Money is always an essential thing to have in order to survive in this modern world. Without money, you won’t be able to buy food, or send yourself or your children to school. Without it you won’t be able to buy a house, or even pay the bills. We need money, and that is a fact. Perhaps this is why some people dedicate their lives in saving money, or look for ways to earn money, so that when they get old and their bodies get weak, they can still fend for themselves through the money that they saved.
For a man named Kurt, money should be the last thing that you should ask. For him, before you consider the money, you should answer the first three questions.
Know the necessary questions that you have to ask yourself over at Forbes.
Not everyone can bring their parents to their graduation. However, this Filipino student went his own way to bring his late mom to his graduation.
In a viral tweet, Paulo Alinsog shared a photo of himself and a life-size cutout of his late mother with the caption, “To my most beautiful mother! Ma, your eldest has graduated I hope you’re happy in the presence of God. I finished school because this is what you wanted. I love you very much.”
Alinsog shared to Coconuts Manila that he had the standee made because it was his dream to graduate with his mother, Carmen, by his side. Carmen passed away in August 2016 due to complications from pneumonia.
“I ordered the standee two weeks ago because I’ve always wanted her to accompany me on my graduation day. When the standee was delivered to me, I cried because I thought it was real. I thought it was beautiful and creepy at the same time,” he said.
“I had that standee made so that I could at least feel my mom’s presence on graduation day because my graduation from college was our dream.”
At first, Bt cotton worked well against pink bollworm in all three countries, but this adaptable pest harbors mutations that confer resistance to Bt toxins. These mutations were rare before Bt cotton was commercialized. However, when two resistant caterpillars develop into moths and mate, their offspring are also resistant.
So, one strategy is to plant some non-Bt cotton—a refuge—allowing normal caterpillars to survive, become moths, and mate with the resistant moths, Tabashnik says. This makes it less likely that two rare, resistant moths will find one another in the crowd. Today, most countries require refuges and use Bt cotton that contains two toxins, so caterpillars need two mutations to survive.
Three of the largest cotton-growing countries - the US, China, and India - used this tactic with varying results. For the first two, Bt cotton was able to suppress the pink bollworms.
But in India, refuges weren't planted which caused a growth in resistant bollworms. Since they were already resistant to the first toxin, when a second toxin was introduced, they quickly evolved to produce resistance to that as well.
Each city, county, and region in the world has its own share of monuments and landmarks that form part of its identity and culture. From installation art to surprise murals, Tampa Bay has several of its own roadside oddities that would get passersby and other visitors to the area curious of their origins. Here are some of them and the stories behind them.
Recognize the giant metallic reptile that is permanently flicking its tongue out to catch a bug? That’s Security Lizard, the work of late St. Pete artist Paul Eppling.
Eppling turned everyday items into fantastical sculptures, transforming garden tools and lawnmowers into gators, birds and more. Security Lizard, for example, was created using license plates and other car parts. It was affixed to the roof of the St. Petersburg Fleet Maintenance building, where it can be seen by passing drivers.
I have enjoyed playing video games since I was a kid and I've seen the evolution that games and consoles have gone through for the last two decades. And to think that they're still going, it takes a lot of persistence and creative mettle to pump out games every year.
However, the dents in the video game industry have already begun to show for some time now. And though we are expecting new releases, new consoles, and new ideas that might further improve our gaming experience, the cost of developing and producing these games is taking its toll in the industry as a whole.
All these new things will come, and we’ll close the book on a generation that saw the industry that makes games come under greater scrutiny than ever before, as studios shuttered, developers burned out, and toxic work culture fostered environments hostile to marginalized people.
We have seen a decreasing trend of new games being released by industry leaders like Electronic Arts, Activision, and Ubisoft. Meanwhile independent developers find it difficult to squeeze themselves into the tight cracks of the market which will only offer them a tiny portion. Not to mention the costs of producing video games continues to rise while prices remain constant.
That’s the present of video games. Let’s talk about the future. The intersecting trends of games-as-a-service and the increased emphasis on streaming mean an increased reliance on off-site computing with data centers and server farms distributed across the globe.
The fact of the matter is video games will continue to exist. What form it will take will depend on whether the video game industry will shift its practices into more sustainable forms because if it continues on with what they are doing now, it might lead to an implosion of the industry in the future.
