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06 dezembro 2016
Aurora over Jupiters South Pole from Juno
Why is there a glowing oval over Jupiter's South Pole? Aurora. Near the closest part of its first pass near Jupiter in August, NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno captured this dramatic infrared image of a bright auroral ring. Auroras are caused by high energy particles from the Sun interacting with a planet's magnetic field, and ovals around magnetic poles are common. Data from Juno are giving preliminary indications that Jupiter's magnetic field and aurorae are unexpectedly powerful and complex. Unfortunately, a computer glitch caused Juno to go into safe mode during its last pass near the Jovian giant in September. That glitch has now been resolved, making Juno ready for its next pass over Jupiter's cloud tops this coming Sunday.
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The Origins of Pasta
Pasta, as we know it today, can only be made from triticum turgidum var. durum, or “durum wheat.” Because of its high gluten content, this type of wheat allows hard, dry pasta with a long, safe shelf life. Because the ancient Etruscans and Romans did not know about durum wheat, they could not have invented pasta.
That honor likely goes to the Arabs. In a dictionary by Syrian physician and lexicographer Isho bar Ali published in the 900s, we have something called “itriyya” – string-like pasta shapes made of semolina and dried before cooking. This early Arabic version made its way to Sicily a few centuries later, where it was called triyakh. However, there is still debate today over whether the Sicilians had pasta introduced by their Arabic invaders, or independently invented it, and just picked up the name.
Germany’s Heidelberg Castle is home to a famously enormous wine...
Germany’s Heidelberg Castle is home to a famously enormous wine barrel, capable of holding 57,853 U.S. gallons. (See the man standing just besides it to appreciate the barrel’s size.) This is actually the most recent of four enormous wine barrels that the castle has housed, the first built in 1591. Unfortunately it is empty — today the barrel serves mostly as a tourist attraction and a foundation for the fanciful dance floor above it.
“Everybody has heard of the great Heidelberg Tun,” wrote Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad, “and most people have seen it, no doubt. It is a wine-cask as big as a cottage, and some traditions say it holds eighteen thousand bottles, and other traditions say it holds eighteen hundred million barrels. I think it likely that one of these statements is a mistake, and the other is a lie. However, the mere matter of capacity is a thing of no sort of consequence, since the cask is empty, and indeed has always been empty, history says. An empty cask the size of a cathedral could excite but little emotion in me.”
vaccineswork: This week in vaccines 4th December 2016 This week...
This week in vaccines
4th December 2016
This week World AIDS day saw renewed discussion around the possibilities of an HIV vaccine, and one new promising vaccine trial was set to kick off.
Education and vaccination organisations partnered up to help the world’s most vulnerable children have a healthy, productive childhood.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance was praised by the UK Aid agency, and the Italian government renewed its support for global immunisation programmes.
Timor-Leste, a small country in South East Asia, showed strong signs of immunisation progress, while a polio vaccine campaign got underway in Chad, Africa.
Finally, new game Vaxcards explained why they felt the time was right to entertain and inform kids, teachers and others involved in vaccination.
Sahara Desert From the Space Station's EarthKAM
Middle school students programmed a camera aboard the International Space Station -- the Sally Ride EarthKAM -- to photograph this portion of the Sahara desert in western Libya on October 3, 2016. The Expedition 50 crew set up the EarthKAM gear in the Harmony module’s Earth-facing hatch window, to allow students to photograph targets on Earth.
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Hello..! Sorry to drop in as an anon, but my birthday is coming up and is December 2nd so is it okay to ask that you send a link to an event that had happened if you could? I don't want to be rude or seem like I'm trying to force you to do anything
I’m so sorry I only just saw your message! I hope you had a wonderful birthday, and though this is a little late here are a couple of links to previous posts for December 2: http://ift.tt/2gLC1EM, http://ift.tt/2g5O3EV
December 6th 1865: 13th Amendment ratifiedOn this day in 1865,...
Thomas Nast's 'Emancipation' - redesigned following Lincoln's death to feature him more prominently
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December 6th 1865: 13th Amendment ratified
On this day in 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by the states, formally banning slavery in the United States. Ratification does not require unanimous approval, and some states rejected the amendment; Mississippi only ratified the 13th Amendment in 2013, 148 years after the amendment’s passage. The 13th amendment marks the first of the three so-called ‘Reconstruction’ amendments, which secured civil and voting rights for African-Americans after the Civil War. The amendment was proposed by the Lincoln administration following the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation - which was a temporary war measure abolishing slavery in the Confederacy - to assert that the ban on slavery was to be permanent. Lincoln did not initially intend to free the slaves, and always prioritised saving the Union, but emancipation became intriscially tied to Union victory. This was due to the actions of slaves, who fled to Union lines and tried to enlist in the army. The Reconstruction period that followed the American Civil War was largely a contest over the implications of the 13th Amendment and the emancipation of four million slaves. Radicals in Congress pushed for equality of the law and opportunity, while white Southerners, with assistance from violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan, sought to maintain racial subordination and white supremacy. Reconstruction ultimately failed to truly implement freedom for African-Americans, and it was not until the Civil Rights Movement one hundred years later that America again tried to come to terms with the legacy of emancipation.
Today’s Theme: Food
It’s the holiday season, and I decided to have a little fun. So each post today will be around what we eat and how we eat it. To start things off, here’s a little fun fact to go with your breakfast:
In Europe in the medieval ages, waffles or “wafers” were made by pressing batter between two metal plates. But unlike today, the plates often had the heraldic shield, or coat of arms, of the family on it!
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