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Farm in Hamden
August 21, 2017Traffic Prediction for specific time and destination mapping/navigation – Google Maps Help
August 20, 2017How to Watch a Solar Eclipse – Science Guides – The New York Times
August 16, 2017How to Watch #Eclipse2017
https://www.NYTimes.com/guides/science/how-to-watch-a-solar-eclipse “Totality” is cosmically special: sun is 400X larger than moon but also 400x farther away
https://twitter.com/markgerstein/status/898022896446164992
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WHY IS AN ECLIPSE SO SPECIAL?
This perfect sun-moon-Earth alignment is an extraordinary cosmic coincidence. The sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but it also happens to be 400 times farther away, which to the observer on the ground means they are almost identical in size. The match is so uncanny that on some occasions, the moon is at the farthest point of its slightly elongated orbit and fails to cover the sun fully, leaving a ring of sunlight. …In all
the hundreds of billions of star systems of our Milky Way galaxy, few are likely to produce total solar eclipses like ours.
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The moment when the moon passes completely in front of the sun, an event called “totality,” will begin in Lincoln City at 10:16 a.m. PT and travel to the other side of the country, and exiting at
Charleston, South Carolina at 2:48 p.m. ET. The entire journey takes about an hour and a half.
Even if you are not in the path of the total eclipse, a partial eclipse will be visible throughout the continental United States. The last remnants of the lunar shadow will finish passing over the country at 4:09 p.m.
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Even though an eclipse effectively turns day into night, never look directly at the sun.
Solar eclipses are especially dangerous. Not because of anything special about the light during the eclipse, but because the sudden changes in luminosity can cause retina damage before your eyes have a chance to adapt, or before you have an opportunity to look away.
Do wear eclipse glasses. The only safe way to view the eclipse during its partial phases is to wear eclipse filters. We already suggested a few you should consider, but even if you don’t go with those, glasses that meet the proper international safety standards should have a certification of ISO 12312-2.
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Where to Get Solar Eclipse Glasses, Updated Advice – American Academy of Ophthalmology
August 16, 2017Museum Of Natural History To Host Solar Eclipse Viewing Event On Upper West Side – Upper West Side, NY Patch
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The eclipse is expected to begin around 1:23 p.m. for New York City viewers with peak views occurring around 2:44 p.m.m according to the museum.
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cybersecurity story
August 5, 2017The absent-minded prof in the news…!
http://www.nature.com/news/cybersecurity-for-the-travelling-scientist-1.22379
Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
Virtual private networks, tracking apps and ‘burner’ laptops: how to protect sensitive data when you take your research on the road.
Brian Owens
02 August 2017
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Mark Gerstein has had his fair share of scares when it comes to losing track of his electronic devices — and, along with them, access to his private information and research data.
“I’m very security conscious, but also a bit of an absent-minded professor,” says Gerstein, a bioinformatician at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
He recalls one trip to Boston, Massachusetts, when he left his phone in a taxi, and watched it get farther and farther away on the tracking app on his iPad while he ran after the car in vain. Luckily, Gerstein was able to contact the taxi company, and eventually watched his phone make the return journey to his pocket.
Gerstein’s story had a happy ending, but all too often, hardware lost on the road is lost for good.
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Turn Off Your Push Notifications. All of Them | WIRED
July 31, 2017Turn Off Your Push Notifications
https://www.Wired.com/story/turn-off-your-push-notifications Importance of #Quiet! I find #Gmail’s “learned” categories effective for key msgs
Are You a Carboholic? Why Cutting Carbs Is So Tough – The New York Times
July 25, 2017QT:{{”
The conventional thinking, held by the large proportion of the many researchers and clinicians I’ve interviewed over the years, is that obesity is caused by caloric excess. They refer to it as an “energy balance” disorder, and so the treatment is to consume less energy (fewer calories) and expend more. When we fail to maintain this prescription, the implication is that we simply lack will power or self-discipline.
“It’s viewed as a psychological issue or even a question of
character,” says Dr. David Ludwig, who studies and treats obesity at Harvard Medical School.
The minority position in this field — one that Dr. Ludwig holds, as do I after years of reporting — is that obesity is actually a hormonal regulatory disorder, and the hormone that dominates this process is insulin. It directly links what we eat to the accumulation of excess fat and that, in turn, is tied to the foods we crave and the hunger we experience. It’s been known since the 1960s that insulin signals fat cells to accumulate fat, while telling the other cells in our body to burn carbohydrates for fuel. By this thinking these carbohydrates are uniquely fattening.
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Are You a Carboholic? Why Cutting #Carbs Is So Tough
https://www.NYTimes.com/2017/07/19/well/eat/are-you-a-carboholic-why-cutting-carbs-is-so-tough.html #Obesity as an energy-balance v hormonal-regulatory disorder
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