Random thoughts

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Americans LOVE having a medical 'speciaslist' for every perceived ailment you supposedly have
often called NEUROTISIM in the real outside world

wonder whose Trumps is in this case
call in the Russians to find out??

Why some adults, even into their 40s, still see the pediatrician
By LEAH SAMUEL

HAEJIN PARK FOR STAT
When Jeff Vetor goes for his annualpediatrician visits, the part that usually throws the nurse is when they go to take his vitals. “The hardest part is when they have to find the right size blood pressure cuff,” Vetor said.

At age 46, “I’m the biggest kid there,” laughs Vetor. He is a patient at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, where he has been treated for a congenital heart defect, called pulmonary stenosis, for most of his life.

READ MORE

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/01/pediatrician-adults/

 

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RAIL
one of the greatest transport systems ever of Humankind for humans trade or beast, underated!?
i think anyway

Rail strike costing transport company, causing produce backlog
Ongoing industrial action between Pacific National and its workforce costs transport companies thousands of dollars as they are forced to switch from rail to road transport.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/20...rt/8489446?WT.mc_id=newsmail&WT.tsrc=Newsmail

 

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jeepers
i love you NG but one current year is enough to cope with ..

A SNEAK PEEK AT 2018

http://www.nationalgeographicexpedi...es&utm_campaign=NGAdventures&utm_rd=597718735

Next year, we’ll trek clear across England on foot, go black-water rafting in New Zealand, hike between stunning shrines along Japan’s sacred Kumano Kodo, and much more.

 

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GALLERIES

Photograph by Hidetoshi Ogata
NATURE |
VIEW GALLERY
Illustrate nature in all its forms: its wildlife, landscapes, and the environmental issues impacting it. Inspire us.

 

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COOL/whats needed

Angering animal welfare activists, Mauritius invites primate research labs to set up shop
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017...ly_2017-05-03&et_rid=286772041&et_cid=1307699

 

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mmmmm and i LOVE Mushroms damn/bummer

World's deadliest mushroom outnumbering edible varieties in Victoria
Death cap mushrooms are sprouting across Victoria, and would-be foragers need to stay away, the state's health agencies warn.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-...ty/8497638?WT.mc_id=newsmail&WT.tsrc=Newsmail

 

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Crocodiles Rising
In the Northern Territory of Australia, policymakers and biologists managed the impossible—making the benefits of living with a booming population of deadly crocodiles outweigh the risks. But when two apex predators must share coastal resources, there’s bound to be conflict.

This piece was recently nominated for a Digital Publishing Award in the Best Feature Article: Long category.

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/artic...il&utm_term=0_0fc1967411-6c2e531265-121602357

 

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Winning images: #ScientistAtWork

Shortly after palaebotanist Kseniia Ashastina took this photo in Siberia, two locals — drunk and carrying guns — demanded to know what the scientists were doing. They thought the researchers were pulling ivory tusks from the mud — muscling in on local business. In fact, Ashastina’s team was only interested in the mud itself. Check out more winning images from Nature’s #ScientistAtWork photo competition, and the stories behind them.

no sympathy for you Airlines/Corporates
deserve to go viral huh
fake news BS,suffer you b.....ds

Delta Airlines apologises to family forced off plane

 

[MickeyLee]

"The actual smell of rain comes from plants. When plants are in drought they produce oils in replacement for waters. When the time comes and it finally starts raining the plants get their needed water and they release these oils in the air and the smell of that oil is what we call smell of rain

the scent is called petrichor"

Science side of Tumblr

 

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Outback camel walkers struck with disaster
Just days into their three-month trek from the desert to the coast, Queensland's 'camel whisperer' and his 19 camels are dealt a blow with the death of one of the flock, spooked by a large truck.

 

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as stated LOVE TREES huh
live with it oui! ha
tbh
when travelling Britain and the pathetic patches they used to call 'forests' geeesus i was embarrased for them ha,more like scrubland

UNITED KINGDOM
Inspiring Forest

Five Hundred Acre Wood, the forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood, can be found outside London.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/...5_8_2017)&mc_cid=f54af4e6c0&mc_eid=d67b59bc0e

 

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Are These Birds Too
Sexy to Survive?
Natural selection can’t explain this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/are-these-birds-too-sexy-to-survive.html

 

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how WONDERFUL is that 2nd image
thanks for sharing!

pity you president is setting about shortening it again


The life expectancy gap is growing

(IHME / UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON)
The gap between counties with the highest and lowest life expectancies in the US is ballooning. A new analysis breaks down life expectancy data by county to uncover the disparities masked by national progress in lengthening life. Colorado’s Summit County — with an average life expectancy of 87 years — tops the list. That’s 20 years longer than the life expectancy in Oglala Lakota County in South Dakota, which lands at the bottom spot. Some of the variation can be explained by higher rates of obesity, hypertension, and smoking. But socioeconomic factors such as race, education, and income are also significant drivers of the disparity, the authors say. The good news: Every county in the US has seen the death rate under age 5 fall in since 1980, and the gap between counties is narrowing for children's life expectancies. This is likely thanks to public policies and health programs designed to make sure young kids have access to care.