Last Sunday, a storm was brewing over Clearwater Beach which caused the lifeguards to raise a warning for people to leave the water and head to safety. However, several minutes after the signal was issued, lightning struck and it hit a 40-year-old man who is still in critical condition. Four others also sustained injuries.
Getting struck by lightning is quite an uncommon occurrence but they do happen from time to time and they're not always fatal. But it would still be best to stay cautious and be safe. So here are a few things that we need to know about lightning strikes.
Bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms continue evolve and develop new strains resistant to drugs and scientists fear that in the future, the influenza A virus might evolve and cause a global pandemic. So in anticipation of such an event, researchers from the UK, Australia, and the US have now been able to map the influenza A virus genome.
By mapping its genetic structure, the researchers observed how its eight single-stranded RNA segments lock together. This is important because they are part of the means by which new viruses are formed.
They note that viruses behind past pandemics have been created by reassortment, in which a virus that infects one species, such as a bird, swaps genes with a virus that infects individuals from another species, such as humans.
This research may not necessarily be used to determine when such a pandemic would occur however, the data can help speed up the development of a vaccine.
Climate change models used to predict the Earth's atmospheric conditions in the future require data about the different gases and other elements in the Earth's atmosphere. In this regard, we now have an instrument that might be able to accurately collect atmospheric data in order to improve our climate change models.
In the Optical Society journal Applied Optics, researchers from Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) — Germany’s national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research — describe how their lidar instrument was used aboard an aircraft to acquire the first simultaneous measurements of the vertical structure of water vapor and ozone in the tropopause region of the atmosphere. The researchers say that the new system might even be useful for monitoring atmospheric gases from space.
Researchers led by Carme Gallart from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain published their findings in Nature Astronomy on Monday. They found out that ten billion years ago, the Milky Way met Gaia-Enceladus, another galaxy, and consumed it.
Scientists have had evidence for a while that the Milky Way saw a major merger in its past. Even without direct evidence here in our home galaxy, scientists know that galaxy collisions are commonplace in the universe. These mergers are the major way that galaxies grow and evolve. But this is the first time that astronomers have been able to pinpoint the ages of different stellar populations within the Milky Way accurately enough to pin down when this merger occurred, and how exactly it affected our home galaxy.
So how did they pinpoint the time when this merging occurred? Find out on Discover Magazine.
(Image Credit: Koppelman, Villalobos and Helmi/NASA/ESA/Hubble)
If you own a Nintendo Switch, chances are you have experienced the "Joy-Con drift" which is when the sticks on the controllers make inputs onto the console even when they have not been touched. This sensitivity of the sticks has drawn the ire of many Switch owners. But what's really going on?
There are two potential causes for drift: some users blame the issue on either dust or debris making their way into the controller underneath a rubber cap that’s designed to keep the interior clean. Others have completely disassembled the controller and found worn-down contacts, which might be causing the issue due to repetitive use.
It’s also possible that neither of those theories is correct or that it’s a combination of factors that causes stick drift over time. Without Nintendo clarifying the situation, it’s tough to tell exactly what’s wrong.
There are several ways to address this issue and perhaps the best would be to have the Switch repaired by an authorized Nintendo technician if the Switch has already passed its warranty date. However, some have tried DIY fixes like using compressed air or isopropyl alcohol with varying results.
It has almost been 25 years since the first episode of Friends aired and there is still some nostalgia lingering for our motley crew of six. And to celebrate, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will be selling Friends-inspired coffee and merch.
There are six in-store drinks, after each of the core characters from the show. The Monica is a Midnight Mocha Cold Brew, The Joey is a Mango Cold Brew Tea, The Rachel is a Matcha Latte, The Ross is a Classic Flat White, The Pheobe is a Cookies & Cream Ice Blended, and The Chandler is a Caramel Coconut Latte.
These drinks will be available starting July 31 through August 27 and will even be available to BOGO the week of August 4th for National Friendship Day.
(Image credit: Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, Warner Bros. Television; IMDb)
Pampers has been developing a connected care system called Lumi which will tell you when your baby's diaper is full. Not only that but it will also give information regarding your baby's sleeping patterns and feeding times.
