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Our glass and metal buildings might pose a threat.
When it comes to navigating at night, bats are among the champions of the animal kingdom. But it turns out that these fuzzy fliers do have one weakness: super-smooth vertical surfaces.
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The first 21 days of a bee’s life, a time lapse in 64 seconds
Honey bees are such an integral part of our ecosystem — they pollinate 1/3 of our food crops — yet we don’t understand all that we should about their life cycle, or what has been threatening them in the last few years.
To explore the recent problems experienced by these bees, photographer Anand Varma worked with National Geographic and UC Davis’ Bee Lab to raise and document bees in his Berkeley, California backyard. One of the results: This video that shares the first 21 days of a worker bee’s life in 64 seconds, from bee egg, to larva, to emerging adult. (Updated video, now with narration.)
The most adorable spiny lump sucker!
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Peter’s mother selling “herbs, and rosemary tea, and rabbit-tobacco”
by Beatrix Potter
Childhood revisited!
Fluorescein is an orange powder. But when added to water, it forms a bright green solution, which glows under UV light.
Despite its name, it contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and can be safely used as a dye or marker. It is also used in medicine, both for detecting scratches on the cornea and during surgery to treat brain tumours. Perhaps counter-intuitively given its appearance, fluorescein is also used to harmlessly trace water currents in rivers, pinpoint leakages in pipes, and was the original dye of choice for the infamous St Patrick’s Day celebrations around the Chicago River.
Pictured above, a water balloon filled with fluorescein and water is thrown against a wall under UV light. On the left, a scientist uses the dye to trace the currents around coral on the Great Barrier Reef, as part of conservation attempts and research. On the right, a ring of ice dyed with fluorescein turns from orange to green as it melts in the River Wensum. By artist Liz Ballard, the installation was part of an art festival and a statement on water pollution.
Crazy on You - Heart
Simple pleasures.
A letter from Joe Biden to his staff:
To My Wonderful Staff, I would like to take a moment and make something clear to everyone. I do not expect, nor do I want, any of you to miss or sacrifice important family obligations for work. Family obligations include, but are not limited to, family birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, any religious ceremonies, such as first communions and bar mitzvahs, graduations, and times of need, such as an illness or a loss in the family. This is very important to me. In fact, I will go so far as to say that if I find out that you are working with me while missing important family responsibilities, it will disappoint me greatly. This has been an unwritten rule since my days in the Senate. Thank you all for the hard work. Sincerely, Joe
I wish CEOs and bosses felt this way too.
Thanks, Obama
My boss called everyone into the office today to let us know it’s time for the annual health insurance enrollment for the company and, like every year, our premiums are going up. He apologized and then noted that this is specifically the fault of the ACA, and we should please call our representatives and ask for a quick repeal.
My coworkers then spent all day complaining about Obama and health insurance.
I know that there’s no point in trying to fight this, but it’s just maddening. Half the things they complain about are things that have nothing to do with the ACA, or things that the ACA specifically tried to address. And insurance premiums are hardly going to decrease with a repeal. And there are people who desperately need this coverage that wasn’t available to them before. I used to be one of those people who couldn’t purchase individual health insurance at any price due to a few pre-existing conditions. I’ve spent half my life as an independent contractor and small business owner and constantly struggled with access to health care with no insurance. It’s not that we need to repeal the ACA. We need to give it real teeth to regulate insurance and pharma pricing. But we can’t because Republicans block every effort at real reform.
But, you know, blame it on Obama (and cheer for your fellow citizens losing health care) in the mythical hope that insurance companies will lower your premiums out of the goodness of their corporate hearts when the ACA is repealed.
Good luck with that.
"out of the goodness of their corporate hearts"
“Why do you take politics so personally.”
What if I told you
that these policies
affect me personally?
Sure sign of privilege if you think politics is just a game or a topic of conversation and not life or death.
Right after the election, I made the mistake of an offhand comment to one of my coworkers about how my son was upset by the results. My kid’s a teenager, almost able to vote but not quite, and he goes to a school he *loves* for arts students from all kinds of backgrounds. Some of these policies affect us, but more affect people we know and love.
Coworker: That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.
Me: That my kid is upset by the election?
Coworker: Yeah. He can’t do anything about it. Why bother getting upset?
Me (after long, angry pause): You know we have transgender friends who are leaving the state because they’re so afraid, right?
Coworker: But Trump is actually very pro-LGT…LQ…whatever the letters are. There’s a video where he said it. You should go look for it.
Bonus Point: This coworker is 25yo ex-military white male who says he never votes because he never pays attention to “that stuff.”
But, you know, my kid and I are the un-American weirdos because we pay attention, read the news, and care about people who aren’t us.
