A mashup of images, videos, and other information you may find entertaining or useful --Marge
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| Chan Lowe, The Week |
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| Drew Sheneman, The Week |
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| Mike Luckovich, The Week |
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| RJ Matson, The Week |
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| Sustainable Dance Floor, Sustainable Dance Club |
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| Denali, photo by AP, Boston Herald |
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| Sydney Laurence, Mt. McKinley, Wikipedia |
Search and rescue costs, which rescue beneficiaries or insurance companies might pay, are over and above the $1.3 million dollar program cost and average about $200,000 per year. The cost of major rescue incidents is paid for out of funds appropriated by Congress for other NPS purposes. Annual rescue costs don’t impact the local Denali budget and programs, but do negatively impact other NPS programs nationally.Denali may be beautiful, but it can also be deadly. In fact, living in Alaska can be deadly.
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| Iceberg in Portage Lake, Alaska.net |
Water Temperature
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Exhaustion or Unconsciousness in
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70–80° F (21–27° C)
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3–12 hours
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3 hours – indefinitely
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60–70° F (16–21° C)
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2–7 hours
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2–40 hours
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50–60° F (10–16° C)
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1–2 hours
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1–6 hours
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40–50° F (4–10° C)
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30–60 minutes
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1–3 hours
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32.5–40° F (0–4° C)
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15–30 minutes
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30–90 minutes
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<32° F (<0° C)
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Under 15 minutes
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| Gary Varvel, The Week |
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| Steve Breen, The Week |
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| Mike Luckovich, The Week |
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| Lisa Be/Project Vortex, Hurricane Sandy Bottle Caps, Bored Panda |
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| Michele Brand, plastic bottle art, Design Rulz |
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| Yaroslav Olenev, Spoon Lamp, Bored Panda |
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| Instructables, protective lens case, Distractify |
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| Veronika Richterová, plastic bottle plants, Mudfooted |
Mudfooted is about exploring the weird and wonderful natural world around us, about venturing outside and discovering new places as well as learning about wonderful nature and intriging science. It is a way of life! Mudfooted.com is the place to be inspired and get "muddy feet".Mudfooted came to my attention with an article on Unusual names for animal groups. Did you know that there is an implausibility of gnus? Or a parliament of burrowing owls? Or a flamboyance of flamingos?
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| A flamboyance of flamingos, Mudfooted |
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| Face of a Bateleur (Terathopius ecaudatus), a species of African eagle endemic south of the Sahara. Photo by Matthias Kretschmar. Mudfooted |
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| Mountains of water, photo by Ray Collins, Mudfooted |
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| Lukina Jama–Trojama cave in Croatia, inset new species of snail (Zospeum tholussum), Mudfooted |
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| Tianzi mountains, Mudfooted |
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| Bob Gorell, The Week |
Until the publication of the article, Amazon’s management practices had been a matter of quiet debate in Seattle. But after the article was published and Mr. Bezos’s letter was released, current and former Amazonians wrote on social media, technology websites and The Times website to compare experiences and debate the strengths and weaknesses of the culture. Some defended the culture as highly demanding but humane, while others described feeling pummeled by unrelenting demands, over-the-top competition, and a feeling they could never meet the standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.”
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| David Horsey, The Week |
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| Paul Zenetti, The Week |
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| Bill Schorr, The Week |
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| Tom Toles, The Week |
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| Dubi Preger (by LoraShalkar), Make-up Artist, Israel, Wikipedia |
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| Cosmic Web, Open Science |
The distribution of galaxies and matter in the universe is non-random. Galaxies are organized, even today, in a manner resembling an enormous network – the cosmic web. This web has dense regions made up of galaxy clusters and groups, sparsely populated regions devoid of galaxies, as well as the filaments that link overdense regions.
“The filaments are like bridges connecting the denser regions in the cosmic web,” [Benham] Darvish explained. “Imagine threads woven into the web.”Here's a 3D image of the cosmic web, posted at Dave Reneke's World of Space and Astronomy.
