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NASA's EPIC View of 2017 Eclipse Across America
From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow crossing over North America on Aug. 21, 2017. EPIC is aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), where it photographs the full sunlit side of Earth every day, giving it a unique view of total solar eclipses.
EPIC normally takes about 20 to 22 images of Earth per day, so this animation appears to speed up the progression of the eclipse.
Source:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/nasas-epic-view-of-2017-eclipse-across-america
Credit: NASA EPIC Team
#universe #NASA #EPIC #space #eclipse2017 #science
From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow crossing over North America on Aug. 21, 2017. EPIC is aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), where it photographs the full sunlit side of Earth every day, giving it a unique view of total solar eclipses.
EPIC normally takes about 20 to 22 images of Earth per day, so this animation appears to speed up the progression of the eclipse.
Source:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/nasas-epic-view-of-2017-eclipse-across-america
Credit: NASA EPIC Team
#universe #NASA #EPIC #space #eclipse2017 #science
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Lamborghini’s luxury Android phone is definitely not worth $2,450
Yeah, there's no way it's actually worth that much. There are a few logical reasons that can explain why the phone is at a disadvantage to other cheaper devices. Lamborghini is a car company, not a software company -- their software endeavors will likely be disappointing. The hardware and software will find itself outdated in a year or two maximum... and it will miss out on exciting new features along the way. It's a status symbol at best, and a paperweight afterwards.
Yeah, there's no way it's actually worth that much. There are a few logical reasons that can explain why the phone is at a disadvantage to other cheaper devices. Lamborghini is a car company, not a software company -- their software endeavors will likely be disappointing. The hardware and software will find itself outdated in a year or two maximum... and it will miss out on exciting new features along the way. It's a status symbol at best, and a paperweight afterwards.
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Important Signs Of Breast Cancer You May Not Know About
You know to look for lumps, but health experts say you should watch out for these symptoms too, When it comes to breast cancer, we ladies know that we have to be ever vigilant about the presence of lumps in and around our breast tissue
#cancer #health #breastcancer #explore #medicine #disease #healthcare #women #healthbenefits #naturalremedies #healthyliving #cure #healing #homeremedies
You know to look for lumps, but health experts say you should watch out for these symptoms too, When it comes to breast cancer, we ladies know that we have to be ever vigilant about the presence of lumps in and around our breast tissue
#cancer #health #breastcancer #explore #medicine #disease #healthcare #women #healthbenefits #naturalremedies #healthyliving #cure #healing #homeremedies
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The Pixel 2 is probably getting smart Google headphones
Google-made smart headphones for the Pixel 2? Cool. The comments in the code of the Google App 7.10 are quite convincing and definitely lead myself and others to believe that "Bisto" is in fact Google earbuds or headphones that will be smart and fully interact with the Google Assistant. It's a logical step for Google as they remove the headphone jack in their upcoming Pixel 2 smartphone.
Google-made smart headphones for the Pixel 2? Cool. The comments in the code of the Google App 7.10 are quite convincing and definitely lead myself and others to believe that "Bisto" is in fact Google earbuds or headphones that will be smart and fully interact with the Google Assistant. It's a logical step for Google as they remove the headphone jack in their upcoming Pixel 2 smartphone.
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#Mayweather and #McGregor Hit The Strip For Fight Week
VIDEO: http://www.boxingchannel.tv/floyd-conor-hit-strip-fight-week/
#boxing #boxeo #MayweatherMcgregor
VIDEO: http://www.boxingchannel.tv/floyd-conor-hit-strip-fight-week/
#boxing #boxeo #MayweatherMcgregor
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#HTColumn by Bobby Ghosh | The two recent videos show that the problem lies with the Chinese government, and its default posture of condescension toward its neighbours
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Warm summer
One of the warmest days this summer in Galicia. Even now with the sun almost gone and with a good wind the "hot" is still there in the air. BTW, take a look at this paradisiac place where the river Anllóns meet the Atlantic ocean!
