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Day: June 11, 2018

Photographs June 2018 2

Posted on Monday, 11 June, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

Credits: The Guardian, National Geographic Society, Reuters, World Press Photo of the Year 2018.

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How Timing Affects Memory, Attention And Mood

How Timing Affects Memory, Attention And Mood

Posted on Monday, 11 June, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

Consider this puzzle: An antiquities dealer is deciding whether to purchase a coin. The coin is made of bronze, with an emperor’s head engraved on one side and the date 544 B.C. stamped on the other. The dealer quickly determines the coin is fake. How? Whether (or how quickly) you come

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Surabaya, Indonesia’s Renaissance City Under Attack

Posted on Monday, 11 June, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

Surabaya is a port city and the capital of East Java province of Indonesia. It is one of the earliest port cities in Southeast Asia. Located on north-eastern Java on the Madura Strait, it is the second largest city in Indonesia. The city had a population over 2.7 million in the 2010 census, approximately 6.5 million in the Greater

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Ageism Widespread In The UK

Ageism Widespread In The UK

Posted on Monday, 11 June, 2018 by Zheluo Cai

Ageism is rife in Britain, with millennials holding the most negative attitudes towards ageing, according to a study. A quarter of millennials believe it is normal for older people to be unhappy and depressed, while 40% believe there is no way to escape dementia as you get older, research from the

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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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