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[h=1]'Tide of the century' temporarily turns France's Mont Saint-Michel into island[/h]
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/tid...nce-s-mont-saint-michel-into-island-1.2290821
The high tide, said to rise at the pace of a horse's gallop, turned the Mont briefly into an island Saturday, while the day's low tide allowed people to walk on the expansive flat seabed.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/tid...nce-s-mont-saint-michel-into-island-1.2290821
The high tide, said to rise at the pace of a horse's gallop, turned the Mont briefly into an island Saturday, while the day's low tide allowed people to walk on the expansive flat seabed.
Paris (AFP) - French authorities will on Monday put in place emergency traffic-limiting measures in Paris, as the City of Light and much of northern France suffers from a choking smog.
City mayor Anne Hidalgo had asked authorities to prevent one in every two cars from taking to the capital's streets and make all public transport temporarily free in a bid to drive down pollution
"I am delighted the state has agreed to put in place a partial driving ban on Monday, which I have been requesting for several days," Hidalgo wrote Saturday on Twitter.
Only vehicles with number plates ending in an odd number will be allowed to drive, though exceptions exist for vehicles like taxis, electric cars and ambulances.
Public transportation is to be free until at least Monday in Paris and its surrounding towns in an effort to force pollution down by coaxing drivers to give up their cars for a few days.
Similar emergency measures were last implemented almost exactly a year ago -- on March 17 -- during a particularly bad spike in the pollution levels.
On Saturday, air quality monitors predicted that concentrations of potentially dangerous particulates in the air could again go over the recommended maximum.
In Paris, authorities measure the concentration of particulates with a diameter of less than 10 microns -- so-called PM10 -- in the air to determine pollution levels.
These particulates are created by vehicles, heating and heavy industry, and include the most dangerous particles that measure less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and the blood system and can cause cancer.
The safe limit for PM10 is set at 80 microgrammes per cubic metre (mcg/m3).
According to a 2011 World Health Organisation report, the planet's most polluted city was Ahvaz in Iran with an average of 372 mcg/m3.
Beijing had an average of 121 mcg/m3, while Paris was measured at 38 mcg/m3.
https://news.yahoo.com/smog-choked-paris-forces-half-cars-off-roads-135406905.html
City mayor Anne Hidalgo had asked authorities to prevent one in every two cars from taking to the capital's streets and make all public transport temporarily free in a bid to drive down pollution
"I am delighted the state has agreed to put in place a partial driving ban on Monday, which I have been requesting for several days," Hidalgo wrote Saturday on Twitter.
Only vehicles with number plates ending in an odd number will be allowed to drive, though exceptions exist for vehicles like taxis, electric cars and ambulances.
Public transportation is to be free until at least Monday in Paris and its surrounding towns in an effort to force pollution down by coaxing drivers to give up their cars for a few days.
Similar emergency measures were last implemented almost exactly a year ago -- on March 17 -- during a particularly bad spike in the pollution levels.
On Saturday, air quality monitors predicted that concentrations of potentially dangerous particulates in the air could again go over the recommended maximum.
In Paris, authorities measure the concentration of particulates with a diameter of less than 10 microns -- so-called PM10 -- in the air to determine pollution levels.
These particulates are created by vehicles, heating and heavy industry, and include the most dangerous particles that measure less than 2.5 microns in diameter, which can penetrate deep into the lungs and the blood system and can cause cancer.
The safe limit for PM10 is set at 80 microgrammes per cubic metre (mcg/m3).
According to a 2011 World Health Organisation report, the planet's most polluted city was Ahvaz in Iran with an average of 372 mcg/m3.
Beijing had an average of 121 mcg/m3, while Paris was measured at 38 mcg/m3.
https://news.yahoo.com/smog-choked-paris-forces-half-cars-off-roads-135406905.html
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Vancouver Canucks fans most likely to have one-night stands: survey
Cupid’s arrow seems to have missed the Canucks, according to a new survey that suggests Vancouver fans are about as uncommitted to finding love as they are to their home team (just kidding).
