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Scientists have created plants that can detect explosives and instantly signal it
Researchers have embedded nanotubes into spinach leaves that react to the presence of an explosive component nearby, causing the plant to emit a faint glow..
Specially engineered nanoparticles detect nitroaromatics, which are often found in explosives. When chemicals come into contact with water near the plant, the leaves begin to emit a faint fluorescent signal that can be seen with an infrared camera..
MIT engineers have automated the communication process by pointing a sensor connected to a computer at plants. When the camera recorded changes in the signal, the system immediately sent an email notification.
According to scientists, because of the branched root system and the constant circulation of water in the leaves, plants are well suited for chemical analysis of the environment. In addition to identifying explosives, they can also be used to monitor air and soil pollution..
Recall that earlier researchers were also able to speed up photosynthesis by half. algae using light harvesting polymer.
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(born 1956). U.S. author Laura Amy Schlitz was best-known for writing Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village (2007), which combined drama and the historical novel to create a series of monologues that offer a revealing look into life in the Middle Ages. She was one of the few playwrights to win a Newbery Medal.
Schlitz was born on Jan. 1, 1956, in Baltimore, Md. She graduated from Goucher College in Towson, Md., in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in aesthetics. Before becoming a librarian and professional storyteller, Schlitz worked as an actress, a playwright, and a costumer. She has written at least eight plays that have been performed at various theaters in Maryland.
In 1991 Schlitz began her work as an elementary school librarian at Park School in Baltimore. For one class project students were told to research aspects of life in the Middle Ages. To make the project more interactive, Schlitz wrote a series of monologues to be performed by the students. These monologues feature characters ranging from the lord’s daughter to the doctor’s son to the plowboy and were compiled into Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! The book captures the gritty realism of 13th-century England and won the Newbery Medal in 2008.
Schlitz began her writing career with A Gypsy at Almack’s (1993), a romance for adults published under the pseudonym Chloe Cheshire. Her success, however, came in the 21st century when she concentrated on children’s books. The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy (2006) is a biography of Heinrich Schliemann, an archaeologist credited with discovering the ancient city of Troy, enhanced with 19th-century historical facts. A Drowned Maiden’s Hair: A Melodrama (2006) features a rambunctious orphan girl who gets adopted by a strange family. Schlitz’s more recent books include The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm (2007), a story of humanity and hope, and The Night Fairy (2010).

