seemingly eradicating polio, India has attained another public health success. Following a 15-year crusade, the nation has practically eradicated tetanus as a killer of mothers and newborns. The illness, caused by a bacterium ordinarily found in animal dung and soil, typically…
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enceladus & … : moons, photographed by cassini, 29th...
enceladus & … : moons, photographed by cassini, 29th july 2015.
probably dione.
image credit: nasa/jpl/ssi. animation: ageofdestruction.
agemeet Frederick, the Prince of Wales. He was heir to the English...
meet Frederick, the Prince of Wales. He was heir to the English and Scottish thrones, and lived a lavish lifestyle that included his own court, an allowance of about $3 million a year by today’s money, and a loving wife and children. But all that couldn’t save him from a rather odd death – the full cause of which is still debated today. Read all about it over at my website
August 31st 1895: Ely Parker diesOn this day in 1895, Ely S....
Ely S Parker (1828 - 1895)
Grant's advisers, with Parker at the left
August 31st 1895: Ely Parker dies
On this day in 1895, Ely S. Parker, the first Native American commissioner of Indian Affairs, died in Connecticut aged sixty-seven. Born Hosanoanda at Indian Falls, an Indian reservation near Akron, New York, he was the son of a Seneca chief. Taking the name Ely Samuel Parker, he studied at a Baptist boarding school and eventually mastered English and became an interpreter, assisting Seneca tribal delegations to Washington DC seeking to regain land titles. He went on to study to be a lawyer, but was denied admittance to the New York state bar as Indians were not classed as citizens of the United States; Parker instead became a civil engineer. At the outbreak of Civil War, Parker struggled to receive an army commission, but eventually joined the war effort on the Union side, quickly climbing the ranks and becoming General Ulysses S. Grant’s military secretary. In this role, Parker drafted the terms of Confederate surrender at Appomattox, where General Robert E. Lee said to Parker “I am glad to see one real American here”, to which Parker replied “We are all Americans.” Parker’s friendship with Grant continued - the general was best man at his wedding - and in 1869 President Grant made Parker Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The first Native American to hold the office, Parker spearheaded Grant’s ‘Peace Policy’, which aimed to end the constant Indian wars and assimilate Native Americans through reservations and boarding schools. However, Parker was accused of corruption and resigned from office. After pursuing a career in business, Ely Parker died in August 1895.
“A son will be born to you who will be distinguished among his nation as a peacemaker…he will be a wise white man, but will never desert his Indian people or lay down his horns as a great Iroquois chief…His sun will rise on Indian land and set on the white man’s land.”
- a Seneca dream interpreter to Parker’s mother shortly before his birth
The Maya invented dentistry. But not for teeth health or...
The Maya invented dentistry. But not for teeth health or cleanliness – they were all about aesthetic. Mayan dentists would drill into patients teeth and precisely place gemstones in the cavity. So precisely, in fact, that most skeletons’ teeth still hold their gemstones, a thousand years later. And Mayan dentistry was not just for the wealthy or powerful. Citizens from all classes had their teeth filled with gemstones!
pulitzercenter: Ramchandra Kumar stands next to a defunct...
Ramchandra Kumar stands next to a defunct toilet in his home. He hopes to build a new, usable toilet.
Remnants of never-used toilets in a rural Bihar, India. Images by Ann Schraufnagel. India, 2015.
“I’m of the lowest caste: Harijan,” Ramchandra Kumar said at his small home in the village of Basbitti in Bihar state’s rural Supaul district. He is a sinewy, soft-spoken man. “I’m very poor. We’re mostly illiterate. We don’t know of the services the government provides because we can’t read the newspapers, we don’t go to the courthouses.”
In the morning, Kumar fills up his lota, the small cup of water with which he cleans himself, and goes to the rice fields in front of his home to defecate—but almost every day, there are women working in the area. He is forced to hold it.
Kumar is one of more than 600 million Indians who defecate in the open every day.
Read the full story by Global Health Reporting Fellow Ann Schraufnagel (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) here.
August 30th 1797: Mary Shelley bornOn this day in 1797, the...
Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
Illustration to 1831 edition of Frankenstein
August 30th 1797: Mary Shelley born
On this day in 1797, the English novelist Mary Shelley was born in London. Her birth name was Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, and her mother was British women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, famed author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Mary’s mother died a few days after giving birth to her, leaving the infant Mary and her sister to be raised by their father, the philosopher William Godwin. Mary received a good education and went on to marry the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Shelleys famously attended a party at the home of British poet Lord Byron where he challenged each guest - all of whom were authors and poets - to write a horror story. After gaining inspiration from a dream, Mary Shelley proceeded to write one of the most famous novels of all time - Frankenstein. Released in 1818, the Gothic novel - which is considered one of the first science-fiction novels - tells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein’s experiments in reanimation, and explores the nature of humanity. Percy Shelley drowned in 1822 and Mary Shelley died in 1851.
Western Wildfire Smoke Has Drifted Over the Atlantic
FREE ON KINDLE TODAY! (31st...
FREE ON KINDLE TODAY! (31st August)
If you like psychology, you’ll love this scrapbook of facts, photos and trivia. Containing a collection of the author’s favorite snippets of information it includes illustrations, historical references, pioneering psychologists and landmark studies.
Perfect for flicking your way through when you’ve have some time to kill and you want something interesting to read, you’ll find things that make you think, things that you make you laugh and things that make you curious to find out more.
Frida Kahlo’s first serious self-portrait,...
Frida Kahlo’s first serious self-portrait, “Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress” in 1926. The sea in the back is intended to be a symbol of life.
newsecuritybeat: Engaging Decision-makers on Family Planning:...
Engaging Decision-makers on Family Planning: Some Right IDEAs
Just a few years ago, progress on global family planning and reproductive health policy seemed to be stuck in a rut. “For 20 years, development money for health had been directed to fight HIV and poverty, and as a result, momentum, interest, and funding for family planning had dwindled,” said Susan Rich, vice president of global partnerships for the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), at the Wilson Center on July 15. “Unmet need for family planning was high all over the world, but especially in Africa.”
But by 2015, the tide had turned. Continue reading at New Security Beat.
Oração para o Trabalho
Deus é o Criador de tudo e se Deus me fez nascer como ser humano na terra, significa que existe um grande talento em mim pronto para ser descoberto/utilizado.
Por esta razão eu sei que existe um trabalho adequado para mim, onde serei muito feliz, competente e próspero(a).
Trabalharei com amor e gratidão.
Sinto que encontrarei este trabalho infalivelmente, pois ele pertence à mim, não preciso me preocupar, pois não estarei tirando a vaga de ninguém.
Existe o trabalho mais adequado para cada pessoa na terra e eu encontrarei o meu tranquilamente, pois Deus está me guiando para o melhor.
A partir de agora, estou em processo de mudar a minha atitude mental, se havia alguma barreira psicológica, eu a elimino e deixo o sucesso profissional entrar definitivamente na minha vida.
Estou pronto(a), estou aberto(a) para o verdadeiro êxito profissional.
Serei cada vez mais feliz no trabalho e meus(minhas) chefes, colaboradores e clientes serão muito felizes comigo.
Juntos cresceremos muito em todas as áreas.
(Fechar os olhos por alguns instantes visualizar/sentir que um maravilhoso trabalho já está se aproximando, sentir uma alegria antecipada e depois soltar para o Universo, confiar).
Esta oração já foi atendida.
Deus, muito obrigado(a)!"
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Por esta razão eu sei que existe um trabalho adequado para mim, onde serei muito feliz, competente e próspero(a).
Trabalharei com amor e gratidão.
Sinto que encontrarei este trabalho infalivelmente, pois ele pertence à mim, não preciso me preocupar, pois não estarei tirando a vaga de ninguém.
Existe o trabalho mais adequado para cada pessoa na terra e eu encontrarei o meu tranquilamente, pois Deus está me guiando para o melhor.
A partir de agora, estou em processo de mudar a minha atitude mental, se havia alguma barreira psicológica, eu a elimino e deixo o sucesso profissional entrar definitivamente na minha vida.
Estou pronto(a), estou aberto(a) para o verdadeiro êxito profissional.
Serei cada vez mais feliz no trabalho e meus(minhas) chefes, colaboradores e clientes serão muito felizes comigo.
Juntos cresceremos muito em todas as áreas.
(Fechar os olhos por alguns instantes visualizar/sentir que um maravilhoso trabalho já está se aproximando, sentir uma alegria antecipada e depois soltar para o Universo, confiar).
Esta oração já foi atendida.
Deus, muito obrigado(a)!"
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