http://www.freddyenguix.com/ #galicia #spain #costadamorte #paradise #beach #warm #sunset #summer
One of the warmest days this summer in Galicia. Even now with the sun almost gone and with a good wind the "hot" is still there in the air. BTW, take a look at this paradisiac place where the river Anllóns meet the Atlantic ocean!
http://www.freddyenguix.com/ #galicia #spain #costadamorte #paradise #beach #warm #sunset #summer
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Orange pride
Here musical relationships https://www.paolodalprato.com/relazioni-musicali
#macrophotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #macroaddict #ilovephotography
Here musical relationships https://www.paolodalprato.com/relazioni-musicali
#macrophotography #hqspmacro #hqspflowers #fotomaniaitalia #macroaddict #ilovephotography
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Hidden jewel
Stone bramble (Rubus saxatilis)
Svartskog, Norway
This intensely colored fruit should be easy to see on the forest floor but is quite hard to find as it is mostly hidden under the leaves of the plant. Furthermore each plant holds very few fruits, and some just one drupe as seen here. A fully formed fruit would hold many drupes and resemble a cloudberry, but this species has way of producing very irregular number of drupes and for me this one was like a ruby in the forest. Just one precious fruit carrying the true gem inside it.
With blueberries and lingonberries/cowberries each plant carries so many fruits you can see them from afar, but this species has a different way of life and I had to look very carefully to find this amazing specimen.
When you sit by these fruits and wait for the rays of sunlight to filter through to the fruit, they almost glow and become semi-transparent, and you can see the shape of the seeds inside.
Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 22 August 2017 17:00
Altitude: 9 meters
#fruits #plants #autumn #svartskog #norway
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro
#BTPMacroPro +BTP Macro Pro
#BTPMacroPro – +BTP Macro Pro , owned by +Nancy Dempsey , curated by +Kenny Jones
Stone bramble (Rubus saxatilis)
Svartskog, Norway
This intensely colored fruit should be easy to see on the forest floor but is quite hard to find as it is mostly hidden under the leaves of the plant. Furthermore each plant holds very few fruits, and some just one drupe as seen here. A fully formed fruit would hold many drupes and resemble a cloudberry, but this species has way of producing very irregular number of drupes and for me this one was like a ruby in the forest. Just one precious fruit carrying the true gem inside it.
With blueberries and lingonberries/cowberries each plant carries so many fruits you can see them from afar, but this species has a different way of life and I had to look very carefully to find this amazing specimen.
When you sit by these fruits and wait for the rays of sunlight to filter through to the fruit, they almost glow and become semi-transparent, and you can see the shape of the seeds inside.
Image Copyright © 2017 +Morten Ross
Image Capture Date: 22 August 2017 17:00
Altitude: 9 meters
#fruits #plants #autumn #svartskog #norway
#hqspmacro +HQSP Macro
#BTPMacroPro +BTP Macro Pro
#BTPMacroPro – +BTP Macro Pro , owned by +Nancy Dempsey , curated by +Kenny Jones
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"A week after she made history by becoming the second full-time female coach in the NFL, 49ers assistant Katie Sowers made history again, becoming the first openly lesbian or gay coach in the league’s history.
Sowers, who worked with the team’s wide receivers as an intern this summer before accepting a full-time role, gave an interview to SBNation’s OutSports website that was published Tuesday, confirming her sexual orientation."
Sowers, who worked with the team’s wide receivers as an intern this summer before accepting a full-time role, gave an interview to SBNation’s OutSports website that was published Tuesday, confirming her sexual orientation."
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The Crown of the Sun
During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. Streamers and shimmering features visible to the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single photograph. But this composite of telescopic images covers a wide range of exposure times to reveal the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The aligned and stacked digital frames were taken in clear skies above Stanley, Idaho in the Sawtooth Mountains during the Sun's total eclipse on August 21. A pinkish solar prominence extends just beyond the right edge of the solar disk. Even small details on the dark night side of the New Moon can be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth.
