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Starting A New You

By Guest PostOctober 11, 2013General, Healthanti ageing treatments, birthday milestone, botox injections, chris jenkinson, dermal fillers, every day life, marketing consultant, new you, oxford beauty treatments, qutis clinic, uk based, volunteer work

We can all get stuck in a rut from time to time, sometimes without really noticing it. We just keep plodding on, staying in our comfort zone, keeping our head down and just getting on with it. The things is, after a while, plodding along with your head down soon gets to be really boring. Soul destroying, even. Wouldn’t it be nicer to stride along, full of energy with your head held high, enjoying the blue skies? Making changes to your circumstances requires effort, courage and commitment, and if you are prepared to invest in yourself, the payback is well worth it.

So how do you go about achieving a new you? Start off by setting some goals. Ask yourself honestly about the things you want to change in your life, and the things you are happy to keep the same. (more…)

American history at your fingertips

By Guest PostOctober 10, 2013Mediaamerican history, digital artifacts, digital collections, historical societies, minnesota reflections, story of america

The launch of the Digital Public Library of America brings greater access to local treasures.

History became easier for the nation and the world to access, thanks to the recent launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). (more…)

IBM Research to Accelerate Big Data Discovery

By Guest PostOctober 10, 2013Technologyagriculture, big data discovery, data, drug development, gas, ibm research, jeff welser, laura haas, mining, natural resources industries, oil, predictive maintenance, quintillion bytes, social analytics, social media

New lab unifies data, expertise and novel analytics to speed discovery in industries including retail, medicine and finance

San Jose, Calif. – 10 Oct 2013: Scientists from IBM today announced the Accelerated Discovery Lab, a new collaborative environment specifically targeted at helping clients find unknown relationships from disparate data sets.

The workspace includes access to diverse data sources, unique research capabilities for analytics such as domain models, text analytics and natural language processing capabilities derived from Watson, a powerful hardware and software infrastructure, and broad domain expertise including biology, medicine, finance, weather modeling, mathematics, computer science and information technology. This combination reduces time to insight resulting in business impact – cost savings, revenue generation and scientific impact – ahead of the traditional pace of discovery. (more…)

„Keiner weiß, was in den nächsten Monaten in Fukushima passieren wird“

By Guest PostOctober 10, 2013Environmentatomenergie, betreibergesellschaft tepco, der atomkraft, fukushima, Japan, kontaminiertes wasser, masako konishi, neue atomkraftwerke, olympischen spiele 2020, pazifik, projekte klimawandel, taifun saison, tokio, wwf japan

Rund zweieinhalb Jahre nach Fukushima erreicht die Strahlenbelastung immer wieder neue Höchstwerte, und immer wieder hört man von Pannen am havarierten Atomkraftwerk. Wie sieht die Energiechefin Masako Konishi vom WWF Japan die Lage?

WWF Deutschland: Wie ist die aktuelle Situation vor Ort? Sind Sie besorgt?

Masako Konishi: Ich wäre gerne hoffnungsvoll, bin aber sehr besorgt. Die Taifun-Saison beginnt, das bedeutet Regen und Stürme. Kontaminiertes Wasser fließt jetzt schon in den Boden und in den Pazifik. Die Fischer in der Region wollten gerade ihre Arbeit wieder aufnehmen. Aber nach den neuesten Nachrichten über radioaktiv kontaminiertes Wasser, das aus Lecks in den Kühlwassertanks ins Meer strömt, wird das wohl auf Dauer nicht gehen. Diese Tanks stehen überall in Fukushima, es sind mehr als tausend – es gibt noch keine Lösung, was mit diesen Hundertausenden Tonnen radioaktiv verseuchten Wassers passieren soll. Es gibt so viele Probleme, die noch nicht gelöst sind. Der Premierminister sagt, wir hätten alles unter Kontrolle. Aber das sagt er auch nur, weil wir den Zuschlag für die Olympischen Spiele 2020 in Tokio bekommen haben. Keiner weiß, was in den nächsten Monaten passieren wird. (more…)

