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From /weblog/science
Not ‘if’, but ‘when’: city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way - https://www.zmescience.com[..]or-flooding-these-examples-show-the-way/ Rumble in the concrete jungle: what history teaches us about urban defense - https://www.zmescience.com/science/urban-defense-feature/ Garbology: How to spot patterns in people's waste - https://www.bbc.com[..]gy-how-to-spot-patterns-in-peoples-waste The decline of the city grid - https://www.economist.com[..]/2022/12/20/the-decline-of-the-city-grid What does a structural engineer do, according to experts - https://www.zmescience.com[..]e-post/what-does-structural-engineer-do/ Plumbing discovery reveals the rise and fall of the Roman Empire - https://arstechnica.com[..]s-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/ This Texas building has self-cooling walls - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]mselves-cold-so-you-dont-need-as-much-ac The Mayans mastered water management. What can we learn from them? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]-we-learn-an-important-lesson-from-them/ How Toronto transformed a highway underpass into a vibrant public space - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]ay-underpass-into-a-vibrant-public-space 9 lesser known architectural wonders we lost to time - https://www.zmescience.com[..]n-architectural-wonders-we-lost-to-time/ Rechargeable concrete batteries could make buildings double as energy storage - https://www.zmescience.com[..]science/rechargeable-concrete-batteries/ How a lizard tail inspired a new building system that sheds parts to escape catastrophic collapse - https://www.zmescience.com[..]s-parts-to-escape-catastrophic-collapse/ How do you build tunnels and bridges underwater? A geotechnical engineer explains - https://www.zmescience.com[..]gineer-explains-the-construction-tricks/ Cities that converted empty office buildings into housing face these important questions - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]mpty-offices-housing-important-questions What the Middle East can tell us about surviving in a hotter, drier future - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]ll-us-about-surviving-in-a-hotter-future Not too hot, not too cold. What’s the ideal room temperature? - https://www.zmescience.com[..]o-cold-whats-the-ideal-room-temperature/
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Sat Dec 28 22:27:39 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science/plant
【Gene 愛聊科學】食蟲植物讓獵物滑進瓶口的密技,成為對抗貽貝附著的無毒塗料:SLIPS - https://www.inside.com.tw/2017/08/23/slips plants - http://list25.com[..]ique-plants-you-have-ever-seen/?view=all dangerous-plants - http://list25.com[..]us-plants-that-could-seriously-hurt-you/ Amber - http://www.zmescience.com/science/long-process-amber-creation Rock - http://www.zmescience.com[..]her/feature-post/rock-cycle-geoloby-abc/ What is the Wilson Cycle, builder and slayer of supercontinents? - http://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-wilson-cycle/ clouds - http://www.zmescience.com/science/types-of-clouds/ What is THC: the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana - http://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-thc-433/ different-types-plants-world - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nce/biology/different-types-plants-world Sugar - https://www.zmescience.com[..]her/feature-post/sugar-history-00432432/ 淺談水龍捲 - https://thestandnews.com[..]%BA%E8%AB%87%E6%B0%B4%E9%BE%8D%E6%8D%B2/ The science behind why leaves change color in autumn - https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/autumn-leaves-color-432432/ 螞蟻與植物竟然共同演化,原來為了… - https://thestandnews.com[..]96-%E5%8E%9F%E4%BE%86%E7%82%BA%E4%BA%86/ https://www.zmescience.com[..]e/gingko-biloba-immortal-lifespan-05264/ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ 受盡威脅,也要幫這些台灣植物活下去:走訪福山植物園 - https://theinitium.com[..]00605-culture-botanical-garden-taiwan-1/ https://www.zmescience.com[..]her/feature-post/why-is-the-ocean-salty/ The rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel - https://www.bbc.com[..]ia-the-plants-that-mine-poisonous-metals Deepest Dive Ever Under Antarctica Reveals a Shockingly Vibrant World - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]-frozen-beauty-exotic-creatures-penguins As the Antarctic Peninsula heats up, the rules of life there are being ripped apart. Alarmed scientists aren’t sure what all the change means for the future. