Twin Earth

Long and tiring search that there is another planet like earth in space are expected to achieve in the next year. It is not possible, this planet could be a new human habitation.

There are at least two criteria of a planet can be called a twin earth, which has the size and the same surface temperature. Actually have discovered thousands of planet candidates that enter the Earth's twin, but uninhabitable by humans.

The planets are called exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. These planets are in another orbit, around the sun of their own. Since then, found about 800 other solar systems outside our system.

NASA space telescope, Kepler, discovered more than 2,300 planets potentially habitable since March 2009. Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of the findings will prove true,

In December last year, Kepler discovered planet 2.4 times bigger than Earth. Distance planet with sun far enough.

For planets with the same size and temperature of the Earth, said Mendez, almost undiscovered. He said most of the planets like Earth are very close to their sun, it is impossible to live.

But he is optimistic that 2013 will be a good year for space exploration. If found twin planet Earth, then this will give a remarkable effect on humans. "People look to the sky, just as we look to the ocean. We know oceans have islands and continents are billions of numbers, which can accommodate the whole primitive life and civilization," said Marcy, try likens the search for planets like the search for a new continent.

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Revealing Secrets Walking on Water

Chicago - A lot of people have been demonstrating, if you fill the pool with water and cornstarch, you can run on it. If stopped, you will drown. Even so, how it happened is still a mystery in fluid dynamics.

Generally, the explanation given for the phenomenon of "walk on water" is the suspension, which contains liquid particles in it, not the more viscous Newtonian fluid, when there was an increase in the rate of deformation because the people running it. Typical examples are the sauce, blood, and toothpaste. Fluid "normal", like water, flow and constant viscosity.

But Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger, a physicist at the University of Chicago, found that the situation was quite different. When you step on the suspension, the particles will be compressed and turned into a solid phase for a while.

Waitukaitis and Jaeger noted in the research that will be published in the journal Nature, issue of July 12, 2012, that the proposed common mechanism is unable to explain how people can run on top of a mixture of water and cornstarch. "The mechanism is not able to support the weight of a person," said Jaeger.

Both scientists are filling a container with a mixture of water and cornstarch (oobleck) and dug a stick on it. Using high-speed photography camera and X-rays, they see that, when the stick touches the suspension, under section into a solid stick. Particles in suspension could not move, creating an area similar column sturdy enough to prevent the stick sinking into the oobleck.

The area that is now solid and thicken it can extend to the bottom of the container. Jaeger noted that the solidified zone that emits energy that is large enough to rupture one of the containers. That energy can even bounce and push back the stick when the container is fairly shallow.

It should be noted that, contrary to previous modeling, no matter whether the container walls or running a stick remained on the oobleck. The same thing will happen if you fill it with a mixture of sea and conduct experiments.

Once exposed to the pressure wand, solid zone will start to melt, because there is no more pressing energy. That's why, when you stop running across the oobleck, you will drown. It also explains why people can not drive in it, because the wheels do not put pressure on a small area.

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Honing a Knife

Let's assume you're committed to keeping your kitchen knives sharp by learning how to hone (or steel) them. That you've studied up on the best type of honing steel to use, understand the angle you should hone at, and have practiced the correct technique. Is there anything else you should be aware of to help you succeed?

Absolutely! I recommend you 1) establish a routine, 2) store your hone in an easy-access nook, and 3) create a Honing Cheat Sheet.

Get On a Schedule

You need to be consistent when honing (or steeling) your knives. Believe it or not - ideally - you should hone them every time you use them (a serious session, like prepping a meal). Seems a bit obsessive, doesn't it? But you'd be surprised what you might be able to train yourself to do, once you reap the benefits (i.e. perpetually sharp knives). Remember, it only takes about 60 seconds.

At a bare minimum (if you're cooking 3 or 4 times a week), you should hone once a week. Less than that and you're greatly diminishing the effect. It will still help, but you'll need to get your knives sharpened sooner than necessary and you'll needlessly deprive yourself of working with sharp knives.

