Word-Origins.com – History and Etymology of Words. Who, What, Why: Why is 'the hum' such a mystery. 13 June 2011Last updated at 14:49 A village in Durham is the latest place to report a strange vibrating noise - known as "the hum". Why is it such a mystery? According to sufferers, it is as if someone has parked next to your house and left the engine running. The Hum is a mystery low frequency noise, a phenomenon that has been reported across Britain, North America and Australia in the past four decades. There is a range of theories from farm or factory machinery to conspiracy theories such as flying saucers.
And yet, "the hum" remains an unsolved case. Woodland, a village in county Durham, is the latest place to fall victim to the noise. "It sounds like an overhead power line with this constant humming buzz," says Kevin Fail, a 53 year-old bathroom installer who lives in the village. Continue reading the main story The answer He said that he and his wife hear it in bed, downstairs in the house and outside in the garden, but some residents have heard nothing. Gut Bacteria Know Secrets About Your Future : Krulwich Wonders… You have a hundred trillion of these guys in you right now. Before you were born, you had hardly any. Barcroft/Fame Pictures Back then, you were floating in amniotic fluid, protected, sanitized. Bacteria kept their distance. Until you slipped down that birth canal, you were pretty much spic-and-span.
Then came your birthday, and all of a sudden, you were invaded. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Right now, in your mouth, in your gut, on your skin, you are carrying about 10 times more bacteria cells than human cells. "We are, in essence, only 10 percent human," Dr. Mostly Microbe What are bacteria doing in you? They look, yes, a little alien. Now comes the big (and double) surprise. First (I wrote about this a few years ago), scientists discovered that people around the world can have different communities of bacteria in our intestines.
I, for example, might have a lot of bacteria in me that are great at digesting oats. I gain weight. Scientists assumed it must be cultural. iStockphoto.com. Beautiful Weather Graphs and Maps. The Best Mind Since Einstein | Richard Feynman Physics Lectures and Richard Feynman Videos, page 1. How new research aims to protect our privacy on IPv6 networks. IPv6: It's new, and because of that, likely to have security issues. Find out why lack of privacy doesn't have to be one of them. Are you ready? IPv6 Day is just around the corner on June 8, 2011: "Google, Facebook, Yahoo! The website explains: "The goal is to motivate organizations-Internet-service providers, hardware makers, operating-system vendors and web companies-to prepare their services for IPv6, ensuring a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out. " I use Gmail as an aggregator, so I'm more than a little interested in how June 8th turns out. IPv6 can't shake security issues During the past four years, I have written a lot about IPv6.
IPv6 addresses many security lapses that surfaced using IPv4. Visibility lessens privacy With every device accessible via the Internet, it becomes easier to track individuals by their address. This is a big deal. It seems to me the team has overcome the privacy issue. These systems are still easy to target for attack. This is unique, isn't it? Nothing. Image via Wikipedia This past Saturday I saw a video of Mark Gungor’s “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage.” One thing that stood out was his discussion of the difference between the minds of men and women. According to Gungor, a man’s mind can be understood in terms of boxes: we have a box for each thing and each thing has its own box.
In contrast, a woman’s mind is like a ball of wires-everything is interconnected and everything is linked to emotions. The highlight of this discussion was the nothing box. As Gungor sees it, each man has a special box in his mind that contains nothing. Naturally, Gungor is not the first comedian to note the special connection between men and nothing. When it comes to nothing in philosophy, it is natural to think of Martin Heidegger and his work Being & Time as well as Sartre’s Being & Nothingness. Like all men, I purport to be able to think nothing. On one hand, it does seem possible. On the other hand, it might seem to be impossible. How Children's Brain Soak In Shocking News Stories. 50 Ridiculous and Weird Facts About the Human Body | Blogging Health Careers.
Heart With No Beat Offers Hope Of New Lease On Life. Hide captionAn X-ray shows the dual turbinelike blood pumps that replaced Craig Lewis' heart. These devices were used in a last attempt to save his life. Courtesy of the Texas Heart Institute An X-ray shows the dual turbinelike blood pumps that replaced Craig Lewis' heart. These devices were used in a last attempt to save his life. The search for the perfect artificial heart seems never-ending. After decades of trial and error, surgeons remain stymied in their quest for a machine that does not wear out, break down or cause clots and infections. But Dr. Inside the institute's animal research laboratory is an 8-month-old calf with a soft brown coat named Abigail. "If you listened to her chest with a stethoscope, you wouldn't hear a heartbeat," says Cohn.
