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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
—Isaac Asimov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrobiology/plants-grown-in-lunar-soils/
Thanks, moon. Now I feel really bad about not being able to grow plants in earth soil.
Plants grown in moon soil from Apollo missions
The plant Arabidopsis thaliana germinates and grows in lunar soilsQamariya Nasrullah (Cosmos Magazine)
Clare Hollingworth, the groundbreaking British journalist who famously broke the news about the start of World War II, was only 27 years old when she made the scoop of a lifetime -- one assisted by a well-timed gust of wind! Her reporting during WWII launched a 40-year-long career that she often spent reporting under fire from war zones in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. “Clare is a prodigy, one of those extraordinary people who has not recorded history but helped to make it,” says journalist Max Hastings, “She was a pioneer among women journalists, and among the first generation of women war correspondents, who proved that they needed no example from men either in reporting gifts or courage.”
As a young woman, Hollingworth was eager to report about the growing European conflict so, in 1939, she traveled to Warsaw, Poland to aid refugees from the Sudetenland, the region of Czechoslovakia that had been annexed by the Nazis the previous year. She wrote about the refugees' plight in small British publications and The Telegraph took notice of her work and hired her as a correspondent for the region. Three days after being hired, on August 28, she commandeered an official car from the British consul general and drove over the border into Nazi Germany.
On her return, a gust of wind led her to what The Guardian recently described as "probably the greatest scoop of modern times." The wind lifted part of a tarp which had been erected to hide the German side of the valley from view. Through the gap, as Hollingworth later wrote, she saw “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns." She knew immediately that Germany was preparing to invade Poland and hurried back to send the news to her editor. Hollingworth's article, a world exclusive, was published on August 29; German forces invaded Poland on September 1, marking the start of WWII.
Hollingworth worked as a correspondent for British news throughout WWII except for a period in 1943, when General Bernard Law Montgomery banned British women correspondents from the front lines; undeterred, she took a job with the Chicago Daily News covering American General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s command in Algiers. In reflecting on that period in one of her books, she observed, "It was essential to be able to go without washing, sleep in the open desert and live on bully-beef and biscuits for days on end. Many male correspondents got themselves sent back to Cairo because they could not take it.”
Widely respected in journalism circles, Hollingworth was famous for her daring and forthright manner. In one famous instance in 1962, while covering the Algerian War, right-wing French paramilitaries stormed the hotel where much of the press was staying and kidnapped a British reporter. Fellow war correspondent Tom Pocock recalled the scene: "Clare turned like Joan of Arc to the rest of us standing with our hands up — ‘Come on!’ she said, ‘We’re going too! They won’t shoot all the world’s press!’ So we all marched out and started climbing into the jeeps.” The fighters released the journalist unharmed.
Failing eyesight eventually forced Hollingworth to retire in 1981, but she never lost her drive to report from the center of the action. The New York Times reports that she was known to sleep periodically on the floor on her Hong Kong home well into her 90s to keep from "going soft." In 1989, at nearly 80 years old, she was seen climbing up a lamppost in Tiananmen Square for a better view of the government's crackdown on democracy protesters. Hollingworth, who died in 2017 at the age of 105, received the Order of the British Empire in 1982 for her services to journalism and lived for the last 30 years within sight of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club in Hong Kong, where "Clare's Table" was always reserved in her honor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Hollingworth
#foodPull Apart Bacon Bread
Recipe: https://noblepig.com/2022/02/pull-apart-bacon-bread-video/
Pull Apart Bacon Bread
Refrigerated biscuit dough and bacon are the stars of this simple to make tasty, buttery pull apart bread. It's the perfect party starter for any gathering.noblepig.com
The U.S. #history of #Native American Boarding Schools
source: https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-residential-schoolsNative American Boarding Schools (also known as Indian Boarding Schools) were established by the U.S. #government in the late 19th century as an effort to assimilate Indigenous youth into mainstream American culture through education. This era was part of the United States’ overall attempt to #kill, annihilate, or assimilate Indigenous peoples and eradicate #Indigenous #culture.#Assimilation #school #education #children #humanrights #politics #crime #USA #fail #moral #ethicsThe U.S. history of Native American Boarding Schools
(TW: abuse, sexual abuse, mental health, suicide) Native American Boarding Schools (also known as Indian Boarding Schools) were established by the U.S.Melissa Mejia (The Indigenous Foundation)
Buffalo's poet laureate calls for change
Jillian Hanesworth says what her city needs right now is honest conversations about systemic racism, the history of segregation, redlining and highway construction that hurt Black neighborhoods.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#foodLemon Macarons
Recipe: https://www.mealsbymolly.com/lemon-macarons/
Lemon Macarons
Lemon macarons feature French macaron shells filled with an easy homemade lemon curd and lemon buttercream frosting.Molly Walcome (Meals by Molly)
Dimanche 1er mai 2022. Pas de muguet mais des pissenlits, dans la lumière du soleil printanier.
#sundaygimp #bildbearbeitung #photomanipulation #bildmanipulation #dimanche-photo-edition #manipulation-de-photos #image-editing #retouche-d-image #myphotos #fotografie #mywork #montravail #pissenlit #fleuristonfil #dandelion
@Kathryn Barr and I were at the Canadian Tulip Festival today, so here is a gallery of photos of what we saw there.