When should you do it? Technically speaking, it's better to hone right before using a knife than after - the reason being that if a large amount of time has elapsed between honing and use, the knife can regress and the edge bend back out a bit. But it's no biggie. If honing right before is too much hassle, then do it later when you feel less pressured. The main thing is to do it!

Ergonomics

Be sure to store your honing steel in an easy-to-get-to place. Somewhere in the flow of your kitchen work and close to your knives. Don't make yourself have to dig through the back of a cabinet, scattering whisks and spatulas, every time you need to use it. You'll never last. Make it handy - this will support you in doing what you need to do. And it's OK if it doesn't fit in your knife block - mine doesn't - store it in a convenient drawer, or hang it on a hook near the action.

Honing (or Steeling) Cheat Sheet

And finally, even though it may seem nerdy, I highly recommend printing out a cheat sheet - a short list of instructions to keep with your honing steel. In the beginning, at least, it will prove invaluable for reminding you of the key points. Otherwise you will either 1) waste time over and over again trying to find the instructions you need every time you hone and then simply get sick of it and quit, or 2) simply not hone at all because you can't deal with looking up the instructions, or 3) try to remember what the instructions said, and probably not get it right and hone incorrectly, and make your knives duller instead of sharper.

Sooo, here's the Honing Cheat Sheet I once used. Copy it into your favorite word processor and print it out small and compact. Nerds rule!

Honing/Steeling Cheat Sheet

• hone/steel after every other use
• at same angle, or slightly steeper, than sharpened angle (20-22 degrees for Western knives, or 11-15 degrees for Japanese)
• remember the two tricks for finding the correct angle
• always better to err being too shallow, then go steeper
• best on low table, at the level of your hips
• lock wrist and elbow to keep angle consistent
• avoid letting tip of knife slide off of edge of steel
• use barely more pressure than the weight of the knife itself
• alternate side to side
• 2 or 3 strokes per side - 7 or 8 max
• test sharpness - if not improved, tweak angle
• hand wash honing steel occasionally and wipe dry

When to steel?

• ideally, right before using, just a couple of strokes
• otherwise, once a week
• create a routine

If you can teach yourself to hone regularly, you'll have sharp knives at your fingertips all the time. You'll begin to get addicted. And depending on 1) how much you cook, 2) how dutifully you hone, and 3) the quality of your knives, you may be able to go a year or longer before having to even think about sharpening.

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Google re-focused to develop a search feature.

Google seems to start on the path back to khitah as a search engine. After a year of trial which soared thanks to his obsession with Google +, the search giant is close to its roots again with new search features.

Google now provides space for its users to be able to look relevant messages in your Gmail account in addition to standard search results. For example, if you want to search for information 'flight' on Google, you will see a list of flights that you have a message for the confirmation notification sent through Gmail.

In addition, if you search for contacts, information about, and all the email associated with them will come right after the main search results column.

In a blog entry, as reported by Time pages, Senior Vice President of Google for the search feature, Amit Singhal, said the development was carried out as part of the company's efforts to build a search engine of the future.

"Search engines should be universal, such as all-knowing computer in Star Trek," he said.
Amit also mentioned Google +, Google's social media project that is considered the most successful with 250 million users and 150 million active users monthly. Only, Google + had a bad reputation as a 'ghost town.'

For many, Google + Google's decision to set aside for a time seemed to make a relief.

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The origin of the Human Language Revealed

A study recently released reveals the mystery of the origins of human language used. Issue of Science Magazine 15 April 2011 revealed that the language used by humans first emerged in southern Africa. That's where this language then spread throughout the world.

Researchers from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Quentin Atkinson conducted a study to trace the track record by breaking 504 languages ​​into the language of the smallest components called phonemes. Phoneme comes from the Latin meaning 'spoken voice'. Research has shown, the more diverse phonemes of a language held by language that indicates that the source of other languages ​​have fewer phonemes.

