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“Torture remains unacceptable & unjustified at all times, including during states of emergency, political instability, or even in a war.”
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. j.mp/MIw7dc
Ancient wood carving returns to Hawaii, will be displayed at Bishop Museum
HONOLULU (KHON2) - A piece of ancient Hawaiian history has made its way back home.
A carved wooden kii, which depicts the Hawaiian god Ku, previously belonged to Claude Verite, an art dealer based in Paris. It had been passed down from his father, who reportedly got it in the 1940s.
Where it came from before that is still a mystery.
Last November, business owner Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, bought the artifact at a public auction in Paris for $7.5 million.
Rather than keeping it for themselves, the couple felt it belonged in Hawaii, so they donated it to Bishop Museum. Read more.
All the drama between President Trump and the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.
Trump Picks Fight With The Eagles, Philadelphia Takes It From There
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In 40 million years, Mars may have a ring (and one fewer moon)
Nothing lasts forever - especially Phobos, one of the two small moons orbiting Mars. The moonlet is spiraling closer and closer to the Red Planet on its way toward an inevitable collision with its host. But a new study suggests that pieces of Phobos will get a second life as a ring around the rocky planet.
A moon - or moonlet - in orbit around a planet has three possible destinies. If it is just the right distance from its host, it will stay in orbit indefinitely. If it’s beyond that point of equilibrium, it will slowly drift away. (This is the situation with the moon; as it gradually pulls away from Earth, its orbit is growing by about 1.5 inches per year.) And if a moon starts out on the too-close side, its orbit will keep shrinking until there is no distance left between it and its host planet. The Martian ring will last for at least 1 million years - and perhaps for as long as 100 million years, according to the study.
The rest of Phobos will probably remain intact, until it hits the Martian surface. But it won’t be a direct impact; instead, the moonlet’s remains will strike at an oblique angle, skipping along the surface like a smooth stone on a calm lake.
This has probably happened before - scientists believe a group of elliptical craters on the Martian surface were caused by a small moon that skidded to its demise. (If this were to happen on Earth, our planet’s greater mass would produce a crash as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, the researchers noted as an aside.)
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images: NASA/JPL, Tushar Mittal using Celestia 2001-2010, Celestia Development Team.
Wolf–Rayet star
Wolf–Rayet stars, often abbreviated as WR stars, are a rare heterogeneous set of stars with unusual spectra showing prominent broad emission lines of highly ionised helium and nitrogen or carbon. The spectra indicate very high surface enhancement of heavy elements, depletion of hydrogen, and strong stellar winds. Their surface temperatures range from 30,000 K to around 200,000 K, hotter than almost all other stars.
Classic (or Population I) Wolf–Rayet stars are evolved, massive stars that have completely lost their outer hydrogen and are fusing helium or heavier elements in the core. A subset of the population I WR stars show hydrogen lines in their spectra and are known as WNh stars; they are young extremely massive stars still fusing hydrogen at the core, with helium and nitrogen exposed at the surface by strong mixing and radiation-driven mass loss. A separate group of stars with WR spectra are the central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPNe), post asymptotic giant branch stars that were similar to the Sun while on the main sequence, but have now ceased fusion and shed their atmospheres to reveal a bare carbon-oxygen core.
source | images: NASA/ Judy Schmidt, Michael Miller
Telling the truth...
I saw this post on Shaun King’s page and I remember nodding and saying, “Yep,” to myself....
then, right below someone had shared this post...
and I had to think, “Yeah, good point,” because while the first is true, it can lead to non-action, which guarantees that things will never improve. I don’t think that Mr. King was downplaying Trump, but saying, “It’s always been that way,” does not motivate folks to go to the polls. We need truthtellers. I was listening to an interview on New Yorker radio with Ta-Nehisi Coates. The white interviewer tries to get Mr. Coates to find improvement in race relations, and Coates after a bit comes to the point that that’s his job, he’s there to say how things are -- he also notes this is what a lot of countries are like, and relates this to France where he has recently returned from. Sean King is not just a public intellectual, he is just as much an organizer, and when you are doing that, sometimes it’s more important to focus on moving folks forward, rather than looking in the mirror.
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Way back in the dim mist of time...
I went to college in what became an election year (1984). I decided to do something with my interest in politics, and joined my campus Students for Gary Hart, where I met the man who became my husband. That summer, a play by Gary Trudeau about Ronald Regain came to San Francisco, and we splurged to go out and see it. It was full of biting satire, that was sorely needed at the time. Towards the end of the show, BINGO cards were passed out, and numbers were called to a tune that went, “We all want something for nothing, everyone is in it for free”. The punchline? We all got BINGO at the same time. As I was leaving, I stopped at the ladies room, and overheard groups of out of town types. Two women were talking about how they “almost won,” but were too slow to yell BINGO. They didn’t get it. Was it a waste? I got it, and probably some others, so it was a worthwhile holding up the mirror moment. This discussion is pertinent to the reaction to a recent sketch by Tina Fey which had some similar mirror holding moment (see here for more). On the one hand, a good joke should not need explication, and having a male writer at Playboy explain the feminism only makes that more so, but I think there is a good point to make for the writer’s point. The sketch has many awkward moments. For the first few minutes, I didn’t think it had a very good point, but then with mouthfuls of cake, she makes some crucial points, this is not “our” country it was stolen from Native Americans, the growth of armed militias, calls out Paul Ryan. The final dig at UVA founder Thomas Jefferson reminds us once again of what the Confederacy (and the slave system) were really all about. I notice that some of my friends “embraced” the sheet cake message and bought sheet cakes to devour, and avoided protests, but that may not have been the key message of the skit (see the Playboy article). Certainly, diabetes and my willingness to participate in protest won’t led to me sitting home and binge eating. The large turnout of counter protesters in Boston (and smaller turnout of NAZIs, et.al.) shows the power of participation. I hope that friends who are sheet caking will take the lesson to be to pay attention, participate, and not just wallow and shut down because that, that’s white privilege.