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Are we BU not to have any kind of games console?(61 Posts)
Unlike virtually everyone we know with children, we don't have a Wii, an Xbox or anything similar. I always though DD(11) was fine with this but she told us last night that she feels bored and left out when we meet up with friends because all the kids play on them and she doesn't know how. She made us feel like the 21st century equivalent of people who didn't have a TV when we were young.
The reasons we don't have one are that they are expensive, we don't want one in our small living room but haven't got room for a second TV elsewhere but mostly because I don't like the addictive nature of them - even really young children we know are obsessed with playing on them.
DD has her own laptop, phone, iPod and a DS so she's not being deprived in the technology stakes IMO. If we had a console I know she'd want to be on it all the time and quite honestly I feel she has enough 'screen time' with TV, Internet etc. DH and I don't play computer games (don't understand adults who do really) so she'd mainly be using it alone unless she had a friend over (that seems to be all the kids do when they go to each others houses now).
We do find it harder now she's getting older to know what to do on a weekend evening - we don't watch stuff like the X Factor etc which is all Saturday night TV seems to consist of, and we seem to have exhausted all the films and box sets that we can watch as a family. DD seems to think other families sit round playing games on their console but I can't believe that's the case and even if it is, it's not for us.
Really interested to hear how other people spend their leisure time and whether it does revolve around computer games. Also keen to know if it's just the children we know who seem so obsessed with them or whether they really are a 'most have' like a TV or stereo was for our generation.
"Not for us" as in adults not your daughter by the sound of things, I watch some rubbish with my kids on tv sometimes because that's what they like to do. Now I have an almost 15 year old she has atarted to geet more into period dramas & the like. TBH the wii is the only console we all play on.
We dont have one either. DS1 had an xbox - utterly vile thing - I was glad when it got the ring of death.
We did have a wii but it went in the loft because it was a nightmare for us as we could not get our eldest off it. (Has AS. Too much intense interest in the dam thing).
DH and I would not watch X factor etc by choice but the kids do love them so we watch them together. Kids also have ipods. Much easier to hide until homework is done than a console.
Would recommend Wii but it the others. Wii games are often physical and sociable and involve the whole family. Xboxes etc more insular and addictive
We do have a ps3 but it's in the cupboard and has pretty much been there since dc1 was born (6 years ago)as OH games were too violent for kids. Dc's do t even know it exists and I have no intention of introducing them.
If her friends have things like wii then they are very user friendly, my elderly parents have one as gives them a bit of exercise. It's not something she would need to practise on.
Surely you could have a game night on Saturday night of board games or card games instead.
We only have a wii. The physical games are great, and you haven't lived until you've had your ass handed to you on a plate by a 4yo at wii bowling
We haven't got a wii or xbox. The DC (age 4, 6 and 8) play games on the laptop and iPad. DS1 plays on his friends' wiis when he goes to their houses. Last night we all watched Splash together (except DS2 who was in bed) until DS1 and DD got bored and went off to play in their bedroom.
Tbh if they desperately wanted a console we'd probably get one. They don't seem to mind not having one.
Ee have a wii and one tv. Most of the games dd plays are the danncing and singing ones. They are very sociable and lots of fun.
Why dont you understandvadults who play? Do yoi lack imagition which is why you are scared of consoles. I love a good lego game with lots of ptoblem solving.
Consoles are hardly new! How old are you???
We have three. A ps2, a Wii and an Xbox.
Thevps2 is used primarily as a DVD player.
The Wii is used for just dance, which gets kids (and me!) Up and moving.
The Xbox is really only used when my son has friends over.
They were used more than that initially, but you can set sensible limits. They don't have to be available 24/7.
Also Wii here.
Alternatives for Saturday eve, board games, pamper eve, I take DC to library to choose a DVD, craft? Learn crochet or something.
We have a Wii. 11 year old loves Just Dance with her friends over.
I often watch crap TV with the kids to be sociable. Plus you can watch Netflix on the Wii.
We have a Wii u which is only ever used when we have people over. Not a rule, its just the way it happens. Eg Christmas we had an archery competition with BIL and nephews.
DS (10) got an XBox for his birthday. He uses it in fits and starts, when he wants to play Minecraft or FIFA with his friends and cousins online. He will buy Live membership for a month to play with them, and then let it lapse for a few months and not bother with it.
DH and I don't play computer games.
So in reality, the consoles actually encourage interaction with others here.
Ds got a wii when was 11. He is my only child and we have one TV which is in the small lounge. I like to see him playing on it and enjoying himself, I work on the computer, knit or read in the same room. We negotiate around TV programmes that are on.I also join in with him occasionally, it's not my thing but he'll soon be grown up. I also watch some TV programmes that I wouldn't necessarily choose, but we are spending time together and I'll have many years to watch only what I want when he has left home.
We won an X Box Kinect a couple of years ago. I could count on my fingers the amount of times DD has used it - we are just not a 'gaming' family.
DD is only 8 though. Maybe it will be used more as she gets older. Lots of her school friends play minecraft etc, but DD isn't interested in joining them for now.
depends on her social group.
now if your dd had fallen in with a group that go drinking down the park I would say yabu to buy her a beer.
on the other hand if her social group are a wii playing lot, I'd be pretty happy with that. if she doesn't she will feel a little left out and unable to host as well as friends.
of course it's up to you whether the evils of game consoles are worse than your dd dealing with feeling a little left out. I got a wii second hand with a heap of games for Â£30 so not really that expensive and really doesn't take up much space.
Tbh we do often sit around as a family and play console games eg Disney infinity and big brain academy. although I am slowly noticing modern board games like ticket to ride taking over. now the cost of them and the space they take up is mind boggling
Oh and re Saturday nights, it varies. We all watch the Voice and Strictly but not Britains got Talent, X Factor or any others.
We sometimes go out, or have people over. We never play on the Wii or XBox as a family unless we have other people over.
Dd has a wii u and it is fabulous, our first console of any kind. My friend bought her daughter a second hand wii with a load of games bundled in. All the games are active and social.
I have never understood games consoles until I played lego city undercover. It. Is great.
We have a wii and its pretty much only used when we have people over, And the kids (mine are 1 and 2 so they don't join in) and adults all play together so it's a very social activity really. Think there's a time and place for them
We have an xbox 360 that is a glorified DVD player and a Wii in the garage. DS is too young to use a console but I'm looking forward to playing the Wii Olympic Games with him when he's older. We only ever used it as a group activity and it's good for horrible weather.
We have a Wii which has been loved and used to death over five years. This Christmas we upgraded to the Wii U and its proven very popular so far. Dds are 8 and 9, don't go on it every day and we play with them on it too sometimes. The games can be very sociable and physical, and some are educational.
I think your main concerns can be eradicated though. The Wii has come down in price massively in recent years, I don't know how much they, but in terms of consoles, they aren't in the same league as the new Xbox or PlayStations. Also, people will be selling their Wii on pretty cheaply as they upgrade, we gave our one away to the people who live next door who have grandchildren to stay quite often.
And re worrying about her getting addicted, well it will certainly be a novelty for a while but it will tail off. And if it doesn't, you just limit her to half hour or whatever a day.
I don't think YABU exactly but you do sound a bit stuck in the dark ages for not considering it!
We have a wii and dss has games like super mario brothers and the lego games which are brilliant for co-op play. He doesn't have all the other gadgets you r child has and I can't see how they are any better than a console. You can better control the time spent on a wii and everyone can play it. I think you're being a bit precious. You can pick up s second hand wii for about £50 with games.
I will add it's about balance. it's a rare day we don't do some form of physical activity eg trip to the park or swimming.
I have a ps3, my dc are younger then yours though Op 8 and 6.
Yes they play on it sometimes but they play together in 2 player games or take turns. I find when they're on heir iPods they are much more goggle eyed iyswim. When they're friends come round yes they do play on it I suppose in your daughters point of view if she's going round her friends and that's what they're doing she will feel left out of she doesn't know where the x button is.
Can she not have a cheap console for next Christmas?
I have a few games but I haven't played on a game for years, ps3 does have other stuff on it apart from games we use love film a lot and it plays blue ray disks for the odd blue ray film, we also use it as a DVD player since the last one broke.
Thanks all, this is really interesting. I have to go out so don't have time to read in detail now but will browse all your responses later, lots to consider .
I think if she really wants it it's not an unreasonable request to get one for her birthday - on the understanding that the screen time would be instead of existing useage not additional. Now we're onto the fourth generation Playstation there's a huge backlog of older consoles you could buy second hand (maybe even free if a family member is upgrading) and the older games are also very cheap to buy.
Which to get depends on what all her mates are playing. Of course if what they're playing is GTA5 or COD then you're better off not getting one. I'm slightly surprised the girls aren't all about the phone games anyway - it would see a bit unusual for the girls to be console-gaming-mad.
Currently we don't have one but I am considering a wii or x box for the family sport and dance games next winter. Dc will be 3 and 5. I always had fun with dnephew on his. He is 15 now and more into bmx/skateboarding/rugby/kickboxing so no issues with him having a console from 3yrs old.
Better than sitting and playing on cbeebies.
OP we have even less than you - a PSP (ancient, donated by a friend), an antique desktop PC, and portable DVD players. I have 2 boys ages 4 and 8. (we have TV obviously, and I have a laptop for work and an iPad which they aren't allowed near as it's precious!) I've considered getting a Wii, but I just think the rows and scraps between the boys would make it unbearable. They play nicely all the time except when anything techno is involved.
Meh. We have almost every console going, at least every platform going, bar Apple due to my intense hatred of their marketing strategies.
My children spend little time on them unless the weather is so bad that their friends are not allowed to play out, in which case they will "meet" their friends on Minecraft/Skype/PixelGun/whatever.
They can take or leave games. I firmly believe that is because there is no limit on them, they do not feel the need to abuse them. We've often had "screentimed" friends being left alone in the house while mine play in the park because they've gotten fed up of Mario Karts.
I would give in and buy a Wii if the boys really really wanted one, but I'd have strict rules about it, and I suspect it would spend most of the time unused due to "bad behaviour bans"!
We have a Wii and an Xbox.
The Wii and balance board is fun, Mario carts and Wii resorts as a family or with friends can be hilarious. The DDs playing Super Mario together gets silly as toad is so cute.
I'm far less keen on the Xbox as there seem very few decent games for anyone who doesn't like blood, guns or football. The DDs have various Lego ones, which are very clever, but they still require a lot of just random smashing piles of bricks.
Forza's graphics are stunning, but you get board of driving in circles and DD2 gets fed up of just dance in 5 min.
In all honesty unless you are prepared to join in an only child will either get bored, frustrated or obsessed with completing things.
My two don't get obsessed because Lego and Mario have two player modes that make completing things 'easier' . However, one of the DDs is sure to get fed up with the others ineptitude before they've played for a Sicily amount of time.
The thing that is obsessive here is SIMs on DD2s lap top.
And one last thing, if your DDs friends are into mine craft, I believe (like Sims) the PC version is by far the best anyway.
I don't understand this when you clearly have embraced new technology with the list of things your dd does have - what differentiates the console? How much space do you think one takes up, it's like a large telephone directory. And can be purchased second hand from the likes of Game. You don't need one, but your dd has asked for one and you don't have a moral objection to screens I don't see what the problem is?
Entertaining them on a Saturday night, well that's another matter! (Cook together?) Watching parents make fools of themselves on wii sports or dance could be diverting I suppose!
I sympathise as I really, really don't 'get' computer consoles or whatever they are called. We did relent and allow our 11 year old to buy a second hand playstation - on the understanding that he saved up and bought it himself, but we are fortunate to have a second tv in a room he can use. However he has to be constantly policed as he would spend hours playing
rubbish games on it.
It is incredibly hard to 'relate' to something that is so alien to DH and I - to be fair DH does try and play the occasional game with him on it to be sociable.
I recognise that this is my 'problem' and it would be lovely if I could enjoy that sort of activity with my child - perhaps this is one of the down sides of not having a child until I was in my 40s . We do try and find the occasional tv programme or film that we all enjoy; I love cards and board games but I can see my DS (now nearly 13) raising his eyebrows when I suggest that sort of activity. Summer is much easier because we all quite sport and enjoy being out and about, DS is in a lot of sports teams etc.
Not really sure what the answer is .......... but looking back I don't think I spent Saturday evenings sitting with my parents, probably I was listening to Radio Luxembourg in my room .
I totally agree that limits increase not decrease obsession.
Although I have frequently been heard to say, that's enough SIMs go and play outside.
Fortunately DD2 has got madly into gymnastics and the second it's not raining she's on the trampoline.
We don't have a Wii, PS3 etc, don't watch X Factor etc either. DH does play some online games, mostly strategy ones like Shogun. Our DS is only 4 so we've not had the moaning about feeling left out yet but he does play some games on the IPad or the PC upstairs.
I don't know what we'll do if/when he wants to have what his friends at school has. I've played various games on X Box live (I think!) at my brother's house and they're fine and fun but didn't make me want to rush out and buy one myself. We tend to read a lot, watch other stuff on the TV and sew/make things in the evenings. Lack of consoles certainly isn't a lack of imagination in this house!
Lego City Undercover.
StarBall, Sims 3 was the bain of my life for several weeks while dd1 whined "My horse is deformed and it's all your fault. It's your pooter you should have known we needed a better graphics card, waaaaaaailllllllllllllllllllll"
We got a new graphics card. She helped install it. Sims 3 has never been played since
We have always had various consoles. I don't like them and could happily live without them but OH enjoys playing on them.
I have recently but a total ban on my youngest three playing on the x box (10, 6, 3).
