Monday, October 20, 2014
the systemic roots of a global pandemic
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
deep cooperation: the mammalian equivalent of honeybees?
By CNu at August 13, 2014 3 comments
Labels: cooperation , individual vs. collective , macrobiology
Friday, August 01, 2014
ebola in west africa: the outbreak country by country
By CNu at August 01, 2014 0 comments
Labels: horror , macrobiology , randomization
Tuesday, July 08, 2014
through the anthropocene looking glass...,
By CNu at July 08, 2014 21 comments
Labels: macrobiology , tactical evolution , What Now?
Sunday, January 05, 2014
can plants think?
By CNu at January 05, 2014 0 comments
Labels: high strangeness , macrobiology , Possibilities
Thursday, April 25, 2013
entropy the root of intelligence?
By CNu at April 25, 2013 0 comments
Labels: as above-so below , macrobiology , Possibilities
Monday, January 14, 2013
the ghost in the machine?
By CNu at January 14, 2013 2 comments
Labels: macrobiology , What IT DO Shawty...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
what causes lightning?
Consequently the Sun has weather patterns. And the most distant planet, Neptune, has the most violent winds in the solar system though it receives very little energy from the Sun. Electric discharges from space cause Mars’ huge dust devils and planet-wide dust storms. They are responsible for Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and the “spokes” in Saturn’s rings. It is why Venus has lightning in its smog-like clouds and its mountain-tops glow with St. Elmo’s fire. It is why the Earth has lightning stretching into space in the form of “red sprites” and “blue jets”, and why tethered satellites “blow a fuse”.
However, nobody is trained to consider electrical energy input to weather systems.
The image above is a NASA artist’s view of lightning on Venus during the descent of one of the Pioneer probes. Venus has smog-like clouds that are not expected to generate lightning and yet the planet suffers intense lightning. This argues against the popular notion of what causes lightning.
By CNu at September 04, 2012 0 comments
Labels: macrobiology
from plants and fungi to clouds
An international team of researchers led by biogeochemist Meinrat Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany found the particles by climbing up a 262-foot tower and collecting air samples, PhysOrg reported. The main source of these particles, which are rich in potassium, is likely fungal spores, which have a gel coating that make it easy for water molecules to latch on, although plants had been previously shown to efficiently release salts into the air.
“Our findings support the hypothesis that the Amazonian rainforest ecosystem can be regarded as a biogeochemical reactor in which the formation of clouds and precipitation in the atmosphere are triggered by particles emitted from the biosphere,” the authors wrote in the Science paper.
By CNu at September 04, 2012 0 comments
Labels: macrobiology
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