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]ula-ice-melt-krill-penguin-leopard-seal/ why-leaves-fall-down-and-why-it-happens-during-autumn - https://www.zmescience.com[..]l-down-and-why-it-happens-during-autumn/ http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ What is gympie-gympie: the poisonous plant whose painful sting can last for years and drive people to suicide - https://www.zmescience.com/science/what-is-gympie-gympie/ 許多植物已被細菌“天然轉基因” - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ts-have-been-naturally-gmod-by-bacteria/ Here are the world’s most favorite fruits — judging by production figures, at least - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ence/worlds-most-produced-fruit-feature/ How the cauliflower got its mesmerizing fractals - https://www.zmescience.com[..]auliflower-got-its-mesmerizing-fractals/ This natural chemical could keep fruits and vegetables fresh for longer - https://www.zmescience.com[..]mistry/natural-chemical-fruits-25112021/ The hidden beauty of the plants that feed the world - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]hat-feed-the-world-see-microscope-images The desert’s ‘skin’ is disappearing—tiny lab-grown plants could save it - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]sert-ecosystem-can-now-be-saved-in-a-lab As wildfires increase in Himalayan pine forests, can restoring oaks help? - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]s-to-himalayas-curb-climate-driven-fires What a huge lily pad can teach us about building design - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]y-pad-can-teach-us-about-building-design British botanist is first westerner to see Rafflesia banaoana, one of the rarest and largest ‘monster flowers’ in the world - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nd-largest-monster-flowers-in-the-world/ Why you should embrace stinging nettles - https://www.bbc.com[..]-why-you-should-embrace-stinging-nettles Pando, a huge aspen grove in Utah, is a single organism that’s lived for millennia. Unchecked grazing is destroying it. - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]thing-on-earth-is-being-nibbled-to-death They are a variety known as Luyuan 502 and are China's second most widely grown type of wheat. The plants were bred from seeds that were flown into orbit 200 miles (340km) above the Earth's surface. Here, in the unique low gravity environment and outside the protective magnetic shield of our planet, they picked up subtle changes to DNA that gave them new qualities that made them more tolerant to drought and able to better resist certain diseases. - https://www.bbc.com[..]how-china-is-creating-new-foods-in-space Are strawberries berries? Uhm, not really. But bananas are berries, and it gets weirder - https://www.zmescience.com[..]bananas-are-berries-and-it-gets-weirder/ The different types of plants in the world - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ce/biology/different-types-plants-world/ Carrots were originally purple - https://www.zmescience.com/other/purple-carrots-21032011/ The fastest growing plant in the world - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/science/fastest-growing-plant-02022021/ GlobalSeedVault - https://virtualtourcompany.co.uk[..]uk/GlobalSeedVault/index.html#popup_7737 7 potted plants that will remove indoor air pollution from your home, proven by science - https://www.zmescience.com[..]nce/potted-plants-air-quality-home-0423/ Titan Arum: the titan penis flower - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ology/titan-arum-the-titan-penis-flower/ Titan penis flower blooms in one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world - https://www.zmescience.com[..]e-oldest-botanical-gardens-in-the-world/ Leaf galls: How hijacking plant’s hormones can get them to produce weird things - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ology-reference/plants-fungi/leaf-galls/ Why poison ivy is an unlikely climate change winner - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]-getting-more-toxic-plant-blindness-cure Plants ‘scream’ under stress. Here is how you can hear them - https://www.zmescience.com[..]/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-0ab16b8714-242734313 This is what plants look like—from the inside out - https://www.nationalgeographic.com[..]ic-trees-photomicrography-robert-bernard Carbon fixation explained: the hidden hero of photosynthesis - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ce/plants-fungi/what-is-carbon-fixation/ Inside the high-tech farm in New Jersey where Instagram’s favorite strawberries grow, Oishii’s luxury strawberries can cost upwards of $15 a package. A new robotic indoor farm could make them more accessible. - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]re-instagrams-favorite-strawberries-grow Urban Streetlights Make Tree Leaves a Tougher To Chew for Insects - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ee-leaves-a-tougher-to-chew-for-insects/ Scientists Revive 1,000-Year-Old Seed, Potentially Resurrecting Mysterious Biblical Tree - https://www.zmescience.com[..]ce/scientists-revive-1000-year-old-seed/ What Did Oranges Used To Look Like? (They Weren’t Always Orange) - https://historyfacts.com[..]-to-look-like-they-werent-always-orange/
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Fri Dec 27 11:31:06 GMT 2024
