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The oracle : compliments of Chase & Sanborn, tea & coffee importers. Advertising pamphlet for W.D. Earnley, advertising Chase & Sanborn coffee. Title from cover. Includes information on palmistry, fortune-telling, horoscopes, superstitions, birthstones and the meaning of dreams. Printed on back: “For sale by W.D. Earnley, 840-842 3rd Ave., Detroit, Mich. Copyright 1897 by the Gray Lith. Co., N.Y.”
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Copy Edit: Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little
A lot of little things this time around. But I did a double-take after reading the first screenshot, which read, “North Korea says Trump has ‘declared war’ on his country.” For a second, I thought North Korea was saying Donald Trump had declared war on the United States.
Coffee in Space: Keeping Crew Members Grounded in Flight
Happy National Coffee Day, coffee lovers!
On Earth, a double shot mocha latte with soymilk, low-fat whip and a caramel drizzle is just about as complicated as a cup of coffee gets. Aboard the International Space Station, however, even just a simple cup of black coffee presents obstacles for crew members.
Understanding how fluids behave in microgravity is crucial to bringing the joys of the coffee bean to the orbiting laboratory. Astronaut Don Pettit crafted a DIY space cup using a folded piece of overhead transparency film. Surface tension keeps the scalding liquid inside the cup, and the shape wicks the liquid up the sides of the device into the drinker’s mouth.
The Capillary Beverage investigation explored the process of drinking from specially designed containers that use fluid dynamics to mimic the effect of gravity. While fun, this study could provide information useful to engineers who design fuel tanks for commercial satellites!
The capillary beverage cup allows astronauts to drink much like they would on Earth. Rather than drinking from a shiny bag and straw, the cup allows the crew member to enjoy the aroma of the beverage they’re consuming.
On Earth, liquid is held in the cup by gravity. In microgravity, surface tension keeps the liquid stable in the container.
The ISSpresso machine brought the comforts of freshly-brewed coffees and teas to the space station. European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti enjoyed the first cup of espresso brewed using the ISSpresso machine during Expedition 43.
Now, during Expedition 53, European astronaut Paolo Nespoli enjoys the same comforts.
Astronaut Kjell Lindgren celebrated National Coffee Day during Expedition 45 by brewing the first cup of hand brewed coffee in space.
We have a latte going on over on our Snapchat account, so give us a follow to stay up to date! Also be sure to follow @ISS_Research on Twitter for your daily dose of space station science.
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I know National Coffee Day is almost over but who can pass up reblogging a combo of coffee, science and gifs? Nobody, that’s who. -Carla
No coffee drinker am I, but learning how scientists get creature comforts into space is so interesting.
The Cobra 3D scanner is the ultimate selfie taking machine.
Just stand still while the machine’s 128 DSLR’s cameras capture every angle of you all at once, and then prints out a miniature you.
The machine, part of a growing 3D image capturing craze, is responsible for printing the tiny towns and landmarks in the Gulliver’s Gate exhibit located in New York City’s Times Square.
Multiplication Rock: Symbol meaning infinity
Can we all take a moment to admire “Multiplication Rock”? Out of the original run of “Schoolhouse Rock!” videos, this series has probably aged the best.
Don’t get me wrong; I cheered when Bill became a law, and I can sing the Preamble from memory. But when “Interplanet Janet” calls Pluto a planet, or “Elbow Room” glosses over the fact that the wide-open West was occupied by Native Americans, it’s clear the decades have tarnished some videos’ educational value.
Math, on the other hand, seemingly never goes out of style. The times tables in “Multiplication Rock" are still as accurate as they were in the ‘70s, and the series transcends its name to teach about more than just multiplication. It manages all this while not underestimating its audience of kids.
Now, if man had been born with six fingers on each hand, he'd also have 12 toes.
Take “Little Twelve Toes,” which, in addition to teaching how to multiply by 12, explains the concept of numerical bases. English and many other languages use a base-10 system, where powers of 10 can be represented as a one followed by a number of zeroes. Little Twelve Toes uses a base-12 system, meaning 12 and its powers, instead of 10, can be represented with one and zeroes.
