Asteroids
“This is the first object of this kind we have ever seen. For virtually the first time, we have found a witness to the formation of the planets,” said Stephane Erard, Paris Observatory.
Astronomers found a battered, pockmarked object floating in the asteroid belt last year. It has been established that it is an ancient fledging planet, formed when Earth was still in the process of development. They called this discovery “Lutetia” and they analyze it with highly sensitive thermal and spectroscopic sensors.
They concluded that “Lutetia” is no ordinary asteroid- but in fact, a primitive “mini-world” that used to be round and may even has tried to grow a metal heart like a fully formed planet. Lutetia is 121 kilometre long, 101 kms tall and 75 kilometres wide. It has many craters, which include one that measure 55 kms across.
Artist's concept of NASA's Aqua satellite launched May 4, 2002.
“NPP will help us understand what tomorrow will bring, whether by ‘tomorrow’ we mean tomorrow’s forecast, or whether we mean years or decades down the road,” said Andrew Carson, NPP Program Executive, NASA headquarters, Washington D.C.
NPP is NASA’s newest innovative weather satellite; its responsibility is to keep an eye on long-term climate change and short-term weather conditions. NPP is worth $1.5 billion satellite and it is scheduled to be blast off on Friday, 2:47 a.m PDT, from Space Launch Complex-2, Northwest of Santa Barbara. Live coverage will be available on their NASA’s Launch Blog or rocket maker United Launch Alliance’s website.
Carson also said, “NPP will lay the groundwork for the JPSS system, by proving out the capabilities and technologies of both the instruments and the ground system. NPP is a critical first step in creating a climate-capable operational system.”
Nintendo Office, Minami-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
“Based on the bitter experiences we have had with the Nintendo 3DS, we are making every effort to prepare so that the Wii U will not stumble during its launch,” said Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President.
The President of Nintendo finally announced the final version of the console; it will be set to be display at the E3 conference schedule for June in Los Angeles. And the global distribution is set to begin after summer but can be part of the 2012 holiday season.
Iwata also added, “We are planning to launch the Wii U, which is the successor to the Wii, during the next fiscal year. We would like to show the final format of the Wii U at the E3 show next year. As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.”
Marijuana Weed
“The federal government has instituted a policy to dismantle the medical marijuana laws of the state of California and to coerce its municipalities to pass bans on medical marijuana dispensaries. To this end, the government has pursued an increasingly punitive strategy, which has involved criminal prosecutions of medical marijuana providers with Draconian penalties and letters threatening local officials if they implement state law,” this is according to the lawsuit filed by medical marijuana advocacy group.
This move is in hope to resolve issue on one of the most critical legal matters that up to the present embark into a long journey of arguments and dispute. Though voters approved medical marijuana that dates back in 1996, problems escalated on how to regulate it for medical purposes.
Chief Counsel for Americans for Safe Access, Joe Elford, also said, “They’re not just enforcing marijuana laws, they are doing something extremely unusual in an effort to quash the medial marijuana programs in the various states.”
Python on a tree
“It’s this amazing biology. They’re not swelling up. They’re building (hear) muscle,” said Leslie Leinwand, Molecular Biologist, University of Colorado Boulder.
Snakes’ hearts doubled in size, too, s they’re digesting – and now scientist are now considering it as great value for clues about human heart. Python’s heart has great resemblance to the large-than-normal hearts of the Olympic-calibre athletes. Their research has just recently found out how the snakes make it happen.
According to Leinwand, python’s heart has implications for people’s heart. For human, enlarged heart is caused by chronic high blood pressure and other ailments. That makes it flabby and unable to works well. But for athletes, vigorous and regular work outs gives them muscular and large hearts, similar to how python hearts are during digestion. When a python swallow that big meal, something bizarre happens, their metabolism reaches up to 40-fold, and their organs starts to enlarge to cope up with the digesting process, the heart alone grows almost double.
Aspirin tablets
“This is one more piece of evidence that there are some very positive effects of aspirin, and it should be considered very seriously for people who are at risk of colorectal cancer, “says Tim Bishop, one of the authors of the research, Professor of Epidemiology, Leeds University in England.
