Author: Daniela

  • 97% of Scientific Community Agree – Humans Causing Global Warming

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    Scientists agree on a warming Earth 08 June 2013 Issue No:275 University World News Researchers in America, Australia, Britain and Canada found an overwhelming consensus among scientists regarding human-induced global warming after examining the abstracts of 12,000 papers dealing with climate from 1991 to 2011. They say the number of papers rejecting the consensus was…

  • Re-Thinking Meat

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    My friend Frank shared this with me.  I’m all for the labeling, reducing the amount of meat consumed and certainly vegetarianism.  But the in-vitro meat…I don’t know…  

  • NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix

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    More than 250 scientists, engineers, and flight personnel are participating in the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) campaign. The project is sponsored by the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Toon of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences…

  • Students Must Learn About Cooperative Business Models

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    June 9, 2013by: Kenny Bavoso Entrepreneurship is the main thing that is taught in business schools. A good business does not encourage being employed but generates a want among students to be their own boss. What most business schools fail to understand is that behavior is the key to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial education should ultimately impart values,…

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  • Skiddle’s Guide to Psychic Nights

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    Date published: 8th Jun 2013 Photograph: Kevin Bowen – Psychic Medium Human desire to learn what the future holds has been a major obsession throughout the ages. This is perhaps a reason why in today’s society the Psychic is in such high demand. Fascination with mysticism, soothsaying, prediction and belief in something existing beyond our realm…

  • How does world’s oldest water taste? ‘Terrible.’

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    Earth Science Professor, Barbara Sherwood Lollar describes the oldest water ever discovered ( possibly as old as 2.6 billion years, when Earth was less than half its current age) in a recent interview with Deborah Netburn of the Los Angeles Times: “What jumps out at you first is the saltiness. Because of the reactions between the water and the…

  • House Decorations of the Basotho Women

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    The Basotho women’s art of house decoration:  Litema “The word Litema (pronounced as “di-the-ma”) is derived from the word “ho lema” which means to cultivate, and “tema”, which denotes a ploughed field. The geometric patterns appeared initially on the inside of dwellings and it was only in the 19th century that it appeared on the outside…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    New Songs The afternoon says: “I’m thirsty for shadow!” And the moon: “I want stars.” The crystal fountain asks for lips, the wind, for sighs. I’m thirsty for scents and for laughter. Thirsty for new songs without irises or moons, without dead loves. A morning song that can shiver quiet backwaters of the future and…

  • Invisibility Cloak Fast Becoming a Reality

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    In The Mail Online, James Rush provides fascinating information on an invisibility cloak, designed by scientists, that is big enough to hide a human or a satellite orbiting earth.  Can the search for Planet  Q’onoS be far behind? Over the last ten years scientists have investigated two main ways of creating invisibility cloaks, according to the MIT Technology…