His research came to the conclusion that the more distant group of people traveled from Africa in a historical track record, the fewer phonemes used in their language. This means that, as predicted in the study, the languages ​​of South America and Pacific Islanders have the least amount of phonemes, whereas in African languages ​​have phonemes majority.

Apparently, this pattern also has similarities with the study of human genetics. The described as a general rule, the farther a person out of Africa, which is widely regarded as the origin of human ancestors, the smaller the differences between individuals in the population of the individual groups when compared with the diversity in the region of origin, Africa.

Atkinson study itself uses the same cutting-edge statistical methods to construct genetic trees based on DNA sequence. Regarding the use of statistical methods is in finding the source of human language, a language expert, Brian D. Joseph of Ohio University says a source of new insights in the study in its field.

"I think we should pay attention to this with serious, although there are still those who would reject it," said Joseph.

For additional information, Atkinson's study is unique because it tried to find the roots of the language from a very ancient time. Subject age was the language is still a matter of debate because on the other side while it was discovered that the language has reached the age of 50,000 years, but on the other hand some other language experts are still skeptical of the facts in the meantime. They found another factor that is 'the development of words very quickly' so that the possibility of language itself does not age over 10,000 years.

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Mermaid Mythology

The roots of mythology mermaids have different variations of the story. In modern myth we tend to see a mermaid with a single way that is kind and generous to people, but not all such stories. Mermaid legends of the earliest known to have come from Syria about 1000 BC where the goddess Atargatis plunge into the lake and turned into fish, but there is great power that does not allow for change as a whole so that only the hips down to a fish and half his upper body remains in the form humans

As a myth - a mermaid story tends to change from time to time, such as Atargatis myth that then mixes with the Syrian goddess Ashtarte treated the same as Aphrodite of Greek mythology. Although Aphrodite is rarely depicted in the form of a mermaid, but Aphrodite is the same mythology Pisces (fish symbol zodiac) is believed to come from the roots of Syrian mythology.

Then the other story of the mermaid mythology comes from Homer's epic entitled "The Odyssey". This is the version that includes the popular mermaid in history whose story is widely available in the UK and The Arabian Nights from the Middle East. In this mythical mermaids would sing to the sailors or men who were near the coast to hypnotize them with beauty and rhythm of the sound. Those affected would either rush to the sea to drown, be eaten or killed.

Another version of the story of the mermaid myth that malice is a big danger for men who believe they saw a woman drowning in which they then intend to dive into the water to save him. Another story suggests that the mermaid forgot or did not understand that humans can not breathe in the water so that when they pulled him into the sea accidentally drowning.

Today in modern mythology, mermaids are more likely to be seen as an innocent sweet creature who always help people who are in trouble. Most of the modern interpretation of a mermaid can be seen in the story of the most famous of all the mermaid mythology of "The Little Mermaid" by HC Andersen, which was filmed by Disney with the same title.

The similarity of the various interpretations of the mythology of mermaids there are many people believe that these creatures are immortal and have power as the ability to cure disease, to realize the desire to give immortality.

The people in continental Europe tend to have a more negative outlook for these creatures, but many countries in the Pacific Islands to see the mermaid as a sign of good fortune. In Warsaw, Poland mermaid is a symbol of the city, and the story of the mermaid comes from everywhere from central Africa to Canada to Israel. Very much for being who trusted no one.

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Found, the Planet with Two Solar

U.S. astronomers announced the discovery of the planet with two suns in the most recent scientific journal Science. The planet, named Kepler-16b is roughly the same size as the planet Saturn in our Solar System, and is located about 200 light years from Earth. The planet is located at a distance of about 105 million kilometers from the two parent star, and has an orbital period of 229 days.

The planet was discovered using the Kepler space telescope, which was approximately 155 000 stars monitored. "This discovery is very surprising. Once again, something that used to exist only in science-fiction story, now a reality," said Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, one of the astronomers who wrote the scientific articles.

