LOL...too long ago...if you are a bible literalist that would have happened ~5000 years ago
There are many ancient civilizations whose pre-Christian flood stories likely informed the Noah's Ark myth. Those stories may have come from this event.
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
The Internet itself is actually much older - if you take it back to Arpanet that was *gasp* 1969. It's the Web (HTTP) that's turning 20. I still remember the day a school friend (and über-nerd) showed me the first web pages, just about the time they were posted (we had NeXTs - the only things it ran on at first - at school). Blew my mind, and I knew life would never be the same again. And it wasn't.
About 7 years ago I was working at an ad agency with a group of web developers and they were all talking about the speed of change of the web and one of them (rhetorically) asked "who even knows nowadays who invented the web?" I just looked at him and said "Tim Berners-Lee." He had never even heard of him, and he was our lead web developer! Kids these days, no sense of history, even as it relates to their jobs.
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A 10-year-old girl in Canada has become the youngest person to discover a supernova - an exploding star which can briefly outshine a whole galaxy.
Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit.
The lake, which lies four kilometres below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it's been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial lakes on the continent for such a long time. It's also oligotropic, meaning that it's supersaturated with oxygen -- levels of the element are 50 times higher than those found in most typical freshwater lakes.
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Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'roll - connection now scientific fact ;)
While this is just a single study so far, being a total music-junkie, I thought
"huh, it took science this long to figure it out"?
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People love music for much the same reason they're drawn to sex, drugs, gambling and delicious food, according to new research. When you listen to tunes that move you, the study found, your brain releases dopamine, a chemical involved in both motivation and addiction.
Even just anticipating the sounds of a composition like Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" or Phish's "You Enjoy Myself" can get the feel-good chemical flowing, found the study, which was the first to make a concrete link between dopamine release and musical pleasure.
"It is amazing that we can release dopamine in anticipation of something abstract, complex and not concrete," Salimpoor said. "This is the first study to show that dopamine can be released in response to an aesthetic stimulus."
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What is music? Where does it come from? Why do some sequences of sounds move us so while others - such as dogs barking or cars screeching - make many of us uncomfortable?
Music is unusual among all human activities for both its ubiquity and its antiquity . No known human culture now nor anytime in the recorded past lacked music. Some of the oldest physical artifacts found in human and proto-human excavation sites are musical instruments: bone flutes and animal skins stretched over tree stumps to make drums. Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep, and college students studying with music as a background. Even more so in non-industrialized cultures than in modern Western societies, music is and was part of the fabric of everyday life. Only relatively recently in our own culture, 500 years or so ago, a distinction arose that cut society in two, forming separate classes of musical performers and music listeners. Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking and everyone participated. Concert halls, dedicated to the performance of music, arose only in the last several centuries.
This book is about the science of music, from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience - the field that is at the intersection of psychology and neurology. I'll discuss some of my own and the latest studies researchers in our field have conducted on music, musical meaning, and musical pleasure. They offer new insights into profound questions. If all of us hear music differently, how can we account for pieces that seem to move so many people - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, or Don McLean's "Vincent (Starry Starry Night (Vincent)" for example? On the other hand, if we all hear music in the same way, how can we account for wide differences in musical preference - why is it that one man's Mozart is another man's Madonna?
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Almost thirty-five years ago, two sophisticated Mars landers appeared to find no evidence of organic compounds on Mars. The discovery of perchlorates by the Phoenix lander in 2008 led to new evidence that organics, the most basic building blocks of life, do exist on the surface of the red planet.
"Contrary to 30 years of perceived wisdom, Viking did detect organic materials on Mars," planetary scientist Christopher McKay, with NASA's Ames Research Center in California, told Discovery News. "It's like a 30-year-old cold case suddenly solved with new facts."
"Finding organics is not evidence of life or evidence of past life. It's just evidence for organics," he said.
But if NASA had realized there were organics on Mars, there might not have been a 20-year hiatus in sending landers for follow-up studies, said Rafael Navarro-González, with the Institute of Nuclear Science at the National Autonomous University in Mexico.
NASA plans to launch a follow-up mission to look for organics on Mars in November.
The research appears in last month's Journal of Geophysical Research.
First-Ever Global Map of Surface Permeability Informs Water Supply, Climate Modelling
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2011) — University of British Columbia researchers have produced the first map of the world outlining the ease of fluid flow through the planet's porous surface rocks and sediments
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"Climate models generally do not include groundwater or the sediments and rocks below shallow soils," says Gleeson. "Using our permeability data and maps we can now evaluate sustainable groundwater resources as well as the impact of groundwater on past, current and future climate at the global scale."
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