You can tell the filmmakers did their homework. Remember when the singer counts up to 12 in base-12? (“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, dek, el, do.”) Both the alternate names for 10, 11 and 12 and the symbols that you see on screen are real proposals from the Dozenal Society of America, an advocate for base-12 counting.
And don’t forget about “My Hero, Zero.” It’s an oddball because it doesn’t spend any time multiplying by the number in the title. That would’ve been a short video, but the upshot is the video instead spends its three minutes connecting zero and nothingness to the powers of ten and then to infinity.
And my favorite “Schoolhouse Rock!” video, “Figure Eight,” nods to the idea later on. Imagine: explaining the concept of infinity for elementary school students.
Et cetera, et cetera. Ad infinitum. Ad astra. Forever and ever, with zero, my hero.
The filmmakers’ faith in children’s ability to understand complex, abstract ideas astounds me. “Schoolhouse Rock!” taught me so much as a kid. Nowadays, it teaches me to always trust in the capability and curiosity of children.
Critics call college rankings ‘a joke’ — here’s why every list has a different No.1
As daily beneficiaries of place-based numbers systems, we think this is just cool. @hyperallergic https://t.co/JLmNnKoluo
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Copy Edit: Reported to the Department of Redundancy Department
Nothing’s ungrammatical about “light-speed radio waves” in the first screenshot, but it is redundant. Radio waves are light, and light must move at light speed. So “light-speed” adds no meaning to this phrase.
My 2 percents
The second screenshot incorrectly describes the statistics on Californians who considered moving because of housing costs. Take a look at the data referenced:
Where would you likely relocate?
Considered another state: 25%
Considered another part of California: 14%
Considered another place in same area: 9%
Considered another country: 2%
Have not considered moving: 44%
Don’t know: 6%
That “1 in 4” figure for people who considered moving out of state is out of the overall sample, not just the 56 percent who considered relocating. One could correct the sentence in a couple of ways:
Change “1 in 4” – Of the 56 percent of voters who said they’ve considered moving, nearly half said they’d relocate out of state if they did.
Rephrase to allow “1 in 4” – Of the voters surveyed, 1 in 4 said they’ve considered relocating out of state.
I prefer the second choice for using a figure easily derived from the chart. The first option, while it keeps much of the original sentence, requires a reader to add up percentages and compare the sum to one of those same percentages.
On a different note, I don’t know whether the number agreement in that sentence is right. The AP Stylebook doesn’t say whether a “1 in n” phrase takes singular or plural agreement. I tweeted at the stylebook’s Twitter account about it and will update if I get an answer.
Justin Bieber: Can we still be friends?
Me, an intellectual: Not as long as you're rhyming "so good" with "so good."
Data visualization expert Alberto Cairo offers tips on what readers should look out for when consuming infographics and other forms of data journalism.
Data visualization expert Alberto Cairo:
The right amount of data is the amount of data necessary to tell the story truthfully and with enough depth. We journalists have the drive to always simplify our stories. I usually discourage people from using the verb “to simplify”. I prefer “to clarify”.
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Copy Edit: Do as I say, not like I do.
There are two ways to correct the first screenshot. The AP Stylebook only allows like to be used as a preposition (i.e. before noun phrases) and prefers as in the conjunction usage (before verb phrases). Therefore, one could correct the sentence to as this guy did.
But we need to balance the rules with the outright barbarous. While as this guy did follows AP style, it creates a laughable mix of formal and informal elements, which undermines the sentence’s casual tone. I decided to delete did, recasting like as a preposition. The change reconciles AP style with the writer’s voice.
Facing the dual challenges of changing demographics and technological innovations, new groups are taking steps to broaden opportunities for photographers of color.
The New York Times:
Over the years, Brent Lewis has stood out in media scrums on assignment or in the audience at conferences and workshops: He’s usually among the very few photographers of color — or the only one — around.