Commissioned by Match.com, the unscientific survey questioned 1,010 single Canadians on their dating habits based on which hockey team they cheer for.
The results were as surprising as a Canucks fan jumping back on the bandwagon during a playoff run. Living up to their wishy-washy reputation on the ice and in relationships, 60 per cent of Canucks fans reported being open to having one-night stands, the survey found.
But don’t expect a phone call the next day— your Canucks fan is probably already on to the next puck bunny. While many hockey fans admitted to dating less during the playoffs, the survey found the majority of Canucks fans (80 per cent) aren’t likely to put their busy dating lives on hold to root for their team.
So how do Canucks fans compare to the rest of the country?
Cupid’s arrow seems to have missed the Canucks, according to a new survey that suggests Vancouver fans are about as uncommitted to finding love as they are to their home team (just kidding).
Commissioned by Match.com, the unscientific survey questioned 1,010 single Canadians on their dating habits based on which hockey team they cheer for.
The results were as surprising as a Canucks fan jumping back on the bandwagon during a playoff run. Living up to their wishy-washy reputation on the ice and in relationships, 60 per cent of Canucks fans reported being open to having one-night stands, the survey found.
But don’t expect a phone call the next day— your Canucks fan is probably already on to the next puck bunny. While many hockey fans admitted to dating less during the playoffs, the survey found the majority of Canucks fans (80 per cent) aren’t likely to put their busy dating lives on hold to root for their team.
So how do Canucks fans compare to the rest of the country?
- Toronto Maple Leafs fans are the most devoted when it comes to dating, “almost to a fault,” the survey found. Forty-two per cent have gotten back together with an ex, while 36 per cent would marry someone whom their family disapproves.
- Calgary Flames fans date with a fiery passion, the survey found, with 43 per cent reporting that they’re likely to sext. About half of all Flames fans say bad kissing could be a relationship deal breaker.
- Montreal Canadiens fans have high standards on the ice and in their love lives. Fifty-eight per cent say they are turned off by their date constantly checking their phone and ignoring them.
- Edmonton Oilers fans are big spenders with 22 per cent opting to spend between $60 and $80 on a first date.
- Winnipeg Jets fans are the least likely to believe in love at first sight (37 per cent).
- Ottawa Sens fans are the most conservative of the bunch, with more than half saying they have not had a one-night stand. When they do get busy, 63 per cent said they prefer to have the lights off.
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I call this bull by categorizing on an universal poll.
During and immediately after the first Gulf War, more than 200,000 of 700,000 U.S. troops sent to Iraq and Kuwait in January 1991 were exposed to nerve gas and other chemical agents. Though aware of this, the Department of Defense and CIA launched a campaign of lies and concocted a cover-up that continues today.
A quarter of a century later, the troops nearest the explosions are dying of brain cancer at two to three times the rate of those who were farther away. Others have lung cancer or debilitating chronic diseases, and pain.
More complications lie ahead.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-us-nerve-gassed-its-own-troops-then-covered-it-317250
A quarter of a century later, the troops nearest the explosions are dying of brain cancer at two to three times the rate of those who were farther away. Others have lung cancer or debilitating chronic diseases, and pain.
More complications lie ahead.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-us-nerve-gassed-its-own-troops-then-covered-it-317250
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Facts only, did you learn?.
Facts only, did you learn?.
A SHOT OF WHISKY
In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a shot glass of whisky. If a cowhand was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. This became known as a "shot" of whisky.
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS
American fighter planes in WW2 had machine guns that were fed by a belt of cartridges. The average plane held belts that were 27 feet (9 yards) long. If the pilot used up all his ammo he was said to have given it the whole nine yards
Facts only, did you learn?.
A SHOT OF WHISKY
In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a shot glass of whisky. If a cowhand was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink. This became known as a "shot" of whisky.
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS
American fighter planes in WW2 had machine guns that were fed by a belt of cartridges. The average plane held belts that were 27 feet (9 yards) long. If the pilot used up all his ammo he was said to have given it the whole nine yards
Telescopes have been seeing unexplained energy bursts for more than a decade, and are starting to learn more about where they come from
Mysterious bursts of energy coming from space align in a mathematical pattern, and so could be emanating from alien technology, according to scientists.
