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What does it mean to call Oxford home?

I’ve been trying to figure it out for exactly two years today. I’m sure my experience as a graduate student, living and working away from the city centre, is very different from the college-dwelling undergrads, and I often eye the central campus with a certain degree of envy. But despite my desire to spend my days in Duke Humfrey’s library, I know why I’m doing my research and why I came here as an MPLS doctoral student - so no regrets! I just wish that more people knew that Oxford is more than just a bunch of privileged younglings in some old buildings. (Not one word of that is true! Not all undergrads are privileged, not all students are undergrads, and definitely not all students live in posh college accommodation. Oxford is just much more than the stereotype.)

That’s why today I found some of my favorite Oxford pictures of the goode olde pre-Covid days that aren’t colleges or central gardens - this is the street art of the vibrant eastern part of the city, which some consider inferior to the fashionable northern district of Jericho - a notion with which I strongly disagree.

Here’s to hoping that the days of carelessly wandering the city can come back soon! In the meantime - more pictures of my favourite, less famous Oxford places to follow…

Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.

from BBC News - Science & Environment https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-53640382

Late summer at the Upper Lake Gosau, Austria [OC] [3600x4800] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/2Ejoi6g

How much carbon dioxide, a pivotal greenhouse gas behind global warming, is absorbed by plants on land? It’s a deceptively complicated question, so a group of scientists recommends combining two cutting-edge tools to help answer the crucial climate change-related question.

from Latest Science News – ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2FUjc0M
- Yvette Lacobie

Artificial intelligence can speed the development of 3D-printed bioscaffolds that help injuries heal, according to researchers.

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- Yvette Lacobie

During wildfires, nitrous acid plays a leading role – spiking to levels significantly higher than scientists expected, driving increased ozone pollution and harming air quality, according to a new study.

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- Yvette Lacobie

A study of search and rescue dogs showed little difference in longevity or cause of death between dogs at the disaster site and dogs in a control group.

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- Yvette Lacobie

A new article reveals how researchers fully identified the nature of oxidized oxygen in the important battery material - Li-rich NMC - using RIXS (Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering). This compound is being closely considered for implementation in next generation Li-ion batteries because it delivers higher energy density than current materials, and could translate to longer driving ranges for electric vehicles and enable scientists to tackle issues like battery longevity and voltage fade.

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- Yvette Lacobie

The functional ability of older people is nowadays better when it is compared to that of people at the same age three decades ago.

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- Yvette Lacobie

Confuciusornis was a crow-like fossil bird that lived in the Cretaceous ~120 million years ago. It was one of the first birds to evolve a beak. Early beak evolution remains understudied. Using an imaging technique called Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence, researchers address this by revealing just how different the beak and jaw of Confuciusornis were compared to birds we see today.

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- Yvette Lacobie

New research shows substantial markets for cultured meat and movements towards meat reduced diets across Germany and France.

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- Yvette Lacobie

• 21|09|20 •

As you can see I’ve studied in bed. Actually I try to avoid to do this, but today I had headache for the most of the time so staying in bed has helped me to do something and, at the same time, relax a bit!

Anyway, I’ve done some Physics 2 theory, some Python as always and I’ve tried do understand some Analytical Mechanics/Differential Geometry hard concepts. 💪🏻

”Scientists have been parsing through this overwhelming world for a few centuries now, identifying the specifics of how individual organisms live and connecting them to the bigger picture of how our world works.”

Journey to the Microcosmos- Trying to Make Sense of This Overwhelming World

Image Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs

Orion in Depth

Orion is a familiar constellation. The apparent positions of its stars in two dimensions create a well-known pattern on the bowl of planet Earth’s night sky. Orion may not look quite so familiar in this 3D view though. The illustration reconstructs the relative positions of Orion’s bright stars, including data from the Hipparcus catalog of parallax distances. The most distant star shown is Alnilam. The middle one in the projected line of three that make up Orion’s belt when viewed from planet Earth, Alnilam is nearly 2,000 light-years away, almost 3 times as far as fellow belt stars Alnitak and Mintaka. Though Rigel and Betelgeuse apparently shine brighter in planet Earth’s sky, that makes more distant Alnilam intrinsically (in absolute magnitude) the brightest of the familiar stars in Orion. In the Hipparcus catalog, errors in measured parallaxes for Orion’s stars can translate in to distance errors of a 100 light-years or so.

Image Copyright: Ronald Davison

When it came to exploring the stars, Americans had to see it to believe in it

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