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- Evolution Gone Wrong
- No One’s Really Making The Healthy Recipes On Social Media
- Exhausted Big Cats, Now In HD
- High Tech Snowboarding Simulator
- Remastered Photos By Apollo Astronauts
- This Village Shows Up After 70 Years Of Being Underwater
- The Secretary Who Turned Liquid Paper into a Multimillion-dollar Business
| Posted: 24 May 2021 01:19 PM PDT
Considering how long our species has been roaming the Earth, one would expect our bodies to be well adapted to the environment. Unfortunately, most of us still come with flaws-- allergies, defects, and the like. Biologists would tell us that there is still more room for improvement, as humanity will continue to evolve in response to pressures in the environment. In Alex Bezzerides'Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (or Don't), he tries to explain why we still experience defects regardless of our long history with evolution: Our eyes evolved originally in the ocean, where ancestral vertebrates dwelled and needed to see underwater. Around 375 million years ago, when they ventured to land, their eyes were already 100 million years old. Gradually, eyes in this lineage became land-adapted, but these organs have retained fluids and, as a result, never achieved the type of light refraction that would result in consistent sharpness of image on land. Light travels more slowly through water than it does through air, but to our advantage in modern times, even more slowly through glass. "Many of us take advantage of this fact by placing glass in front of our eyes to compensate for the imperfect job our corneas and lenses do in bending the light." Bezzerides offers nifty evolutionary explanations too for why we can distinguish more shades of green than any other color, and why our night vision is poor. He clarifies that it's not only our evolution that makes for vision troubles today, but also our current behavior. Most of us spend way too much time in spaces that lack natural light. "Children who spend greater chunks of their day outside have a lesser risk of developing myopia than children who spend their days inside," he writes. Kids don't even have to be doing healthy things out there, it turns out, because it's the light and not the activity that makes the difference. Back trouble, the leading cause of disability globally, is directly traceable to primates' leaving the trees for open areas more than 4 million years ago, Bezzerides notes. The move to the forest floor was "a pressure cooker" that caused human ancestors' center of gravity to shift. For the first time, a primate could balance on only two feet; the human spine is shaped quite differently from that of our ape cousins', with curves that cause a "precarious" structure. For example, "The inward, or lordotic, lumbar curve needs to be far enough inward to place the position of the spine under the head and to get the center of gravity above the hips," Bezzerides writes. Back pain, and even intervertebral disc pain, happens all too readily with slight misalignments. Image via NPR  |
| No One’s Really Making The Healthy Recipes On Social Media Posted: 24 May 2021 12:39 PM PDT
Healthy recipes are all over social media. Sometimes, I get pressured to actually try and eat something leafy because of these dishes that float online. Listen, don't be pressured to make those healthy recipes. They're nice to look at, and the nutrients and other benefits you can get from them are also nice. But did you know that most Internet users who 'like' and 'share' these recipes end up cooking fatty dishes? Fast Company has the details: In this new paper, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the researchers point out that social media could be another powerful tool in this effort to shape dietary behavior because, well, we're all on it. In the United States, 98 million people are active monthly users of Pinterest, which is equivalent to 18% of the adult population. The platform has become a popular recipe sharing site, with more than 60% of users reporting that they'd made a new recipe that was inspired by something they saw on the site. "There's tremendous opportunities in social media to influence healthy behavior," Hong Xue, the lead researcher, said in a statement. "We're only beginning to understand its potential and pitfalls." Last summer, the researchers analyzed food-related content on Pinterest. (They did not collaborate directly with the platform on this project but simply gathered publicly available comments, captions, photos, and videos from the site.) They found that there's a culture of promoting healthy recipes on Pinterest: Nutritious recipes that were low in calories, sodium, and sugar, and high in vegetables and lean meats tended to be rewarded with repins and likes, which motivated users to share more of this content. But when the researchers tracked engagement—which they measured in terms of comments and photos or videos of meals people actually cooked—the majority opted for recipes with more sugar and fat. Image via Fast Company |
| Posted: 24 May 2021 12:39 PM PDT
Big Cats is an exhibition by photojournalist Steve Winter that shows another side to the wild cats that roam around different jungles and grasslands. The exhibition, which will be featured in the Siena Awards Festival, aims to raise awareness of the plight of these critically endangered animals. In addition, consider: sleepy big cat photos! Digital Camera World has more details: From the mountaintops of the Himalayas, through India's jungles and grasslands, to the Rockies of the American West and to South America's Amazonian rivers, Steve Winter's amazing 'Big Cats' photos reveal some of the world's most elusive wild cats in their natural habitat. Originally starting out as a photojournalist for Black Star Photo Agency, Steve has gone on to produce stories for GEO, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Natural History, BusinessWeek and Scientific American, among other publications. He became a National Geographic photojournalist in 1991 and in 2013 National Geographic published his wildlife photography book Tigers Forever: Saving the World's Most Endangered Cat, co-sponsored by Panthera, the world's leader in Big Cat conservation. Image via Digital Camera World |
| High Tech Snowboarding Simulator Posted: 24 May 2021 12:38 PM PDT
Sora News 24 brings us news of this amazing machine at the Sachinoyu Hotel in the mountains of central Japan. If you want to go snowboarding, you'll need training. That's why the hotel has an advanced snowboarding simulator what whips you around on a tilting snowboard as a screen displays your movements in a virtual environment: As shown in the above video, the machine can simulate both skiing and snowboarding, and a display provides detailed biomechanical feedback by measuring data such as the angle of the skis/snowboard and the amount of weight the rider is placing on different points. By configuring parameters to simulate different qualities of snow and other conditions, the session can be adjusted to match the user's skill level, making it a fun and educational experience for beginners and advanced skiers/snowboarders, as well as adults and kids alike. |
| Remastered Photos By Apollo Astronauts Posted: 24 May 2021 12:38 PM PDT
Oxford researcher Toby Ord has remastered older Apollo mission photos of the Earth, to add to the collection of photographs that showcase the beauty of our planet. Ord's remaster project started when he found the Saturn photos captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to be wonderful but couldn't find comparable photographs of Earth, as PetaPixel details: "It wasn't that Earth itself was any less beautiful, but that there were no photographs which did justice to that beauty," Ordwrites. "How could this be?" He discovered that most Earth photos are either taken too close (e.g. from the ISS in low Earth orbit), or with unrealistic computer-aid compositing, or with the wrong cameras (by spacecraft on scientific rather than photographic missions). The compositions Ord did like were the photographs shot by NASA astronauts on Apollo missions to the Moon. "To find truly great photographs of the Earth — portraits of our planet — we have to go back to the 1960s and 70s," Ord says. "The Apollo program, with its nine journeys to the Moon, is the only time humans have ever been beyond low Earth orbit; the only opportunity they have had to take photographs of the whole Earth. They did not waste it." Image via PetaPixel |
| This Village Shows Up After 70 Years Of Being Underwater Posted: 24 May 2021 12:38 PM PDT
It's like the lost city of Atlantis! Well, a lost city that finally re-emerged after its disappearance. Unfortunately, no advanced technology or civilization has been found, only remains. After 70 long years, remains of the lost village of Curon have now reappeared in Italy. Initially, the only sign that Curon once existed was a 14th century church spire rising out of the middle of a lake. Now, however, locals around Lago di Resia in South Tyrol, Italy, can see the remains of the submerged city. Image via Prevention |
| The Secretary Who Turned Liquid Paper into a Multimillion-dollar Business Posted: 24 May 2021 12:37 PM PDT
Read how Graham invented Liquid Paper, and then manufactured and marketed it herself at the Hustle. -via Nag on the Lake |
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