I have had enough. As soon as it goes on DS2 starts shouting (he has SN) and gets totally over stimulated. They all argue while it is on and when I turn it off they all moan and cry for ages. They keep asking to have it put on every ten minutes.
So NO MORE. I can see no advantage in the bloody thing. I discussed it with OH. He is an adult so I am not going to deprive him of his equivalent of MNing.
The DCs are different matter. We have tried restricting it but they just obsess about the bloody thing. Since banning it they have barely mentioned it.
I don't think you are being unreasonable for not having a console but I have never enjoyed gaming. People who like them will possibly have a different point of view
We have a Wii and PS3. The Wii hardly gets looked at these days tbh.
PS3 is regularly used and we do play Buzz as a family quite often. We even have made our own quizzes for it in the past. The kids loved making their own and it was quite educational. I love Buzz and it often comes out whdn we have family and friends over too.
Dd also has some detective games we have downloaded and we all get involved in those too.
Ot does not have to be all violent shooting games. My 12 & 15yo also love the Little Big Planet games which are harmless fun.
We have never had to lay down strict rules with the PS3 about usage because we choose to keep it in the lounge. The fact you have 1 tv will be to your advantage ig you are worried about overuse.
MrsDeVere - a good point about the time spent mumsnetting - I 'judge' adults who play computer games but can happily spend a few hours on mumsnet .
Saturday nights recently have been spent with dp and the dcs playing with the fusball table (Xmas present).
There are times when I love having a houseful of boys as they were all totally engaged in it for about 2 hours last night [slopes off with a good book] :D
In terms of consoles, DH has a ps3 which the kids play angry birds on occasionally- probably about once a month. They enjoy it but they're not 'into' it. BUT saying that, they're 5 and 3...so I've no doubt consoles will become more popular.
I have a real
irrational dislike of ds's. they're designed to be portable and I see kids out and about glued to them constantly, even at the park/soft play etc. I'd much rather they were on the ps3 a couple of nights a week tbh.
If you are going to allow one type of entertainment based screen time then it is no different to another I would say. I don't think games consoles are that much more addictive than t.v its easy to watch t.v all day if you let yourself, or mumsnet. But I do know people who limit screen time and a few odd ones with only a radio! On Saturday night they would probably have friends round and have a meal together, then chat and maybe listen to music.
We have a Wii and an x box.
Wii is in a box in the loft and will probably never see the light of day again. We got one when ds was about 10.
Ds14 got it the xbox when he was 12. It gets a lot of use at the weekend, but only after homework has been done. He also plays football on Sundays, goes to the gym most days, meets up with friends at Costa.
I have never used any games console in my life...but I use the internet a lot. Agree..good point Mrs DeVere.
You mentioned the expense and I personally think its entirely reasonable to use that argument with your daughter.
She should be old enough to understand that when she got all the other gadgets that took money.
If the only issue is her not knowing how to play them could you have a quiet word with a friendly adult and ask them to show her so she can join it when at other's houses.
If the issue is bigger and around owning one then I'm afraid that if I didn't want one myself I'd be suggesting a mix of saving and money from presents to buy one at later date. It's an expensive item to suddenly declare a wish for a few weeks after Christmas.
I'd also be making sure she was aware of any limits on usage I'd be intending to make so she knew what the deal was before making the effort to wait for one.
Price wise, 99% of what tech we own was either bought a second hand but in mint condition or bought as not working due to a specified fault and repaired by us for a fraction of the cost of new and/or working.
There is only dd1's tablet and my phone that is new.
We have a very god relationship with the local second hand electrical shop
Hmm I worry more re the crappy TV, IPods,DSs and laptop(all of which are kept in my cupboard) than the XBox.Love our XBox.
It is all about parenting NOT technology.
We are a techy family(coder dad) and a bookish one.We lay down rules and the kids keep to them.
I have no screen time what so ever before school.After school they do a small bit of homework/piano practise if set(never more than an hour) and then they get an hour of screen time of their choice(TV which isn't crap,Ipod,XBox(Minecraft,Disney Infinity,Lego Lord of the Rings etc),Raspberry Pi or MacBook to do programming). Said screen time doesn't happen on Brownie/ Cub nights and often not so often during the summer months.
On Sat nights we often have either have a movie night or Xbox game night for an hour or two(Kinnect Adventures, a Sport eg bowling,ski ing etc).Love it and love the XBox as it's more social and active ie we can all join in together.
My kids read a huge amount before school,after and in bed.Sometimes 3 hours a day.They play the piano and adore Lego,SF etc.Having no more than an hour of screens in total means they are often bored and turn to other things.
All devices are kept out of bedrooms and any whining after switch off results in loss of time the next day.
* You* have to enforce rules,lead by example and stick to them however hard.It is not down to the tech itself.
We have a wii - £32 from cash converters with a couple of games and controllers.
we also have a PS3 (full price) the PS3 gets a lot of use as it is also a bluray player.. we play games on it sometimes - usually the lego type..
the wii gets used for more "fun" competitive games - when you have seen granny doing ninja fruit slicing with full vocalisation, you make memories you will never forget....
Yes seeing my dad rafting was priceless.
My parents went home knackered after our last games night.They're seriously thinking of getting an XBox Kinnect to keep fit,they loved it.
Checking e-mails on their IPods counts as their hour.
Dc 10,10 and 9.
I hate computer games with a passion they are just not my thing. However we have a wii and it is surprisingly good fun! I join in with the children and many wet Saturday afternoons have been spent playing wii Party or having a golf tournament . We have a small living room
too but it seems to work ok.
I really don't get all the angst over consoles. (Disclaimer: although being a much older mumsnetter - the name is a giveaway- I have loved computer games from the get-go.)
When my DC were young I limited TV time as I wanted them to have a balance. It was never ever on before school and it went off when children's programmes finished after school. You can do exactly the same thing with consoles. Just because they have one it doesn't mean they are on them all day and all night. Especially if they are in a family room, not their bedrooms.
I have an old PlayStation because I love platform games and I adored puzzle games on the PC - still do.
I also have a Wii because the sports and dance games are great fun and very sociable when friends come round (although we still play board games as well), and DGC are getting to the age where they can play too.
Don't knock it till you've tried it!
I 'judge' adults who play computer games
We use the Xbox as a media centre as well as playing games on it. We can watch Netflix & other channels through it, play downloaded films & watch DVD's.
I'd rather my kids spent an hour on a Saturday night playing that than watching the X Factor or similar TBH.
You do realise she can get up to more "evil" on her own in her bedroom with an Ipad than she ever can with a console right?
Moderation is the key, set realistic and reasonable boundaries, get her some headphones so you don't have to listen to it & all should be well!
We'll quite happily sit there reading/talking while one of the kids plays (silently) - if and when we want the TV we just kick them off....
As mad as it may sound I worry a lot more re my dc reading too much,spending too much time indoors and not getting enough exercise than XBox time.They spend far more time reading,playing with Lego etc and as slim as my dc are I still feel the need to drag them out on hikes as they have no interest re any sport bar cycling in their free time.
I often have to turf them out off of books,piano,Lego etc and never off the XBox as their screen time is limited,allocated and earned.
It should be a balance and I'm well aware my 3 don't spend enough time doing sport.
I 'judge' adults who play computer games
Why would you do this? Its just another form of entertainment at the end of the day. I have no interest in gaming whatsoever but then again my DH has no interest in MN! We have a PS3 and Wii in the living room that my DSs use and they also have an X box in their bedroom. They also like loads of other stuff and go out to play if the weather's half ok, its all about a balance. I laugh at all the games machines are "vile and evil" posts, there are some strange attitudes around MN at times.
Yes, I know I shouldn't judge people who play computer games but to me it is a really odd thing to do (and I know that many people judge my hobbies as really odd as well .) So yes, I shouldn't be judgemental, I suppose it is because I just cannot understand the 'appeal' of computer games.
I am disappointed that my DS spends so long on his PS3 (despite constant nagging and 'scree time rules) and I know I would be happier if he was reading a book, playing in the park, playing cards or board games with DH & I, etc etc. (And he does have lots of interests, very sporty etc, but in my opinion he spends far too long on computer games).
We have a ps4 for me and dh a iPad for DS and a wii for DS and a family ps3. We play games together tbh I really don't see the problem.
DH has a wii avatar that looks pretty like him.
Watching that on the screen dressed as a chicken and him flapping on the balance board is absolutely hilarious.
I need to lie to the Wii fit about how tall I am. It's version of me is far to accurately dumpy.
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Posted on 22 May 2014.
12,000-Year-Old ‘Naia’ Sheds New Light on Land Migration
ABOVE VIDEO: In a submerged cave in Yucatan, divers found
the near-intact skeleton of a delicately built teenage girl, who
died more than 12,000 years ago after she fell into a sinkhole
from which there was no way out.
She was found in the depths of planet Earth.
And she’s the oldest human skeleton ever found in North America, discovered by a team of international scientists in an underwater Yucatán Peninsula cave.
DNA from the skeleton shows similarities to modern Native Americans, while her skull structure matches those of Paleoamericans that came across the Bering land bridge.
In short, she may be the ‘missing link’ to the origins of the first Americans on the continent.
Named “Naia”, the teenager fell to her untimely and tragic death in a large pit called Hoyo Negro, meaning “black hole” in Spanish.
The divers found her on a ledge, her skull at rest on an arm bone. Ribs and a broken pelvis lay nearby. She was only a young teen when she wandered into the cave on the Yucatan Peninsula, and in the darkness she must not have seen the enormous pit looming in front of her.
More than 12,000 years later, in 2007, after the seas had risen and the cave system had filled with water, her skull — upside down, teeth remarkably intact — caught the eye of a man in scuba gear.
Patricia Beddows, a cave-diving researcher from Northwestern University, said the find is remarkable: “The preservation of all the bones in this deep water-filled cave is amazing– the bones are beautifully laid out.”
“The girl’s skeleton is exceptionally complete because of the environment in which she died — she ended up in the right water and in a quiet place without any soil. Her pristine preservation enabled our team to extract enough DNA to determine her shared genetic code with modern Native Americans,” she added.
The skeleton, which is now covered in water, is estimated to be between 12,000 and 13,000 years old, suggesting Naia lived in the late Pleistocene or last ice age.
She measured 4’ 10” tall and was delicately built. Slender and bucktoothed, her estimated age of death was 15 or 16 years old, based on the development of her teeth.
She lies in a collapsed chamber together with the remains of 26 other large mammals, including a saber-toothed tiger, 600 yards from the nearest sinkhole. Most of these ancient
mammals became extinct around 13,000 years ago.
“Naia, and the other animals, would have slipped through a hidden sink hole and fallen 100 feet into a shallow pool and trapped,” said paleontologist James Chatters of Applied Paleoscience in Bothell, Washington, who led the study, published May 15 in Science.
“There would have been no way out.” The broken pelvis of Naia’s otherwise near-perfect skeleton is likely a result of the accidental fall, he says.
Analysis of the remains in situ, most of which are still lying in the submerged cave where they were found, suggests that modern Native Americans are the descendants of the earliest Paleoamericans, who migrated from Siberia towards the end of the last glacial period. An alternative theory held instead that a mysterious, more recent influx had brought in new populations from Eastern Asia.
The near-complete human skeleton, which has an intact cranium and some of the oldest preserved DNA to date, was found lying 130 feet below sea level near a variety of extinct animals, including an elephant-like creature and relatives of the mastodon. Those remains helped scientists establish the age of the skeleton.
In order to assess the age of the skeleton, the team analyzed tooth enamel and seeds dropped by bats using radiocarbon dating and calcite deposits found on the bones using the uranium-thorium method.
They used similar methodology to date the remains of a variety of mastodon relatives found near the skeleton, which were found to be around 40,000 years old. The more than 26 large mammals found at the site included saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths, which were largely extinct in North America 13,000 years ago.
Naia’s age was further supported by evidence of rising sea levels, which were as much as 360 feet lower during the last ice age than they are today.
Naia’s mitochondrial DNA reveals genetic signatures in common with modern Native Americans, despite her very different skull shape.
“You can never exclude that Native Americans have more than one group of ancestors,” says Chatters. But his team’s data, he points out, are consistent with the idea that Native Americans evolved from Siberian ancestors.
“It helps support the consensus view, from archaeological, genetic and linguistic evidence, that the Americas were initially peopled 15,000–20,000 years ago from Siberia,” says human geneticist Chris Tyler-Smith.
According to this widely held theory, the Americas were populated by Siberian ancestors who crossed the Bering land bridge that back then linked Eurasia and Alaska. The migration is thought to have started during the Pleistocene ice age– which ended around 14,000 years ago– and continued over the next several thousand years as these populations moved south.
Yet researchers have puzzled over why the more-than-10,000-year-old Paleoamerican skulls unearthed so far have such different morphology from those in more recent finds and from modern Native Americans.
Scientists wondered whether other Native American ancestors had arrived in a later migration. The new DNA results indicate that the very different skulls of modern Native Americans have evolved on North American soil.
Paleoamerican remains are few and far between, because the nomadic tribes did not always build tombs for their dead. The oldest and first full skeleton to be found, it’s the first major set of remains unearthed so far south.
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The Arts Section 07/07/19: Dee Alexander + How Could She Author
On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary sits down with vocalist Dee Alexander. The Chicago native has been pleasing audiences for decades, now she’s working on a Billie Holiday project. A little later, Gary talks to the author of one of this summer’s most talked about novels. New York Times contributor Lauren Mechling’s new book HOW COULD SHE is a razor sharp comedy of manners that dives into contemporary friendships. The Dueling Critics, Kerry Reid and Jonathan Abarbanel, stop by to talk about a new theatrical production that’s described as Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs. Gary then talks listeners inside the Chicago History’s Chicago Blues exhibit. All that plus the weekly Arts Section calendar is on this edition of The Arts Section..

