Tuesday, 17 July, 2018

Epic Trails Across The Globe

Epic Trails Across The Globe

Posted on Thursday, 14 September, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Epic Trails Across The Globe.

This National Geographic article provides some alternative off-the-beaten track trails, with sufficient detail to give a good perspective of what is involved on these escapades. Those listed in the article are the following:

Corsica Island, France

Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA

The Snowman Peak, Bhutan

The Hayduke Trail, Utah/Arizona, USA

Laugavegur Trek, Iceland

Benton MacKaye Trail, Appalachian Mountains, USA

The Great Himalaya Trail, Nepal

Israel National Trail, Israel

The North Drakensberg Traverse, South Africa/Lesotho

Mount Kailash Pilgrimage, Tibet

The International Appalachian Trail, USA/Canada

Santa Cruz Trek, Cordillera Blanca, Peru

West Highland Way, Scotland

Bibbulmun Track, Australia

Shackleton’s Route, South Georgia Island

Cinque Terre, Italy

The Continental Divide Trail, U.S. West

The Camino de Santiago via The French Way, Spain

Copper Canyon, Mexico, and

Yoshida Trail, Mount Fuji, Japan.

Read Article Here:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/lists/trails/epic-trails-around-world/

Neutrino Associated with Distant Blazar Jet.
Illustration Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab. With equipment frozen deep into ice beneath Earth's South Pole, humanity appears to have discovered a neutrino from far across the universe. If confirmed, this would mark the first clear detection of cosmologically-distant neutrinos and the dawn of an observed association between energetic neutrinos and cosmic rays created by powerful jets emanating from blazing quasars (blazars). Once the Antarctican IceCube detector measured an energetic neutrino in 2017 September, many of humanity's premier observatories sprang into action to try to identify a counterpart in light. And they did. An erupting counterpart was pinpointed by high energy observatories including AGILE, Fermi, HAWC, H.E.S.S., INTEGRAL, NuSTAR, Swift, and VERITAS, which found that gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 was in the right direction and with gamma-rays from a flare arriving nearly coincidental in time with the neutrino. Even though this and other position and time coincidences are statistically strong, astronomers will await other similar neutrinos - blazar light associations to be absolutely sure. Pictured here is an artist's drawing of a particle jet emanating from a black hole at the centre of a blazar.

The Pataxó are an indigenous people with a population of about 11,800 individuals. They once spoke the Pataxó language, but now speak Portuguese. The Pataxó people live in several villages in the southern part of the state of Bahia and northern of the state of Minas Gerais. There is evidence that the village of Barra Velha has existed for nearly two and a half centuries since 1767. Tracing a history of contact with non-indigenous people that goes back to the sixteenth century and often forced to hide their customs, nowadays the Pataxó strive to enliven their language - the Patxohã - and rituals "of the ancient"

Bangladesh - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution Tuesday, 3 July, 2018
Exercise increased caution in Bangladesh due to crime and terrorism. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory. Reconsider travel to: Dhaka due to crime and terrorism. Southeast Bangladesh, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts, due to crime and terrorism. Violent crime, such as armed robbery, assault, and rape, is widespread. Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in Bangladesh. Terrorists may attack […]
Worldwide Caution - Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions Monday, 2 July, 2018
This latest update to the Department of State’s Worldwide Caution provides U.S. citizens with general information regarding terrorist activities, political violence, and criminal activity that transpire abroad, as well as specific recommendations on how to prepare for possible contingencies, receive information on breaking security events, and ensure that travelers can be contacted in an emergency. […]

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