Blitzars, which last only about a millisecond, have been detected by telescopes since about 2001 and have been heard ten times since. And nobody really knows where they come from, or why they happen.
But a new study has found that the bursts line up in a way that is not explained by existing physics, reports the New Scientist.
Scientists tried to work out how far the bursts have travelled through space to get to us, using dispersion measures. That looks at how the radiowaves that are being sent get scattered as they travel through space the higher the dispersion measure, the further that radiowaves seem to have been sent before they arrived.
All of the ten bursts that have been detected so far have dispersion measures that line up as multiples of a single number: 187.5. The chances of them doing so are 5 in 10,000, the scientists behind the study claim.
John Learned, from the University of Hawaii in Manoa, led the study with Michael Hippke from the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany. Learned said that the line-up was very, very hard to explain.
There are two theories for why the coincidence is happening, according to the researchers. The first proposes that each of the bursts were sent from regularly spaced intervals: five sources, at equally spaced distances from the Earth. But the more likely one says that they probably came from somewhere much closer, like in the Milky Way, but are being mysteriously sent with a delay that matches up to the strange pattern.
There is little reason for the bursts to line up in this way if they are being sent by natural bodies, the scientists said. Some stars have sent out bursts of radio waves, but without the power or regular pattern that has been found in the fast radio bursts. However, it may be that there is some astrophysics that scientists are yet to understand that has been driving the timing.
It could also be that the signals are not coming from space at all, but form much closer. The messages could be coming from a secret satellite that is hiding its messages so that they appear to come from much deeper in space.
But the scientists conclude that if none of the other explanations work out, An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.
While scientists have long considered that the bursts could be messages from aliens, the new finding could lend extra credence to that theory. Researchers have been attempting to work out whether a message is encoded in the bursts and it seems they might now have found one.
Mysterious bursts of energy coming from space align in a mathematical pattern, and so could be emanating from alien technology, according to scientists.
Blitzars, which last only about a millisecond, have been detected by telescopes since about 2001 and have been heard ten times since. And nobody really knows where they come from, or why they happen.
But a new study has found that the bursts line up in a way that is not explained by existing physics, reports the New Scientist.
Scientists tried to work out how far the bursts have travelled through space to get to us, using dispersion measures. That looks at how the radiowaves that are being sent get scattered as they travel through space the higher the dispersion measure, the further that radiowaves seem to have been sent before they arrived.
All of the ten bursts that have been detected so far have dispersion measures that line up as multiples of a single number: 187.5. The chances of them doing so are 5 in 10,000, the scientists behind the study claim.
John Learned, from the University of Hawaii in Manoa, led the study with Michael Hippke from the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany. Learned said that the line-up was very, very hard to explain.
There are two theories for why the coincidence is happening, according to the researchers. The first proposes that each of the bursts were sent from regularly spaced intervals: five sources, at equally spaced distances from the Earth. But the more likely one says that they probably came from somewhere much closer, like in the Milky Way, but are being mysteriously sent with a delay that matches up to the strange pattern.
There is little reason for the bursts to line up in this way if they are being sent by natural bodies, the scientists said. Some stars have sent out bursts of radio waves, but without the power or regular pattern that has been found in the fast radio bursts. However, it may be that there is some astrophysics that scientists are yet to understand that has been driving the timing.
It could also be that the signals are not coming from space at all, but form much closer. The messages could be coming from a secret satellite that is hiding its messages so that they appear to come from much deeper in space.
But the scientists conclude that if none of the other explanations work out, An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.
While scientists have long considered that the bursts could be messages from aliens, the new finding could lend extra credence to that theory. Researchers have been attempting to work out whether a message is encoded in the bursts and it seems they might now have found one.
