The history of calendars goes back thousands of years. The oldest calendar is a Lunar Calendar found in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, from 8,000 BC. The modern day calendar is known as the Gregorian calendar. This calendar is a refinement made in 1582 to the Julian calendar to help Easter align with the time of the year […]
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Dating The Calendar
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International Year of Crystallography
NEW YORK, NY — The United Nations has declared 2014 to be the year of crystallography. The International Year of Crystallography (IYCr2014) will be launched during an opening ceremony to be held on 20 and 21 January 2014 at UNESCO Headquarters (Paris). This international launch will be a showcase for crystallography and crystallographers, featuring eminent […]
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Foraging For Food in the Winter
Winter foraging can be one of the toughest challenges; however, if you do a little preparation in the fall, the buried treasures will yield healthy results. Find out more from the Guide To Edible Plants’ Foraging for Food in the Winter. Chives, Garlic Greens, Mint, Carrot Greens, Parsley Winter-Food-Foraging-Mint-Parsley-Garlic-West-Chester-Pennsylvania.mp4 scavenging-for-scallions-foraging-for-food.mp4
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Tagged carrot greens, carrot tops, carrots, chives, chlorophyll, diet, eat, feed, find, food, food preperation, foraging for food, garlic, greens, health, health benefits, Japanese bunching onion, mint, mints, nutrition, onions, scallions, spearmint, starvation, survival, wellness, Welsh onion, winter
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Circadian Rhythms
National Institute of General Medical Sciences — What are circadian rhythms? Circadian rhythms are physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a roughly 24-hour cycle, responding primarily to light and darkness in an organism’s environment. They are found in most living things, including animals, plants and many tiny microbes. The study of circadian rhythms is […]
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Galaxy Growth Like Watching Paint Dry
NASA — Watching a tree grow might be more frustrating than waiting for a pot to boil, but luckily for biologists, there are tree rings. Beginning at a tree trunk’s dense core and moving out to the soft bark, the passage of time is marked by concentric rings, revealing chapters of the tree’s history. Galaxies […]
Underwater Robotics Competition
Annual competition, sponsored by Marine Advanced Technological Education Center, gives competitors a taste of the real-life capabilities needed to maintain an ocean observing system by NSF.gov The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center hosted its 12th annual student underwater robotics competition earlier this summer in Federal Way, Wash. The Center is a national partnership of […]
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The BRAIN Initiative
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative What is the NIH BRAIN Initiative? The NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is part of a new Presidential focus aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce […]
Solar Radiation Storms
Solar radiation storms continue. It takes about two days for the effects to reach Earth. A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun’s surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 1025 joules of energy (about a sixth of the total energy […]
The Missing Link
Scientists have unveiled partial skeletons of the two million-year-old species Australopithecus sediba that were discovered in South Africa in 2008. “All of the research so far shows that sediba had a mosaic of primitive traits and newer traits that suggest it was a bridge between earlier australopiths and the first humans,” said Professor Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg […]
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Tagged apes, Australopithecus sediba, chimpanzee, evolution, humans, skeltons, the missing link
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