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With the help of satellites and AI, researchers spotted a trove of new 'geoglyphs' - earth drawings - depicting animals, people, and objects. Japanese researchers have used machine learning and artificial intelligence to identify 143 new Nazca Lines, also called geoglyphs, in Peru. Among the numerous new glyphs was one that was discovered entirely by AI, the first time to happen in the world. The New York Times reports that the team of researchers used satellite photography, 3D imaging, and AI to find the ancient geoglyphs that were impressed into the ground in a desert plain around 100 B.C. by Nazcas. A press release from Yamagata University explains that the team used IBM’s Power Systems servers “in an aim to understand Nazca Lines as a whole.” Researchers also utilized AI tech from the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York to test whether or not AI could find new Nazca Lines. And it worked. The team configured a machine learning program with an AI model which found a new glyph depicting a 16-foot tall “humanoid figure standing on two feet." In their effort to examine whether or not the AI could discover new Nazca Lines, the research team shares that they “introduced the capability to process large volumes of data with AI,” which included hi-res aerial images “at high speeds.” The Nazca people lived near Peru's southern coast over 2,000 years ago. While the creation of the Nazca Lines has been this the Nazca's claim to fame, this pre-Inca culture was also known for its pottery and textiles. The Nazca lines themselves have caused speculation about what exactly they are and what purpose they serve. While some fictional works suggest that Nazca Lines might have been landing strips for alien aircraft, archaeologists suggest that they were ritual sites, a form of irrigation, or some form of ancient cosmic maps. In 1994, the Nazca Lines were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site, but that hasn't stopped people from defacing them. In 2014, Greenpeace activists left their footprints near the hummingbird glyph as they unveiled a sign calling for the use of renewable resources. Then, in 2018, a trucker intentionally drove his rig off-road and over some of the lines leaving behind three damaged "straight-line geoglyphs." Masato Sakai, a professor of cultural anthropology who led the research effort, is concerned with the preservation of the Lines and hopes that these new discoveries will help protect them. “The most important point is not the discovery itself...If [the lines] become clearly visible, they will be protected as important cultural heritages” says Sakai. The University says it will work with UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture in Peru to help preserve these newly discovered sites. Music: Svadhisthana (Original Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/3ex2DEb https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/neptunes-overtone http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #nazca #ancientaliens #ai

The speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, retired Thursday, leaving his chair after a decade of braying, “Orderrrr!” By the BBC’s count, Bercow ordered “order” nearly 14,000 times. In London parks, children today run around shouting at their obstreperous nursery mates, who’ve maybe had a juice box too many and are monopolizing the swing set, “Orrrder!” Labour lawmaker Valerie Vaz said goodbye to Bercow by paying tribute to his bladder’s ability to sustain hours of debate and noting that “ ‘order, order,’ is now used by parents around the country” as a disciplinary technique. But now the speaker’s orotund oratory, his mannered put-downs, his pompous, practiced, often hilarious jawing will be no more. Gone, gone will be Bercow’s copyrightable admonitions to the nattering lawmakers to desist from their “chuntering from a sedentary position.” No more will we hear Bercow’s advice that the right honorable gentle person from wherever “take a soothing medicament” and calm down. Among Bercow’s classics: “It’s always a pleasure to oblige the honorable gentleman, because his naughtiness is mitigated by his charm.” And chastising a run-on lawmaker for “her global tour, and potentially her intergalactic tour, in pursuit of evidence that she wishes to adduce on the matter of the appropriate age at which people should vote.” Bercow reintroduced to popular British lexicon the word “beetled,” meaning to make one’s way hurriedly, as in: Say it, sort it and move on. And no one could roll out the multiple syllables of “mellifluous” as Bercow could. “I think the words chunter, medicament, dilate, animadvert, and, perhaps my favorite, saucerations, have been popularized under your speakership and I imagine now are in common parlance in pubs and clubs across England,” Tory grandee and Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg said at Bercow’s final session. Boris Johnson salutes Bercow's tenure as speaker of the House of Commons British Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to John Bercow and his service on Oct. 30 as the Speaker of the House steps down after a decade. (Reuters) In the centuries-long history of Commons speakers, Bercow was a standout, and not just for his speaking style or his florid ties — which one wag at a Westminster pub compared to a pasta sauce gone wrong. Bercow was a champion of the rights of Parliament and of backbenchers getting to have their say. Johnson, the prime minister, in his farewell this week, said Bercow had “done more than anyone since Stephen Hawking to stretch time in this particular session,” a backhanded compliment to how the speaker changed the pace of debate in the House of Commons. The prime minister said, “You have sat up there in your high chair, not just as an umpire, ruthlessly adjudicating on the finer points of parliamentary procedure, with your trademark Tony Montana scowl. Not just as a commentator offering your own opinions on the rallies you are watching, sometimes acerbic and sometimes kindly, but above all as a player in your own right.” Many Tories loathe Bercow because they view him as having turned on his own Conservative Party as speaker and manipulated Brexit debate in favor of those who wanted Britain to remain in the European Union. After he allowed a vote on a controversial amendment, the Brexit-backing tabloids let it be known how they felt. The Sun went with: “Speaker of the Devil.” The Express said, “You’re so out of order!” The Daily Mail called him an “egotistical preening popinjay.” With a nod to Bercow’s alleged vanity, opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn began on Wednesday, “I hope you will indulge me for one moment while I say a word about you — I’m sure you will.” “You’ve done so much to reform this House of Commons, and our democracy is the stronger for the way that you’ve done it,” Corbyn said. #funny #British #characters

