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Day: February 19, 2016

Einstein’s Gravitational Waves Verified

Posted on Friday, 19 February, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Einstein’s Gravitational Waves Verified One hundred years after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, scientists have finally spotted these elusive ripples in space-time. In a highly anticipated announcement, David Reitze, the executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, said at a Washington DC press conference that physicists with the Advanced

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The God of Eternity

Posted on Friday, 19 February, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The God of Eternity All that is not God is death. George MacDonald

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Your Brain is Hardwired to Snap

Posted on Friday, 19 February, 2016Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Your Brain is Hardwired to Snap Anger is a natural and neutral emotion, as it is indicative of our values being challenged or violated. How we handle our anger or rage, which can be a very powerful emotion, determines whether we have broken any laws or violated another’s space or

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Geminids and Friends.
Image Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias). From a radiant in the constellation of the Twins, the annual Geminid meteor shower rained down this week. This skyscape collects about 70 of Gemini's lovely shooting stars in a digital composition made from multiple exposures taken over a six-hour period near the shower's peak on December 14 from Teide National Park on the Canary Island Tenerife. Though Gemini lies off the top left of the frame, the Milky Way sweeps through the starry background. Sharing the sky below and left of center are recognizable stars and nebulosities of Orion. A yellowish Aldebaran and the Hyades are toward the right along with the Pleiades star cluster. The faint green coma of Comet 46P Wirtanen, closest to Earth this weekend, lies below the Pleiades stars. Dust swept up from the orbit of active asteroid 3200 Phaethon, Gemini's meteors enter Earth's atmosphere traveling at about 35 kilometers per second.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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