王贞仪老师 Wáng Zhēnyí Laoshí 王貞儀老师 (1768–1797) – Our Logo/Avatar, was a scientist of the Qing dynasty who breached feudal customs of the old China which hindered women's rights and worked to educate herself in astronomy, mathematics, and geography. In her twenties, we know she took up poetry, as well, for the suffering of the Chinese peasants weighed on her. "Village is empty of cooking smoke, Rich families let grains stored decay; In wormwood strewed pitiful starved bodies, Greedy officials yet push the farm levy." Also this poem on the role of women in society, " It’s made to believe, Women are same as Men; Are you not convinced, Daughters can also be heroic?” ©M42 Orion Nebula from the balcony, Dr. Kenneth M Beck: 15 second exposure ISO 16,000, f/10 FL2350mm.
"Crow King" from a collection of corvid portraits owned by Dr. Kenneth M Beck Science Journals — AAAS Andreas Nieder*, Lysann Wagener, Paul Rinnert "Consciousness shared Humans have tended to believe that we are the only species to possess certain traits, behaviors, or abilities, especially with regard to cognition. Occasionally, we extend such traits to …
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Related research to that of Dr ERJ with refinement to her method with error-checking. We distribute only the arXiv text of the argument and keep the figures and references within the PDF for easier handling. The PDF of the article is here... 2009.11696Download
September 24, 2020 New framework identifies ecohydrological drivers for coastal estuaries and tidal rivers Lynne Roeder, PNNL Amy Borde, an Earth scientist at PNNL’s Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory, identifies grass species at the edge of a brackish marsh near the mouth of the Columbia River. Photo by Shon Zimmerman | PNNLSHARE Where rivers meet oceans, each …
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"NASA scientists study and model the Sun to better understand what it does and why. The Sun has its ups and downs and cycles between them regularly. Roughly every 11 years, at the height of this cycle, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip — on Earth, that’d be like if the North and South Poles swapped places …
Ducks Unlimited, Inc - the only international NGO (non-government organization) bringing together conservationists and hunters from three countries: Canada, USA, and Mexico to protect the wetlands and flyways of the North American ducks and geese. And hunting them! Sometimes with the same people and families! A full-cycle duck. https://youtu.be/i1j3jrWFI8c From the National Snow and Ice …
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Europe will be a desert by 2100 if we do nothing This is a prediction using MapX (Google and the UN Environmental Programme) of Crop Suitability by 2100 compared to 2011. Brown (-5% to -84% decrease in crop and crop suitability from 2011) is essentially desert-like regions if we continue on a path of pre-pandemic …
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In this second part we study how Prof Dr Phil Lavretsky came to discover the role of Game-Farm mallards and why - in fact - the American Black Duck is NOT threatened with extinction by mallard interbreeding. And if, perhaps, there is a lesson for all of us in understanding the true value of diversity …
If you are like me, a non-geneticist, you are probably reeling from the the final episode of the Ducks Unlimited podcasts featuring the work and personage of Prof Dr Phil Lavretsky. What have we just heard? The doom or end of native mallard ducks in North America? Well, not quite. Re-play those episodes again, so …
The Equinox occurs tomorrow, 22SEP20 at 13:30 UTC or 6:30 AM PDT. That is when the Sun passes over the Equator of the Earth. Sunrise is at 6:44 AM PDT. So, quite literally just before or right at Sunrise, the Sun will appear to be at the Equator. Or exactly due East. It will set …
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A sharp decline of Arctic sea ice at the beginning of September dropped the extent below 4.0 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles) for only the second time since the beginning of the satellite record in 1979. At this point, NOAA and NASA are not making a definitive statement on what that minimum might be, as both …
