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First they criticise iPhone, then get busy in copying iPhone. Apple is a trend setter in true sense!
#Apple #eSIM #Smartphone #iPhone

The #KUWTK star's decision upset her sister

“The outer layers are extremely tenuous and rarified, and the radiation we receive here on Earth doesn’t all originate from the very edge of that plasma. Instead, much of what we see originates from about the first 500 kilometers, where the interior layers are significantly hotter than the outermost ones. The light coming from our Sun — or any star, for that matter — is not a blackbody, but the sum of many blackbodies that vary in temperature by many hundreds of degrees.

It’s only when you add all these blackbodies together that you can reproduce the light we see coming from our parent star. The cosmic microwave background, when we look at its spectrum in detail, is a far more perfect blackbody than any star could ever hope to be.”

If you get your science from the internet, you might hear about all sorts of alternatives to the Big Bang. Grandiose claims are often made, decrying the Big Bang as a religion that can never be falsified, while simultaneously touting ideas that most scientists discarded decades or even centuries ago.

But there is no ideology at play; science is a game that we play with predictive power and evidence. The Big Bang makes explicit predictions, and so do alternative ideas that rely on atomic emissions, reflected starlight, photonic energy loss, or heated-up dust.

We can look at every idea we can conceive of, but in the end, only one matches what we observe. Here’s how the Cosmic Microwave Background points to the Big Bang, and away from every other alternative.

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The carbon-fiber, 810-horsepower Monza will come in one-seat and two-seat versions, 

#China vowed to retaliate after the #US said it will impose a 10% tariff on about $200bn in Chinese goods next week and more than double the rate in 2019. The statement from the Ministry of Commerce didn’t note specific actions, though China has previously said it would respond with levies on $60bn worth of U.S. goods. Such a move risks deepening the standoff even further, with President Donald Trump saying in a statement on Monday the U.S. will immediately pursue additional tariffs on about $267bn of Chinese imports if Beijing hits back.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, retailers, agricultural groups and some members of #Trump’s own #Republicanparty have spoken out against his tariff campaign. It’s also divided his advisers between China hawks like U.S. Trade Representative #RobertLighthizer and Treasury Secretary #StevenMnuchin, a former Wall Street banker who is seeking a trade deal.


#WorldEconomy #Protectionism #America #Globalisation #GlobalTrade #TradeWars #EconomicRisk #Economy #TradePolicy #InternationalTrade #TradeTariffs #Politics #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations #USA #GlobalTradeWar
China Vows to Retaliate After Trump's $200 Billion Tariff Hit
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/trump-ratchets-up-tariff-pressure-on-china-with-200-billion-hit

Salt, Pepper, and Ice
Video Credit & Copyright: Maroun Habib (Moophz)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180918.html

There's a "camera" comet now moving across the sky. Just a bit too dim to see with the unaided eye, Comet 21P / Giacobini-Zinner has developed a long tail that makes it a good sight for binoculars and sensitive cameras. The movement of the Comet 21P on the sky was captured last week in the featured time-lapse video compressing 90 minutes into about 2.5 seconds. What might seem odd is that the 21P's tail is not following the comet's movement. This is because comet tails always point away from the Sun, and the comet was not moving toward the Sun during the period photographed. Visible far in the background on the upper left is the Salt & Pepper star cluster, M37, while the bright red star V440 Auriga is visible just about the frame's center. This 2-km ball of dust-shedding ice passed its nearest to the Sun and Earth only last week and is now fading as it crosses into southern skies. Comet 21P should remain visible, however, and photogenic to stabilized cameras, for another month or so.
2018 September 18

Participants of the #Pangaea geology field training course take a break at the riverbed during week two of the 2018 course in the Italian Dolomites. Designed to train astronauts and future explorers on planetary formation and detecting signs of life, the course combines classroom lectures with field trips to sites of geological interest.

The Patriots slipped a few spots in our latest rankings, while Ryan Fitzpatrick continues to silence the haters.

https://nesn.com/2018/09/nfl-week-3-power-rankings-are-bucs-for-real-chiefs-continue-to-surge/

7 Warning Signs of a Brain Tumour You Should Know

Does your head constantly hurt? Find out if that's a warning sign of a brain tumor.

https://medmd.org/7-warning-signs-of-a-brain-tumour-you-should-know/

The eyes have it:

Eyes Have a Natural Version of Night Vision

"...The ganglion cell layer of the retina is labelled with red to show the presence of a cell sensitive to motion in the upward direction. In low light, these cells pick up the faintest signals of any kind of motion."

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/retinal-cells-can-switch-to-night-vision-mode-309583

This is next on my list of things to try...

The world's largest genetic study of hypertension finds that the number of genetic loci involved is three times larger than previously thought. #Hypertension

Google partners with Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi to put Android into millions of vehicles https://tcrn.ch/2D77ka0

One thing many people do is skip breakfast in order to lower calorie intake. While this may seem like a good idea to lose weight, research proves otherwise. In fact, eating a big breakfast followed by smaller meals throughout the day is the best method for weight loss...

A novel approach of improving battery performance - New technological developments by UNIST researchers promise to significantly boost the performance of lithium metal batteries in promising research for the next-generation of rechargeable batteries. The study also validates the principle of enhanced battery performance via the real-time in situ observation of charge-discharge cycling.