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Japanese Honey Bees Cook Giant Wasps Alive - the Japanese giant hornet: massive, extremely aggressive, and a honey bee’s worst nightmare. A single giant hornet can kill 40 European honey bees in one minute, and a group of 30 could wipe out an entire hive of 30,000 European honey bees in little more than three hours. Growing up to 2 inches in length, with a wingspan of 2.5 inches, these giants are about 5 times larger than the average bee. When they attack a hive, they quickly decapitate and dismember the inhabitants — flying off with the bees’ thoraxes, as well as honey and bee larvae, which they feed to their young. But when it comes to Japanese honey bees, the hornets have their work cut out for them. While the Japanese honey bees don’t produce as much honey as their European cousins, they have developed an amazing strategy to protect defend themselves against the hornets that terrorize their hives. When a hornet enters their hive, the bees immediately surround the intruder and form a tight ball around it. They then vibrate their wings to generate carbon dioxide and heat, raising the ball’s temperature to 115 °F (46 °C). At this concentration of carbon dioxide, the bees can tolerate up to 122 °F (50 °C), but the hornet cannot survive the combination of elevated temperature and high carbon dioxide. Using this method, the honeybees effectively cook the hornet in a convection oven formed from their living bodies. Amazing! Music: From Scales To Feathers (Thirsty Lizard Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2Mgr7pg https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/the-wolf-and-the-river http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #Bees #Honey #Evolution