Inside STAT: Capturing joy at the end of life

HOWIE AND LAUREL EMBRACE (NANCY BOROWICK)
Photographer Nancy Borowick documented every moment as her parents Howie and Laurel underwent parallel treatments for stage 4 cancer. “Photography gave me a familiar context and a language through which I could understand this terrifying and profound reality unfolding before me,” Borowick writes. When she published a piecein the New York Times in late 2013, emails began to pour in from strangers who went through a similar trial. Now, four years after her father’s death and three years after her mother’s, she’s getting ready to publish a book of her photographs, journal entries, and conversations from that time. And in turning back to those emails, Borowick has found a place in a community forged by loss and love. Read her movingFirst Opinion.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/09/photographs-cancer-end-of-life/

 

[rbkwp]

have followed this young man from the outset
when no one bothered
deserves more than a medal or nobel
puts EVERY country and its lleaders/honchos/followers to shame
The Ocean Cleanup—the ambitious Dutch venture devoted to ridding the world's oceans of plastics—announced this week that it has raised $21.7 million in donations since last November.
actually posted ity as hes one COOL dude ha

22-Year-Old Raises $21.7 Million to Rid Pacific Ocean of Plastic

http://www.ecowatch.com/ocean-clean...ail&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-60dd3e0249-85968677

MY Island/suppose i dont have the right to call it that ha, but why not?
grab what you can T does?
cell towers / tourisim $ now
way of the World

Dark Sky Sanctuary status will put Great Barrier Island on international stage

9 May, 2017
Great Barrier Island residents and businesses are looking to the heavens for a bright future.

The island has applied to be declared an International Dark Sky Sanctuary.

A decision is expected within a few weeks, encouraging accommodation providers to set-up telescopes in hopes of attracting star-gazing "astro-tourists" from around the world.

Being off-grid and with almost zero outdoor lighting, the island avoids the excess light pollution blamed for obliterating night-sky displays across the developed world.

Intense starry vistas have captivated generations of visitors to the island, 90 kilometres north-east of Auckland. Barrier residents decided to turn this long-standing aesthetic asset into a major tourist drawcard after "space fever" hit the island last year.

http://mobile.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/news/article.php?c_id=1503378&objectid=11852349

 

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and how many knew of this experimenjt
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A dingo study is informing a contentious debate over how top predators affect their environment. (Simon King/NPL)
The dingo-fence experiment

A 5,400-kilometre ‘dingo fence’ across Australia’s outback — built to keep the wild canines from wreaking havoc on livestock — has inadvertently created an experiment looking at how predators shape ecosystems. Excluding dingoes can lead to a population boom in their preferred prey, kangaroos, find researchers, which can change the landscape’s plant and soil composition.

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good news from palestine, uhhh i mean Indonesia

Health improving for rescued albino orangutan in Indonesia

A rare 5 year-old female albino orangutan is seen after it was rescued from captivity by authorities in Kapuas Hulu district, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia April 29, 2017 in this photo released by the wildlife conservation group Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation... REUTERS

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-orangutan-idUSKBN1861CY

 

[MickeyLee]

randomly cool image

 

[rbkwp]

THANKS ML
lovely contribution, abstract to the full ha'

bring it on,more ..

 

[rbkwp]

cool' ha
a once in several lifetimes event

"To be honest we haven't got an exact plan from this point. It's still just fresh excitement."

Australian pearl farm enjoys rare moment, discovering two natural pearls in one shell

The two pearls were discovered at Cygnet Bay in Western Australia.

Australia's longest running pearl farm has enjoyed a rare moment this week — opening up a pearl shell to discover two natural pearls.

"The industry thinking is that one in every 10,000 shells might have a natural pearl in it," Cygnet Bay Pearls general manager James Brown said

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/20...ll/8514974?WT.mc_id=newsmail&WT.tsrc=Newsmail

 

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The zoo's latest acquisition, a panther chameleon, climbs on the branch of a small tree in its enclosure in the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany,

and/or get a bit of life into you ha