I’ve had a bunch of clips waiting around for weeks now. I didn’t post because I didn’t have much to say about any of the corrections. But anyway, I’ll be more diligent next time. Timely clips in future.
The Sun Just Released the Most Powerful Flare of this Solar Cycle
The Sun released two significant solar flares on Sept. 6, including one that clocked in as the most powerful flare of the current solar cycle.
The solar cycle is the approximately 11-year-cycle during which the Sun’s activity waxes and wanes. The current solar cycle began in December 2008 and is now decreasing in intensity and heading toward solar minimum, expected in 2019-2020. Solar minimum is a phase when solar eruptions are increasingly rare, but history has shown that they can nonetheless be intense.
Footage of the Sept. 6 X2.2 and X9.3 solar flares captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light (131 angstrom wavelength)
Our Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, which watches the Sun constantly, captured images of both X-class flares on Sept. 6.
Solar flares are classified according to their strength. X-class denotes the most intense flares, followed by M-class, while the smallest flares are labeled as A-class (near background levels) with two more levels in between. Similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes, each of the five levels of letters represents a 10-fold increase in energy output.
The first flare peaked at 5:10 a.m. EDT, while the second, larger flare, peaked at 8:02 a.m. EDT.
Footage of the Sept. 6 X2.2 and X9.3 solar flares captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light (171 angstrom wavelength) with Earth for scale
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however — when intense enough — they can disturb Earth’s atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
Both Sept. 6 flares erupted from an active region labeled AR 2673. This area also produced a mid-level solar flare on Sept. 4, 2017. This flare peaked at 4:33 p.m. EDT, and was about a tenth the strength of X-class flares like those measured on Sept. 6.
Footage of the Sept. 4 M5.5 solar flare captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light (131 angstrom wavelength)
This active region continues to produce significant solar flares. There were two flares on the morning of Sept. 7 as well.
For the latest updates and to see how these events may affect Earth, please visit NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government’s official source for space weather forecasts, alerts, watches and warnings.
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We’ve all read headlines like this before: “This Student With Cerebral Palsy Went To Prom With Her Best Friend And It Was Magical.” For decades, the media has tended to portray people with disabilities (or those around them) as inspirations or heroes—a genre of reporting known as “inspiration porn.” There are countless stories about waiters […]
I’m fairly certain I’ve made at least one of the missteps described in this Columbia Journalism Review piece (using “wheelchair-bound”), and I need to do more to make sure I’m prepared to write sensitively about people with disabilities. As a start, I’m devoting time to reading the style guide from the National Center on Disability and Journalism.
Writer Wendy Lu focuses on the story of Marty O’Connor, a quadriplegic college student whose mother attended class with him at Chapman University, taking notes for him and writing his answers for exams. O’Connor then arranged for his mother to receive an honorary diploma. Lu raises questions to give the story news value beyond just its emotional impact. One that stood out to me: “Does Chapman provide personal aides for disabled students like Marty O’Connor?”
Here I was, caught up in the heartwarming angle of a mother who moved across the country to help her son succeed. But I’d ignored an obvious line of questioning: Should she have to do that? Is the O’Connors’ situation common among families balancing higher education and disability?
The answers to these queries would bring valuable substance to an article. The O’Connors’ story would anchor the piece in the effect those answers have on a specific family.
Emotion still matters as a means to promote empathy.
Lu quotes Keith Sharon, the journalist who first heard about the story, as saying: “Not everyone understands what a quadriplegic has to deal with, but everyone understands what a relationship is like with their mother. Everyone understands what the effort is like to graduate from college.”
It’s that element of the universal in the specific that would allow a broader range of readers into the article, enhancing its ability to inform and foster understanding.
Interviewer, on the radio: So you couldn't be educated?
Me, to myself: What's the word for that? "Ineducable"?
Interviewee: Yes, I was ineducable.
Seems legit. [Reddit]
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