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Dolphins and fishermen work together in Laguna, Brazil, to catch groups of mullet. - New research has found that just one local group of about 20 dolphins works with the fishermen, while the other local dolphins don't cooperate, finding other sources of food. The researchers aren't sure what separates these groups. Scientists had known that dolphins work together to herd groups of mullet, a fish that's an important source of food for local fishermen, toward a line of fishermen in boats or knee-deep water. Then the dolphins signal with specialized head or tail slaps when and where the fishermen should throw their nets. The cooperation is helpful to both parties, researchers said. The two wouldn't survive without each other. "About 200 local artisanal fishermen are almost entirely reliant on the dolphins for catching their fish," study researcher Fábio Daura-Jorge, of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Brazil, wrote in a statement sent to LiveScience. "The fishermen do not fish without the assistance of the dolphins and know the individual animals from their natural marks and can recognize them by eye." Daura-Jorge added, "The fishermen have names for the cooperative dolphins — particular stars in this cooperation are 'Scooby' and 'Caroba,' that cooperate for more than 15 years." Cooperative dolphins The researchers watched the dolphins of Laguna, identifying individuals by their appearance. They documented which animals spent time together, and which ones participated in the fishing. They were able to reconstruct the social structure of 35 of the population's 55 dolphins from this data, which included 15 of the cooperative dolphins. They identified three distinct social networks within the Laguna dolphins, with one group made up entirely of the fishermen-cooperating dolphins. This cooperation seems to be a learned or inherited behavioral trait, since there's nothing in the environment stopping other dolphins from engaging in it. "Dolphin societies are very complex, and social interaction seems to drive foraging behavior," Daura-Jorge said. "It might be that the development of specialized foraging behavior occurs in small tight-knit resident coastal communities because there is a high degree of social interaction between the animals." The technique is profitable for both the local fishermen and the dolphins, which get their share of the catch as well. The technique is profitable for both the local fishermen and the dolphins, which get their share of the catch as well. Learning to fish The cooperation behavior may be passed down from mother dolphin to her calves through social learning. This is how the trait is propagated in the human half of the duo: Elders in the community teach the younger fishermen how to work with the dolphins. "We are talking about a small subgroup of dolphins ([probably] about 20) supporting over 200 families with no other income," Daura-Jorge said. "The fish provided from the cooperation with dolphins has an important economic and social value that has to be considered," and should be conserved. "Essentially, if we lose the cooperative dolphins, we lose this unique traditional way of life and vice versa," Daura-Jorge said. #animals #environment #ecosystem Music: There She Is by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/3eLFy0P https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hello-moon http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

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With virtual reality, Israeli soldiers train in simulated terror tunnels - IDF using computer technology to teach troops to navigate Hamas and Hezbollah underground passages. An Israeli soldier carefully eyes the narrow, damp tunnel carved from surrounding rock through a tightly strapped black headset. He is not in one of the attack tunnels built by Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah under the border with Israel, but one of a new generation of soldiers using virtual and augmented reality to train. In a small computer-lined room, T., a 20-year-old member of Yahalom, or Diamond — the special operations unit of the army’s combat engineering corps — simulates an advance along the narrow passage. His head sweeps from side to side and up and down, while his hands probe walls invisible to the onlooker. “We see everything, even falling drops of water,” says the soldier, who cannot be named for security reasons. “I really feel like I’m there,” he tells AFP. “I feel the humidity, the sense of being stifled.” The headset displays every detail of the virtual tunnel — a reconstruction of one of several subterranean infiltrations uncovered by the army — allowing instructors to guide T. in real time. In December, the Israeli army launched an anti-tunnel operation on the Lebanese border dubbed “Northern Shield.” Israel said it had found six tunnels, while UN officials confirmed three reached into the Jewish state’s territory. Hezbollah planned to use them to abduct or kill Israeli soldiers or civilians, and to seize territory in the event of hostilities, according to the military. They ran for dozens of meters and some reached a depth of 55 meters (180 feet). In recent days, fresh tensions have erupted between Hezbollah and Israel; the Iran-aligned Shiite movement blamed the Jewish state for a drone attack on its Beirut stronghold. Israel has not commented. Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah called it the first such “hostile action” since a 2006 war between his movement and the Jewish state. He threatened retaliation. The Israeli army is also on the lookout for tunnels dug into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. They are used by terrorists and, on the Egyptian border, smugglers trying to circumvent a blockade on the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli army says it has destroyed several tunnels that ran into its territory and were designed as attack launchpads. The Egyptian army has vigorously hunted for and blocked smuggling tunnels from its side of the frontier. Music: Snooper (103 bpm) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2MbZ3TF https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/snooper http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #VirtualReality#Tactical #Training

