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Gewinner und Verlierer des Klimawandels

By Guest PostJune 18, 2015Environment, Naturecoding bootcamps, embedded systems engineering, facial numbness, gewinner, global pandemic, grocery shopping, klimawandel, krankheitserregendes darmbakterium, maniola jurtina, ms movement, natur, online grocery delivery, online grocery shopping, panic buying, photo, software engineering, tuition payments, verlierer, zoom calls

Wissenschaftler des Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrums in Frankfurt haben in Zusammenarbeit mit weiteren Senckenberg-Standorten und deutschen Partnerinstitutionen die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Häufigkeit verschiedener Tier- und Pflanzengruppen in Deutschland untersucht. Erstmals wurden dabei Bestandstrends von sehr unterschiedlichen Artengruppen miteinander verglichen. Dabei fanden sie heraus, dass Vögel, Schmetterlinge und Käfer bereits auf den Klimawandel reagieren. Die Studie ist kürzlich im Fachjournal „Biological Conservation“ erschienen. (more…)

When danger is in the eye of the beholder

By Guest PostJanuary 7, 2014Scienceaggressive, beholder, big wave surfing, byproduct, colin holbrook, danger, dangerous sports, daniel fessler, dunedin nz, dynamometer, evolution, eye, fictional adventurers, fijian island, formidability, freestyle motorcycling, hostile intentions, human behavior, human nature, imagination, journal, los angeles, Media, middle eastern man, mindful decisions, phenomenon, photo, public settings, risk seekers, terrorist, ucla anthropologist, western civilization, yasawa

UCLA anthropologists study how, why we read into potential peril

They went boating alone without life vests and gave no thought to shimmying up very tall coconut trees.

And although they were only figments of a writer’s imagination, the fictional adventurers helped provide new insight into how humans, especially men, gauge the threat of a potential adversary. Those reading the stories — dozens of residents of a small village on the Fijian island of Yasawa — judged the characters to be risk-seekers. (more…)

Commentary: Fiery Cushman: Morality of the NY Post subway photo

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2012Media49th street, brown university, catastrophe bond, category 3, david pizarro, ethical constellation, fiery cushman, financial transaction, freelance photographer, hurricane, ki suck han, misfortune, moral judgment, moral question, natural disaster, new orleans, new york, new york post, newspapers, people, photo, profit, psychologist, psychology, q train, subway tracks, tragedy, twitterati, uncomfortable, yoel inbar

A freelance photographer happened to be on the scene in New York when one man pushed another onto the subway tracks. The New York Post ultimately ran a photo on its front page, sparking widespread outrage. Based on his research, Brown University psychologist Fiery Cushman suggests that what makes people uncomfortable about the photo may be the idea of profiting from tragedy.

When tragedy occurs, who may profit? Newspapers around the country announced the tragic death of Ki-Suck Han, the man pushed in front of a New York subway car on Monday. Quickly, however, attention turned to an element of the news reporting itself. On the controversial front cover of the New York Post on Tuesday, a full-page photo showed the train hurtling toward Han. Dramatically captured by a freelance photographer while events unfolded, the photograph ran under the headline: “Pushed onto the subway track, this man is about to die.” (more…)

Freezing Electrons in Flight

By Guest PostOctober 13, 2012Science1878, arizona, artificial, arvinder sandhu, atmosphere, atom, attosecond, camera, chemical process, destruction, eadweard muybridge, earth, electron, electron emission, electronic devices, electronic motion, emulsion plate, excited atom, femtosecond, formation, ground, henry timmers, high energy, horse, iconic series, laser flash, laser pulses, microscopic dynamics, molecular process, muybridge, mystery, natural, niranjan shivaram, oxygen molecule, ozone, phenomena, photo, photograph, physical, quintillionths, real-time, second, stroboscopy, super excited, technique, touch, ultrafast, ultraviolet light, university, upper atmosphere, zeptosecond

Using the world’s fastest laser pulses, which can freeze the ultrafast motion of electrons and atoms, UA physicists have caught the action of molecules breaking apart and electrons getting knocked out of atoms. Their research helps us better understand molecular processes and ultimately be able to control them in many possible applications.

In 1878, a now iconic series of photographs instantly solved a long-standing mystery: Does a galloping horse touch the ground at all times? (It doesn’t.) The images of Eadweard Muybridge taken alongside a racetrack marked the beginning of high-speed photography.

Approximately 134 years later, researchers in the University of Arizona department of physics have solved a similar mystery, one in which super-excited oxygen molecules have replaced the horse, and ultrafast, high-energy laser flashes have replaced Muybridge’s photo emulsion plates. (more…)

The Naked Truth: Exclusive Survey from FITNESS Magazine & Yahoo! Shine Reveals How Men & Women Really Feel about Their Bodies

By Guest PostJanuary 17, 2012Culture, Technologyabout being naked, adults, body confidence, butts, exclusive survey, fat, fitness magazine, losing weight, miniskirt, naked, new year, photo, resolution, sexted, thighs, without clothes, women, yahoo shine

*57% of Women Polled Think They Look Fat Naked;

Thighs ranked as #1 Most Hated Body Part; Cleavage ranked as #1 Body Part To Flaunt Among Women

However, 63% of adults admit to walking around their home naked*

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & NEW YORK — It’s no wonder losing weight continues to dominate New Year’s resolutions—a new survey from FITNESS Magazine and Yahoo! Shine reveals that 57% of women polled think they look fat naked and 81% of adults have a body part they hate. The exclusive survey asked 1,500 women and men to bare it all about how they feel about being naked.

The survey revealed a lack of body confidence with women more likely than men to have issues with many parts of their body, primarily their thighs (21%), while men dislike their butts the most (11%). (more…)

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Gewinner und Verlierer des Klimawandels

When danger is in the eye of the beholder

Commentary: Fiery Cushman: Morality of the NY Post subway photo

Freezing Electrons in Flight

The Naked Truth: Exclusive Survey from FITNESS Magazine & Yahoo! Shine Reveals How Men & Women Really Feel about Their Bodies