According to their studies, aspirin reduce the risk of colorectal cancer; however, this is the first randomized controlled trial to find its effect on human in relation to some cancer. Their study involved 1,000 patients from 43 medical centres in 16 locations. They all had Lynch syndrome, genetic condition that predisposes people to develop colorectal cancer and other types of cancer.
Bishop also added, “If I had a family history of bowel cancer, I would feel quite strongly about taking aspirin regularly. There are certainly lots of benefits of taking aspirin. But people have to weigh the tradeoffs. With larger doses of aspirin comes the increase danger of ulcers and vascular bleeds.”
Hunger Hormones and Obesity
“The finds suggest that the high rate of relapse among obese people who have lost weight has a strong physiological basis and is not simply the result of the voluntary resumption of old habits,” these is according to the lead author, Joseph Prietto, PhD, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital in Australia.
Prietto and his Colleagues research shows that heavy patients who lose weight dieting often fail to keep the pounds off, the researchers explained. They said that restricting calories can reduce levels of the hormones leptin—this is gives message to the brain that the body is full—and gheril—hormones that stimulates cravings for foods.
Their study involved 50 obese patients and they enrolled them into a 10-week-loss program that involved a very low energy diet. They observed at the activity of levels of ghrelin, leptin, peptide YY, and gastric inhibitory peptide, amylin, pancreatic polypeptide, and insulin at three different stages: starting at baseline, 10 weeks, and 62 weeks.
Injectable Antibiotics
“We are investigating the circumstances of this tragic incident and express our condolences to the Ahmmad family,” said Ruth Richman, Hospital Representative. Brookdale hospital refused to answer questions by the reporters but they issued these statements.
Ahmmad family from New York pointed to a nurse who allegedly administered antibiotics to their 6-month-old baby; they said it is an overdose of antibiotics. “My baby turned blue and went to coma after that,” the mother said.
Baby Ahmmad was brought to Brookdale University Hospital last Friday morning and doctors said, it is to be pneumonia. “Not even a second. The medicine went in, and he is finished,” Baby Ahmmad mother’s said. The baby was placed on life support until Tuesday. Allegedly, the baby was given 500 mg of the antibiotic instead of 80 mg proper dosage. According to a report by Health Affairs, as many as one-third of hospital visits, eventually lead to a tragic or hospital-related injury.
Charlie Sheen in March 2009
“We think that Bruce Helford, Joe Roth and Charlie Sheen have come up with a wonderful, hilarious vehicle for Charlie’s acting talents, and a character we are very much looking forward to seeing him play,” said John Landgraf, President of FX Networks.
Charlie Sheen was fired from his “Two and a Half Men” sitcom, after a public dispute with the management and now he is returning with “Anger Management” this summer of 2012. Its officials had earlier announced “Anger Management” last Thursday; however, they still have to find a network first. Charlie Sheen was the highest-paid actor for his role in the sitcom, “Two and a Half Men”, here played a womanizing bachelor Charlie Harper.
From his trouble with his former show, “Two and a Half Men” lead him to be in rehab for drug and alcohol trouble, then he became entangled with legal trouble with his former employer.
Stars and Galaxy
“What impressed me most is that complex organics are easily formed by stars, they are everywhere in our own galaxy and in other galaxies. Nature is much cleverer than we had imagined. The compounds are so complex that their chemical structures resemble those of coal and petroleum. Coal and oil are thought to arise only from living organisms but the tell-tale spectra, he argues, show complex organic compounds can be synthesized in space even when no life forms are present,” said Professor Sun Kwok, University of Hongkong.
According to Kwok’s research team, the observations they got from the Infrared Space Observatory indicated that these spectra have features that is unexplainable by PAH molecules alone. Instead, they concluded that the substance generating these spectra have chemical structure that are much more complex. Through the analysis of the emissions of stardust formed in exploding stars, they concluded that stars are having great ability to produce complex organic compounds in a very short time.