Human Rights! *exclusions apply
And my personal favorite, “It’s not sexist if it’s a compliment.”
The placenta’s role in protecting the fetus from infection
The mammalian placenta is a sort of armored car protecting a developing fetus. All manner of infectious agents attempt to break in, but few of them can.
One notable exception is Listeria monocytogenes, a leading culprit in deaths from food poisoning in the United States. One-third of listeria infections are associated with pregnancy, and usually result in preterm or stillbirth.
How listeria breaks through the placental barrier has been a mystery. “People thought it might be because of compromised immunity in the mother,” said Cristina Faralla, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pediatrics department at UC San Francisco. “But it turns out that’s not the case.”
Faralla and her colleague Gabrielle Rizzuto, MD, PhD, a clinical research fellow in the Department of Pathology at UCSF, collaborated with other scientists in the laboratory of Anna Bakardjiev, MD, to discover InternalinP (InlP), a bacterial protein critical for listeria infection into the placenta.
A villous tree that was cultured from human placental cells. Hints of fetal capillaries are visible in the red hues. Credit: Gabrielle Rizzuto
Population by population, species by species, amphibians are vanishing off the face of the Earth. Watch the full episode now.
Population by population, species by species, amphibians are vanishing off the face of the Earth.
Canary in the coal mine = Frog in the Pond
Toxic cocktail : How chemical pollution is poisoning our brains
Today, everyone carries a toxic load of industrially-produced chemicals in their bloodstream: pesticides, plasticizers, disinfectant products, flame-retardants, surfactants, and UV filters. These chemicals are harmful to everyone, but they are particularly dangerous to pregnant women and their developing fetuses.
In TOXIC COCKTAIL: How Chemical Pollution is Poisoning Our Brains, Barbara Demeneix, author and expert on thyroid function and brain development, lays out the evidence for why we should be concerned about our exposure to chemicals: children born to women who lack thyroid hormones or who are unwittingly exposed to thyroid-disrupting chemicals have lower IQs and more neurodevelopmental problems. As the number of chemicals in the environment rises, we are witnessing an unprecedented increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and IQ loss.
After identifying the dangers we face, Demeneix presents a guide for how individuals can reduce their exposure to these toxic chemicals and thereby limit their dangerous effects on brain development; she also makes pertinent suggestions for legislators. TOXIC COCKTAIL is a powerful look at a pervasive problem that is already severely affecting this generation. As toxic loads increase over time, we can only expect worse outcomes for the next generations if we don’t move forward to effect change now.
“Developmental neurotoxicology is a critical field, offering emerging knowledge of the effects of endocrine disruption on brain development. Here, Demeneix provides a broad approach to human development and problems that may occur during different stages of gestation … The author identifies a critical need for action by governments and nongovernmental organizations.” –CHOICE Magazine, for Losing Our Minds by Barbara Demeneix (OUP 2014)
Endocrine disruptors; could explain a lot about the kids next door...!
Researchers have found that working long hours could be putting your mental and physical health at serious risk.
A study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine sampled roughly 3,800 men and 4,000 women to get an idea of how working for a long time would affect their health. They found that on average, working more than 39 hours per week led to a decline in mental health.
Researchers think this is because it gives you less time to eat healthy meals and to take care of yourself. And there were actually pretty huge differences in how men and women were affected by work. For men the upper healthy limit was pegged around 43.5 hours, whereas for women it was closer to 38.
That difference was made even more dramatic when considering that women are often expected to take care of household, unpaid work in addition to their hourly workload.
I just cannot understand this blatant disregard for the world in which we live. It is SELFISH in the extreme to disregard all life that is not you, to not even try to look beyond your own personal desires, to not see the danger in which you are placing others, to ignore the long term consequences of your actions. Shameful.
Trump Administration Seeks Big Budget Cuts for Climate Research
The expected rollback to federal climate science has begun.
In its preliminary budget proposal, the Trump administration has targeted environmental protections and climate change research. And while the cuts are essentially an opening salvo in what promises to be a fight with Congress once the budget requests formally arrive, they also demonstrate the level of hostility many scientists feared their work would face from the White House.
The administration is seeking a nearly 20 percent cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget, including to its satellite division, The Washington Post reported. That includes significant cuts to the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, which has produced research that disproved the notion of a global warming pause. NOAA’s satellites provide invaluable data on climate change that are used by researchers throughout the world. The NOAA cuts target the Office of Ocean and Atmospheric Research, which conducts the bulk of the agency’s climate research.
An artist’s rendition of the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership satellite. Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This mind set in others puts a pit in my stomach every time... didn't you watch lion king? Circle of life man!