The pumps spin Abigail's blood and move it through her body. "By every metric we have to analyze patients, she's not living," Cohn says. Human Trials In Lewis' case, his heart became so damaged, doctors said he had about 12 hours left to live. Instant artist statement: Arty Bollocks Generator. 31 Year Anniversary of Mount St. Helens Eruption (31 Pics) Mount St. Helens erupting with Spirit Lake reflection 05-19-82.
This was just the beginning. Mount St. Helens and the devastated area is now within the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, under jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service. Visitor centers, interpretive areas, and trails are being established as thousands of tourists, students, and scientists visit the monument daily. May 19, 1982: Plumes of steam, gas, and ash often occurred at Mount St. When Mount St. Mount St. During Mount St. Reid Blackburn’s (photographer, National Geographic, Vancouver Columbian) car, about 10 miles from Mount St. The May 18th, 1980 eruption of the Mount St. After May 18th, five more explosive eruptions of Mount St. Nearly 135 miles (220 kilometers) of river channels surrounding the volcano [Mt.
In May 1985 a permanent tunnel was opened, allowing water to drain out of the Spirit Lake safely. Mount St. April 27, 1980: A “bulge” developed on the north side of Mount St. Mt. Man Arrested At The Large Hadron Collider Claims To Be From The Future. Determined to be different: what we do changes the wiring of our genes. The human genome provides penetrating and unexpected insights into human individual and collective history. Among them is the counterintuitive idea that genes are at the mercy of experience – that what we do in our lives affects which genes are switched on and off.
A stressful experience, for example, can make you more vulnerable to infection, because stress hormones indirectly alter the switches that control the expression of genes. So, far from genes being the cause of how we act, the new understanding sees them as just as much a consequence of how we act. This subtler view of genes has yet to colonise the popular imagination. On a much longer, evolutionary timescale, the same reversal of causation is necessary. We now know that many genetic changes in human beings are driven by cultural ones, at least as much as the other way round.
For example, the ability to digest lactose as adults spread among Africans and Europeans because of dairy farming, rather than vice versa. When Cassini Met Nine Inch Nails. Chandra :: Photo Album :: The Big Chandra Picture. The Big Chandra Picture In more than a decade of operation, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has transformed our view of the high-energy Universe with its ability to make exquisite X-ray images of star clusters, supernova remnants, galactic eruptions, and collisions between clusters of galaxies.
As Chandra expands the realm of the known, it continues to raise new questions and point the way for future exploration. This photo blog presents some of Chandra's most spectacular images in a large and shareable format. Follow Chandra on Twitter 10 Apr 2014 G352.7-0.1: Supernovas are the spectacular ends to the lives of many massive stars. 03 Apr 2014 El Gordo: This is a composite image of X-rays from Chandra and optical data from Hubble of the galaxy cluster ACT-CL J0102-4915, located about 7 billion light years from Earth. 20 Mar 2014 DEM L241: When a massive star runs out fuel, it collapses and explodes as a supernova. 05 Mar 2014 04 Mar 2014 18 Feb 2014 06 Feb 2014 23 Jan 2014 08 Jan 2014 04 Dec 2013. Solar flare? Yes, but tonight's northern lights have a more spectacular cause.
Skywatchers in the northern US tonight may become the beneficiaries of a major burp from the sun that took place June 7. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition While the solar storm did include a solar flare, the giant pulse of plasma, electricity, and matter that fountained across nearly half the sun's surface was a coronal mass ejection – and that's what we can thank for the auroral display filling the skies Wednesday night. If the oncoming hordes of charged particles from that event reach Earth at the right time, aurora could be visible on the northern horizon as far south as Washington, D.C., according to an alert today from the University of Alaska's Geophysical Institute. If you live in the northern half of the country, look north around midnight local time, say experts.
Residents in the southern hemisphere would see the mirror opposite of any aurora in the northern hemisphere. What an Astronaut's Camera Sees