Santa Claus isn't expected to notice smoke. Misty smoke of raging Arctic wildfires has reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history, and NASA satellites have photographs to prove it.On the sixth of August, NASA's MODIS, a photographic sensor on the Aqua satellite, captured true-color images of a "vast, thick, acrid...
Bio of Saint-AugustinAugustine, who was born and raised at Thagaste, in eastern Algeria (then part of the Roman Empire), describes his boyhood surroundings as "wrong." He portrays college as a questionable site of discovery, focused toward material rather than spiritual aspirations. Augustine leads a libertine life, indulges in sexual experiences, and lives according to...
Density distribution of neutrinos (left) and dark matter (right) in the cosmic large-scale structure. While the neutrinos move fast and look diffuse, dark matter distribution composes cosmic webs such as filamentary structure.In an international initially, an investigation team led by Kavli IPMU Principal Investigator Naoki Yoshida successfully conducted a 6-dimensional simulation of neutrinos travelling...
The Venus’s-flower-basket is a sea sponge found at depths of 100 to 1,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines. A new study shows how the creature’s porous, glassy skeleton alters the flow of seawater.Simulations reveal that this deep-sea glass sponge's skeleton is more than simply prettyA Venus's flower basket is not all...
According to new study from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, changes in major wind and ocean circulation systems can briefly accelerate or reverse the rate of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska.According to Claudine Hauri, a researcher at the UAF International Arctic Research Center, ocean acidification is typically viewed as a slow push...
Sociology is such a significantly variable area that restricting its interpretation to a couple of words would be an injustice to it. It is among the numerous social sciences that take care of the man and his ventures in society. In contrast, the other sciences are history, geography, philosophy, political science, economics, and even...
The caricature depicts how nativism affected minority ethnic groups in the United States. Credit: Angelo LopezThe movement refers to the preservation of native culture, as opposed to acculturation. Nativism is an anti-migrant philosophy.Nativism, according to Myron Weiner, is a form of ethnic politics. It is a type of ethnic originality in which persons who...
French caricature (from 1885): German chancelor Bismarck divides the African continent among the colonial powers. Credit: AKG/Picture AllianceThe concept of development was introduced during the colonial era. European countries began to colonize 'non-European' countries. According to Philip McMichael, colonialism is "the subjugation of one culture through physical and psychological tactics by another- a colonizing...
The illustration reprents the separation from the State and the Church. Credit: RUBÉN ALEJANDRO MOREROWhen early man examined natural happenings, he was determined to find an explanation. Knowledge for natural phenomena, as well as the desire to control them, pushed our forefathers to seek refuge in the concept of a supernatural power, which evolved...
A study done by the University of Queensland discovered that increasing reforestation efforts in coastal areas could considerably reduce the amount of sediment runoff reaching coral reefs and enhance their resilience.The research project examined over 5,500 coastline coastal locations around the globe and discovered that almost 85 percent of them leached silt to coral...