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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime
The story of the original manga revolves around Shirayuki, a beautiful girl working as a medicine woman who has red hair, which is very rare in her country. When she is proposed and chased after by the prince of her country, she runs away, only to meet Zen, the prince of a neighboring country. Finding respect for the young man, she decides to serve at his side as his court doctor.
Aoharu x Kikanjuu
The manga follows high school student Hotaru Tachibana, a girl disguised as a boy. Through strange circumstances she finds herself drawn into the world of survival games by a host, Masamune Matsuoka. The two form a team with ero-manga artist Tohru Yukimura and aim to be the be the best in Japan.
Once upon a time, human voices had defined the true nature of all things, yet the invention of text changed the status quo, while creating a “Logos World” between the voice and the truth. Millennia have passed since then, advancements of civilizations have made the “Logos World” too big to control “texts.” A group of young people dedicate themselves to counter chaotic “texts” with “Creative Voice Power,” and among them, a boy named Akira Kaibuki living in Asagaya
Chaos Dragon: Sekiryuu Sen’eki
The story takes place in the sparkling era year 3015, where the great nations Donatia and Kōran divide the world in a cold war as they fight for supremacy. In the middle of this standoff is island country Nil Kamui, which has lost its independence.
The story centers around the special abilities that occur among a small percentage of boys and girls in puberty. Yuu Otosaka uses his power without others knowing, and lives a fairly normal, average school life. Before him suddenly appears a girl, Nao Tomori. Due to his meeting with her, the fate of special power-users will be exposed.
A romantic comedy set in a near-futuristic world about the troubles and tribulations of high schoolers on salary. With aims to one day reach out into the stars, humanity has colonized all the planets of the solar system. This story of young high school hopefuls is set in Fourth Tokyo in a Japanese Martian prefecture. Iris Shirasaki is a third year student/aspiring test pilot. Mizuki Sera is her peer/mechanic and Mizuki’s brother Kaito is their homeroom teacher and the young director of the program developing their talents.
Dragon Ball Super
The second part, “Ten,” or “Motion,” will air in July 2015.
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei Herz!
The story revolves around four girls who decide to stay over at school: the energetic Yuki Takeya, the shovel-loving Rumi, the center of the group Rurii, who brings everyone together, and Megu, the spacey school adviser. However, through mysterious circumstances, the girls find themselves the final survivors in a zombie attack, and continue to live at the school.
In the city of Ergastulum, a shady ville filled with made men and petty thieves, whores on the make and cops on the take, there are some deeds too dirty for even its jaded inhabitants to touch. Enter the “Handymen,” Nic and Worick, who take care of the jobs no one else will handle. Until the day when a cop they know on the force requests their help in taking down a new gang muscling in on the territory of a top Mafia family. It seems like business (and mayhem) as usual, but the Handymen are about to find that this job is a lot more than they bargained for.
Gatchaman Crowds insight
Feeling and reason
What is crucial is “thinking,” not “worrying”
Modern people are too “fast” — we breath shallow and quick
“We” are terrible at being slow and deep
Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
The military fantasy series begins when a gate appears in Tokyo’s Ginza district sometime in the 21st century. From the gate pours out monsters, knights from middle-age Europe, and other fantasy-like beings, and they kill many of the citizens of Tokyo. This event is known as the Ginza Incident.
The government sends a small group of soldiers from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (a replacement for Japan’s military) to the alternate world beyond the gate. Led by otaku soldier Youji, they find that the villages in the world are being attacked by a dragon. An elf girl who is a survivor from the dragon’s rampage joins the group in their travels across the dangerous new world.
In the early 2050s, unknown life forms called “Oracle cells” begin their uncontrolled consumption of all life on Earth.
Their ravenous appetite and remarkable adaptability earn them first dread, then awe, and finally the name “aragami”.
In the face of an enemy completely immune to conventional weapons, urban civilization collapses, and each day humanity is driven further and further toward extinction.
One single ray of hope remains for humanity.
Following the development of “God Arcs”—living weapons which incorporate Oracle cells—their wielders are organized into an elite force.
In a world ravaged by mad gods, these “God Eaters” fight a desperate war…
An anime adaptation of Himouto! Umaru-chan manga. The sibling gag comedy manga centers around Umaru, Taihei’s little sister who boasts beautiful looks as well as prowess in both school and sports. However, “Himouto” (beautiful little sister) has a certain secret.
Jitsu wa Watasha wa
The romantic comedy centers around Asahi Kuromine, who has a crush on a cute girl named Yōko Shiragami. Shiragami just happens to be a vampire. Asahi cannot keep a secret, but he is determined to keep Shiragami’s secret anyways.
Joukamachi no Dandelion
In the story, the everyday lives of the nine super-powered siblings of the royal family are monitored by more than 200 surveillance cameras and broadcast nationwide. The people of the nation who are watching the broadcast will have the ability to elect the next monarch. The story focuses on Akane, the third-oldest sister who can manipulate gravity. She is shy and desperately does not want to be caught on camera.(Source: ANN)
Junjou Romantica 3
Kangoku Gakuen Prison School
Hachimitsu Private Academy was a revered and elite all-girls’ boarding school on the outskirts of Tokyo…once upon a time. But with the new school year comes a revision to school policy: Boys are to be admitted into the student body for the first time ever. But on his first day at Hachimitsu, Kiyoshi Fujino discovers that he’s one of only five boys enrolled at the school. Their numbers overwhelmed by the thousand girls in the student body, is it heaven or hell that awaits these five (un)fortunates?!.
Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan
The story is set in a world where humanity, driven off the land by the threat of magical armored insects, now live in aerial floating cities. Thus wizards — aerial combat mages who fight the insects with magical powers — came into being.
Kanata Age (Eiji) is a young man who lives on the floating wizard academy city of “Misutogan.” He was once celebrated as the “Black Master Swordsman,” the elite ace of the S128 special team. However, he is now despised as the “traitor of the special team.” One day, he is assigned as the instructor of E601, a team that has suffered 10 consecutive defeats. E601 has three girls — Misora Whitale, Lecty Eisenach, and Rico Flamel — with one or two peculiar quirks.
Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou
Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood – not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the “Cultural Exchange Between Species Act,” these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they’re trying.
When a hapless human teenager named Kurusu Kimihito is inducted as a “volunteer” into the government exchange program, his world is turned upside down. A snake-like lamia named Miia comes to live with him, and it is Kurusu’s job to take care of her and make sure she integrates into his everyday life.
Unfortunately for Kurusu, Miia is undeniably sexy, and the law against interspecies breeding is very strict. Even worse, when a ravishing centaur girl and a flirtatious harpy move in, what’s a full-blooded teenage human with raging hormones to do?!
Non Non Biyori Repeat
The story takes place in the year 2138 when virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, the protagonist Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as “the most powerful wizard.” The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
Ranpo Kitan: Game of Laplace
Rokka no Yuusha
When the Majin awoke from the depths of darkness, the deity of fate chose six heroes and bequeathed them with the power to save the world. Adoretto, a boy who proclaims himself the strongest on Earth, was selected among the Rokka no Yuusha (Heroes of the Six Flowers), and he goes to the rendezvous point — but seven have gathered there. The heroes suspect that someone among the seven is the enemy, and the initial suspicion falls on Adoretto.
Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX
After the frontier incident, everyone who knew the circumstances believed the Noise were gone and the pain they caused was at an end. But a new conflict approached unseen. In the Yokohama Harbor Oosan-bashi Pier, a new pattern is detected that is similar to the Noise. A combat group wielding mysterious technology stands in the way of Hibiki and the others. When she hears of this enemy of unprecedented strength, Tsubasa hurries back home from England. But the Symphogear users see no opening to counterattack and are forced into a difficult fight. In this situation of extreme disparity, the battle for the song that will end the world begins.
Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai
The novel’s story is set 16 years after the “Law for Public Order and Morals in Healthy Child-Raising” banned coarse language in the country. Tanukichi Okuma enrolls in the country’s leading elite public morals school and is soon invited into the Anti-Societal Organization (SOX) by its founder, Ayame Kajou. As a member blackmailed into joining by Ayame, Tanukichi ends up taking part in obscene acts of terrorism against the talented student council president Anna (for whom Tanukichi has a crush).
Sore ga Seiyuu!
The original four-panel manga centers on Futaba Ichinose, Ichigo Moesaki, and Rin Kohana, three rookie voice actresses. The manga features small but humorous observations of the voice actor industry. Hajimemashite launched the manga at the winter Comiket event in 2011, and the duo have released new issues at Comiket events since then.
THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls 2nd Season
To LOVE-Ru Darkness 2nd
Ushio to Tora
Ushio thinks that his father’s talk of an ancient ancestor impaling a demon on a temple altar stone with the legendary Beast Spear is nuts, but when he finds the monster in his own basement, Ushio has to take another look at the family legend! To save his friends and family from the invading spirits, Ushio is forced to release Tora from his captivity. But will the creature prove to be worse than the curse?
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Venus Project -Climax-
Venus Project tells the story of idols living in Japan in the near future. In this world, data devices and video technology have been progressing to new heights, and people are abuzz about a new form of entertainment — Formula Venus. In Formula Venus or “F-V,” the chosen top idols battle in live performances with their willpower, skills, and all their experience gained.


