Link Between High Childhood IQ And Bipolar Disorder Discovered

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Earth and Moon from Saturn

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The beauty. pragmatism and efficacy of simulators

The picture above is from a tweet sent by NASA astronaut Terry W. Virts shows how an entire laptop can be used as a Virtual Reality headset display onboard the ISS.

“SAFER” virtual reality simulator- the jet pack we can use to get back to ISS if we floated away during a spacewalk.

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The Districts of the First US Congress.

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The Paradoxical Commandments

The Paradoxical Commandments were written in 1968 by Dr. Kent M. Keith. Mother Theresa reffered to them often. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.   If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.   If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.   The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.   Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.   The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.   People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.   What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.   People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.   Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

Solar System: 5 Things To Know This Week

Our solar system is huge, so let us break it down for you. Here are 5 things to know this week: 

1. Make a Wish

The annual Leonids meteor shower is not known for a high number of “shooting stars” (expect as many as 15 an hour), but they’re usually bright and colorful. They’re fast, too: Leonids travel at speeds of 71 km (44 miles) per second, which makes them some of the fastest. This year the Leonids shower will peak around midnight on Nov. 17-18. The crescent moon will set before midnight, leaving dark skies for watching. Get more viewing tips HERE.

2. Back to the Beginning

Our Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres is really a journey to the beginning of the solar system, since Ceres acts as a kind of time capsule from the formation of the asteroid belt. If you’ll be in the Washington DC area on Nov. 19, you can catch a presentation by Lucy McFadden, a co-investigator on the Dawn mission, who will discuss what we’ve discovered so far at this tiny but captivating world. Find out how to attend HERE. 

3. Keep Your Eye on This Spot

The Juno spacecraft is on target for a July 2016 arrival at the giant planet Jupiter. But right now, your help is needed. Members of the Juno team are calling all amateur astronomers to upload their telescopic images and data of Jupiter. This will help the team plan their observations. Join in HERE.

4. The Ice Volcanoes of Pluto

The more data from July’s Pluto flyby that comes down from the New Horizons spacecraft, the more interesting Pluto becomes. The latest finding? Possible ice volcanoes. Using images of Pluto’s surface to make 3-D topographic maps, scientists discovered that some mountains on Pluto, such as the informally named Piccard Mons and Wright Mons, had structures that suggested they could be cryovolcanoes that may have been active in the recent geological past.

5. Hidden Storm

Cameras aboard the Cassini spacecraft have been tracking an impressive cloud hovering over the south pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. But that cloud has turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg. A much more massive ice cloud system has been found lower in the stratosphere, peaking at an altitude of about 124 miles (200 kilometers).

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Infographic: R vs Python for data science

Could we truly be blind to race?

Professor Osagie K. Obasogie’s research on how blind people perceive race reveals that understanding race is not simply based on visual cues, but based how we’re socialized and what we’re taught.

When asked what race a person was, the respondents who were all blind at birth, largely defined race by visually observable indicators, such as skin color, facial features and other physical characteristics.

And contrary to what many might think, the UC Hastings professor found that blind people don’t rely on audible cues as a way to identify a person’s race, because many of them have learned that speech is an unreliable marker of someone’s race.

Instead, Obasogie’s subjects understood race visually based on the physical traits that they were taught to be markers for racial differences.

In the study, subjects recalled childhood experiences where they were told what people of certain color look like or even smell like.

And people around them often reinforced racial biases by patrolling racial boundaries, such as telling them they can’t date outside their race, or implying that the person next to them could be potentially dangerous. Obasogie told NPR:

“Blind people aren’t any more or less racist than anyone else. Indeed, part of the point of this project is that vision has very little to do with it. What matters are the social practices that train us to see and experience race in certain ways, regardless of whether we are sighted or not.”

Read more about Obasogie’s study at Boston Globe

And thank you to Julia Wilde at “That’s So Science” for hosting the DNews episode!