“Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
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Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us
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Solar Dynamics Observatory Welcomes the New Year
There were no fireworks on the sun to welcome in the New Year and only a few C-class flares during the last day of 2014. Instead, the sun starts 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the south pole. This image, captured on Jan. 1, 2015 by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows the coronal hole as a dark region in the south.
Coronal holes are regions of the corona where the magnetic field reaches out into space rather than looping back down onto the surface. Particles moving along those magnetic fields can leave the sun rather than being trapped near the surface. Those trapped particles can heat up and glow, giving us the lovely AIA images. In the parts of the corona where the particles leave the sun, the glow is much dimmer and the coronal hole looks dark.
Coronal holes were first seen in images taken by astronauts on board NASA’s Skylab space station in 1973 and 1974. They can be seen for a long time, although the exact shape changes all the time. The polar coronal hole can remain visible for five years or longer. Each time a coronal hole rotates by the Earth we can measure the particles flowing out of the hole as a high-speed stream, another source of space weather.
Charged particles in the Earth’s radiation belts are accelerated when the high-speed stream runs into the Earth’s magnetosphere. The acceleration of particles in the agnetosphere is studied by NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission.
As Solar Cycle 24 fades, the number of flares each day will get smaller, but the coronal holes provide another source of space weather that needs to be understood and predicted.
Image Credit: NASA/SDO Caption: Dean Pesnell
Freud’s Life and Legacy, in a Comic
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10 Ways to Find a Lost Word Document (.doc / .docx)
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Pixar Cofounder Ed Catmull on Failure and Why Fostering a Fearless Culture Is the Key to Groundbreaking Creative Work
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Learn how to efficiently transfect primary cells & cell lines from the immune system using a non-viral method during this live Lonza BioResearch webinar next week.Sign up on your preferred date via this link: here
Run! Godzilla Week is officially underway here at Nerdist and Jessica Chobot has a breakdown of everything that we’ve got roaring in the coming days.
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Godzilla had nothing on this prehistoric crocs.
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How Long It Takes to Form a New Habit
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HIP-HOP AND YOU DON’T STOP: ‘THE BIG BREAK DANCE CONTEST,’ 1983
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Emerging Contaminants Taint Drinking Water Supply
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You’re not the only one annoyed by those chirping cell phones…
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Rock Snot Explained – Increasingly common river algae caused by environmental changes, not accidental introductions.
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Once considered “noise,” scientists show that miniature neurotransmissions are imperative for synapse maturation.
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ASA considers adding a greenhouse to its next Martian rover. Could this experiment further colonization efforts?
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Sony magnetic tape drive puts your hard drive in the shade
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Yale: Don’t miss the Carlotta Festival (May 9-16) — the Yale School of Drama’s annual festival of new plays by third-year playwrights — featuring “Cardboard Piano,” “Bird Fire Fly” and “Thunderbodies.”
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The Modern Art Cookbook: Recipes and Food-Inspired Treasures from the Twentieth Century’s Greatest Creative Icons
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Penguin Flu
Scientists have identified for first time an avian influenza that infects penguins.
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Einstein’s wonderful letter to a little girl who wanted to be a scientist but feared her gender would hold her back.
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Ever wanted to see inside a Class Typhoon Atomic Submarine? Now’s your chance.
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Ezra Pound’s List of the Six Types of Writers, Plus His Two Rules for Forming an Opinion
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Love Golden Key…
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In her new book, MIT’s Eugenie Brinkema takes a closer look at how visual cues in film play with our emotions.
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It’s a Small World — and Getting Smaller
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Here’s what the magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy looks like. Find out why it’s important
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In 1954 Roger Bannister was the first human to beat the 4-minute mile. Watch as James Nielsen becomes the first person to break the 5 minute Beer Mile
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“An inch, it is small and it is fragile, and it is the only thing the world worth having.”
This New SmartPhone Can Be Folded And Unfolded Like Paper
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Darwin’s Finches Stamp Out Deadly Parasite with Help from Cotton Balls
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‘Digging’ for color: The search for Egyptian Blue in ancient reliefs
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What the Science of “Sleep Paralysis” Reveals About How the Brain Works
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In 1992, NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on its maiden voyage. The final spaceworthy shuttle to be built!
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“For the eye altering alters all…” -William Blake
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Proudly presenting: Sumerian clay tablet Genius:
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Continuing the voyage into hell with Canto 2 of Dante’s INFERNO:
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Swimming with sperm whales in the waters of the Azores
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The Voice’ Recap: Gwen Stefani, Pharrell Williams Perform for Top 8 (Video)
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Vincent Van Gogh on Art and the Power of Love in Letters to His Brother
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This $100 kit will make your toilet touchless
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Cree LED T8 wants to kill the fluorescent tube
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World’s largest indoor amusement park.Ferrari World is a Ferrari themed amusement park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. The central park is situated under a 2,152,782 sq ft roof making it the largest indoor amusement park in the world.
‘What could be more interesting than how the mind works?’
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In Darkened Forests, Ferns Stole Gene From an Unlikely Source — and Then From Each Other
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