In trying to understand the origins and evolution of our solar system, the Hayabusa2 embarks on its journey to explore and study the asteroid "Ryugu" for signs or evidences of life with the help of the insights gained from its predecessor, Hayabusa.
Two weeks ago, Hayabusa2 made its landing on the asteroid named after a palace in a Japanese folktale. With shots taken from CAM-H in Hayabusa2, we get to see the touchdown moment of the explorer and what the surface of the asteroid looks like. Will Hayabusa2 unlock the mystery of our solar system's beginnings?
Be careful who you meet online and never give away any of your private information or make any financial transactions with random strangers. Otherwise, you might meet the same fate as some of the women that have been deceived by the man called "The Tinder Swindler".
Since prostitution is considered illegal in many countries, sex workers are not under labor protection laws which endanger them for possible abuses in the industry they work. That same discourse on whether sex work should be legalized or not can take inspiration from what legal brothels in Medieval Europe did for the women who worked there.
Karras, who studies gender and sexuality, writes that throughout Europe, medieval authorities generally recognized sex work as a necessary evil. Theologians followed the teachings of Saint Augustine, who wrote that it was better for sinful men to frequent brothels than to “corrupt” their wives or other respectable women with nonprocreative sex: “Remove prostitutes from human affairs and you will destroy everything with lust.”
Sex workers were acknowledged as useful, and yet the practice of sex work was still seen as terribly sinful. “Lust was considered the woman’s sin par excellence and the prostitute epitomized it,” Karras writes.
Despite the stigma, different municipalities set up regulations such that workers in brothels would be protected. Read more on Jstor.
Making dioramas of murder scenes seem like a weird hobby to have but Abigail Goldman says she didn't start out making gore fests as art pieces. But as she saw more of the world and learned of the harsh realities that plague our societies as an investigator, she wanted to show these through miniature dioramas that represent what society has become and is.
Each one of her gore-fests is purely the product of her imagination, a darkly comedic take on tragedy rather than an homage. Not obvious escapism, perhaps, but crafting the painstaking scenes has proven both a calming hobby and a way to contextualize the horror of what Goldman deals with daily. She says she loves the contrast of the seemingly twee scenes and the gory subject matter: people tend to look once, and then look again. That second glance, she explains, is the point.
Progress and development aren't without its trade-offs and challenges. It would usually cost a lot of money, energy, and lives to bring a small tribal community to modernity and that's what it cost for many places in the world especially those which the Europeans had exploited for resources and a strategic geographical location. Many locals would shed their own lives to resist the colonizers and in the end fail to bring any fruit from their resistance. They would still succumb to the more powerful and more advanced civilizations. And in Kenya, that came with much expense to the Nandi people in order to build the "Lunatic Express".
It suggests that when there is more sunlight in the evenings, people are more productive, less irritable, and be less prone to accidents on the road. Crime would also decrease since more crimes usually happened in the dark of night.
Of course, there are some disadvantages to DST as well especially if the US would implement it the whole year round. Nonetheless, it's still a matter of good time management. Whether it's DST or standard time, what people do with their time affects their productivity, health, and lifestyle.
What do you think? Should we stop "springing forward" and "falling back" and just have a perma-DST?
Solar wind being emitted by the sun damages the moon's surface as well much like humans who spend too much exposure to the sun's rays. Since the Earth's magnetic field acts as a protective barrier that deflects the sun's rays so that we don't get direct exposure from its heat, the moon has a weaker magnetic field and thus sustains more damage.
It might be difficult to let go of certain things that you have kept for a long time because they might hold some kind of sentimental value. Whether it be a tangible item or object in your possession or bits of data on your computer, sometimes you just want to store them all instead of deleting them. There is a subreddit called r/datahoarder which has 120,000 subscribers and where they share interesting files of various things.
Looking for objects in the night sky can be very tedious work. One would need intense concentration and patience in order to find the smallest detail that might lead to a brand new discovery. With the help of equipment, even citizen scientists are able to detect phenomena in space that might have left everyone's notice for the longest time. And Steve is one of those phenomena.
Fifty years ago, the first Concorde flight took off. For its time, it was one of the technological marvels of aviation that could rival the first human to step on the moon. It has been 16 years since the Concorde had its last flight but its story still garners much awe. Read more on New Atlas.
We all know that in this world we can't live without any connections. And most of the time our connections are the ones that will get us to where we want to go or to what we want to be. It may seem like unfair that sometimes the measurement of success depends on who you know rather than what you can do but that's the reality of the world. And for those who have lived long enough, such a reality is all but common sense. However, recently, a study has confirmed what we already know.
Expectant mothers, especially those going through it for the first time, probably have sought help about what to expect in their pregnancy from books and experts. Now, there are various other sources of information like the internet where women and men can get solid advice about the things that they both will experience during and after pregnancy. In the 1600s, with the advent of the Renaissance and the help of the printing press, the fledgling science of obstetrics started to form. And the spread of information about it began with what they called midwifery manuals.
Our brain's perception of time is somewhat different from how clocks keep time. When we're having fun as the saying goes, time flies and it surely does. You don't notice the minutes and hours passing when you're having a good time. In contrast, when we don't have much to do, time seems to be at a standstill, crawling at a snail's pace. So why does that happen?
How the brain percieves time depends on its expectations. The brain can represent the probability that something is going to occur, given that it hasn't happened yet, said Dr. Michael Shadlen, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.
Every thought has various "horizons," Shadlen told Live Science. In a book, for example, horizons lie at the end of every syllable, the end of every word, the end of the next sentence and so on. Time moves according to how we anticipate these horizons, he said.
The fact that we're moving toward a future where cars are driving themselves without somebody behind the wheel has a few implications for all of us, but perhaps more so for car designers. Samuel Chuffart, an automotive designer at Icona brings up the parallel of car design with that of the design of phones. Before cellphones were bulky, chunky, and had various features on the phone's exterior that was part of its design. Phones were made in different shapes and sizes which made it such that different phone models looked different from one another and each fit the tastes of different people. Now, phone design has all but become one rectangular screen. The only thing that differentiates one phone from another are probably the hardware and other features like the camera, security, voice recognition or even a retinal scanner. Chuffart believes that car design might be headed in the same direction and might prove its undoing.
Education is important and having a system of formal education supposedly makes it more efficient, but whether it is actually effective depends on who is asking. If we really think about it, high school has a very complex dynamic. It affects a teenager's physical, mental, as well as emotional and social disposition. It favors only those for whom the system was structured, that is, if you stick to the rules of high school both written and unspoken, you'll survive. If you have the nous to navigate your way through it and work your way in the system, then you might end up on top. Basically, high school is a social construct that essentially forces people to box themselves in certain categories, otherwise they would be the outcast, at the bottom of the food chain or the caste system. So we go back to the initial question, is high school actually effective in helping students' overall development? Well, for one, having a public system of education does benefit those who have no means to access information and knowledge. But beyond that, if we study the whole landscape of high school, would we be able to say that high school is helpful or not? Bernie Bleske tackles this subject on Medium.