The study found the Kepler-16b that is led by astronomer Laurance Doyle of the agency Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, based in California, USA.

Previously, astronomers from around the world have seen some of the planet that they believe to be orbiting two stars at once. However, they have never seen these planets pass directly in front of the sun, so the discovery was the first evidence of a planet with two suns.

"Kepler-16b is the first instance, and no doubt from a sirkumbinari planet, ie a planet orbiting two stars at once. Once again this proves that our Solar System is just one form of variation of the planetary system that can be realized by nature." Josh Carter said of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who are also involved in the present invention.

If there are creatures that inhabit the planet, they can enjoy moments of twilight, and two of the setting sun, as experienced by Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. However, the possibility of human-like beings on this planet is very small, given the very low surface temperatures, which ranged between minus 73 to minus 101 degrees Celsius.

Low temperature is possible because despite having two suns, both the size of the parent star is much smaller than our sun and emits less energy. The mass of the star is only one-fifth of the mass of the Sun, and both stars have only 69 percent of the mass of the Sun.

Besides surrounded by Kepler planet-16b, the two stars orbiting each other with each other in a "dance space" with an orbital period of 41 days.

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Glasses Affect Appetite?

There's no easy way for a diet program. Everything must go through a lengthy process and requires sacrifice, including the temptation to eat a snack. Taukah you if you have the appetite is affected by the nervous system of the brain? A number of researchers from The University of Tokyo recently created a lens that can affect the human brain to make full.

The trick is quite simple, when you use this lens, is automatically you will see the food is larger than the original. The researchers from Tokyo was created using the image processing system which is connected to the video glasses and computer, as a result the image is in front of the food will change completely.
Computers that can make food look more foods 50 percent of its original size and shrink 33 percent smaller than its original size. Meanwhile, to make it more real trick, the hand holding the food was not changed in size, hand size remains the same as the original. "Food is turned into a two able to decrease your appetite up to ten percent in a day," said Takuji Narumi, one of the scientists.

This is because the brain is more trust in visual information from the information received from the stomach or other sensors, as quoted in Shine. Narumi and his colleagues held a trial by asking the volunteers to eat the biscuits to satiety. The first volunteers are asked to wear glasses diet, when they were asked to eat dam for next so without using a glass eye. The result they consume 9.3 percent fewer cookies when using the glasses, food images enlarged up to 50 percent, rather than when they are fed with the naked eye. But when it shrinks the image binoculars up to 33 percent of food, the volunteers ate 15 percent more than the naked eye.Undo edits

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Isomaltulosa growth in milk has been clinically proven to give positive results.

The golden years are the critical period of brain development in which a child is running very rapidly. Brain toddlers grow up to 90 percent of adult brain size.
In addition there are new facts that parents need to know. The average brain weight of children aged 1-6 years old children is less than 10 percent of their body weight, but its energy needs more than 40 percent of the total energy of the body. But unfortunately, the brain can not store energy even though his brain must always be active, even when the baby is sleeping.

Isomaltulosa is a type of carbohydrate that is known to provide energy longer andconstant compared to sucrose. Isomaltulosa can be found naturally in honey and sugar cane. Use of isomaltulosa been approved by health authorities in more than 40countries around the world, including Indonesia.

The results showed that 54 were of children aged 5-6 years who consumed milkcontaining growth Isomaltulosa, vitamins, and minerals have concentration and memoryare better than those who consume the product without Isomaltulosa. Concentration and memory can better help children to learn more optimal.

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Why The Small Pocket Jeans Pants On?

Why ever did not occur there is always a pair of jeans small pocket on the right side? A glimpse of this little pocket there is no function other than just a patch to add to accentuate the style of the wearer, or perhaps the hallmark of jeans. However, from this cute pocket can actually read the history of underwear that was made popular by Levi Strauss in 1880, eight years after the jeans into the United States (U.S.) in 1872.

