Monday, 19 November, 2018

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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Quechua people may refer to any or all speakers of the Quechua languages, which originated among the indigenous peoples of South America. Most Quechua speakers live in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. The most common Quechua dialect is Southern Quechua. The Kichwa people of Ecuador speak the Kichwa dialect; in Colombia, the Inga people speak Inga Kichwa. Traditionally, Quechua identity is locally oriented and inseparably linked in each case with the established economic system. It is based on agriculture in the lower altitude regions, and on pastoral farming in the higher regions of the Puna. The typical Andean community extends over several altitude ranges and thus includes the cultivation of a variety of arable crops and livestock. The land is usually owned by the local community and is either cultivated jointly or redistributed annually.

The Tarantula Nebula.
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory). The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. About 180 thousand light-years away, it's the largest, most violent star-forming region known in the whole Local Group of galaxies. The cosmic image across this view, composed with narrowband filter data centred on emission from ionized hydrogen atoms. Within the Tarantula (NGC 2070), intense radiation, stellar winds and supernova shocks from the central young cluster of massive stars, catalogued as R136, energize the nebular glow and shape the spidery filaments. Around the Tarantula are other star-forming regions with young star clusters, filaments, and blown-out bubble-shaped clouds. In fact, the frame includes the site of the closest supernova in modern times, SN 1987A, left of centre. The rich field of view spans about 1 degree or 2 full moons, in the southern constellation Dorado.

The flag of the Netherlands is a horizontal tricolour of red, white, and blue. The tricolour flag is almost identical to that of Luxembourg, except that it is shorter and its red and blue stripes are a darker shade. It originates as a variant of the older orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag (Prince's Flag), introduced in the 17th century as the Statenvlag (States Flag), the naval flag of the States-General of the Dutch Republic. Its official status as the national flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was formalized in 1937.

The Last Judgment is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo, covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It is a depiction of the Second Coming of Christ and the final and eternal judgment by God of all humanity. There are over 300 figures, with nearly all the males and angels originally shown as nudes; many were later partly covered up by painted draperies. The work took over four years, between 1536 and 1541. Michelangelo began working on it twenty-five years after he finished the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and was nearly 67 at its completion. It was commissioned by Pope Clement VII but was completed under Pope Paul III.

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