Image Credit & Copyright: Derek Demeter
Emil Buehler Planetarium: https://www.seminolestate.edu/planet/
Release Date: August 23, 2017
+Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium
+Astronomy Picture of the Day (APoD)
#NASA #Earth #Science #Astronomy #SolarEclipse #Sun #Solar #Moon #Eclipse #SolarEclipse2017 #Eclipse2017 #Totality #Corona #Stanley #Idaho #UnitedStates #Astrophotography #Photography #STEM #Education #APoD
During a total solar eclipse, the Sun's extensive outer atmosphere, or corona, is an inspirational sight. Streamers and shimmering features visible to the eye span a brightness range of over 10,000 to 1, making them notoriously difficult to capture in a single photograph. But this composite of telescopic images covers a wide range of exposure times to reveal the crown of the Sun in all its glory. The aligned and stacked digital frames were taken in clear skies above Stanley, Idaho in the Sawtooth Mountains during the Sun's total eclipse on August 21. A pinkish solar prominence extends just beyond the right edge of the solar disk. Even small details on the dark night side of the New Moon can be made out, illuminated by sunlight reflected from a Full Earth.
Image Credit & Copyright: Derek Demeter
Emil Buehler Planetarium: https://www.seminolestate.edu/planet/
Release Date: August 23, 2017
+Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust Planetarium
+Astronomy Picture of the Day (APoD)
#NASA #Earth #Science #Astronomy #SolarEclipse #Sun #Solar #Moon #Eclipse #SolarEclipse2017 #Eclipse2017 #Totality #Corona #Stanley #Idaho #UnitedStates #Astrophotography #Photography #STEM #Education #APoD
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Imaging the Brain in the Era of Modern Neuroscience
The brain is as beautiful as it is complex. Throughout the centuries scientists have attempted to glean understanding from the brain based on its anatomy. Since Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s detailed drawings at the turn of the 20th Century, neuroscientists of the modern era have been zooming in on the brain to unlock its secrets. Recent improvements in imaging technologies, greater access to microscopes and specialist software have culminated in the cutting-edge imaging currently being performed on brains and brain tissue across the world.
1. Recreating the retina: drawing it by hand
The neuroanatomist and father of modern neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal looked at brain tissue stained using the Golgi Stain method under his microscope. He then drew what he saw, producing beautiful reconstructions of neurons such as the line drawing of the retina above.
2. Recreating the retina: from electron micrographs
Nowadays, whole sections of the retina have been reconstructed in unprecedented three-dimensional detail. In 2013 Helmstaedter et al. published their paper on the connectomic reconstruction of the inner plexiform layer in the mouse retina. The group used a lot of manpower to manually reconstruct the neurons in a small section of the mouse retina by tracing projections through electron micrograph sections.
3. Antibody-labelling lights up the brain
By using primary antibodies to target a protein of interest, neuroscientists can then use a fluorescent secondary antibody against the primary to increase the fluorescence signal, producing pretty yet insightful images. Such as the following...
Confocal micrograph image of the adult mouse hippocampus, with immunofluorescent staining for perineuronal nets. Blue = DAPI (cell nuclei), green = parvalbumin interneurons, red = wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA; commonly used to label perineuronal nets). Credit Adam Ramsaran, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, ON).
Confocal micrograph of the anterior region of the developing zebrafish brain. Some of the neurons (shown in green) express the green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of specific gene expression. Axons, tracts and neuropils have been labeled using antibodies that mark tubulin (in red) and synaptic vesicles (in blue). Credit: Monica Folgueira and Steve Wilson, Wellcome Images.
Confocal micrograph of hippocampal interneurons that express serotonin receptors (green) co-labeled in red for calretinin, and counterstained with DAPI (blue), a marker of cell nuclei. Credit: Margaret I. Davis
4. Speeding up labeling
Antibody labeling and imaging in Drosophila melanogaster brains can take up to a week. In this image, genetically encoded chemical tags have been expressed in neurons of interest. It takes just 15 minutes to stain for these tags with their substrates. Credit: Ben Sutcliffe, Jefferis lab. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
5. Deeper insights into the brain
Multiphoton imaging systems, such as Leica's SP8 multiphoton confocal system (used to capture the video above), use longer and less-damaging wavelength beams of light to excite fluorescent proteins deeper in tissue, enabling neuroscientists to see complete structures in intact tissue.