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| The Cosmic Web in 3D, davidreneke |
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| Nascent galaxy in cosmic web, Physics Today |
Spectroscopy and spectrography are terms used to refer to the measurement of radiation intensity as a function of wavelength and are often used to describe experimental spectroscopic methods. Spectral measurement devices are referred to as spectrometers, spectrophotometers, spectrographs or spectral analyzers.For a more granular definition, check out Spectrometer, Spectroscope, and Spectrograph in SPIE's Optipedia. SPIE is an international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
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| Bob Gorrell, The Week |
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| Pat Bagley, The Week |
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| Nate Beeler, The Week |
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| Mike Luckovich, The Week |
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| Adam Zyglis, The Week |
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| Celluon Magic Cube |
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have cracked a major technological hurdle to make low-cost, high quality holographic videos a reality.
Until now, the video hologram has generally been confined to science fiction, the most famous example being the projected image of Princess Leia in the first Star Wars film.
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| 3D holographic video, Daily Mail |
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| A reconstruction of the new short-armed and winged feathered dinosaur Zhenyuanlong suni from the Early Cretaceous (ca. 125 million years ago) of China is seen in this illustration image provided by the University of Edinburgh on July 15, 2015, Reuters |
fast-running meat-eater was about 6 feet (1.8 meters) long and covered with simple hair-like feathers over much of its body, with large, quill-like feathers on its wings and long tail.Steve Brusatte, one of the discoverers and namer of the dinosaur, is quoted by Reuters:
"If you saw this wing on its own, you would probably think that Zhenyuanlong could fly. But it's a fairly big raptor, and its arms are so short in proportion to its body, that I have a hard time believing that it could fly or glide or do anything in the air," Brusatte said.Among paleontologists there are questions about why wings evolved and when they were first used for flight. "The oldest-known bird, crow-sized Archaeopteryx, lived about 150 million years ago.(Reuters)."
More likely, Brusatte said, Zhenyuanlong used its wings for display the way a peacock uses its tail feathers to attract mates and intimidate rivals. Another possibility is using the wings to brood eggs in the nest...
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| Archaeopteryx. Illustration by Carl Buell, National Geographic |
Now Archaeopteryx is sinking back into the crowd of primitive birds and feathered dinosaurs. As Ed Yong has ably explained, a fresh wave of fossils are coming to light. They reinforce the argument that paleontologists have agreed on for a couple decades now: birds evolved from a lineage of dinosaurs called theropods. But it’s less clear now how exactly Archaeopteryx fits into that evolution. It might still be closely related to the ancestors of living birds, or there might be non-flying theropods that were more closely related. Combine this with the recent discoveries of heavily feathered dinosaurs–feathered down to their feet, in fact–and the possibility emerges that dinosaurs evolved into flyers more than once. We look up in the sky today and see the results of only one of those transitions (Carl Zimmer, National Geographic).
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| Reconstruction of Aurornis xui. Credit: Masato Hattori. National Geographic |
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| Steve Sack, The Week |
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| Steve Kelley, The Week |
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| Bill Day, The Week |
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| Leanne Christie working on the January painting 2014, leannechristie |
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| Helen Frankenthaler, photographed by Ernst Haas (1969), the Bohmerian |
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| Kim Marcucci, kmarcucci |
...during the transfer of energy from organic food from one trophic level to the next, only about ten percent of the energy from organic matter is stored as flesh. The remaining is lost during transfer, broken down in respiration, or lost to incomplete digestion by higher trophic levels. (Wikipedia)Statistics has the 10% condition which
states that sample sizes should be no more than 10% of the population. Whenever samples are involved in statistics, check the 10% condition to ensure you have sound results. Some statisticians argue that a 5% condition is better than a 10% condition if you want to use a standard normal model.What I wonder is how 10 percent represents the population. Guess that's why I'm not a statistician.
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
—Tom Cargill, Bell Labs (Wikipedia)