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Goldman Sachs Announces New Partners
New York, November 12, 2014 -- The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has invited 78 individuals to become Partners of the firm.
“These appointments recognize some of the firm's most senior professionals and acknowledge their embodiment of our culture and values, and their leadership of the firm’s business and people,” said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. “We look forward to their continued strong performance and leadership in the years ahead.”
The following individuals will become Partners of the firm as of January 1, 2015, the start of our next fiscal year.
Meena Lakdawala Flynn
Kunal Shah (London)
Richard L. "Jake" Siewert
Mark Van Wyk
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.


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After years of anguish, I've decided on my Desert Island read - the one book you're allowed besides the Bible and Shakespeare. I used to wonder if I'd take a compendium of fairy tales, or an omnibus edition of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series - my most treasured childhood books. Or some poetry: Yeats, or W S Graham, who wrote my two best-loved poems; or one of my current favourites, Mimi Khalvati.
But my definitive choice is Lewis Hyde's The Gift. Published in the US in 1979, and only recently reprinted here, it's about how a work of art - and the ability to create and, indeed, the act of creation itself - is a gift rather than a commodity. Hyde touches on fairy stories, anthropology, Christianity, Buddhism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, literature: reading The Gift is a dizzying, breathlessly exhilarating experience. And it manages to articulate something I had apprehended in my soul, but had not yet comprehended with my intellect, or in my conscious mind.
Many writers shy away from talking about the act of creation - and understandably so: as Hyde says: "When we give speech, we become a part of what we speak with." Fear of losing or sullying or squandering the magic is immense. And so writers talk about the mechanics - the time they get up, whether they write longhand or type, if they drink coffee or tea or smoke or eat digestive biscuits - but these are external paraphernalia, and superficially interesting as they may be, mean nothing.
This is how I used to clumsily figure "writing": it begins with the sudden, soaring, total elation of flying on a magic carpet - then the carpet vanishes and you are dull and heavy and alone and earthbound - and you must begin the tedious work of weaving a carpet for yourself, with only flashes of remembering what flying was like to sustain you in a task that is desperate and futile because you know your carpet will not fly: but because you have known, however briefly, what it is to fly, yet you cannot give up.
The Gift says this far better, and it says and explores and explains far more: but the magic - mysterious and sacred - remains intact.
It comes with accolades from writers as distinguished as Margaret Atwood, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith and Jonathan Lethem.
But I hadn't read it until, appropriately enough, it was given to me by my best friend. In the preface, Hyde says that when his editor asked who the intended audience was, he "settled for 'poets'" when what he really wanted to say was, "all thinking humans".
In the spirit of the book itself, I can only repeat and impart his words. Anyone - everyone - who thinks, cares, loves, should read this book. And pass it on.


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There are 18 luxurious rooms with the astonishing interiors. The spacious rooms are having personal sit-out area and equipped with all the modern amenities like air-conditions LCDs with satellite connections, telephones, purified drinking water, tea-coffee maker and much more.
hotel is located near the Dhikuli Village infront of Bijrani Zone of the Corbett Park at a short distance of around 10 km from the Ramnagar Railway Station. It's a hardly 10 min drive from the Ramnagar city and well connected to the various entry gates
Stay at Luxury Rooms, Swimming pool, Welcome drink on arrival (non alcoholic), All 3 Times Meals, Bonfire, Multi Cuisine Restaurant, Tea/Coffee maker in the room, Indoor games, Conference Hall, All tax inclusive.
IRIS Spa and resort provides luxury accommodation with full exposure to the beauty of nature. Located in a beautiful demographic, it gives real jungle atmosphere to people accommodating here.
Located in the surrounding area of Jim Corbett National Park, Tiger Camp is a four roperty offering regal accommodation in a villa style setting. It ensures a complete holiday gateway experience with 17 well appointed accommodations amidst forest.
Located near the Jhirna safari gate & 17 Km from Ram Nagar City. Accommodation at Parfait The Roar Resort "The Roar Deluxe", "The Roar Deluxe", "The Roar Cottage" & "The Roar Premium" these 4 types are room category.
Samsara, one of the most exotic resorts in Corbett National Park, gives you an opportunity of laid-back stay amidst the serenity of the unpolluted natural ambiance. Two Family suites, two Honeymoon Suite and forty eight Luxury Rooms are equipped with all modern facilities.
Nestled lazily amidst the large mango orchard, the beautiful property named Corbett Mango Bloom Resort offers you the finest luxury in the quiet, solitary ambiance of the forest far from the hustle and bustle of the city. This deluxe category resort is a beautifully built accommodation.
The resort offers the three categories of accommodations which are Deluxe Luxury Cottages, Honeymoon Cottages with private Swimming Pool and Premium Luxury Rooms. All the accommodations are the perfect blend of modern facilities and the aesthetic values of the regional culture.
Corbett Aahana Resort is a five star property placed at a distance of just 07 Kms from Ramnagar railhead. The most appealing resorts of the Corbett offer 10 residential blocks and 48 living units with world class interior design. A spacious room with private sit out area attracts tourists all time.
Ramnagar is a small town located near famous Corbett National Park in Nainital districts of Uttarakhand. The city is said to be dream destination wildlife traveler as this is the sole park in India where richest concentrations of wildlife occur. This famous tiger territory is open for tourism all throughout the year. In the recent years many new resorts in Corbett have been developed that plays a vital role in the promotion of tourism in the state. Corbett Hotels are unique in some way, whether it is architectural design or natural settings. Corbett Resorts and Hotels are well featured with luxury amenities that are much-needed during vacation. Our web portal offers a number of these budget Corbett Hotels. We ensure a hassle free procedure to book Corbett Hotels.

