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What’s Up for December?

View Mars right now, and prepare for 2016, the best Mars viewing year since 2005! Last month early risers watched small, reddish Mars dance with brighter Jupiter and Venus just before sunrise. 

This month Mars rises earlier-by about 2 a.m. local time. Its reddish color is unmistakable, even without a telescope. It’s easy to see below the Moon and Jupiter on December 4. You won’t see many features this month, because the planet is almost 10 times smaller than nearby Jupiter appears and 350 times smaller than the Moon appears to us on Earth.

You should also be able to see Mars’ north polar region this month, because it’s currently tilted towards Earth. 

You’ll be amazed at the changes you’ll see during 2016. January through December are all prime Mars observing months. Between January and May next year, Mars triples in apparent diameter as its orbit around the sun brings it closer to Earth. You’ll even be able to see the areas on Mars where NASA’s Mars landers are located.

By October, Mars shrinks in apparent size to less than half its May diameter as it speeds away from Earth. Mars shrinks even further from October through December, returning to the same size we saw in January 2016 by year’s end.

So put Mars viewing on your calendar for 2016. You won’t see Mars this size again until 2018, when Mars will put on an even better show.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com

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Excited to do some Mars watching this month with my scope.

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Sunset on Pluto

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Take 10 minutes to do these 3 social media audits and you will thank yourself later.

Periodically, it’s best to go into a few of your Social Media channels to see which one is driving the most engagement and traffic. Without doing your do-diligence, how do you know which one you should spend more or less time on?

Here, I am going to break down 3 Social Media audits that you can do in just 10 minutes.

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Seriously though. Take a few minutes out of your lives, maybe while you are cooking, browsing FB, enjoying a nice glass of wine, whatever it may be, and see how this man is trying to help out everyone by becoming the next President of these United States.

Don't forget to share, because not many people really know who and what this man is.

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SUDAMÉRICA 2015

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Pack your pack the right way

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Tumblr Numbers for June 2015:

41st — Tumblr’s Alexa global rank among websites on June 30, 2015

2.3 billion — Tumblr posts published for June 2015

114.5 billion — Total posts on Tumblr

4.5 million — New Tumblr blogs created in June 2015

243.2 million — Total blogs on Tumblr

Sources: Alexa.com for rank and Tumblr’s about page for blog and post numbers. See previous Tumblr Numbers.

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Interesting stats about online video on Facebook and YouTube, feeding into the current meme of Facebook becoming the dominant online video player and eclipsing YouTube…at some point in the near future. What is your prognostic?

[jacksonsalza]

Everything Camping and Hiking

Come join in on the fun and discuss camping and hiking with me!

[jacksonsalza]

Persons are motivated to maintain a sense of specialness as they define themselves on various important self-related dimensions relative to others.

Snyder & Fromkin, 1980

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Dreams of hiking and camping. I will be there soon enough.

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A little quote from my man Tyrion Lannister

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I’ve ran across a number of articles lately on how you should spend your social media marketing budgets. Speaking from a small to medium-sized business standpoint, I disagree with nearly all of them. Spending money on monthly subscriptions when there are plenty of free options out there seems like money wasted when you can be using all of that for customer acquisition and outreach. Here, I am going to show you how I would spend $100 on Social Media Marketing.

[jacksonsalza]

A little motivation from Britain's most violent criminal

[jacksonsalza]

Targeting interests is a great way to find new customers, Likes, website conversions, you name it. The thing is… a lot of people don’t understand interest targeting. I am going to try to clear things up for you and give you five key take-aways that you can implement in any Facebook Ad campaign to reach your specific audience.

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The Only Fitness & Healthy Lifestyle Guide You'll Ever Need - PRSUIT

Fitness is a daily process and a lifelong journey. It requires patience, planning, dedication, and motivation. This is the PRSUIT guide to fitness.

It is my belief that physical health lays the foundation for success in the rest of life. If we are physically energized, mentally alert, and aesthetically our best selves, then we’re going to be able to accomplish more in the workplace, be more present for family and friends, and live more fulfilling lives in general. Being physically fit opens the door to a greater level of happiness and success.

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Instantly more adaptive behavior through meditation

Certain meditation techniques can promote behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment depending on current goals, rather than remaining rigid and inflexible. This is the outcome of a study by Lorenza Colzato and Iliana Samara from the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition at Leiden University, published in Consciousness and Cognition.

Different meditation types, different effects

Colzato and her fellow researchers were the first to investigate if meditation has an immediate effect on behavior, even in people who have never meditated before. “There are two fundamental types of meditation that affect us differently,” Colzato says, “open monitor meditation (which involves being receptive to every thought and sensation) and focused attention meditation (which entails focusing on a particular thought or object).”

Study design

36 people who had never meditated before participated in this experiment. Half of the people practiced open monitor meditation while the other half practiced focused attention meditation for 20 minutes, respectively. After meditating, Samara asked participants to perform a task during which they were required to continuously adjust and adaptively discriminate irrelevant information from relevant information as quickly as possible.

Meditation optimizes adaptive behavior

Compared to participants who performed OMM, people who performed FAM were significantly better in adapting and adjusting their behavior from moment to moment. Colzato: “Even if preliminary, these results provide the first evidence that meditation instantly affects behavior and that this impact does not require practice. As such, our findings shed an interesting new light on the potential of meditation for optimizing adaptive behavior.”

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While it’s certainly the most famous example, 1962’s Cuban Missile Crisis was not the only time the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union almost went “hot.”

The two nations remained locked in a standoff for the next 30 years, and the tension was often punctuated by moments of sheer terror when equipment failures, botched spy missions, war games and other misunderstandings nearly resulted in nuclear retaliation. Below, find out about five incidents that saw United States and Russia come perilously close to starting World War III.