As a type of textile, jeans were first made in Genoa, Italy in 1560's. Pants fabric is usually used by the navy. The French call these pants as "bleu de Genes", which means the blue of Genoa. Although textiles were first produced and used in Europe, but as fashion, jeans popularized in the United States by Levi Strauss, a twenty-year-old boy who complained to the San Francisco fortune as a merchant of clothing. At that time, the U.S. was hit by gold fever.

However, up in California all the goods sold, except for a tent made of canvas. Canvas fabric is cut and made into some pants that are sold on a gold mine workers. And apparently the workers like it because a pair of Strauss made durable and not easily torn.Feeling got the chance, Strauss perfected "findings" by ordering material from Genoa called "Genes", which by Strauss changed to "Blue Jeans".

This is where the miners were added like a pair of artificial Strauss and "crowned" the pants as formal pants miners. The gold miners were mentioned by Strauss pants "Those pants of Levi` s "or" The Levi Pants ". Brand name is what started the first trade of the world's first jeans.

Strauss keen business sense made him a successful entrepreneur Jakob Davis invited to work together, and in 1880 the cooperation that gave birth to the first jeans factory. And their first product design was "Levi's 501".

The first design of the product is reserved for the gold miners. This pant has 5 pockets, 2 rear and 2 in front, and a small pocket in right front pocket. Because it is for the miners, this pocket-style is certainly not for fun. But this cute pocket designed to hold the grains of gold are small. Although jeans are now manufactured in a variety of brands and not just for the miners, but it's cute pockets remain. Of course not function as a place to store gold dust

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Rare incidence of Venus Crossing the Sun

Venus transit event in front of the Sun can only be seen back in 2117 and 2025.
Venus this year often entertain citizens of the earth, the brightest star in the sky is usually seen shortly after sunset, had already demonstrated the sky stunt show along with the planet Jupiter from February to in March. The second alternate position of the planet. Initially Jupiter is above Venus in the evening sky late February, and both are at par on March 12 like twin stars, and then turns over the Jupiter Venus. Next month, precisely on 5-6 June 2012, Venus will return to entertain the citizens of Earth to show itself in another form. When Venus is usually a white dot shining brightly in the western sky at dusk, on the day he would become a black spot. Then, how can we see Venus? Take it easy we will be able to see it, because at that time Venus will transit in front of the sun. At that time, the Sun, Venus, and Earth in a parallel position. Unlike the events in front of the planet Mercury transit the Sun should be monitored using a telescope, Venus will be the passage of events can be clearly seen with the naked eye, would need the help of a pair of sunglasses or a plastic film, so that the eyes do not glare. Persitiwa passage of Venus in front of the face of the Sun will take place for nearly six hours and 45 minutes and can be witnessed by two-thirds of the Earth. When the transit, Venus will look like small black dots with a diameter of 1/32 circle the Sun, is large enough to be seen with the naked eye. At that Venus will be at the top of the disc of the Sun. Citizens of Indonesia are among the lucky. Western Indonesia may see this phenomenon as the Sun rises when Venus first started track in front of the Sun. Meanwhile, residents in eastern Indonesia are lucky enough to witness the whole process of the transit of Venus. In other world regions, such as the northwestern part of South America, throughout North America, Hawaii, Central Asia, West Asia, New Zealand, and most of the eastern Australia could witness the beginning of the transit process. Meanwhile, the end of the transit can be seen by residents in the northern and northwestern North America, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, eastern Africa, and most of Europe. For Europe, the Sun, published on June 6 with the position of Venus was in his face and the transit towards the end. Citizens of the world who are less fortunate are those who live in the western part of Africa, southern and western Spain, Portugal, and the central and eastern United south. In those areas, the transit of Venus occurred after sunset. Transit of Venus in front of the Sun is a very rare astronomical event. Venus will usually be above or below the position of the Sun when viewed from the Earth's sky as they form a small angle trajectory. Transit of Venus occur every 105.5 years and 121.5 years in pairs or in a transit period of time there are two adjacent, eight years apart. Venus Transit this year coupled with the recent transit in June 2004.

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