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Here's how we're growing meat in labs instead of in animals. Today, many companies, research institutes, and non-profit organizations are developing cultured meats and fish products—but what exactly is cultured meat? Cultured meat will hopefully look and taste like conventional meat from animal tissue. The difference is that the cells making up cultured meat are not grown inside of an animal. Instead, the cells are allowed to grow in culture flasks or larger systems for growing individual cells in a lab. When those cells grow unstructured they can mimic ground meat products like sausages, hamburgers, and chicken nuggets.
If those cells are organized, then the product becomes a structured meat—like a steak or a chicken breast. To give them structure, edible scaffolds are added as the foundation for cells to grow on, mimicking the natural architecture and appearance of cuts of meat. The future industrial production of these meats will require “farms” for cellular agriculture (English translation). Genetics Breakthrough Gives Sustainable Biofuels A Big Boost | Technology Networks. Researchers at the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have discovered a gene that influences grain yield in grasses related to food crops. Four mutations were identified that could impact candidate crops for producing renewable and sustainable fuels. In a paper published April 18, 2017 in Nature Plants, a team led by Thomas Brutnell, Ph.D.Director of the Enterprise Institute for Renewable Fuels at the Danforth Center and researchers at the U.S.
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, conducted genetic screens to identify genes that may play a role in flower development on the panicle of green foxtail. Green foxtail is a wild relative of the common crop foxtail millet. “We have identified four recessive mutants that lead to reduced and uneven flower clusters,” said Pu Huang, Ph.D., the lead author of the paper. Reference. Are microbes the next revolution coming to Big Ag? Walk into your typical U.S. or U.K. grocery store and feast your eyes on an amazing bounty of fresh and processed foods. In most industrialized countries, it’s hard to imagine that food production is one of the greatest challenges we will face in the coming decades. By the year 2050, the human population is projected to grow from 7.5 billion to nearly 10 billion.
To feed them, we will need to almost double food production within just three decades, all in the face of increasing drought, herbicide and pesticide resistance, and in a world where the best cropland is already being farmed. From the 1960s through the 1980s, international initiatives referred to collectively as the Green Revolution dramatically increased food production, largely by breeding crop varieties that were able to take advantage of man-made fertilizer and developing powerful pesticides and herbicides. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory via Flickr Replacing chemistry with biology: The power of microbes Scaling up.
Lab-Grown Meat Is Healthier. It's Cheaper. It's the Future. In Brief Since 2013, the price of lab-grown meat has dropped from around $325,000 for five ounces to just $11.36, making it 30,000 times cheaper than it was previously.Not only could lab-grown meat help us eradicate global famine, it's also better for the environment than traditional meat production. Going Meatless The concept of lab-grown meat isn’t new, and several companies are hoping to perfect the process. Memphis Meats is developing a way to create meat without slaughtering animals, Tyson Foods has launched a venture capital fund investing in the future of meatless meat, and Mosa Meat hopes to serve the first lab-made burger in just five years. But the challenge isn’t necessarily creating the best looking and tasting meatless alternative — it’s pulling down the cost of production so that consumers will see it as a viable alternative to the real thing.
The Future of Meat Assuming the most ideal growing environment, stem cells can produce a lot of meat. Microbial Nanowires Make for “Green” Electronics. The inner workings of that new cell phone or tablet could be made from bacteria in the not so distant future, as investigators from the University of Massachusetts Amherst just reported about a new type of natural wire produced by bacteria that could greatly accelerate the development of sustainable "green" conducting materials for the electronics industry. In the new study, the researchers studied microbial nanowires—protein filaments that bacteria use naturally to make electrical connections with other microbes or minerals.
“Microbial nanowires are a revolutionary electronic material with substantial advantages over man-made materials,” explained senior study investigator Derek Lovley, Ph.D., professor of microbiology at UMass Amherst. “Chemically synthesizing nanowires in the lab requires toxic chemicals, high temperatures, and/or expensive metals. The energy requirements are enormous. Until now Dr. Dr. ?articles. Researchers tweak bacterial proteins, turning them into powerful enzymes capable of producing silicon-carbon compounds naturally and more efficiently than manmade catalysts.
Silicone caulk, commercial sealants, are mainly composed of organosilicon compounds.WIKIMEDIA, ACHIM HERINGSilicon is one of the most abundant elements on Earth, and silicon-carbon compounds are crucial for pharmaceutical development and computer technology. Yet “no living organism is known to put silicon-carbon bonds together,” said Jennifer Kan, a postdoc at Caltech, in a press release. Now, a November 24 Science study coauthored by Kan has shown that living Rhodothermus marinus cells can be coaxed into manufacturing these coveted bonds.
Kan and colleagues made use of directed evolution, artificially selecting for only the most powerful R. marinus enzymes. Nourrir la « smart city » de demain grâce à l’agriculture cellulaire | L'Atelier : Accelerating Innovation. L’agriculture cellulaire permet de reproduire des protéines animales sans recourir à l’élevage. Une alternative pour répondre aux défis du secteur agricole et aux besoins alimentaires croissants liés à la démographie et à l’urbanisation. La population mondiale grandit inexorablement. Selon les Nations Unies, la planète comptera 9,7 milliards d’habitants en 2050. Et ce sont les villes qui accueilleront la majorité de la population. Si, en 1960, les citadins représentaient 34 % de la population mondiale, ils atteignaient 54 % en 2014. Les enjeux environnementaux sont également de taille.
L’agriculture, premier secteur impacté, doit donc produire davantage, dans un contexte de restriction des réserves (épuisement des sols et des nappes phréatiques). La pression exercée sur la production animale donne naissance à une agriculture industrielle intensive, polluante. Les défis de l'agriculture, tirée de l'étude "AgTech: Will technology feed and save us?
" Le premier burger « in vitro » Fashion's Biological Future Is Now | Joshua Katcher. In an industry notorious for transience, flux and experimentation, it’s counterintuitive to consider that the fashion system is stuck in a rut when it comes to materials and real sustainability. Year after year, season after season, there’s this feeling of velocity, of working towards something better. Sure, there are a million ways a shirt can look, but if the way that shirt is made never changes, are things actually changing - or is it simply an illusion of progress? Designers, press and editors alike continue to rationalize what happens to animals caught up in the fashion industrial complex as a necessary evil in achieving the highest quality, performance and most luxurious fibers, as if mother nature herself were meticulously positioning a leopard’s spots or softening a goose’s down for the sole purpose of human use. Leather without cows? Shearling without sheep, silk without spiders and furs without foxes?
At first glance, something sounds wrong about this. Smartphones Could Soon Have Plant-Made Parts. Normally, when we think of mining for precious metals, we imagine dark, cramped caves or holes in the ground which are a bit of an eyesore. However, scientists have found a completely novel way of mining the precious semi-metal germanium (commonly used in computers) and it's not how you'd expect. Instead of going underground, they have found how to mine germanium from lush, green plants. Reuters reports that scientists from Freiburg University of Mining and Technology can extract the element from certain plants.
These include sunflowers, reed canary grass and corn. This mining technique has been used in the past to gather gold and copper. "In German we call it mining with plants," Professor Hermann Heilmeier, who works on this project, told Reuters. There is a demand for germanium since it is an essential element for modern life. Currently, most of our germanium is a by-product from zinc ore (sphalerite) mining or burning coal. Angela Belcher : Utiliser la nature pour faire pousser des batteries | TED Talk. Artificial Photosynthesis Yields Valuable Chemicals. Tiny semiconductors and bacteria have been combined to create a system that uses sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals. Photosynthesis forms the basis of most life on Earth.
However, it cannot draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere fast enough to match the rate at which we are releasing what was stored over millions of years. This has led to a quest to produce an artificial and more efficient version – ideally one that would turn the carbon into something we can easily use. Recently, there has been a lot of work based around the idea of combining bacteria with manufactured materials. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced what team leader Professor Peidong Yang calls “a revolutionary leap forward” in this area.
"Our system has the potential to fundamentally change the chemical and oil industry in that we can produce chemicals and fuels in a totally renewable way, rather than extracting them from deep below the ground,” says Yang. Credit: Berkeley Lab. Activation d'enzymes bactériennes pour convertir le CO2 en source d'énergie renouvelable. Exploiting Bacteria to Produce "Living Materials"
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have unveiled a system whereby bacterial cells are engineered in such a way that they incorporate specific non-living materials into their biofilms, creating a "living material". Biofilms are generated when bacteria cluster together and stick onto a surface. Often the bacteria will secrete substances that assist in this adherence, such as proteins and carbohydrate polymers (called polysaccharides) which form a slime.
Numerous different species of bacteria have been found to form biofilms including E. coli and P. aeruginosa, and often more than one bacterial species is found within a biofilm. You might be more familiar with biofilms than you think, since dental plaque is a type of biofilm. Biofilms also often frequent pipes and can cause clogging and erosion. But that's not all they did. The researchers wanted to be able to incorporate other materials into the biofilms; specifically, quantum dots. Microbes are "the factories of the future"
Scientists Engineer Bacteria To Produce A Renewable Biofuel.


