//////////////////////gesellschaft
One entry found.
Main Entry:
ge·sell·schaft
Pronunciation:
\gə-ˈzel-ˌshäft\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
German, companionship, society
Date:
1928
: a rationally developed mechanistic type of social relationship characterized by impersonally contracted associations between persons ; also : a community or society characterized by this relationship — compare gemeinschaft
/////////////////////It is not hard to see why. Mr Nilekani mixes personal anecdote with the optimism that India, alongside China, can return to somewhere near to the dominant position it once held in the world economy before the 18th century. Then, the two countries accounted for more than half of the world's GDP.
/////////////////PBAMA-SOFT POWER
////////////////Advanced prostate cancer deadlier in young men
Patients under 44 were three times more likely to die, study finds
////////////////Whatever you do, don't be satisfied with a little job and a little house somewhere
UNTIL ABT 40
.///////////////Hypothenar Hammer Syndrome: Apropos of Six Cases and Review of the Literature
Hypothenar hammer syndrome (HHS) is a rare occupation-related condition describing either an aneurysm or thrombosis of the ulnar artery leading to upper arm ischemia.
//////////////////FEMALE SOCIAL AGHGRESSION
//////////////////In other words, the instructions encoded in nucleic acids must be converted into the language of amino acids so that their “meaning” (a useful protein) can be expressed. When a gene is thus “expressed,” the strands of the DNA double helix separate and cellular machinery transcribes the nucleotide sequence along a single strand into a copy made of RNA. Then this messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript must often be edited into a briefer form before it is ready to be translated into a protein by ribosomes and smaller RNAs called transfer RNA (tRNA). As ribosomes ride along the mRNA, tRNAs arrive to deliver the encoded amino acids. Each tRNA carries a specific amino acid, and most are able to recognize just one particular three nucleotide sequence in the mRNA strand. When a tRNA meets its mRNA match, the ribosome adds the tRNA’s amino acid cargo to the growing amino acid chain.
/////////////////2008-Top 10 teaming with diversity
Among this year's top 10 picks is a tiny seahorse - Hippocampus satomiae - with a standard length of 0.54 inches (13.8 millimeters) and an approximate height of 0.45 inches (11.5 millimeters). This pygmy species was found near Derawan Island off Kalimantan, Indonesia. The name - satomiae - is "in honour of Miss Satomi Onishi, the dive guide who collected the type specimens."
From the plant kingdom is a gigantic new species and genus of palm - Tahina spectablilis - with fewer than 100 individuals found only in a small area of northwestern Madagascar. This plant flowers itself to death, producing a huge, spectacular terminal inflorescence with countless flowers. After fruiting, the palm dies and collapses. Soon after the original publication of the species description, seeds were disseminated throughout the palm grower community, to raise money for its conservation by the local villagers. It has since become a highly prized ornamental.
Also on the top 10 list is caffeine-free coffee from Cameroon. Coffea charrieriana is the first record of a caffeine-free species from Central Africa. The plant is named for Professor André Charrier, "who managed coffee breeding research and collecting missions at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) during the last 30 years of the 20th century."
And, in the category of "spray on new species" is an extremophile bacteria that was discovered in hairspray by Japanese scientists. The species - Microbacterium hatanonis - was named in honor of Kazunori Hatano, "for his contribution to the understanding of the genus Microbacterium."
Phobaeticus chani made the list as the world's longest insect with a body length of 14 inches (36.6 centimeters) and overall length of 22.3 inches (56.7 centimeters). The insect, which resembles a stick, was found in Borneo, Malaysia.
The Barbados Threadsnake - Leptotyphlops carlae - measuring 4.1 inches (104 millimeters) is believed to be the world's smallest snake. It was discovered in St. Joseph Parish, Barbados.
The ghost slug - Selenochlamys ysbryda - was a surprising find in the well-collected and densely populated area of Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales.
A snail - Opisthostoma vermiculum - found in Malaysia, represents a unique morphological evolution, with a shell that twists around four axes. It is endemic to a unique limestone hill habitat in Malaysia.
The other two species on the top 10 list are fish - one found in deep-reef habitat off the coast of Ngemelis Island, Palau, and the other a fossilized specimen of the oldest known live-bearing vertebrate.
Chromis abyssus - a beautiful species of damselfish made it to the top 10 representing the first taxonomic act of 2008 and the first act registered in the newly launched taxonomic database Zoobank. As a result, in the first month following its original description, it was the most downloaded article in Zootaxa's history and was among the top 10 downloaded articles for 11 months in 2008. The discovery also highlights how little is known about deep-reef biodiversity.
