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“Tiniest Ever Ancient Seawater Pockets Revealed”
Research Partners: University of Toronto, University of California, Riverside “Trapped for millennia, the tiniest liquid remnants of an ancient inland sea have now been revealed. The surprising discovery of seawater sealed in what is now North America for 390 million years opens up a new avenue for understanding how oceans change and adapt with the […]
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Using Spectral Workbench to measure remote “black-body” surface temperature
FROM THE ARCHIVES…. by DrBeck | September 15, 2021 03:22 | #27726 GOAL: To acquire spectra of stellar objects and calibrate/analyze them with the Spectral Workbench tool, so that one may easily extract a surface temperature from these ‘black-body’ emitters. By so doing, we can refine yet another approach to remote sensing of temperature from […]
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Biodiversity is key to a liveable planet – A super small follow-on to Tatiana’s post #21
By Dr Beck I am not a biologist, nor a climatologist. But, #COP15 is being held this year in Montreal (7-19DEC22) – so close – and seems like an ideal time for the USA to finally sign the Treaty on Protecting Biodiversity (CBD) of our Planet. Really. The only government representative at this meeting will […]
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News from a Changing Planet – #21
By Tatiana Schlossberg Just when you thought we were done with COP, here comes another one! Next week, the international community will come together again, this time in Montreal, for the 15th meeting of the United Nations Conference of Parties on Biological Diversity (CBD), whose purpose is to protect plant and animal species, and ensure […]
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“Giant Wind Farms Arise Off Scotland, Easing the Pain of Oil’s Decline”
Intro to the article By Dr Beck Well, it’s not like they blossomed like tulips; it took lots of work to get this far. A unison of government investment, private concern, and Scottish determination. Not the least element of which involved The Crown, the forward-thinking policies of His Majesty and His Mum. Known chiefly for […]
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« Contrer la désinformation en ligne
« Une enquête du Centre d’études sur les médias démontre l’efficacité d’un atelier éducatif conçu pour développer de meilleures pratiques informationnelles chez les jeunes adultes francophones Par : Yvon Larose « Entre mai et octobre 2021, 360 Québécoises et Québécois francophones âgés de 18 à 35 ans ont participé à une enquête du Centre d’études […]
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Euclid preparation. XXVII. Covariance model validation for the 2-point correlation function of galaxy clusters, Euclid Collaboration
By A. Fumagalli1,2,3,4⋆, A. Saro1,2,3,4, S. Borgani1,3,2,4, T. Castro3,2,4, M. Costanzi1,3,2.. Courtois, Hélène… ABSTRACT « We validate a semi-analytical model for the covariance of real-space 2-point correlation function of galaxy clusters. Using 1000 PINOCCHIO light cones mimicking the expected Euclid sample of galaxy clusters, we calibrate a simple model to accurately describe the clustering covariance. […]
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Greta Thunberg joins 600 hundred youth in climate lawsuit against Sweden
BY JULIA SHAPERO – 11/25/22 6:13 PM ET “Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other youth activists in Stockholm on Friday to file a lawsuit against the Swedish government over its alleged inaction on climate change. “Today on Black Friday is the perfect day to sue the state over its insufficient climate policies,” Thunberg said on Twitter. “So […]
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Carbon emissions from energy to peak in 2025 in ‘historic turning point’, says IEA
International Energy Agency says Ukraine invasion boosted state spending on clean energy and ‘will accelerate transition to renewables’ Jasper Jolly, The Guardian, Thu 27 Oct 2022 03.49 EDT Global carbon emissions from energy will peak in 2025 thanks to massively increased government spending on clean fuels in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to […]
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative
By Natascha Unger Hello Dr Beck, The projects which we will support with the money from the BAWAG Women’s Prize have been determined and both revolve around climate protection and cooking. Extreme weather events occur more frequently due to the climate crisis. When a natural disaster hits a community, a nourishing meal is much more […]
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Quantum Entanglement and The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
PBS SPACETIME By Dr Beck As with all science, please be analytical and critical when watching PBS SpaceTime. For example, Feynman (not “Feynmann”) was critical only of specific experiments, for which he was proved correct. Those experiments did not provide positive results for quantum entanglement theory. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) is alive and well, thank you. […]
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“Origins of harvested American black ducks: stable isotopes support the flyover hypothesis”
Jackson W. Kusack, Douglas C. Tozer, Michael L. Schummer, Keith A. Hobson First published: 31 October 2022 for THE JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT. Intro to the Article, By Dr Beck The American Black Duck, while not an endangered species, is a species of concern; their harvest from Boreal forests and the Taiga Shield region of […]
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Cardiovascular disease associated with short-statured humans
“The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between short stature and coronary heart disease (CHD)morbidity and mortality.……………………………………………………………Methods and results “We performed a systematic search from MEDLINE, PREMEDLINE, and All EBM Reviews as well as from a referencelist of relevant articles. We used SPICO (Study design, Patient, Intervention, Control-intervention, Outcome) criteria.The methodological quality […]