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Spain is not only a country rich in diverse cultures, traditional understanding, friendly people, and delicious cuisine, but it is also an ideal destination for a family vacation.
There are many destinations and fun activities in Spain that tourists from the US can enjoy. Let’s look at the finest family holiday spots in Spain. But, before that, click here to learn more about Spain entry requirements for US citizens. Then search for hotels in Spain with cozycozy search engine that helps you compare all the accommodation options.
Valencia is a charming, walkable city that is ideal for a family vacation. There is a Central Market there, which is a nice place to buy fresh produce. You can then head to Turia Garden Park for a picnic afterward. And if your youngsters are lovers of Gulliver’s Travel, they’ll have a great time in Gulliver Park, where there are numerous rides and activities. Another must-see attraction is Municipal La Granja Park, where your kids can ride a train.
2. Santiago de Compostela
Breakfast in Santiago de Compostela should begin with a chocolate fix. It might sound a little strange. Hot chocolate with churros is actually a traditional Spanish breakfast.
There’s nothing to feel guilty about; so, enjoy a nice meal with your little ones. Then you can board a tourist train to explore the city and see the main sights in a short time while also enjoying the vistas.
Also, there are numerous museums and shopping opportunities. So, there is something for everyone in your family.
Girona is another kid-friendly city that will pleasantly surprise you with a wide range of activities. The first must-see attraction is a Butterfly Park in Empuriabrava, where you can see butterflies, parrots, and a variety of other exotic species.
It’s a one-of-a-kind park in Catalonia where you can view animals in their natural habitat, feed birds, and see butterflies of amazing colors.
You can explore Girona from a new perspective by taking a boat ride on Banyoles Lake. However, if your family prefers more active vacations, you should take them to the Adventure Park of Sant Feliu de Guixols.
Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol boasts a 7-kilometer-long seaside promenade with several great beaches. Crocodile Park, Aqualand, and Paloma Park are just a few of the neighboring attractions that make it a popular destination for family vacations.
This resort not only has a big range of entertainment but it is also located around 10 minutes from the airport!
Salou on the Costa Dorada is another excellent option for a family vacation in Spain, with over 300 days of sunshine every year. Small children will have a blast playing in the rocky coves along the beach and creating sandcastles.
The Port Aventura amusement park is only 10 minutes away by car for older youngsters looking for excitement, and the Costa Caribe Aquatic Park is right next door. It’s also not far from Barcelona if you want to spend the day exploring the city.
Barcelona is not only a colorful paradise for the adventurous, but it also has a lot to offer families interested in learning about Catalonia’s diverse culture. Not only will you and your family fall in love with the colorful surroundings of Park Güel or spend hours gazing at the unique architecture of Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, but you’ll also appreciate the many shops aimed at children as well as outdoor areas ideal for a little Spanish cuisine al fresco.
Tenerife must be on your Spain itinerary because it is full of fun activities that your children will enjoy. The first place to go is Siam Park, Tenerife’s largest themed attraction. The tour to see whales and dolphins is the next activity you will definitely remember.
Imagine being in the south seas with your family, surrounded by whales, dolphins, and orcas! Another sea excursion is the submarine Safari, which allows you to explore the uncharted waters of Tenerife and experience the actual undersea world.
Jungle Park Las Aguilas, which houses more than 300 animals and 100 species, is another option for visitors to Tenerife while on vacation. If you prefer a more laid back vacation, you can always head to the beach.


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Lockheed Martin officially opened its Advanced Pilot Training facility in Greenville, South Carolina with a celebration and traditional ribbon cutting event.
The newly refurbished building will house the Ground Based Training System, as well as the tooling and manufacturing equipment to complete final assembly and flight operations for the T-50A trainer aircraft.
“I want all of the enemies of America to understand that we are not looking for a fair fight. My goal is to have the overwhelming capability to deter those that would choose to go to war with us…they will lose and lose quickly. The T-50A is ready now and fits the need of the 21st century of the U.S. Air Force,” said U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham.
The T-50A is low risk and builds upon the proven heritage of the T-50 with more than 150 T-50s flying today – 200,000 flight hours and counting – and more than 1,800 pilots who have trained in this aircraft.
“From the innovation of our Skunk Works team in Palmdale, California – who brought this program to life – to the employees in Greenville who will build the T-50A, the brightest minds and the latest technology have been brought together in this facility to provide the U.S. Air Force with a low risk, highly capable aircraft and training solution,” said Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Executive Vice President Orlando Carvalho.
The T-50A was developed jointly by Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries. The accompanying T-50A Ground-Based Training System features innovative technologies that deliver an immersive, synchronized ground-based training platform.
Lockheed Martin completed the initial flight test of its first T-50A configured aircraft on June 2, 2016 and the initial flight of its second T-50A configured aircraft on July 26.


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Dikļi Manor was the property of von Wolf family in the 19th century. Dikli Palace was built for Baron P. von Wolf in 1896. Covering forms of the central facade are repeating type-lines of mansard roofs' side risalites. That kind of treatment of German Beo-Broque style is not a copy of abroad masterpieces, but unique creation using international language of style and adapting it to the local culture enviroment. Mansard was rebuilt in continous years, so a bit of Baroque charm was wasted.
The buildings of the Dikļi castle are organically complemented by a park spanning 20 hectares. Adjacent to the palace lies a duck pond, which is said to have had a floor made of oak. Mazbriede River begins just beyond the pond, whose ravines contain a landscape garden, also known as the Forest Park. In the 1960s, after surveying Dikļi castle park, it was found that approximately 20 exotic trees grow on its grounds.
Dikļi castle is one of the few palaces and landed estates in Vidzemes where much of the original interior décor has been relatively well-preserved. The palace contains a collection of luxurious old stoves and fireplaces. Dikļi castle was restored in 2003. At the moment, the palace houses a hotel, a restaurant, a spa, a recreational facility with saunas, whirlpool bathtubs and a pool, and it provides a venue for various functions.References:
Les Invalides is a complex of buildings containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building"s original purpose. The buildings house the Musée de l"Armée, the military museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d"Histoire Contemporaine, as well as the burial site for some of France"s war heroes, notably Napoleon Bonaparte.
Louis XIV initiated the project in 1670, as a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers: the name is a shortened form of hôpital des invalides. The architect of Les Invalides was Libéral Bruant. The enlarged project was completed in 1676, the river front measured 196 metres and the complex had fifteen courtyards. Jules Hardouin Mansart assisted the aged Bruant, and the chapel was finished in 1679 to Bruant"s designs after the elder architect"s death.
Shortly after the veterans" chapel was completed, Louis XIV commissioned Mansart to construct a separate private royal chapel referred to as the Église du Dôme from its most striking feature. Inspired by St. Peter"s Basilica in Rome, the original for all Baroque domes, it is one of the triumphs of French Baroque architecture. The domed chapel is centrally placed to dominate the court of honour. It was finished in 1708.
Because of its location and significance, the Invalides served as the scene for several key events in French history. On 14 July 1789 it was stormed by Parisian rioters who seized the cannons and muskets stored in its cellars to use against the Bastille later the same day. Napoleon was entombed under the dome of the Invalides with great ceremony in 1840. In December 1894 the degradation of Captain Alfred Dreyfus was held before the main building, while his subsequent rehabilitation ceremony took place in a courtyard of the complex in 1906.
The building retained its primary function of a retirement home and hospital for military veterans until the early twentieth century. In 1872 the musée d"artillerie (Artillery Museum) was located within the building to be joined by the Historical Museum of the Armies in 1896. The two institutions were merged to form the present musée de l"armée in 1905. At the same time the veterans in residence were dispersed to smaller centres outside Paris. The reason was that the adoption of a mainly conscript army, after 1872, meant a substantial reduction in the numbers of veterans having the twenty or more years of military service formerly required to enter the Hôpital des Invalides. The building accordingly became too large for its original purpose. The modern complex does however still include the facilities detailed below for about a hundred elderly or incapacitated former soldiers.

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It’s a Read Harder double feature today! Our first challenge of the day is to read a book about the social sciences. So what exactly do we mean by social sciences? In a dictionary definition sense, social sciences refer to the study of human society and social relationships, which can include anything from economics, politics, true crime, education, racial relations, gender studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and more. If you’re familiar with the Dewey Decimal system, pretty much any book that you might find in the 300’s of the nonfiction section would be considered a “social sciences” book.
But that’s a really large section to browse through, so we’ve pulled together a few books to get you started. You may already recognize some of these titles as NYT Bestsellers or popular book club books; as society gets more complicated and potentially troubling, readers often turn to these types of books to help them make sense of the world. We hope some of these books can help you make a little more sense of your own world. Click on a cover or a title to place a hold, and visit our online book lists to find even more titles! Just find the Read Harder 2018 tab on the left side and click on “Book About Social Science.”
“In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren’t affected by it. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge has written a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary examination of what it is to be a person of color in Britain today.”
“Covering a vast array of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to accounts of child molestation, a series of authors, in this thought-provoking collection of first-person essays edited by the author of Bad Feminist, tackle rape, assault and harassment head on.”
“A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems.”
“Apple orchards in bucolic Washington state. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment at the hands of their employers, often with little or no official recourse. In this harrowing yet often inspiring tale, investigative journalist Bernice Yeung exposes the epidemic of sexual violence levied against women farmworkers, domestic workers, and janitorial workers and charts their quest for justice in the workplace.”
“Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.”
—Katie, Adult Reference


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By Charlie Taylor, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
As many as 1,850 jobs will be created over the next three years by 122 companies backed by Enterprise Ireland.
The claim was made by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton at an event to mark the publication of the Enterprise Ireland High Potential Start Ups programme (HPSU) 2013.
The report shows that 103 start-up firms received funding from the state body last year, the highest number ever. The majority of the firms to be backed by Enterprise Ireland were in areas including software, cleantech, engineering, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Ten of the firms to receive funding last year were spun out of third-level institutions.
The number of female-led firms to receive funding more than doubled over the year from 16 in 2012 to 41 last year on the back of a number of women-specific initiatives.
There was also a rise in the number of overseas entrepreneurs setting up their business in Ireland, with such start-ups now accounting for 15 per cent of all firms to receive backing from Enterprise Ireland.
“The results published today show that the HPSU programme goes from strength to strength, with more companies, more overseas companies, more female-led companies, and more jobs than previous years. Enterprise Ireland deserves real credit for these achievements,” said Mr Bruton.
A high-potential start-up is defined as a company that is export oriented, focused on technological innovation and likely to achieve growth of at least €1million per annum over a three-year period, and led by an experienced team.


