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Watch ten years of the Sun doing its thing in this 61-minute long, high-definition video. The images come from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which captured an image of the Sun every 0.75 seconds from June 1, 2010 to June 1, 2020. Awesome!
From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has collected 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, accumulating 20 million gigabytes of data in the past 10 years. This information has allowed countless new discoveries about how our closest star works and how it influences the solar system …
This 10-year time span shows photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an extreme ultraviolet wavelength showing the Sun’s outermost atmospheric layer – the corona. Compiling one photo every hour, the film condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes. The video shows the rise and fall of activity that occurs as part of the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle and notable events such as transiting planets and eruptions.
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Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman reviewed the 9Barista espresso machine. Here’s a half-section illustration from the 9Barista website so you can see what’s happening. It has two boilers, a heat sink, a spiral heat exchanger, and a spring valve – it’s available on the 9Barista espresso website for $ 385.
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I’m reading Matt Alt’s fantastic new book, Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World. At the beginning of the book, he points to Sony’s TR-63 transistor radio (introduced in 1957) as the beginning of Japan’s gigantic influence on the world through consumer electronics, toys, entertainment, and other aspects of popular culture. . I was curious […]
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Voiced by a Russian actor, “Fellow Traveler” is an anti-Trump advertisement for the Lincoln Project narrated in Russian. “The most important endorsement Donald Trump received in 2016 was not from his Senate leader, Mitch McConnell,” the announcement begins. “And not from his congressman, Paul Ryan … No, Donald Trump received the most important endorsement in 2016 from […]
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There was already enough concern about the healthy state of our drinking water before COVID-19. And while there is no evidence that the coronavirus has ever been detected in the water supply, the general feeling of fear surrounding any type of contamination is obviously at a high point everywhere. Contaminants such as lead, chromium, arsenic, copper, mercury, […]
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Allergies are brutal and affect approximately 30 percent of all American adults. While many only suffer from saddle with mild irritations such as cough, sneeze, runny nose, or watery eyes, some symptoms can be even more intrusive and significantly more painful. Sinus pressure is one of those ungodly side effects, causing pain that can spread […]
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“I probably use my chef’s knives more than any other tool in the kitchen.” – Bobby Flay, the famous chef Cooking at home has taken on a whole new life as a result of COVID-19, and even with the slow reopening of restaurants in the United States, there are many reasons to suspect that more of us are preparing more meals. […]
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