New species in Papua

The scientists claimed that they had found a 'lost world' in which some undiscovered animal species found there including the frog and the giant rat with a body size of cats. The expedition carried out by the BBC to explore the giant crater of a volcano located in the highlands of Papua New Guinea to make a documentary Lost Land of the Volcano

Accompanied by the first biologists who never set foot in the crater, the research team that filmed the strange spiders, caterpillars and giant kangaroos that live in trees. Meanwhile, mice that were on the island's length is 81cm from nose to tail and weighed about 1.3 kg.

Earth almost doom

On December 27, 2004, suddenly a burst of energy invisible hit Earth. He is expected to come from a considerable distance, ie distance from the constellation Sagittarius that reach about 50 thousand light years, or more than 473 thousand trillion miles.

Explosion and lacing was first detected gamma rays by NASA's Swift satellite. As for astronomers, the observation of these events provide the most detailed examples of the burst of energy ever recorded in history.

Although the burst of energy that only attack for about 0.2 seconds, but the energy is just as much to the energy of sunlight shining on the Earth up to 500 thousand years old.

As a result of devastating blows gammar beam energy, a lot of electronic satellites orbiting the Earth were damaged. Earth's upper atmosphere is also experiencing tremendous ionization.

After further investigation, astronomers discovered that the source of the attack was a rare magnetar SGR 1806-20 is located on the other side of the Milky Way.

Soft gamma ray repeaters (SGRs) This occurs when the magnetic field being tangled in trying to straighten her back and broke the crust of the magnetar. As a result, there was a burst of energy by turning off zone that can reach several light years.

Magnetar's magnetic field alone has 1,000-fold compared to pulsars (neutron stars that emit high bermedan magnet electromagnetic radiation) used. He is very strong and could lead to the destruction of anything within a distance of 1,000 kilometers in the vicinity.

Corpus Museum

Museun is located in the Netherlands, which was opened by Queen Beatrix in March 2008, the museum is very unique and exists only in the Netherlands presents an amazing experience to the visitors to get around the human body, during a trip in the human body, you can see, feel, and hear how the human body and what the role of healthy food, healthy living and many sports.

various questions, such as

“why should I sleep?”
“What happens when I sneeze?”
and “how hair can grow?”
answered and explained all of this museum.

Museum corpus is a dream project of a businessman named Henri Remmers.

Form outside the museum is an amalgamation of the rectangular building whose front is to use transparent glass and the right side of this building there as man who was sitting, which becomes the architecture of this building.

From the uniqueness that is available at the museum, there is also a vehicle for a game where people who play it must defeat the bacteria that pelted using a bag of beans on a big screen.

Tour inside the human body itself lasted for 55 minutes, take it easy, if you are from another country, because this museum provides 8 languages ​​as an introduction to audio. This museum admission price of $ 16.6

 

2 The most unique Google Logo

Google.com search engines often display a "creative Google Logo" to commemorate something. Many of today's google logo or certain days of unique and creative, sometimes funny google logo.

1. Logo google with the theme of dance.

 

Why is unique because its not usual google logo with a color that was used. (Red, yellow, green and blue) it was the blend color from google logo that we know

2. Logo google lunar eclipse

 

 

 

coincided with a total lunar eclipse in 2011 googl.co.id or google search portal Indonesia makes its theme using pictures moon with SWF format Live updates and pictures grehana activity was also in accordance with the original activity of the lunar eclipse. rotation occurs when the light and the shadows closed in google seemed so.

 

Those who would like google logo collection! let's do not have any until google logos to this unique and historic

Why Do We Dream? To Ease Painful Memories, Study Hints

 

Dreaming may act like a type of overnight therapy, taking the edge off painful memories, a new study says.

 
In a recent experiment, brain scans of people who viewed emotionally provocative pictures and then went to sleep showed that the part of the brain that handles emotions powered down during rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep—the stage in which dreams occur.

What's more, the subjects reported that the images had less of an emotional charge the morning after. This suggests that REM sleep may help us work through difficult events in our lives, the researchers say.
Why we sleep is still unknown, and even more elusive is the relationship between sleep and our emotional well-being, said study leader Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley.
(Read about the mysteries of why we sleep in National Geographic magazine.)

There's already anecdotal evidence for sleep's therapeutic benefits—such as the oft-repeated adage that a person will go to bed and feel better in the morning, Walker said.
And clinical data show that psychiatric mood disorders, from anxiety to post-traumatic stress disorder, can lead to sleep abnormalities.

"Despite that suggested interplay, we've understood remarkably little about the basic brain science that may underlie a relationship between our emotional lives and our sleeping lives," he said.
As his new research now suggests, "it's not time that heals all wounds—it's REM sleep."
Sleeping on It Helps
For the experiment, Walker and colleagues divided 34 healthy young volunteers into two groups. People in each group viewed and rated their reactions to 150 images shown at 12-hour intervals while an MRI scanner measured brain activity.

The pictures, which have been used in hundreds of studies, ranged from bland objects—i.e., a kettle on a counter top—to gory pictures of people maimed in accidents, Walker said.
One group viewed the pictures in the morning and again in the evening without sleeping in between. The other group saw the same images before a full night of sleep and again the next morning.
The volunteers who slept between viewings reported a much milder emotional reaction to the images after the second viewing.

(See "Dreams Make You Smarter, More Creative, Studies Suggest.")
MRI scans performed during REM sleep revealed that brain activity fell in the amygdala—the emotion-processing part of the brain—possibly allowing the more rational prefrontal cortex to soften the images' impact. (See an interactive brain map.)