A Visit to Watery Super-Earth Alien Planet K2-18 b Would Be Super-Strange - You might be squished by the huge atmosphere. The alien planet K2-18 b would be a truly exotic vacation destination. Two research teams just announced the detection of water vapor in the air of K2-18 b, a "super-Earth" that lies about 110 light-years from our planet. This is a landmark discovery, because the alien world is potentially habitable, apparently orbiting its star at the right distance for liquid water to exist on the planetary surface. But this doesn't mean that K2-18 b is Earth-like; in fact, the two worlds are quite different. K2-18 b is about 2.3 times wider than Earth and eight times more massive, for example, and it orbits a red dwarf, a star much smaller and dimmer than our own sun. So, what would a trip to K2-18 b be like? Very long, for starters — it would take more than a million years to get there using traditional rocket propulsion. But let's put matters of practicality aside. What would you see on the surface of this world? What would you experience? It's tough to say, unfortunately. For starters, K2-18 b, which was discovered in 2015, orbits relatively close to its host star, completing one lap every 33 Earth days. So, the planet could be tidally locked, always showing one face to the red dwarf, just as Earth's moon always shows us its near side. If that's the case, then K2-18 b would have a day side and a night side, with a strip of permanent twilight separating the two. But we don't know if that's the case, and the uncertainty continues from there. One of the research teams, led by Angelos Tsiaras of University College London's Centre for Space Exochemistry Data (CSED), determined that water vapor makes up between 0.01% and 50% of K2-18 b's atmosphere. With such a big range, it's tough to characterize the exoplanet; it could be completely flooded, for instance, or a world with lakes and oceans but lots of exposed land, study team members said. The other research group, led by Björn Benneke of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal, posited another scenario. These scientists suggested that K2-18 b consists of a planetary core surrounded by a huge, hydrogen-dominated atmosphere that contains mere smidges of water vapor. Such a world wouldn't have a surface, at least not the kind we're used to here on Earth. Music:Bottom of the Sea (Instrumental Version) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/3dgKA52 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/hard-to-get-along http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #exoplanet #hubble #discovery

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Chris Kresser & Joe Rogan discuss Potatoes and Resistant Starch - The Potato Hack Intervention is a short term tool to check the reactivity of the gut to Resistant Starch (RS), reset the hedonic system, create metabolic flexibility, resolve inflammatory conditions, and provide the patient with an empowerment tool to increase the fat loss of their other dietary plan. It is not meant as a stand alone diet, but rather a dietary tool to decrease hunger, break negative eating habits, and nourish the gut biome, which is sometimes starved on long term low carbohydrate eating. The Potato Hack is a tool popularized by Tim Steele and based on a diet plan from 1849 that was designed to treat “dyspepsia” and excess weight from the consumption of rich foods. Explanation: The poor potato has been much maligned in recent years. It is often looked at as being a sugar bomb because it is high on the glycemic index. However, potatoes are actually extremely nutrient dense and a 1995 University of Sydney Australia demonstrated that potatoes score the highest of any food on the Satiety Index. This means that they dampen hunger signals better than almost any other food. Here is an explanation by Functional Medicine practitioner Chris Kresser on the Joe Rogan show. Here. The true magic of this plan and what I think leads to its clinical efficacy is in the amount of Resistant Starch. Resistant Starch is a type of starch that is indigestible to us, but feeds our microbiome. When a potato is heated and then cooled a significant amount of its starch is retrograded into resistant starch. This means the effect on blood sugar is greatly dampened. The potato can even be reheated and it will still retain its resistant starch content. The nourishment to our gut biome and the subsequent metabolic benefits cannot be overstated. I have seen this be crucial in some patients who have stalled on a low carb or keto eating plan, but still have significant body fat left to lose. Historically, resistant starch would have been present in most roots, tubers, unripe bananas, plantains, etc, but is often devoid in our current diets. Who Can Benefit: Honestly, I think it is a good tool to employ from time to time for all of us to break food cravings and patterns of overeating. It is virtually impossible to overeat unseasoned boiled potato. You will eat only until your hunger is satiated and much of the food eaten has been converted to resistant starch and is fueling your biome. But, to be more specific: 1. Anyone with chronic digestive issues 2. Those suffering from inflammatory problems 3. People who have been following a low carb or keto diet for an extended time 4. Anyone who has plateaued on their weight loss goal while eating a sensible and nutritious diet. Instructions: 1. Plan on eating just potatoes for 3-5 days. 2. Eat 2-5 pounds of potatoes each day. 3. No other foods allowed (this includes butter, sour cream, cheese, and bacon bits). 4. Salt is allowed, but not encouraged. 5. Drink when thirsty: coffee, tea, and water only. 6. Heavy exercise is discouraged; light exercise and walking are encouraged. 7. Take your normal medications Expected results: Most people see a loss of .5 – 1 lbs of weight loss per day. Much of this weight loss is retained after completing the potato hack, as it’s not just water weight shed from the depletion of glycogen. Indigestion and inflammatory symptoms often greatly reduce. Final Thoughts: We are in the infancy of understanding the gut biome, but I have clinically seen huge improvements in people’s health when they consume resistant starch. It may seem crazy to eat just potatoes, but keep in mind that many cultures in history owe their survival to this incredible food. And, remember, this is not a diet! This is a tool to use in conjunction with a nourishing diet to break through pesky plateaus and help heal your gut. Although a book is not necessary to use this hack, Tim Steele wrote an excellent book that details the science. Also, I recommend reading some of the hundreds of consumer reviews of the book, as it will give you an idea of how successful others have found this plan. #diet #loseweight #hacks Music: The Giant Killer by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