#tulip #tulips #flower #flowers #Ottawa
The gunman had plans to continue his rampage, says Buffalo police commissioner
Had he not been stopped by police, Buffalo Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told ABC News on Monday, the alleged perpetrator would have driven away in search of more victims.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Apple patches dozens of security flaws with iOS 15.5, over 50 fixes for macOS 12.4 | 9to5Mac
Apple has released iOS 15.5, macOS 12.4, and more today with updates like new features for Apple Cash, the Podcasts app, and the Studio Display webcam fix. However, a bigger reason to update your devices is the security patches with today’s releases. iOS 15.5 includes almost 30 security fixes while macOS 12.4 features over 50.#technology #tech #Apple #security #privacy #hacking #iOS #iPadOS #MacOS
https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/16/apple-patches-27-security-flaws-ios-15-5/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a39959362/how-to-watch-lunar-eclipse-may-2022/
I'm feeling a little witchy. Seeing a red cast around the moon tonight.How to Watch This Week’s Fiery Super Flower Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse
The May 15-16 event will turn the moon coppery red for over an hour.Tim Newcomb (Popular Mechanics)
For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we're celebrating Maggie Gee, the pioneering aviator and physicist who became one of only two Chinese-American women to fly with the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASP during WWII. When the United States entered WWII in 1941, the Berkeley, California native was eager to support the war effort and dropped out of her freshman year of college to become a draftperson for engineers working on Navy ships. Gee's dream, however, was to follow in the footsteps of her childhood hero Amelia Earhart and become a pilot. After saving up the $800 she needed for six months of flight training, she moved to Nevada to learn to fly. Soon after, she was accepted into the highly selective WASP training program and earned her silver WASP wings. While serving as a WASP, Gee worked as a tow target pilot at the Las Vegas Army Air Field, pulling targets for gunners to use for practice -- with live ammunition.
Following the war, Gee returned to the University of California at Berkeley, and eventually completed her graduate studies in physics. She worked as a research physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for thirty years, researching topics ranging from cancer to fusion energy. In 2010, Gee, along with all living WASP pilots, received the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their service. Gee passed away in 2013 at the age of 89 and, throughout her long life, she remained committed to making a difference in the world: "I’m very optimistic about the world and people... it will be all right... You can make changes. I think just one small person can make a little bit of change."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Gee_(pilot)
Will they come flat-packed?
Americans will soon be able to buy home solar panels from IKEA
https://electrek.co/2022/05/13/americans-will-soon-be-able-to-buy-home-solar-panels-from-ikeaAmericans will soon be able to buy home solar panels from IKEA
IKEA is partnering with residential energy services provider SunPower, a 35-year solar veteran, to sell home solar panels to US customers.Michelle Lewis (Electrek)
‘Where in the Hell is the Loyalty?!’ Fmr. GOP Congressman Destroys Trump in Fiery Rant for Refusing to Endorse One of His Earliest Backers
A prominent longtime supporter of former President Donald Trump is blasting him for treating loyalty as a one-way street.They're just now figuring this out?
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/where-in-the-hell-is-the-loyalty-fmr-gop-congressman-destroys-trump-in-fiery-rant-for-refusing-to-endorse-one-of-his-earliest-backers/
Atherosclerotic plaques 'communicate' with the brain. Who knew? Not I, surely. Didn't expect that one at all.
"In correspondence with an atherosclerotic plaque, an aggregate of immune cells is also formed in the external wall of the blood vessel. This aggregate, called ATLO and similar to a lymph node, is rich in nerve fibers. Our work has first of all shown that through them a direct connection is established between the plaque and the brain".
"At this point, we were able to see that these signals coming from the plaque, once they reach the brain, influence the autonomic nervous system through the vagus nerve [the nerve that controls most of our organs and visceral functions] until it reaches the spleen. Here there is an activation of specific cells of the immune system that enter the circulation and lead to the progression of the plaques themselves."
"We have conducted further experiments by interrupting the nerve connections that reach the spleen. In this way, the impulses on the immune cells present in this organ have failed. The result is that the plaques present in the arteries have not only slowed growth, but have stabilized."
The wording is awkward because it was translated from Italian to English. The research itself is strangeness, too. Apparently the immune system responds to plaques by infiltrating them in the outer connective tissue coat of the arteries with immune cells called leukocytes. The peripheral nervous system expands its networks here and connects to the immune cells with something called growth cones at axon endings. Signals go from here to the spine and up to the brain to the parabrachial and central amygdala neurons. The parabrachial neurons are neurons at the intersection of the brainstem and the cerebellum.
Apparently all of this actually makes the plaques worse. Interrupting this brain circuit with a "coeliac ganglionectomy" stops progression of the plaque and stabilizes it. The coeliac ganglia are two large masses of nerve tissue in the upper abdomen.
Ricerca. Le placche aterosclerotiche “dialogano” con il cervello - Istituto Neuromed
#discoveries #neuroscience #atherosclerosisRicerca. Le placche aterosclerotiche “dialogano” con il cervello - Istituto Neuromed
Sono quelle che si cercano con l’ecodoppler delle carotidi: le placche aterosclerotiche. Formate da un accumulo di grassi, colesterolo, tessuto fibroso e cellule del sistema immunitario, rappresentano il segno distintivo dell’aterosclerosi, le cui co…Ufficio Stampa (Istituto Neuromed)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine -- and the resulting surge in gas, oil and grain prices -- has compounded the situation in Turkey, a country reliant on imports.Euronews (Euronews.com)
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