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Archive for the ‘Science’ CategoryThe connections between animals, humans, and nature continue to be explored by science. Here are videos on the interconnections of nature, from the micro (fungi), meso (trees), macro (global human consciousness), and possible planetary (world consciousness) levels. Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the worldMulti-dimensional transfer of nutrients by plants, "Mycelium is Earth’s natural internet", and more. Words of top scientists set to music- worth a watch!Lyrics(Carl Sagan's lyrics written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter) [deGrasse Tyson] A happy winter solstice (or summer solstice in the southern hemisphere) to all!  A previous winter in a previous place... Read about the winter solstice in Wikipedia. This year there is a rare full moon, and total lunar eclipse at the winter solstice on late Dec. 20th /early Dec. 21st. For a great time chart and graphics go here, or to NASA.  Mosquito heart muscle- Jonas King of Vanderbilt University, TN, USA, Nikon Small World 2010 competition The gray on gray photos from electron microscopes or microscopes are a thing of the past. It's amazing to see what technology can show us about the geometry and art at the microscopic scale. Continue reading →  Greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea (USGS) The USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center has posted views of the earth from space in Earth as Art 3. Many thanks! Update (just when you thought it couldn't get any worse): Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain (Huffington Post, 7-31-10) On-topic update: Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill SOAKS Wildlife (VIDEO), Huffington Post, 7-27-10 On-topic update: US Expert: China Oil Spill Far Bigger Than Stated, AP/NPR, 7-30-10 *** On June 26, 2010 join Hands Across the Sands to protest off-shore oil drilling, at a beach near you!  USCG- Deepwater Horizon oil platform 2010 The Gulf Coast is just now heading into what will be months and years responding to the April BP drilling platform explosion and oil leak. At his point scientists are worried that the oil will spread at least as far as the Florida Keys, another important marine ecosystem area. Oil is about to wash up in Louisiana and is effecting New Orleans. (See New Orleans artist Michelle Levine's painting that seems to foretell this disaster, that she started last year. Bless the talented and grounded people of New Orleans!) Now that the enormity of this oil disaster is sinking in, good people are trying to find ways to help. Chief ARVOL LOOKING HORSE (of the Lakota), 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe has asked that we join together in prayer to heal Grandmother Earth and stop this oil disaster- A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders (May 12, 2010). Amen, and let's all join in. Continue reading → Interesting recent reports about climate change effects- About an hour east of Washington, D.C., there's a forest where trees are suddenly growing much faster than ever before — some of them even twice as fast: Curiosity Rises With Trees' Strange Growth Spurt- NPR, 3-28-10. Just the fact that this researcher has seen a 12% rise in carbon dioxide in the 23 years he's taken measurements is amazing by itself. (Higher CO2 so faster tree growth?)
Greenland and Antarctica hold the world's largest reservoirs of fresh water, locked in their giant ice sheets. Global warming may cause large parts of these ices sheets to melt within centuries — changing the shape of coastlines around the world. Neat animated graphic of coastal area around the world & the effects of rising sea levels: Rising Temperatures, Disappearing Coastlines- NPR, 12-8- 2009
Green globs of mucilage form around the Mediterranean coasts in the summer. But the authors of a recently published study on mucilages found that outbreaks have risen nearly exponentially over the last two decades. And they are forming in the winter as well. Researchers suspect a connection between the proliferation of these goopy blobs and climate-driven sea surface warming: Watch out for the blob!- Yahoo Green, 10-22-09 . |
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