The Failing Freezer: How Soil Microbes Affect Global Climate

By Guest PostOctober 10, 2013Environmentabisko national park, arctic circle, big biology problem, carbon dioxide, changsheng li, climate change, climate driven changes, ecologist, Environment, failing freezer, gene tyson, global climate, global scale, jeffrey chanton, matthew sullivan, metagenome, methane, microbial feast, microbial process, organic material, patrick crill, permafrost soil, plexiglas chamber, scott saleska, sentinel ecosystem, soil chemistry, soil microbes, steven frolking, Sweden, types of carbon, university of arizona, virginia, virginia rich

With a $3.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, a UA-led international collaboration studies how microbes release greenhouse gases as they gain access to nutrients in the soil thawing under the influence of warmer global temperatures.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $3.9 million to an international collaboration led by University of Arizona ecologists Scott Saleska and Virginia Rich to study how microbes release greenhouse gases as they access nutrients in thawing permafrost soils under the influence of a warmer climate. (more…)

Ausstieg aus Braunkohle überfällig: Garzweiler II muss stillgelegt werden

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2013Environmentbraunkohle, braunkohletagebau garzweiler, bund, co2 ausstoss, energie expertin, garzweiler, klimaschaedliche braunkohle, kohlestrom, konzernpolitik, naturschutz deutschland, nordrhein westfalen, rwe, tagebau in nrw, tina loeffelsend, umwelt

Berlin/Düsseldorf: “Das mögliche vorzeitige Aus für den Braunkohletagebau Garzweiler II zeigt, dass Kohleverstromung in der Energiewende keinen Platz mehr hat. Die klimaschädliche Braunkohle ist keine Brückentechnologie sondern Altlast einer überholten Energieversorgung. Garzweiler muss stillgelegt und der klimaverträgliche Ausstieg aus der Kohleverstromung eingeleitet werden”, forderte Tina Löffelsend, Energie-Expertin des Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND) anlässlich der heutigen Meldung, RWE erwäge das Aus für den Braunkohletagebau Garzweiler II in Nordrhein-Westfalen. (more…)

Poetry is like music to the mind, scientists prove

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2013Culture, Health, Scienceadam zeman, anatomical sense, art, brain imaging technology, favourite poetry, fmri technology, introspection, music to mind, poetry, prose, recollection, scientist, university of exeter

New brain imaging technology is helping researchers to bridge the gap between art and science by mapping the different ways in which the brain responds to poetry and prose.

Scientists at the University of Exeter used state-of-the-art functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, which allows them to visualise which parts of the brain are activated to process various activities.

No one had previously looked specifically at the differing responses in the brain to poetry and prose. (more…)

Stronger winds explain puzzling growth of sea ice in Antarctica

By Guest PostOctober 9, 2013Environmentantarctic sea ice, Antarctica, atmosphere, axel schweiger, dynamic change, global climate models, jinlun zhang, model experiment, modeling study, natural cycle, ozone depletion, puzzling growth, sea ice, south pole, southern hemisphere, Southern Ocean, stronger winds, thick ice, university of washington, variability, warming climate

Much attention is paid to melting sea ice in the Arctic. But less clear is the situation on the other side of the planet. Despite warmer air and oceans, there’s more sea ice in Antarctica now than in the 1970s – a fact often pounced on by global warming skeptics. The latest numbers suggest the Antarctic sea ice may be heading toward a record high this year.

While changes in weather may play a big role in short-term changes in sea ice seen in the past couple of months, changes in winds have apparently led to the more general upward sea ice trend during the past few decades, according to University of Washington research. A new modeling study to be published in the Journal of Climate shows that stronger polar winds lead to an increase in Antarctic sea ice, even in a warming climate. (more…)

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