How Lumi works: "The sensor keeps an eye on the blue wetness strip outside of the diaper to determine how soaked it is... you'll need to buy Lumi-optimized version of the diapers to use the sensor, as they have larger and more visible wetness strips," said Devindra Hardewar in Engadget. But wait, there is more. Marie Baca in The Washington Post said Pampers intends to send the user the baby's wake and sleep times and feeding times.
The system that Pampers has in the wings has several components: (1) activity sensors, (2) the notification app, for Android and iPhone, and (3) video monitor. Engadget said that a Logitech camera has been fashioned into the Wi-Fi baby monitor.
When Apollo 11 touched down on the moon in July of 1969, the Space Race was won. At the time, the USSR's space missions were kept secret, and the US didn't know their plans and progress until after the fact, so there was some suspense about Russians beating us to the moon. The Soviet Union never landed on the moon. As time went by, many of us assumed that the risk and expense of coming in second was not worth it to the USSR, but that's only a small part of the story. As the long-buried stories of the Soviet space program have been revealed, we've learned that they were never even close to beating the US to the moon.
The documents from April 1963 testify how the Soviet engineers just completed an analysis of 26 different scenarios for the lunar expedition and were only able to narrow them down to four diverse architectures, which still needed more detailed studies before the final plan could be picked. In retrospect, it's stunning to see how far from the final architecture, these four finalist scenarios had been with the plan's less-than-feasible hopes for multiple launches of super-rockets, yet-to-be-tried docking procedures, and ambitious refueling in Earth’s orbit.
For comparison, in the middle of 1962, fathers of the Apollo project had already favored the rendezvous in the lunar orbit as the key element of the flight scenario and a single-launch architecture, thus clearing the way for a fast-paced development of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo missions.
Even at this early paper phase—when serious investments of money and materiel had not been required from the Kremlin—the Soviet engineers were almost a year behind the U.S., and it went only downhill from there for the Soviets.
But the Soviets carried on, to the point of testing the N-1 rocket, built to go to the moon, in the summer of 1969. Read how that spelled the end of the Soviet moon mission at Popular Mechanics. -via Digg
It's finally here- the first trailer for the Mister Rogers movie starring Tom Hanks. In real life, Fred Rogers was always exactly like the Mister Rogers he played on TV, and he had pure, beautiful reasons for doing what he did. Those who grew uop watching him will want to see the movie just to relive who he was. The problem that's exposed the trailer is that both Tom Hanks and Fred Rogers are so famous that putting them together creates a feeling of walking through the uncanny valley. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood opens nationwide in November. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Scituate, Massachusetts, is home to around 18,000 people, half of whom claim Irish ancestry. This makes it the "most Irish" town in the US. The reason behind that goes back to an Irish immigrant who recognized a natural resource in the ocean that folks from other places did not.
Around 1847, Daniel Ward was sailing off the coast of Boston when he spotted gold—at least in seaweed form. An immigrant from Ireland, Ward had been working as a fisherman when he saw red algae beneath the ocean surface that he recognized as carrageen, or Irish moss. Back home in Ireland, the Irish harvested this seaweed for uses like making pudding and clarifying beer. Ward immediately saw an opportunity to tap into this unknown resource in his new country, and soon abandoned fishing to settle on the beaches of a small coastal town called Scituate, midway between Boston and Plymouth.
Prior to Ward’s arrival, Scituate was unpopulated by the Irish. This proved to be an advantage, since the locals—mostly farmers and fishermen—had no interest in Irish moss and thus welcomed Ward and his friend, Miles O’Brian, and their entrepreneurial endeavor. As Ward began building the industry, Irish immigrants fleeing the Potato Famine from 1845 to 1849 caught word about the opportunity overseas and came to Scituate to take part in this growing business. “By 1870 there were close to 100 Irish families... [and] by the early 1900s other Irish families that maybe weren’t harvesting the moss, but had relatives that were, knew about the town and moved here,” says Dave Ball, president of the Scituate Historical Society. “You can trace the roots of the whole influx back to Irish mossing.”
So what is it about Irish moss that makes it so valuable? It already had several industrial uses, and more were developed as the Scituate moss industry grew. Read about Irish moss and the Irish town it built at Smithsonian.