From /weblog/learning
How habit affecting you - http://stephencfchan.blogspot.com[..]2012/02/poor-study-habit-and-remedy.html How to change habit - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20120420/trv075618.asp?source=rss How to quit bad habit - http://now.eloqua.com[..]028&elq=2220804c77864d95acba08b4a6f21c23 好奇心,细节 - http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_47841af70102e1yi.html The most interesting things I've learnt about learning - http://jchyip.blogspot.com.au[..]-most-interesting-things-ive-learnt.html The most interesting things I've learned about improvement - http://jchyip.blogspot.com.au[..]t-interesting-things-ive-learned_14.html * Increase your exposure to new and different ideas * Spend as much time learning from your trading as you actually spend trading * Manage yourself, not just your risk and your positions http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]hree-best-practices-of-best-traders.html http://traderfeed.blogspot.com[..]/energy-well-being-and-success-four.html 直覺的奧妙 — Blink - https://thestandnews.com[..]%A6%BA%E7%9A%84%E5%A5%A7%E5%A6%99-blink/ 1) How does the person spend his or her free time? Per Ayn Rand's observation above, what does he or she do for enjoyment? 2) How does the person respond to your successes? Many people are willing to commiserate with you when you're down and elevate themselves in the process. A person of genuine goodwill celebrates your successes and is happy for your happiness. 3) What strong beliefs does the person voice and live through their actions? Character means standing for what you believe in and living your beliefs. Go along and get along might be comfortable, but commitment is what powers effective action in the world. http://traderfeed.blogspot.hk[..]hree-powerful-measures-of-character.html Ask as a habit - https://thestandnews.com[..]%83%E9%80%99%E5%80%8B%E5%95%8F%E9%A1%8C/ practice consistently, stay warm - http://www.zmescience.com[..]brain/halo-starcraft-practice-excellence Wake up early - https://medium.com[..]e-guide-for-waking-up-early-a750c011eb07 This will work, I believe, but really not easy - https://journal.thriveglobal.com[..]e-your-life-in-just-a-month-eed6c90ee6c4 3 Simple Habits to Improve Your Critical Thinking: Question assumptions Reason through logic Diversify thought - https://hbr.org[..]habits-to-improve-your-critical-thinking A cue that triggers your brain to behave automatically A routine that consists of some kind of action A reward that reinforces the loop by giving you a good feeling https://evernote.com[..]ur-productivity-and-how-to-take-it-back/ Their assessment blew Psycho-Cybernetics out of the water, showing that the time it took to form a new habit ranged from 18 to 254 days. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]post/how-long-it-takes-to-break-a-habit/ How to Create a Habit System and Stay Motivated as a Developer - https://www.freecodecamp.org[..]ystem-and-stay-motivated-as-a-developer/ Why ‘daily-ish’ habits can be better than everyday routines - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]its-can-be-better-than-everyday-routines 14 habits that make you more focused than 98% of people - https://iamalexmathers.medium.com[..]e-focused-than-98-of-people-1fd9e40093ff 6 inspiring morning habits of highly successful people - https://www.fastcompany.com[..]rning-habits-of-highly-successful-people Rebecca Solnit: Slow Change Can Be Radical Change - https://lithub.com[..]olnit-slow-change-can-be-radical-change/ The results were striking. Mice that had any form of passive exposure to the sounds learned to categorize them more quickly than those that relied solely on active training. This was true whether the passive exposure was interleaved with active training or occurred entirely before the active training began. - https://www.zmescience.com[..]could-help-you-learn-a-new-skill-faster/ How I Make Learning New Things Feel Easy and Avoid Burnout - https://medium.com[..]feel-easy-and-avoid-burnout-391892b13f93
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Fri Dec 27 11:12:15 GMT 2024
From /weblog/science/earth
Plate tectonics: We figured out how to build an atomic bomb before we realized how mountains form - https://www.zmescience.com[..]b-before-we-realized-how-mountains-form/ Divergent boundaries: the tectonic forces that split the earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]h-dynamics/what-are-divergent-boundarie/ What is the Ring of Fire? Earth’s most volcanically active region - https://www.zmescience.com[..]y/planet-earth/what-is-the-ring-of-fire/ Convergent boundaries: the tectonic forces that shape the Earth - https://www.zmescience.com[..]gy/earth-dynamics/convergent-boundaries/ These Revolutionary Maps Are Revealing Earth’s Geological Secrets = https://www.zmescience.com/science/tectonic-model-beatiful-new/
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