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Why women were turned on by Steve McQueen: A chemical in actor's aftershave triggered their sex hormones
It wasn't just Steve McQueen's rugged looks that sent ladies into a frenzy in the 1960s. The actor's enduring sex appeal may have been boosted by his aftershave, Eau Sauvage, which contained a potent chemical known as Hedione.
Now scientists have revealed how this chemical activates the hypothalamus - an area of the brain responsible for triggering the release of sex hormones in women.
Hedione - derived from the Greek word 'hedone', for fun, pleasure, lust - has a fresh jasmine-magnolia scent. The Christian Dior fragrance, Eau Savage, was the first to use it in 1966, and it has since found its way into other fragrances such as Chamade by Guerlain, CKOne and Chanel no. 19.
The study found that Hedione creates 'sex-specific activation patterns' in the tissue found in the nasal cavity which connects to the brain, according to a report in the Telegraph. Here Hedione - which has the chemical name methyl dihydro-jasmonate - activates the pheromone receptor VN1R in humans. 'These results constitute compelling evidence that a pheromone effect different from normal olfactory perception indeed exists in humans,' says scent researcher Prof Hanns Hatt from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany.
Scientists analysed brain activity when a person smelled Hedione to find out how it changed their emotions and behaviour. They then compared the results with the effects caused by a common floral fragrance known as phenylethyl alcohol. Hedione triggered brain areas in the limbic system, which is responsible for emotions, memory and motivation, more effectively than phenylethyl alcohol. It also activated an area of the hypothalamus which releases sex hormones throughout body to turn people on.
The German study found that Hedione activated a specific hypothalamic region, in women more strongly than in men. But scientists are still divided over whether humans can actually communicate via pheromones.
In the animal kingdom, this kind of communication is widespread. Mice have around 300 different genes for pheromone receptors; in humans, probably only five of them are still functional.
'In the next stage, we want to find out which physiological and psychological parameters are affected when Hedione activates the pheromone receptor,' explains Hanns Hatt. 'We also have to search for scent molecules in bodily secretions, which resemble Hedione and activate the receptor. With its help, humans could actually communicate with each other.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
It wasn't just Steve McQueen's rugged looks that sent ladies into a frenzy in the 1960s. The actor's enduring sex appeal may have been boosted by his aftershave, Eau Sauvage, which contained a potent chemical known as Hedione.
Now scientists have revealed how this chemical activates the hypothalamus - an area of the brain responsible for triggering the release of sex hormones in women.
Hedione - derived from the Greek word 'hedone', for fun, pleasure, lust - has a fresh jasmine-magnolia scent. The Christian Dior fragrance, Eau Savage, was the first to use it in 1966, and it has since found its way into other fragrances such as Chamade by Guerlain, CKOne and Chanel no. 19.
The study found that Hedione creates 'sex-specific activation patterns' in the tissue found in the nasal cavity which connects to the brain, according to a report in the Telegraph. Here Hedione - which has the chemical name methyl dihydro-jasmonate - activates the pheromone receptor VN1R in humans. 'These results constitute compelling evidence that a pheromone effect different from normal olfactory perception indeed exists in humans,' says scent researcher Prof Hanns Hatt from Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany.
Scientists analysed brain activity when a person smelled Hedione to find out how it changed their emotions and behaviour. They then compared the results with the effects caused by a common floral fragrance known as phenylethyl alcohol. Hedione triggered brain areas in the limbic system, which is responsible for emotions, memory and motivation, more effectively than phenylethyl alcohol. It also activated an area of the hypothalamus which releases sex hormones throughout body to turn people on.
The German study found that Hedione activated a specific hypothalamic region, in women more strongly than in men. But scientists are still divided over whether humans can actually communicate via pheromones.
In the animal kingdom, this kind of communication is widespread. Mice have around 300 different genes for pheromone receptors; in humans, probably only five of them are still functional.
'In the next stage, we want to find out which physiological and psychological parameters are affected when Hedione activates the pheromone receptor,' explains Hanns Hatt. 'We also have to search for scent molecules in bodily secretions, which resemble Hedione and activate the receptor. With its help, humans could actually communicate with each other.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
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