In addition, recordings of the subjects' electrical brain activity during sleep made with electroencephalograms showed a decrease in the levels of brain chemicals linked to stress.
When people experience an emotional event, stress chemicals are released to flag and prioritize that event, essentially reminding the brain to work through it during sleep, according to Walker, whose study appeared November 23 in the journal Current Biology.

"Somewhere between the initial event and the later point of recollecting, the brain has performed an elegant trick of divorcing emotions from memory, so it's no longer itself emotional," Walker said.
"That's what we mean by overnight therapy."

(Take National Geographic magazine's sleep quiz.)

Historic Pearl Harbor Looks to New Energy Future

 

A sign on Paquet Hall boasts that it is “the first and still the finest berthing” at Pearl Harbor. The three-story Bachelor Enlisted Quarters, built in a U-shape to enclose a palm-lined courtyard, survived the December 7 surprise attack 70 years ago to become a cherished part of the base’s history. This year, the 1927 building was crowned for a role in the U.S. military’s future, when 1,064 solar photovoltaic modules were installed on its rooftop.


It is part of a $15 million, 2.4-megawatt solar installation covering five buildings at what is now known as Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Unveiled this summer (although final wiring was expected to continue late into the year), the project is part of the Pentagon’s ambitious effort to get 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2025.

Hawaii is a fitting place to seek energy alternatives, and not just because of opportunity to harvest  “the wash of sunlight” over Oahu, in the words of Ben Santarris, spokesman for the system’s manufacturer, SolarWorld, who blogged about the installation earlier this year.  Hawaii has the highest electricity prices in the United States, about three times the national average. As an island it must import all of its fuel, and nearly three-quarters of its electricity is generated by dirty and expensive oil.  (Petroleum is used for less than 1 percent of electricity generation on the U.S. mainland.)

It’s been a tough year for solar energy. SolarWorld, the company that built the solar PV arrays now at Pearl Harbor, and the largest maker of conventional solar panels in the United States, closed its California factory this fall; it blames unfair competition from China. And a company now at work on a separate solar project at the Pearl Harbor base, SolarCity, saw its effort to obtain a federal loan guarantee for the project collapse in the wake of the Solyndra scandal.

But the anniversary of Pearl Harbor also is an appropriate time to contemplate why the military and others are making the effort—fraught with difficulty, setbacks and expense—to cut reliance on fossil fuels. Japan’s overwhelming oil dependence on the United States was a festering issue in the run-up to war, and the de facto oil embargo imposed by the Roosevelt administration in the summer of 1941 is viewed by historians as a key event on the path to December 7.

In 2011, the U.S. military, the nation’s largest energy consumer, has taken a leading role on clean energy as a matter of security. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has often remarked that the United States would never rely on the world’s most volatile countries to design, produce or provide its weapons. “But in buying oil from these places we give them some say in whether our ships will sail or whether our airplanes will fly,” he says.
SolarCity eventually was able to put together financing for its SolarStrong project, a plan to provide 300 megawatts of solar power to up to 120,000 military housing units around the country. It is expected to be the largest residential solar photovoltaic project in U.S. history, and the first phase is already underway at a site accustomed to having a place in the nation’s annals, Pearl Harbor.

source: news national-geographic

Light Pollution

 

 

If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars, we would go in darkness happily, the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet. Instead, we are diurnal creatures, with eyes adapted to living in the sun's light. This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of us don't think of ourselves as diurnal beings any more than we think of ourselves as primates or mammals or Earthlings. Yet it's the only way to explain what we've done to the night: We've engineered it to receive us by filling it with light.

This kind of engineering is no different than damming a river. Its benefits come with consequences—called light pollution—whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky, where it's not wanted, instead of focusing it downward, where it is. Ill-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and radically alters the light levels—and light rhythms—to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have adapted. Wherever human light spills into the natural world, some aspect of life—migration, reproduction, feeding—is affected. 


For most of human history, the phrase "light pollution" would have made no sense. Imagine walking toward London on a moonlit night around 1800, when it was Earth's most populous city. Nearly a million people lived there, making do, as they always had, with candles and rushlights and torches and lanterns. Only a few houses were lit by gas, and there would be no public gaslights in the streets or squares for another seven years. From a few miles away, you would have been as likely to smell London as to see its dim collective glow. 

Now most of humanity lives under intersecting domes of reflected, refracted light, of scattering rays from overlit cities and suburbs, from light-flooded highways and factories. Nearly all of nighttime Europe is a nebula of light, as is most of the United States and all of Japan. In the south Atlantic the glow from a single fishing fleet—squid fishermen luring their prey with metal halide lamps—can be seen from space, burning brighter, in fact, than Buenos Aires or Rio de Janeiro. 

 

Granny 85 Year Able Fishing 333 Kg

She's old same as the Queen Elizabeth II, but Connie Laurie seemed much more powerful because he managed to fish for marlin that weighs more than 333 pounds.

Connie is indeed the one who likes fishing, but he had not received a very large catchment such as what is captured in Queensland, Australia. The professional fisherman who was amazed when I saw this grandmother fishing.


"I lifted the seat up to two times, when pulling fish. But the fish was finally caught," said Connie, as quoted by the Daily Mail, Wednesday (11/09/2011).

Grandma was also expressed his happiness when he managed to catch the marlin. According to Connie, the fishing was like being in a tense battle.

"I seemed to see a miracle when a big fish leaped from the water. This is what I want, go fishing and get a big catch," he added.

the fish was finally released back into the sea, who was sailing vacation to the beach and he was welcomed by local residents who were caught Connie's preaching on the radio.