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Amazing Alpine Goats Scale a Near-Vertical Dam - On the face of the 160-foot-tall, near-vertical Cingino Dam in northern Italy, mountain goats cling skillfully to the stones that jut out from the wall. In this video, the Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) slowly navigates the sheer dam, a feat that makes tightrope walking look easy. They slide, tiptoe, and gallop up and down the wall--and they are clever about their climbing. Why do the Alpine ibex perform this crazy climb? It's all for a lick of salt. Ignoring the steep angle, the goats walk across the dam to continue to lap up the minerals, which they need for nutrients in their vegetarian diet. Scientists also believe that some animals lick dirt and minerals because it neutralizes toxins they may ingest. The Alpine ibex became an internet sensation when an Italian hiker, Adriano Migliorati, posted pictures of the goats dotting the dam. Many people were convinced the photos had to be fake, but this gravity-defying behavior has been seen by other mountain goats in the United States, according to National Geographic. The Cingino Dam is actually a bit easier for the Alpine ibex to climb than other constructed dams because the rough surface gives more spots for footing, Jeff Opperman, senior advisor at the Nature Conservancy, told National Geographic. "These animals can overcome what looks like impossible topography to get what they want," he said. And he's right: it's pretty incredible to see what these Alpine ibex will do to forage for food. Music: The Barbary Scott by Dhruva Aliman mazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #high #climb #animals

Lagos, Nigeria - The boy was abandoned by his family, who accused him of being a witch, according to the aid worker who found him in Uyo, southeast Nigeria. Danish aid worker Anja Ringgren Loven says the boy, whom she calls Hope, had been living on the streets and survived on scraps from passersby. When she found him, she says, he was riddled with worms and had to have daily blood transfusions to revive him. "Thousands of children are being accused of being witches and we've both seen torture of children, dead children and frightened children," she wrote in Danish on Facebook, as she appealed for funds to pay for food, medical bills and schooling. Loven is the founder of African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation, which she created to rescue children labeled as witches. Posting on her Facebook page on February 12, Loven says: "Hope is getting so much better. Already gaining a lot of weight and looking so much more healthy. Now we only need him to talk. "But that will come naturally when he is out of the hospital and starting his life among all our children. "Children become stronger together." It is a criminal offense in Akwa Ibom state, where Hope was found, to label a child a witch, but the practice persists. Attempts to reach Loven and local officials were not immediately successful. Belief in witchcraft thrives worldwide. In 2009, about 1,000 people accused of being witches in Gambia were locked in detention centers in March and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion, human rights organization Amnesty International said. In 2014, a report by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees stated that human rights violations were taking place in Nepal, leading to violence against women, children, disabled people and the elderly. In 2010, CNN reported on the plight of children in Nigeria who undergo frightening exorcisms and are sometimes killed by their own family. One 5-year-old boy, named Godswill, had been accused of being a witch and neglected, beaten and ostracized by his own family and community. At the time, an Akwa Ibom state official acknowledged some cases, but said reports of child rescues were exaggerated. Sam Ikpe-Itauma, of the local Child's Rights and Rehabilitation Network, which rescues children like Godswill, told CNN: "Once a child is said to be a witch, to be possessed with a certain spiritual spell capable of making that child transform into, like, cat, snake viper ... a child could cause all sorts of havoc like killing of people, bringing about diseases, misfortune into family." Ikpe-Itauma doesn't believe in witchcraft and tries to raise awareness in communities gripped by hysteria. He believes poverty is a key factor that drives the belief in witchcraft. He says: "Poverty is actually a twin sister to ignorance."