Also on the top 10 list is a fossilized specimen - Materpiscis attenboroughi - the oldent known vertebrate to be viviparous (live bearing). The specimen, an extremely rare find from Western Australia, shows a mother fish giving birth approximately 380 million years ago. The holotype specimen has been nicknamed "Josie" by the discoverer, John Long, in honor of his mother.
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"Is today the most perfect day to choose to do that? No.
///////////////////rocking the boat
///////////////////////////////////////DUST OF AGES
///////////////////What is a noise, that it annoys us so?
Noise is, in a given situation, any sound or sounds which one or more listeners consider to be any of: irrelevant, unwanted, intrusive, distracting, irrelevant or annoying. By analogy, dots, blots, graininess and such may be considered to be visual noise.
Noise is a barrier to communication: whether it be the babble of the market-place or the hiss in an old recording, most of us would rather filter it out.
//////////////////////Little Pigeon-Boxes
It seems to be a universal characteristic of humans that we like to label each other, often in simplistic binary fashion. Friend or foe, left-wing or right-wing, smart or dumb, sane or psycho, we never seem to run out of pigeonholes into which we can stuff people like socks in a drawer.
//////////////////PATTERN BY DTR-030609
/////////////////"I don't like that, it smells a funny color."
From time to time our senses play tricks with our brains, and we 'hear' or 'smell' colors.
Such switching of sensory modalities and perception is called synaesthesia.
Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that often involves a ‘blending of the senses’. It is thought to affect less than 1% of the population, and people experience it in a variety of ways.
//////////////////Are You An Athlete Or A Jock?
by News Account
The terms 'athlete' and 'jock' are sometimes used interchangeably - especially be people who dislike athletes. And it's usually negative. Due to that, only 18 percent of students in a recent study strongly identified with the identity of "jock," while 55 percent strongly identified with the identity of "athlete." Students were twice as likely to reject the jock label.
I AM A RELENTING JOCK
////////////////////Particles Larger Than Galaxies Fill the Universe?
Charles Q. Choi
for National Geographic News
June 2, 2009
The oldest of the subatomic particles called neutrinos might each encompass a space larger than thousands of galaxies, new simulations suggest.
Neutrinos as we know them today are created by nuclear reactions or radioactive decay.
According to quantum mechanics, the "size" of a particle such as a neutrino is defined by a fuzzy range of possible locations. We can only detect these particles when they interact with something such as an atom, which collapses that range into a single point in space and time.
For neutrinos created recently, the ranges they can exist in are very, very small.
But over the roughly 13.7-billion-year lifetime of the cosmos, "relic" neutrinos have been stretched out by the expansion of the universe, enlarging the range in which each neutrino can exist.
"We're talking maybe up to roughly ten billion light-years" for each neutrino, said study co-author George Fuller of the University of California, San Diego.
"That's nearly on the order of the size of the observable universe."
"Small" Physics, Writ Large
Neutrinos have no charge, and their masses are so tiny they have yet to be accurately measured.
This means that neutrinos, which zip around at nearly the speed of light, can pass through normal matter largely undisturbed.
Most neutrinos that affect Earth come from the sun. Billions of solar neutrinos pass through the average human every second.
While trying to calculate masses for neutrinos, Fuller and his student Chad Kishimoto found that, as the universe has expanded, the fabric of space-time has been tugging at ancient neutrinos, stretching the particles' ranges over vast distances.
Such large ranges can remain intact, the scientists suggest in the May 22 issue of Physical Review Letters, since neutrinos pass right through most of the universe's matter.
An open question is whether gravity—say, the pull from an entire galaxy—can force a meganeutrino to collapse down to a single location.
"Quantum mechanics was intended to describe the universe on the smallest of scales, and now here we're talking about how it works on the largest scales in the universe," Kishimoto said.
"We're talking about physics that hasn't been explored before."
According to physicist Adrian Lee at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not part of the study team, "gravity is a real frontier these days that we don't really understand.
"These neutrinos could be a path to something deeper in our understanding with gravity."
(Related: "At Ten, Dark Energy 'Most Profound Problem' in Physics.")
Follow the Gravity?
But answers to such questions depend on eventually detecting these predicted meganeutrinos.
Although they should be extraordinarily common in the universe, the relic neutrinos now have only about one ten-billionth of the energy of neutrinos generated by the sun.
"This makes relic neutrinos near impossible to detect directly, at least with anything one could build on Earth," study co-author Fuller said.
Still, the fact that there are so many relic neutrinos means that together they likely exert a significant gravitational pull—"enough to be important for how the universe as a whole behaves," Fuller added.
Dark matter, for example, has never been directly observed. But astrophysicists have found proof that dark matter exists based on its effect on colliding galaxies.
"So by looking at the growth of structures in the universe," Fuller said, "you might be able to detect relic neutrinos indirectly by their gravity."
/////////////////////bing me on that
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