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What? No diet Coke? ROFL!

a long way to go

Christmas chocolate bark is a scrumptious sweet gift for anyone and great for holiday parties. This homemade holiday bark is totally doable in under one hour so that you can whip up a batch even last-minute.

Get the recipe: http://chcotta.ge/bl0317

Cosmic Little Bay

This year’s most eye-catching moments in science
by Science

President's Daugther Misled Investors, according to new report.

"Ivanka Trump gave false sales figures about Trump Organization properties in four different countries over the last decade. And also made flatly incorrect claims to investors."

The Guardian: 'Hi-tech robot' at Russia forum turns out to be man in suit.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/high-tech-robot-at-russia-forum-turns-out-to-be-man-in-robot-suit

WhatsApp Messenger beta for Android
https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/amp/103
2.18.382
No new changelogs

#wa #whatsapp #wabeta #social #messenger

Expediting changes to Google+ " We have also decided to accelerate sunsetting consumer Google+, bringing it forward from August 2019 to April 2019"
#googleplus

Photographer Creates a Unique Temporary Camera Lens Out of Glacial Ice From Iceland's Diamond Beach

#Rosetta witnesses birth of baby bow shock around comet

YouTube Beta for Android
https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/amp/1037
13.50.50
No new changelogs

#youtube #youtubeupdate #videos #youtubebeta #youtubeapp

Facebook beta for Android
https://www.testingcatalog.com/project/amp/96
202.0.0.6.99
No new changelogs

#fb #facebook #facebookbeta #social #smm #facebookandroid

A video that shows the entire trip of the Mars Opportunity Rover on one side while tracking the trip on the red planet on the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od-D0nFsq2Y

A Bizarre Fact Of Nature: The Smaller An Animal Is The Bigger Its Sperm Is !!!

So much so that the biggest animal in the world, the blue whale, has a sperm size of 30μm while the smallest mouse has a sperm size of 350 μm ( 11 times bigger ) !!!
The record sperm length is SIX CENTIMETERS LONG and belongs to the tiny fruit fly Drosophila bifurca whose body size is only a few millimeters long.
The reason is an evolutionary one and the video explains it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unh0OfjO3dk

Book Review – Aardman: An Epic Journey: Taken One Frame at a Time. Read it here http://bit.ly/2RVV1jG

The major advances over the next century in the prevention of disease will come from integrating physics with other sciences.

https://rxscience.org/how-physics-help-people-to-live-longer/

"A new study by researchers at the University of Salford has shown that fossils are likely to be key to fulfilling a prediction made by Charles Darwin more than 160 years ago.

In an 1857 letter to Thomas Huxley, Darwin wrote "The time will come I believe when we shall have very fairly true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature."

Since then, scientists have made enormous progress towards working out the evolutionary "Tree of Life", but a major problem is that analyses based on anatomical features often suggest quite different relationships than do analyses based on the genome.

The new study, published today (Dec 12, 2018) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may have found the solution to this problem.

Lead author Dr. Robin Beck, said: "For mammals, there are some quite major disagreements about how they are related to each other, depending on whether you use anatomical or genomic data. This has led some people to suggest that anatomy is fundamentally unreliable for working out the evolutionary relationships of mammals, and perhaps of other groups as well."

For example, molecular data indicates that rhinos are more closely related to hedgehogs than they are to elephants. The anatomical similarities between rhinos and elephants are the result of convergent evolution".

"Interpreting the source and significance of crop pollen in archaeological sites has always been a key issue in environmental and agricultural archaeology. With regards to this, the research team of Dr. Shang Xue from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently conducted a simulation study on the dispersal pattern of pollen in the traditional processing of buckwheat.

The research paper entitled "Pollen Dispersal in Traditional Processing of Buckwheat and Its Application in Agricultural Archaeology", which has been published online in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences. This paper was written by Liu Yang, a graduate student of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the first author, and Dr. Shang Xue as the corresponding author.

Pollen, as an important index of agricultural archaeology, can be used to indicate the history of paleoenvironment change and ancient human agricultural activities. To date, the study of pollen dispersal is limited to the analysis of pollen rain in nature and in surface soil of farmland. The influence of the agricultural processing on pollen dispersal is rarely considered, became a handicap for a better understanding of the source and representation of crop pollen in archaeological sites.

As a kind of pseudocereal, buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum and F. tataricum) are short-season crops with drought-tolerant and barren-resistant features. Plant of buckwheat is widely cultivated and utilized in the world because of its low workforce requirements, wide geographical adaptability, strong resistance, and rich nutrient content. Studies have suggested that buckwheat may have been domesticated on the edge of its wild ancestral distribution area in southwestern China. Later it was transmitted to the northern part, and then adapted to the arid environment, becoming a pan-Eurasian crop approximately 3000 BP.

Pollen of buckwheat is unique in shape. As a kind of cross-pollinated pollen, it has large grains, close propagation distance, small distribution area, as well as low representation. Therefore, there will be a clear indication about its source and relationship with the maternal plant region when the pollen grains of buckwheat were discovered. According to the above merits, the research on buckwheat pollen has been received much attention".

After 9 years in space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with trillions of hidden planets, NASA is ending the Kepler space telescope’s science operations. Kepler discovered over 2,600 planets, some of which could be promising places for life. https://go.nasa.gov/2P2umV1

Here are five easy DIY biology experiments that you can do at home to have fun with biology without the need for expensive equipment.

https://todaysintech.com/diy-biology-experiments-at-home/

Age is the biggest risk for heart disease, but lifestyle and meds have impact - Of all the risk factors for heart disease, age is the strongest predictor of potential trouble.