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.
M42 (Orion’s Nebula) above, with Nair al Saif the blue giant and NGC 1980, below. Nair al Saif (Iota Orionis) Iota Orionis is the brightest star in Orion's sword, of magnitude 2.77, at the tip of the sword. It has the traditional name نير السيف , which means simply "the Point-Brilliance of the Sword" in …
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This paper with attached PDF is an important advance in how to understand a changing environment directed by humans use of fossil fuels, and to more appropriately deal with interactions of different material phases in our World through modeling a fully coupled global climate TraCE-21ka model, specifically directed at appreciating the Southern Ocean and Antarctic …
Bell Science Hour from 1958. Yes, this is the one. The one that puts forward the ideas of using nuclear weapons on Hudson Bay to save humanity. The one that say global warming could be happening, after 3 years research on the island of Hawai'i - and humans are doing it! But in 1958, "There's …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmMtV5_wSWY&t=7s In January, 2019 only six months after waking up to the 'Climate Emergency' we are in, as Greta Thunberg has named it, I was offered a video of this speech by Prof Dr Carl Sagan. I posted what I considered the essential 18 minutes on YouTube, in which at a conference in North Carolina …
SayanKar, Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Alain Goeppert, G.K. Surya Prakash Received 13 October 2017, Accepted 25 October 2017, Available online 6 December 2017. Cite: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2017.10.023 Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1661, United States PNNL NewletterPNNL Lab scientist Jothi Kothandaraman is developing processes to make fuels …
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Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Alain Goeppert, Miklos Czaun, George A. Olah, and G. K. Surya Prakash Cite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3, 778–781Publication Date:December 29, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b12354 Copyright © 2015 American Chemical RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS Abstract “A highly efficient homogeneous catalyst system for the production of CH3OH from CO2 using pentaethylenehexamine and Ru-Macho-BH (1) …
The lease sales will not cover Republicans’ proposed tax cuts that Trump promised, but cost the country and The State of Alaska millions. In mid-November, the Trump administration launched the formal process of selling oil drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Every major bank in the U.S. has ruled out financing oil and gas …
“USFWS releases Migratory Bird Treaty Act rule” “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released its final rule reducing the ability of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to prevent actions that injure or kill native birds. “In December 2017, the Interior Department A final rule released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could limit …
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By Cassandra Profita (OPB)Dec. 25, 2020 1:47 p.m Purchase includes traditional fishing grounds and meeting place. The Nez Perce Tribe is reclaiming an ancestral village site in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after being pushed out the area. This month, the tribe purchased 148 acres of an area known as “the place …
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A recent study highlights the most promising areas along Washington, Oregon and California coasts to harvest wave energy Brendan Bane, PNNL RICHLAND, Wash.—Washington and Oregon coastlines are home not only to sea stacks and vistas, they also hold the most promising areas to pull power from West Coast waves, according to a recent study published …
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