Scientists have announced the discovery of a new long-necked dinosaur species whose tail bones are heart-shaped. Besides being cute, the discovery might help shed more light on the broader family of titanosaurs of which the new species belongs to. The dinosaur was first excavated from the Mtuka riverbed in Tanzania. In honor of its place of origin and Tanzanian culture, paleontologists named the newly discovered species Mnyamawamtuka moyowamkia, which is Swahili for “animal of the Mtuka with a heart-shaped tail.” The first fossils were excavated back in 2004 in a cliff wall, but it took many years of painstaking work before paleontologists could extract the bones from the rocks and compare them to other species. In the end, all that effort paid off as the researchers had found a nearly complete 100-million-year-old skeleton of a new species, belonging to a group of dinosaurs known as the largest to ever walk the Earth. Titanosaurs could grow to be 120 feet long and weighed as much as nearly one dozen Asian elephants. Some famous members include Argentinosaurus, Puertasaurus, and Notocolossus. Most titanosaurs were discovered in South America, which is why it’s so exciting to find one in Africa. Scientists hope that Mnyamawamtuka might help paint a broader picture of its family tree. Researchers aren’t sure what function the heart-shaped bones might have had for Mnyamawamtuka, but two other titanosaurs have similar features, so it’s not an accidental or irrelevant development. In the future, researchers hope to use this feature to classify how various members of the huge family relate to each other, piecing together their evolution. “A large chunk of what we know about the evolutionary history of titanosaurs comes from the many species known from South America. But during the early half of the Cretaceous, Africa and South America were still connected before they eventually split up around the halfway point of the Cretaceous,” Eric Gorscak from Midwestern University told Gizmodo. “What we’re seeing with recent discoveries from Africa, such as Rukwatitan, Mansourasaurus, Shingopana, and now Mnyamawamtuka, is that titanosaurs were likely to be as diverse as their South American counterparts and there may have been a coarse division between the northern and southern half of Africa.” Music: Root Chakra Planet by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/3ex2DEb https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/neptunes-overtone http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet

Sending a new helicopter rover to Mars, testing the next generation space suit, building the foundation for a low earth orbit economy, prepping human missions to the Moon and launching Americans from U.S. soil, a quiet supersonic test plane, water powered satellites, all electric powered airplane, horticulture experiments in zero gravity. Music: Flying Dream by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #Innovation #space #tech

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The world's largest charter superyacht costs $4 million a week and comes with two helipads plus a cryotherapy sauna. Take a look inside. The Flying Fox is now the world's largest yacht available to charter, according to Boat International. With six decks, it sleeps 25 guests and rents for nearly $4 million per week, a representative for Imperial told Business Insider. Here's a look inside the Flying Fox superyacht, which comes with two helipads, a cryotherapy sauna, and a pool that can be split in two. Other standout features include a 40-foot pool with can be split in two thanks to a retractable wall. One side could have salt water, and the other fresh; one cold, and one hot, according to Robb Report. There is a professional dive center ...and guests can check out everything from hover boards to a personal submarine from the tender garage. A two-story spa offers a range of treatments, from facials to body sculpting ... ... and 'rain shower' massages. During a 'rain shower' massage, passengers lie on a warm bed under a stream of water while a staff member tends to sore muscles. To earn that massage, passengers can stop by the state-of-the-art gym and work with a personal trainer. Over 50 crew members, including former Olympic athletes and ex-members of the British military, are on hand to attend to guests' needs. Light colors and greenery dominate the decor, and the ship's design places an emphasis on outdoor spaces. For instance, each of the 11 cabins opens up to a deck that can be partitioned into private balconies thanks to sliding panels. Guests can also opt to dine al fresco. Views are stunning, from one observation level ... ... to the next. Music: Jujitsu Flow by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #luxury #rich #ship