6. CLARITY: See through brains
Despite improvements in imaging systems, such as multiphoton laser scanning microscopes, the brain tissue itself hinders imaging, by causing light to scatter. In 2013, Chung et al. published their seminal paper on their hydrogel method, CLARITY, which makes brain tissue transparent, reducing the scattering of light, affording structural and molecular interrogation of the whole intact brain.
7. Live imaging in the brain
Multiphoton image of microglia (GFP, green) and cerebral blood vessels (Texas-red dextran, red) in a living, anesthetized transgenic mouse. Harris A. Gelbard, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
8. Imaging Activity With Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators
This video from the Sur lab shows In vivo imaging of visual cortex neurons expressing the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCamp6 responding to a moving grating (top right corner).
9. A Look Inside the Head With Magnetic Resonance Imaging
This video from the Human Connectome Project explains how Principal Diffusion Direction uses colors to map out the different directions that water molecules diffuse through the brain's white matter. This data is then used to reconstruct 3D representations of the white matter tracts in the brain.
SOURCE: https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/lists/imaging-the-brain-from-then-to-now-291136
The brain is as beautiful as it is complex. Throughout the centuries scientists have attempted to glean understanding from the brain based on its anatomy. Since Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s detailed drawings at the turn of the 20th Century, neuroscientists of the modern era have been zooming in on the brain to unlock its secrets. Recent improvements in imaging technologies, greater access to microscopes and specialist software have culminated in the cutting-edge imaging currently being performed on brains and brain tissue across the world.
1. Recreating the retina: drawing it by hand
The neuroanatomist and father of modern neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal looked at brain tissue stained using the Golgi Stain method under his microscope. He then drew what he saw, producing beautiful reconstructions of neurons such as the line drawing of the retina above.
2. Recreating the retina: from electron micrographs
Nowadays, whole sections of the retina have been reconstructed in unprecedented three-dimensional detail. In 2013 Helmstaedter et al. published their paper on the connectomic reconstruction of the inner plexiform layer in the mouse retina. The group used a lot of manpower to manually reconstruct the neurons in a small section of the mouse retina by tracing projections through electron micrograph sections.
3. Antibody-labelling lights up the brain
By using primary antibodies to target a protein of interest, neuroscientists can then use a fluorescent secondary antibody against the primary to increase the fluorescence signal, producing pretty yet insightful images. Such as the following...
Confocal micrograph image of the adult mouse hippocampus, with immunofluorescent staining for perineuronal nets. Blue = DAPI (cell nuclei), green = parvalbumin interneurons, red = wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA; commonly used to label perineuronal nets). Credit Adam Ramsaran, The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, ON).
Confocal micrograph of the anterior region of the developing zebrafish brain. Some of the neurons (shown in green) express the green fluorescent protein (GFP) under the control of specific gene expression. Axons, tracts and neuropils have been labeled using antibodies that mark tubulin (in red) and synaptic vesicles (in blue). Credit: Monica Folgueira and Steve Wilson, Wellcome Images.
Confocal micrograph of hippocampal interneurons that express serotonin receptors (green) co-labeled in red for calretinin, and counterstained with DAPI (blue), a marker of cell nuclei. Credit: Margaret I. Davis
4. Speeding up labeling
Antibody labeling and imaging in Drosophila melanogaster brains can take up to a week. In this image, genetically encoded chemical tags have been expressed in neurons of interest. It takes just 15 minutes to stain for these tags with their substrates. Credit: Ben Sutcliffe, Jefferis lab. MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
5. Deeper insights into the brain
Multiphoton imaging systems, such as Leica's SP8 multiphoton confocal system (used to capture the video above), use longer and less-damaging wavelength beams of light to excite fluorescent proteins deeper in tissue, enabling neuroscientists to see complete structures in intact tissue.
6. CLARITY: See through brains
Despite improvements in imaging systems, such as multiphoton laser scanning microscopes, the brain tissue itself hinders imaging, by causing light to scatter. In 2013, Chung et al. published their seminal paper on their hydrogel method, CLARITY, which makes brain tissue transparent, reducing the scattering of light, affording structural and molecular interrogation of the whole intact brain.
