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Day: December 18, 2017

Photographs December 2017 3

Photographs December 2017 3

Posted on Monday, 18 December, 2017Monday, 18 December, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Photographs December 2017 3. Credits: The BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, Royal Society Publishing.

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Erasing Personal Data From A Junked Laptop

Erasing Personal Data From A Junked Laptop

Posted on Monday, 18 December, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Erasing Personal Data From A Junked Laptop. “I am unable to power on my Acer laptop, and the technician says the motherboard is faulty. I am planning to sell it. Will the buyer be able to retrieve my data after changing the motherboard? If so, how do I erase it?

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The Obsessive Need To Post Selfies

The Obsessive Need To Post Selfies

Posted on Monday, 18 December, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The Obsessive Need To Post Selfies. ‘Selfitis’ is a genuine mental condition and people who feel compelled to post pictures of themselves on social media continually may need help, psychologists have warned. The term was first coined in 2014 to describe obsessive selfie-taking in a spoof news story which suggested

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A Third Of Asia's Glaciers Likely Gone By 2100

A Third Of Asia’s Glaciers Likely Gone By 2100

Posted on Monday, 18 December, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

A Third Of Asia’s Glaciers Likely Gone By 2100. Asia will likely lose at least one-third of its glaciers by the end of this century, according to a study published September 13, 2017, in Nature. The ambitious target of keeping global average temperatures from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius

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NGC 2403 in Camelopardalis.
Credit: Image Data - Subaru Telescope (NAOJ), Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing - Robert Gendler. Magnificent island universe NGC 2403 stands within the boundaries of the long-necked constellation Camelopardalis. Some 10 million light-years distant and about 50,000 light-years across, the spiral galaxy has its fair share of giant star-forming HII regions, marked by the reddish glow of atomic hydrogen gas. Of course, supernova explosions follow close on the heels of the formation of massive, short-lived stars and in 2004 one of the brightest supernovae discovered in recent times was found in NGC 2403. The powerful supernova is seen here as the spiky, bright "star" at the left edge of the field. This cosmic portrait is a composite of space and ground-based image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive and the 8.2 meter Subaru Telescope at the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

The Kachin people are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Burma's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province, China, and Arunachal Pradesh, India. About one million Kachin peoples live in the region. The term Kachin people is often used interchangeably with the main subset, called the Jingpo people in China. The Jingpho language common to many of the Kachin has a variety of dialects and is written with a Latin-based script created in the late nineteenth century.

The flag of Mongolia is a vertical tricolour with two reds at insides and a blue in the middle, with the Soyombo symbol defacing the left red stripe. The blue stripe is described as the eternal blue sky and the red stripes symbolise thriving forever. The Soyombo symbol is a geometric abstraction that represents fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and a round shape as dualist aspect. The current flag was adopted on February 12, 1992, after the transition of Mongolia to a liberal democracy.

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor Phidias and his assistants in c. 447 to 438 BC; originally part of the temple of the Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens. From 1801 to 1812, agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin removed about half of the surviving sculptures of the Parthenon, and transported them to Britain. The half not removed is now displayed in the Acropolis Museum. In Britain, the acquisition of the collection was not supported by some, and the Earl's actions was likened to vandalism. Following a public debate in Parliament and its subsequent exoneration of Elgin, he sold the Marbles to the British government in 1816. They were then passed to the British Museum, where they are now on display in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery.

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