See all 4 Parts of our Amazing Thailand Trip ~ Links below… KOH MAK ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRiEIyKkjF0 KOH KHAM ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHCaDk7QLUU KOH CHANG ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7CsX475qrQ PATTAYA ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHou7h-mPe4 Adventures & Surprises… Amazing Beaches Interesting Food Scuba Diving Temples Monkeys Hidden Art Elephants Strange Creatures Jungle Great restaurants Waterfall Night Life Bungy Jumping Speed Boats Music: Jujitsu Flow by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/2B9tGa7 https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/road-of-fortunes http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #Travel #Animals #Vlog

First ever real image of a black hole revealed - We have peered into the abyss for the very first time. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which uses a network of telescopes around the globe to turn all of Earth into an enormous radio telescope, has taken the first direct image of a black hole. The light that makes up the image is not coming from the black hole – black holes do not emit any light, hence the name. Instead, the image shows the black hole’s silhouette against a background of hot, glowing matter that is being inexorably pulled in by its powerful gravity. In 2017, the eight telescopes of the EHT collaboration observed two supermassive black holes: the one at the centre of our galaxy, which is called Sagittarius A*, and the much larger behemoth at the centre of another galaxy called M87. This image show the black hole in M87, which is 55 million light years away. “We’re looking at a region that we’ve never looked at before, a region that we cannot really imagine being there,” said EHT scientist Heino Falcke in a press conference today in Brussels. “It feels like looking at the gates of hell, the end of space and time.” Read more: If you think black holes are strange, white holes will blow your mind M87 is easier to observe because, while it is much farther away than Sagittarius A*, it is also much bigger and has less material swirling around it. The image may be blurry, but it is an incredible technical feat requiring observations all over the world with the very best radio telescopes. “We’ve repurposed the entire Earth as a radio dish, it doesn’t get better than that unless we put something on the moon,” says Priyamvada Natarajan at Yale University. “We are at the limits of our equipment and what we can do.” The ring of light around the black hole looks a little lopsided, which is as expected. This comes from a prediction of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity: that the powerful gravitational pull of a black hole will actually bend light around it, making the light skimming the side of the black hole that’s rotating towards us appear brighter than the light on the side that’s spinning away. Images of the event horizon are particularly important when it comes to testing general relativity, which governs the behaviour of gravity and very large objects. We know that it does not mesh with theories of quantum mechanics, which describes the very small, and the very edge of a supermassive black hole, where gravity is more intense than anywhere else we know of, is the best place to stress test that disconnect. And this is the first direct evidence that event horizons are actually real. “The event horizon is very tantalizing, because once something passes the event horizon it seems like we can’t know anything about it,” says Natarajan. “It is the limit of what is known and what is unknowable.” This first image is pushing back the limits of our knowledge. “We have been studying black holes for so long that sometimes it is easy to forget that none of us have ever actually seen one,” said France Córdova, the director of the National Science Foundation, at a press conference in Washington, DC. That is, none of us have seen one until now. Music: Star of the Conqueror (Robo Diablo Mix) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/3eAjEgC https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/what-must-be http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #Discovery #BlackHole #Telescope

