A New Minimoon for Earth
By: David Dickinson | June 24, 2016
A recently discovered minimoon, the asteroid known as 2016 HO3, follows Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
Our fair planet has a tiny companion, a minimoon that shares our annual journey around the Sun in a complex dance.
Astronomers recently announced the discovery of 2016 HO3, an asteroid between 40 and 100 meters in size that behaves as Earth's quasi-satellite.
How cool is that? Interested? Read more, here:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/2016-ho3-a-new-minimoon-for-the-earth/
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Friday, June 24, 2016
Interesting Link of the Day
The stuff you find browsing the internet when you should be doing
something more productive...
What do you see?
A lake? A wall?
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Open Blog - Wednesday
Snoopy and I go way back. Peanuts was the first comic strip I knew. I remember sitting on my Grandma's screened in porch with a paperback book, tracing the comics to draw Snoopy. Eons ago. I was still in single digits.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Interesting Links of the Day
A free lunch may be all it takes to persuade a doctor to prescribe a brand-name drug instead of a cheaper generic, a new study suggests. Doctors who were treated to a single meal, where drug companies present information about their medications, were 18 percent more likely to prescribe Crestor, a brand-name cholesterol-lowering medicine.The more meals doctors had, the more likely they were to prescribe the promoted drug.
The author questioned whether this is best practice in educating our medical field.
“Why is this our system of education for doctors?” he asked. “The cost of an alternative system of drug education would be paltry.”
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/drug-company-lunches-have-big-payoffs/?
There are lucrative jobs out there, pitching and selling to doctors. You might find yourself sitting and waiting for your doctor, while they receive their sales pitch. You might benefit from it by receiving free samples from your doctor, or by getting the most current treatment available. Like anything in life, you have to weigh the good with the bad. Ask questions about your medications, read about what is prescribed. Are there viable alternatives, generics? Does a name brand offer you any additional benefits?
There is also a very interesting website that can tell you how much your doctor has received in dollars and services.
The author questioned whether this is best practice in educating our medical field.
“Why is this our system of education for doctors?” he asked. “The cost of an alternative system of drug education would be paltry.”
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/drug-company-lunches-have-big-payoffs/?
There are lucrative jobs out there, pitching and selling to doctors. You might find yourself sitting and waiting for your doctor, while they receive their sales pitch. You might benefit from it by receiving free samples from your doctor, or by getting the most current treatment available. Like anything in life, you have to weigh the good with the bad. Ask questions about your medications, read about what is prescribed. Are there viable alternatives, generics? Does a name brand offer you any additional benefits?
There is also a very interesting website that can tell you how much your doctor has received in dollars and services.
Dollars for Docs
How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors
It doesn't mean that your provider is a bad doctor, it is just the facts, and how the system works. This website also shows the drugs that were pitched to your doctor. My doc is on the list. He has had some free meals. Does it make him a bad doctor? I don't necessarily think so.
Movie Dance Scenes Mashup
Best mashup ever! Whether you like the song or not, this took some talent to put together all these old movies so perfectly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0lBnsnkE
Monday, June 20, 2016
Strawberry Moon and Summer Solstice Event
For the first time since June 1967, two astronomical phenomena will occur at the same time. Monday evening, a full "strawberry" moon will shine in the night sky during the summer solstice — the longest day of the year.
EarthSky.org said a full moon on a summer solstice is a rare event, and another one is not likely to come around until June 21, 2062. Why is it called a strawberry moon? The Old Farmer's Almanac says the Algonquin tribe of indigenous Americans called the June full moon by that name because it occurred around the time the strawberries were being picked.
The moon reached its fullness this morning, and the actual evening solstice will take place at 6:34 p.m. Eastern time.
Two hours after that, the moon will rise at 8:41 p.m. Eastern time, and viewers will be able to see an event that occurs only once every half-century.
Full Story on EarthSky: http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/june-solstice-full-moon-in-2016
I'm going hunting for it! It is so light out, it might be hard to see?
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
This Day in History
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| On June 19th, 1931, Wilcox's Pier Restaurant in West Haven, Connecticut opened up a whole new world of technology, with the first automatic doors. Waitressing was never the same again. STANLEY WORKS |
That was the day the Stanley Works company installed the world's first automatic doors at Wilcox's Pier Restaurant in West Haven, Connecticut.
Placed between the kitchen and the dining room, the doors sprang open the moment a photoelectric eye detected a person's approach.
"Through the invention," wrote the Hartford Courant, "there is no longer need for waitresses to kick open doors or use their hands for anything other than carrying in the trays.
In a letter to Stanley Works, the restaurant's president wrote, "They are one of the most satisfactory pieces of equipment which we have ever installed ... and have certainly speeded up the service of our waitresses."
Our popular culture has taken note of all these automatic doors, albeit with an occasional bit of skepticism: Automatic doors greeted visitors to "Jurassic Park," while a seemingly malevolent door pinned Steve Carell as agent Maxwell Smart in the film, "Get Smart."
See more of this article and other links and video, here: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-first-automatic-door/
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