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The Pirate Parrot's Favorites, Accomplishments and Goals...
Foods: High carbohydrate sunflower bird seed mix.
Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean, Follow that Bird, Muppet Movie and Sandlot.
Songs: Free Bird, I Kissed a Bird, Rockin' Robin.
TV Shows: Animal Planet, 3 Stooges, Extreme Makeover - Nest Edition, This Old Nest, If Walls Could Squawk.
Hobbies: Hot dog launching, riding dirt bikes, skiing and other extreme winter sports.
Greatest Moment: Helping the Bucs to a World Series Championship in his first year as team mascot (1979 WS Champs) and creating the "Let's Go Bucs, Let's go GREEN" campaign to save the planet.
Goals for the Future: Shoot a hot dog to Steve Blass in the Radio/TV Booth, play one song with a band on the drums during a Skyblast concert, and become enshrined in the Mascot Hall of Fame.


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Ireland became part of the United Kingdom in 1801, but as a conquered country. The population was eighty-percent Catholic, the majority living in poverty. Until 1829, Catholics were not allowed to own property. Most of the land was owned by English, many of them absentee landlords. Their agents managed the properties and collected rent with almost no regulatory oversight. Most Irish farmers were tenants “at will,” subject to eviction at the whims of the owner or the owners’ agents. The farmers produced peas, beans, honey, rabbits and fish, most of it exported. The tenants themselves subsisted primarily on potatoes and water.
In 1845, a fast-spreading fungal infection wiped out nearly half the potato harvest. The following year, the blight laid waste to three-fourths of the crop. Starving tenants still had to pay their rent. When unable, they were evicted. Property owners took this opportunity to clear out the bothersome tenants on small parcels and consolidate their lands into more profitable large parcels.
British Prime Minister Robert Peel made a secret deal to purchase maize and cornmeal from the U.S. to help relieve hunger in Ireland. Bad weather delayed by months its arrival. After that came the realization that only a few mills in Ireland had the capability to handle maize.
In spite of this, the British government continued its export of foodstuffs from Ireland. Peel’s effort to repeal high taxes on corn brought into Ireland resulted in his ouster as prime minister and his Tory party lost control to the Whig party.
The Whigs were unwavering in their efforts to keep the economy open and their belief in laissez faire, as God intended, without government interfering in natural economic mechanics. They revoked the previous relief efforts so the Irish populace would not become dependent on government handouts. They knew that the economy operated best without meddling.
The result? More than a million Irish died; another million emigrated, many to America.
Modern-day Republicans have taken the lesson from the British Whigs. South Dakota Governor — and Trump sycophant — Kristi Noem is one of five governors who has not issued any sort of shelter-in-place order. Meanwhile, Smithfield Foods has shut down its Sioux Falls pork-processing plant after becoming the nation’s number-one source of covid-19 cases. Smithfield, wholly-owned by WH Group of China, has contributed half of the state’s total coronavirus cases.
The governor’s response? She tweeted, ”Let’s be perfectly clear: a shelter-in-place order would NOT have prevented Smithfield from happening.”
(Why are there two Dakotas anyway? The two have a combined population of less than one-and-three-quarters millions. That’s about one senator for four-hundred-thousand people. California has one senator for each twenty-million citizens; Texas, one for fifteen-million.)
A chilling history of the Irish Potato Famine and how the British government handled it: “The Great Hunger” by Cecil Woodham-Smith


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Blank Calendar Page For November 2020 – You can employ a Blank Calendar Page For November 2020 to arrange your life for the coming year. The concept is that you employ the calendar to record the events and doodles that you’ve had so far this year, making it simple to mark those that are still to come. Here’s an example of how you may produce a Blank Calendar Page For November 2020
First, you need to select a style for the year so that you are able to begin to employ the calendar to prepare out what dates you are going to wish to draw. In case you have a young family, you might pick December, March, June, or September as your theme. The primary idea is that the calendar will help you keep in mind the crucial dates of the year, assisting you remain arranged and track all the details.
Next, you are going to require to create draw-date ideas. The ideas you make the most of will be identified by the theme you chose for the year. You will probably pick December as the month you’ll draw for whenever you pick a themed calendar for your year. You can take advantage of your computer system to do the work for you, however you can easily likewise use an actual calendar and make your own from scratch.
Create Blank Calendar Page For November 2020 for Everyday Use
Produce an easy, simple to understand outline for the year. Consist of all the dates you wish to draw in the summary. Compose the year number and the month number beside each one of the date. You can do this by hand, however in case you do not have a calculator useful, you may just get a piece of paper and compose the numbers on it. This works excellent since the real calendar isn’t going to be very big, and you’ll have adequate space to compose the date beside the number.
Take the calendar and divide it into 12 months, so that you are able to utilize a printable regular monthly calendar to mark the dates. Dividethe Blank Calendar Page For November 2020into months by composing out the day of the month on the calendar.
The calendar you created ought to consist of all the dates you desire to draw in the printable regular monthly calendar. These calendars are able to likewise be made use of for other things, such as a scrapbook.
In case you enjoy employing calendars as a method to keep track of life, then a Blank Calendar Page For November 2020 is a fantastic tool to use. It’s enjoyable, simple to take advantage of, and is one of the very best ways to keep whatever you wish to do organized. Utilize your imagination and creativity to use it.

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Blazar OJ287 exhibits large thermal flares at least twice every 12 years. The times of these flares have been predicted successfully using the model of a quasi-Keplerian eccentric black hole binary where the secondary impacts the accretion disk of the primary, creating the thermal flares. New measurements of the historical light curve have been combined with the observations of the 2015 November/December flare to identify the impact record since year 1886, and to constrain the orbit of the binary. The orbital solution shows that the binary period, now 12.062 years, is decreasing at the rate of 36 days per century. This corresponds to an energy loss to gravitational waves that is 6.5 ± 4 % less than the rate predicted by the standard quadrupolar gravitational wave (GW) emission. We show that the difference is due to higher order gravitational radiation reaction terms that include the dominant order tail contributions.
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Valtonen, M., Dey, L., Hudec, R., Zola, S., Gopakumar, A., Mikkola, S., Ciprini, S., Matsumoto, K., Sadakane, K., Kidger, M., Gazeas, K., Nilsson, K., Berdyugin, A., Piirola, V., Jermak, H., Baliyan, K., Reichart, D., Caton, D., Haque, S., González, G., & Hynes, R. (2017). High accuracy measurement of gravitational wave back-reaction in the OJ287 black hole binary. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 13 (S338), 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921318000170

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The second column in a new series on security issues facing Canada.
Latest in NATO
In a new Washington Quarterly article, the authors argue that the post-World War II expansion of the presidential alliance powers enables President Trump to weaken alliances from within.
Ukrainians want membership, but obstacles abound.
In a challenge to U.S. use of a military base in Germany to conduct drone strikes, a German court found the government responsible for ensuring that U.S. operations conducted from German territory comport with international law.
A panel of experts debates whether Congress can stop President Trump from withdrawing from NATO.
The former Republic of Macedonia recently changed its official name to the Northern Republic of Macedonia, giving the country a chance to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—a move that Greece had previously blocked.
IR experts view the postwar multilateral order as beneficial to the United States and strongly disagree with efforts to dismantle it.
The most important report being written in Washington today is a Pentagon study on the U.S. military presence in Poland.
With the Trump administration wavering in its European commitments, Germany considers going its own way.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is considering reasserting its role in foreign policy.


The Hard Rock Hotel will soon debut at 159 West 48th Street in Times Square, where the structure has officially topped out. Earlier this week, members of the project team including Hard Rock International, Extell Development Company, and AECOM Tishman, celebrated the milestone at a luncheon and cake cutting ceremony to thank everyone involved.
Extell Development Company has announced a major joint venture with global investment entity Tennor Holding B.V. to complete 50 West 66th Street, a 775-foot-tall residential skyscraper on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. When finished, the building will wrest the title of tallest building in the neighborhood from 200 Amsterdam Avenue.
Permits have been filed for a ten-story commercial building at 264 West 46th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. The lot also addressed as 740 Eighth Avenue, is located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and West…
Construction on the Hard Rock Hotel has made a good amount of progress since YIMBY’s last update in January. Located at 159 West 48th Street in Times Square between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue, the 225,000-square-foot, 442-foot high, 445-room hotel is designed by Berg + Moss Architects and is being developed by Extell and Hard Rock International.
Permits have been filed for a nine-story mixed-use building at 160 East 125th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Located between Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue, the through lot is steps from the 125th Street subway station at Lexington Avenue, serviced by the 4, 5, and 6 trains. Extell under the 160 East 125th Owner LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.