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Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, and Ward Crane. In 1991, Sherlock Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." In 2000, the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years... series, ranked the film #62 in its list of the funniest films of all time (AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs). Plot- A movie theater projectionist and janitor is in love with a beautiful loveable girl. However, he has a rival, the "local sheik". Neither has much money. The projectionist buys a $1 box of chocolates, all he can afford, and changes the price to $4 before giving it and a ring to her. The sheik steals and pawns the girl's father's pocket watch for $4. With the money, he buys a $3 box of chocolates for the girl. When the father notices his watch is missing, the sheik slips the pawn ticket into the projectionist's pocket unnoticed. The projectionist, studying to be a detective, offers to solve the crime, but when the pawn ticket is found in his pocket, he is banished from the girl's home. While showing a film about the theft of a pearl necklace, the projectionist falls asleep and dreams that he enters the movie as a detective, Sherlock Jr. The other actors are replaced by the projectionist's "real" acquaintances. The dream begins with the theft being committed by the villain with the aid of the butler. The girl's father calls for the world's greatest detective, and Sherlock Jr. arrives. Fearing that they will be caught, the villain and the butler attempt to kill Sherlock through several traps, poison, and an elaborate pool game with an exploding 13 ball. When these fail, the villain and butler try to escape. Sherlock Jr. tracks them down to a warehouse but is outnumbered by the gang to which the villain was selling the necklace. During the confrontation, Sherlock discovers that they have kidnapped the girl. With the help of his assistant, Gillette, Sherlock Jr. manages to save the girl, and defeat the gang. When he awakens, the girl shows up to tell him that she and her father learned the identity of the real thief after she went to the pawn shop to see who actually pawned the pocket watch. As a reconciliation scene happens to be playing on the screen, the projectionist mimics the actor's romantic behavior. Music: Whiskey Blossom (Radio Edit) by Dhruva Aliman Amazon- https://amzn.to/2Mgr7pg https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/the-wolf-and-the-river http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet #classic #music #film

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars, events called transits. TESS will survey 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for transiting exoplanets. TESS launched on April 18, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS scientists expect the mission will catalog thousands of planet candidates and vastly increase the current number of known exoplanets. Of these, approximately 300 are expected to be Earth-sized and super-Earth-sized exoplanets, which are worlds no larger than twice the size of Earth. TESS will find the most promising exoplanets orbiting our nearest and brightest stars, giving future researchers a rich set of new targets for more comprehensive follow-up studies. Mission Approach TESS will survey the entire sky over the course of two years by breaking it up into 26 different sectors, each 24 degrees by 96 degrees across. The powerful cameras on the spacecraft will stare at each sector for at least 27 days, looking at the brightest stars at a two-minute cadence. From Earth, the moon occupies half a degree, which is less than 1/9,000th the size of the TESS tiles. The stars TESS will study are 30 to 100 times brighter than those the Kepler mission and K2 follow-up surveyed, which will enable far easier follow-up observations with both ground-based and space-based telescopes. TESS will also cover a sky area 400 times larger than that monitored by Kepler. In addition to its search for exoplanets, TESS will allow scientists from the wider community to request targets for astrophysics research on approximately 20,000 additional objects during the mission through its Guest Investigator program. The Transit Method The transit method of detecting exoplanets looks for dips in the visible light of stars, and requires that planets cross in front of stars along our line of sight to them. Repetitive, periodic dips can reveal a planet or planets orbiting a star. Transit photometry, which looks at how much light an object puts out at any given time, can tell researchers a lot about a planet. Based on how much of a dip in light a planet causes in its star, we can determine that planet’s size. Looking at how long it takes a planet to orbit its star, scientists are able to determine the shape of the planet’s orbit and how long it takes the planet to circle its sun. TESS will create a catalog of thousands of exoplanet candidates using this transit photometry method. After this list has been compiled, the TESS mission will conduct ground-based follow-up observations to confirm that the exoplanets candidates are true exoplanets and not false positives. These ground-based telescopes will collaborate with other ground-based telescopes to measure the masses of the planets. Using the known planet size, orbit and mass, TESS and ground-based follow-up will be able to determine the planets’ compositions. This will reveal whether the planets are rocky (like Earth), gas giants (like Jupiter) or something even more unusual. Additional follow-up with ground- and space-based missions, including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, will also allow astronomers to study the atmospheres of many of these planets. TESS team partners include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, Orbital ATK, NASA’s Ames Research Center, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the Space Telescope Science Institute. #Space #Discovery #Astronomy Music: Overblue by Dhruva Aliman Amazon - https://amzn.to/3eyYxeD https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dhruva-aliman/363563637 https://dhruvaaliman.bandcamp.com/album/king-neptunes-travelling-merchants-and-their-adventures-in-and-beyond-the-sea http://www.dhruvaaliman.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XiFCr9iBKE6Cupltgnlet