7. Live imaging in the brain
Multiphoton image of microglia (GFP, green) and cerebral blood vessels (Texas-red dextran, red) in a living, anesthetized transgenic mouse. Harris A. Gelbard, 2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
8. Imaging Activity With Genetically Encoded Calcium Indicators
This video from the Sur lab shows In vivo imaging of visual cortex neurons expressing the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCamp6 responding to a moving grating (top right corner).
9. A Look Inside the Head With Magnetic Resonance Imaging
This video from the Human Connectome Project explains how Principal Diffusion Direction uses colors to map out the different directions that water molecules diffuse through the brain's white matter. This data is then used to reconstruct 3D representations of the white matter tracts in the brain.
SOURCE: https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/lists/imaging-the-brain-from-then-to-now-291136
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After my successful introduction to #mediation, the next experience I'm interested in is #fasting. My goal at this point is just the experience. Fasting for a well like in the TEDTALK below could be medically dangerous without experience, so first I'd like to try fasting for a day, just to see what happens. Planning to end the fast at breakfast the next day so I can enjoy my favourite meal of the day as soon as it ends.
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Lose Your Excess Pounds In Just One Month With This Powerful Fat Melting Drink
The nature is the main source of medicine since always, There we can find all the nutrients that are needed for curing various diseases, The greatest advantage of the natural medicine is that it doesn’t damage your body and it is also very cheap.
#drink #health #loseweight #explore #medicine #homeremedies #healthyliving #naturalremedies #diet #weightloss #fat #herbal #healthbenefits #cure
The nature is the main source of medicine since always, There we can find all the nutrients that are needed for curing various diseases, The greatest advantage of the natural medicine is that it doesn’t damage your body and it is also very cheap.
#drink #health #loseweight #explore #medicine #homeremedies #healthyliving #naturalremedies #diet #weightloss #fat #herbal #healthbenefits #cure
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Kendall Jenner's Bronzer Makeup Trick Is Low-Key Genius, and Totally Free
Okay, yes: we're addicted to any beauty tips the Kardashians & Co. give. But given the camera-ready state the family lives in at basically all times, each sister has picked up so much info that at this point, they're pros themselves. And no surprise, according to Kendall Jenner, thank the constant proximity to the best hair and makeup artists in the world (yeah, that'll do it).
Know more: https://goo.gl/BFHRto
#KendallJenner #MakeupTrick #Fashion #Skin #Belfastlive #Celebrities #Eyebrows #Health #Look #Makeup #Makeupmistake #Stila #Artistry #Beautytips #Tips #Beautyexpert #Women #Skin #Beautytips #Women #articles #Bloggers #Makeup #Blog #Beautyempire #Beauty #Skin #Skincare #Healthyskin #News #Healthcare #HealthyLiving #Wellness #Benefits #Herbal #Health #Herbs #Medicine #Healing #Cure #Acupuncture #Explore #Face #Natural #Treatment #model #skincare #HomeRemedies #Healer #HerbalRemedies #Remedies #HomeRemedy #Holistic #collection
Okay, yes: we're addicted to any beauty tips the Kardashians & Co. give. But given the camera-ready state the family lives in at basically all times, each sister has picked up so much info that at this point, they're pros themselves. And no surprise, according to Kendall Jenner, thank the constant proximity to the best hair and makeup artists in the world (yeah, that'll do it).
Know more: https://goo.gl/BFHRto
#KendallJenner #MakeupTrick #Fashion #Skin #Belfastlive #Celebrities #Eyebrows #Health #Look #Makeup #Makeupmistake #Stila #Artistry #Beautytips #Tips #Beautyexpert #Women #Skin #Beautytips #Women #articles #Bloggers #Makeup #Blog #Beautyempire #Beauty #Skin #Skincare #Healthyskin #News #Healthcare #HealthyLiving #Wellness #Benefits #Herbal #Health #Herbs #Medicine #Healing #Cure #Acupuncture #Explore #Face #Natural #Treatment #model #skincare #HomeRemedies #Healer #HerbalRemedies #Remedies #HomeRemedy #Holistic #collection
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