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#Science
I've always been interested in science, thinking that I could carry a conversation, however briefly, on almost any subject.
These programs on television of late, with this incredible digital technology to visually represent long known and newly discovered facts about the formation of the earth. All of this, blows me away.
I have a new understanding of things I've known about for a long time.
So cool.
These programs on television of late, with this incredible digital technology to visually represent long known and newly discovered facts about the formation of the earth. All of this, blows me away.
I have a new understanding of things I've known about for a long time.
So cool.
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Borax
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"Sodium borate" redirects here. For sodium perborate, see Sodium perborate.
Borax
IUPAC name[hide]
Sodium tetraborate decahydrate
Identifiers
CAS number (anhydrous) 1330-43-4 (anhydrous)
Identifiers
CAS number (decahydrate) 1303-96-4 (decahydrate)
Properties
Molecular formula Na2B4O7·10H2O or Na2[B4O5(OH)4]·8H2O
Molar mass 381.37
Appearance white solid
Density 1.73 g/cm³ (solid)
Melting point
743 °C[1]
Boiling point
1575 °C
Hazards
EU classification not listed
NFPA 704
010
Flash point Non-flammable
Related compounds
Other anions Sodium aluminate; sodium gallate
Other cations Potassium tetraborate
Related compounds Boric acid, sodium perborate
Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C, 100 kPa)
Infobox references
Old steam tractor and Borax wagons, Death Valley
Borax, also known as sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.
Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass, as an insecticide, as a flux in metallurgy, a texturing agent in cooking, and as a precursor for other boron compounds.
The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated.
The word borax is from Persian and originates in the Middle-Persian būrak.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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OS X: Show hidden files and folders in Mac OS X Finder | Apple Mac | Tech-Recipes
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
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Friday, January 22, 2010
State of the Antarctic: SCAR report shows continent undergoing major changes
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In December the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) released Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment, the first comprehensive report on the crrent state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to global climate. The report, which pulls the latest research from 100 scientists in eight countries, identifies areas for future scientific research and addresses the urgent questions that policy makers have about Antarctic melting, sea-level rise, and biodiversity.
Two of NSF/OPP grantees, Paul Mayewski and Robert Bindscadler, participated as editors of the report. The key message from the report, according to Bindschadler, is that "the ice is changing. The ice sheet is changing faster than we ever expected to witness ice sheets changing in our lifetimes, quite honestly."
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The Dead in the Cold Dark Seas - ENTERTAINMENT: So I Ordered these DVDs Because U.S. Televsion is Teh Suxorz
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Cleveland, OH
1. Space 1999 (The entire series. I lucked into a box set for $20)
2. Only Fools and Horses (The entire series. This classic BBC series was voted the best of the 20th century and it deserves it. I took part in a survey and got an Amazon gift cert which gave me just enough to wind up only paying about $40 for the set)
3. Jeeves and Wooster (Who doesn't like Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie? Found a complete series box set used for $16. However, we started watching these by borrowing from the local library. They just didn't have the complete series inventoried properly so when I order series 2, they sent part of it and the second attempt at ordering it sent the same half.)
4. The Worst Christmas of My Life (This is a continuation of the Ben Miller/Sarah Alexander comedy in a one-off holiday special. Sure to be a treat. Purchased used from Amazon.co.uk for about $14)
5. The Librarians (This is a little known Australian series that just wouldn't work on U.S. audiences. For anyone who has worked in libraries, it's kind of like Parks and Recreation. They have the internal staff behaviors and typical relationships down pat. They also have the patrons pegged too. I ordered this directly from ABC so it was costly. But it will be worth it.)
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
RT @hacool Great truths here. RT @unmarketing: How to lose friends and tick off people on FaceBook
How to lose friends and tick off people on FaceBook
An open letter to all my friends in the social media consultant/guru game,
Please stop.
You’re steering people the wrong way.
You sell yourself as social media consultants, the ones that can show you the way and then fark it up.
I beg of you to stop.
Go back to teaching Internet marketing from the old days, I could at least ignore you then. I talk to you at conferences, share the stage but I can’t listen to you up there any longer spewing “tips” that hurt people and their relationships.
Here is what I and many, if not most of the world, request of you to stop immediately when teaching “Facebook Strategy”:
Photo by the awesome Racheal McCaig
1. Stop telling people to invite everyone in their contact list to every event, even if it’s local. If you invite me to your 1 hour workshop at the library in New Mexico, and I live in Toronto, it hurts my view of you and questions your geography skills
2. Stop teaching people to create fake events. You know what I’m talking about… it’s the “month long event” that you say people should create, and then they “message” all the “no’s and maybe’s” and “not yet responded” to continue to pump out their message. It makes me feel all unfriendy. (yes, that’s unfriendy)
3. You know that trick of tagging people in articles/pics/videos that they don’t appear in so they come and read it? Stop it. Getting me to think I’m mentioned somewhere just to find out I’m not and you’re just being a selfish bumhole, does not bode well for our future “friend” status on the book of faces.
4. Inviting me to a “loss weight” teleseminar event, where it lists people you’ve invited is like being on a roll call at fat camp. Really? Do I look fat in these jogging pants? I know a lot of people are overweight, but inviting someone to an event to lose that weight, especially when I’m perfectly happy living my life of denial, does not strengthen our relationship.
