A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be...Read More
Each year, unfathomable amounts of energy are added to the oceans. Scientists measure heat in joules; the amount of heat in the oceans is so large that we report it in zettajoules. What is a zettajoule? It is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. The amount of heat we are putting into the oceans is equivalent to about five Hiroshima atom bombs of energy every second. I am part of the team of researchers...Read More
his is the story of a man who couldn’t see numbers. After suffering from a rare degenerative brain disorder, a man was unable to see and identify the numerical digits 2 to 9. If he was presented with a picture of the digit 8 and asked to illustrate what he saw, he drew a scrambled mess of spaghetti-like scribbles with no relation to the number. However, he was able to...Read More
Mangroves provide protection for coasts against extreme weather. While they may protect shorelines from cyclones, how does a hit from a hurricane affect the mangroves? The literature has been surveyed by Ken Krauss and Michael Osland in a new paper Tropical cyclones and the organization of mangrove forests: a review. A Bruguiera gymnorrhiza forest at the mouth of Saddok Tasi Stream on the Pacific island of Saipan approximately 15 months after Typhoon Soudelor...Read More
By then, most cosmologists had concluded that the universe contains much more than meets the eye. Observations of pinwheeling galaxies suggested that scaffolds of invisible matter held their stars together, while a repulsive form of energy drove galaxies apart. To learn more, Bennett and his Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team had spent a year collecting microwaves coming from all directions in the sky—light rays that left their source long...Read More
What you eat undoubtedly impacts your longevity. But what are the right answers when it comes to choosing the best diet for you? One answer is the blue zone diet. The blue zone diet is mostly plant-based, with large daily intake of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes. But it can get somewhat hazy from there. Whether you’re interested in the blue zone diet or some other diet, it’s vital to...Read More