And while we’re here, can you start teaching your clients:
1. Inviting me to assassinate someone in the temple in Mafia Wars may give off the wrong vibe for your brand… I don’t know about you, but I like to be a sniper in the privacy of my own Xbox, not regular updates on my wall of whose neck I’ve cracked
2. Hundreds of Farmville updates on your wall doesn’t make me think you’ll focus on my needs if I become your client. Especially if you’re positioned as a “busy” person, and your status update says “I have no time!!!” And yet we can read how you just nursed a sickly cat on your farm in FarmVille, well, um, it’s just awkward.
3. Blingee generic mass-sent greeting animated cards make people go nuts. Before turning off and blocking the app, I had 43 posted on my wall. In 4 hours. Nothing says “I thought of you personally” like a mass sent lame greeting self-serving wall post. “Hey Scott, if you don’t like the app, you can just turn it off” Well, I didn’t ask you, but if you insist, that’s like me having to tell people to stop kicking me in the nuts. It should be opt-in, not opt-out.
If you’re going to be in the position of an expert, act like one.
Teach people that really, truly want to know how to do things in social media properly. Show them how to:
1. Connect with people on an authentic, not automated level.
2. Show them that with time and effort, you can meet the greatest people in the world on sites like Twitter, if they only would only invest their time, care and knowledge first.
3. That “success” is subjective, not a number of friends/followers. If by success you mean some of the most incredible relationships you’ve ever had, that once trust is established can also lead to a fruitful business, you can have it within social media.
4. Tell them to treat others like they would like to be treated. That sending repeat invites weekly to your event on Facebook would really really suck if they had 20 people doing it to them every week, and that promoting others is sometimes better than promoting yourself.
5. And warn them, that us, the self-appointed guards of social media are very protective, very persistent and aren’t goin anywhere.
There you have it my fellow social media teachers. I’m sure we’ll get along fine with just these small but meaningful changes.
Love you.
Sincerely,
The entire Internet
(As a special treat, I also made this into a song for you. With apologies to Heart)
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Are you seeing this somewhere other than #Facebook? Define, #network ...then feel free to connect with me here.
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This gentleman is an #artist in #NYC. When you have a moment, use it to check out his work. | #Facebook | Woody Batts
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This gentleman is an artist in NYC. When you have a moment, use it to check out his work.
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Dear Cleveland Curatorial Art Scene : I QUIT
Check out this website I found at networkedblogs.com
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Music and the Brain Lecture Series: Making Music Changes Brains Webcast (Library of Congress)
Making music is an intense, multi-sensory and motor experience that is typically initiated at an early age and practiced throughout a musician's lifetime. Emerging research over the years has shown that long-term music making and continuous practice of learned skills can be a strong stimulator for neuroplastic changes in the developing, as well as the adult brain and has positive effects on motion, emotion and cognition. This suggests that music-making engages, links and changes brain regions and may provide an alternative entry point that could be useful for remediating impaired neural processes.
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
If you are seeking information about an American family member who may have been in Haiti during the January 12 earthquake, call the State Department Operations Center at 1-888-407-4747.
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If you are seeking information about an American family member who may have been in Haiti during the January 12 earthquake, call the State Department Operations Center at 1-888-407-4747.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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#NASA - History Revealed
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More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies. This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, was made from mosaics taken in September and October 2009 with the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 and in 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and covers a portion of the southern field of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the evolution of galaxies. The image reveals galaxy shapes that appear increasingly chaotic at each earlier epoch, as galaxies grew through accretion, collisions and mergers, which range from the mature spirals and ellipticals in the foreground, to smaller, fainter, irregularly shaped galaxies, most of which are farther away, and therefore existed farther back in time. These smaller galaxies are considered the building blocks of the larger galaxies we see today. The image shows a rich tapestry of 7,500 galaxies stretching back through most of the universe's history. The closest galaxies seen in the foreground emitted their observed light about a billion years ago. The farthest galaxies, a few of the very faint red specks, are seen as they appeared more than 13 billion years ago, or roughly 650 million years after the Big Bang. This mosaic spans a slice of space that is equal to about a third of the diameter of the full moon (10 arc minutes). Image Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst, S. Cohen, and M. Mechtley (Arizona State University, Tempe), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Observatories), N. Hathi (University of California, Riverside), R. Ryan (University of California, Davis), and H. Yan (Ohio State University
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RT @nicholaspatten : "I'd live here." | Raumstation House by x architekten | SwipeLife
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Among the natural flora and fauna, in an otherwise uninhabited field in Gunskirchen, Austria, the Raumstation house sits conspicuously on a low hillside, in unabashed contrast to its surroundings. Designed by x architekten, the structure is composed of a cantilevered, geometric upper volume anchored to a concrete base. “Raumstation” translates to “space station,” and the home certainly fulfills its designation in the given context.
An open, linear floor plan creates fluid living spaces defined by changes in floor height. Generous glazing and white surfaces combine to reflect light throughout the interior. Exposed concrete and select floors clad in wood vary the otherwise homogenous texture and color palette.
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