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Can Community Colleges Become Prestigious?
Community colleges are often situated as secondary, less prestigious options for higher education. Can community colleges become prestigious? Huynh shares how we can rethink this question and what community colleges have to offer. Dr. Cindy Huynh is a second-generation Vietnamese American woman and a first-generation college graduate from San Jose, California. She received her B.A. in Asian American Studies at UC Davis, M.A. in Asian American Studies from SF State, and Ph.D. in Education from the University of Utah. Dr. Huynh is deeply passionate about teaching and empowering young people to work alongside their communities for social change. She currently (and proudly!) serves as tenure-track faculty in Ethnic Studies at…
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How Close Are We to Immortality?
Researchers are working to get to the bottom of longevity, unlocking the secrets to extending our lifespans well into our 100s… and beyond. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more How Close Are We | http://bit.ly/HCAWplaylist Longevity and anti-ageing research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor… “We currently live in a world where ageing is so common that it’s considered by most of the world, including the medical community, as something that’s natural and inevitable. And if something’s considered inevitable, typically you don’t focus on it in the same way as something you can treat. Cancer was a natural part of life at one time, in…
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The Amazon Rainforest Doesn’t Produce 20% of Our Oxygen, Here’s Why.
Contrary to popular belief, the Amazon forest doesn’t provide Earth with 20% of its oxygen supply. So how exactly do the fires currently destroying Earth’s largest remaining rainforest affect us? » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist The Amazon is the world’s largest remaining rainforest, covering between 6 to 8 million square km of land, home to millions of species including plants, insects, birds, and mammals, many of which are yet to be discovered by researchers. However, the Amazon rainforest is also a compromised ecosystem. More than 74,000 fires have been recorded in Brazil, just this year, most of which occurred in the Amazon region. And so,…
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Scientists Just Detected Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
Scientists just discovered two supermassive black holes, each with a mass of more than 800 million suns. And they’re on a collision course with each other. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Read More: Princeton scientists spot two supermassive black holes on collision course with each other https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/0… “Astronomers have discovered a distant pair of titanic black holes on a collision course. Each black hole’s mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the two gradually draw closer together in a death spiral, they will begin sending gravitational waves rippling through space-time.” Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years After Einstein’s Prediction https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/lig… “Physicists have concluded…
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How Chaos Theory Unravels the Mysteries of Nature
Ever wonder how we try to predict the unpredictable? Supercomputers use the power of chaos theory. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… » Watch more Elements! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… As humans, we’re always trying to know more about how our world works, so we make models, models that allow us to reasonably predict what might happen if any of the established variables in a situation were to change. This is a deterministic system, meaning the behavior of certain variables is determined by their known characteristics. But what happens when the situation is a whole lot messier, with many, many variables and moving parts to keep track of? Take the weather for example, to…
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How Earth’s Magnetic Field Twists and Buckles During Solar Storms
Declassified Vietnam War files are showing researchers the unpredictable nature of the Sun and helping them work toward predicting the next big solar storm. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… » Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2Z7LHgi Travelling at the near-speed of light, energetic particles shooting out from the Sun can zip through space, smack into our planet’s atmosphere, and cause incredible disruptions. And one of the biggest impacts we know of happened during the tail end of the Vietnam War. On this episode of Focal Point, we hear from Delores Knipp, a space weather scientist and former officer in the U.S. Air Force who uncovered a war mystery that is…
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How Scientists Are Making ‘Sonic’ Black Holes in a Lab
In order to test Hawking radiation, scientists created their own artificial black hole using sound. But how? Can Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Be Solved With Fuzzballs? https://youtu.be/esPa1tVSjew Read More: What Sonic Black Holes Say About Real Ones https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-s… “Hawking’s prediction that black holes radiate heat and eventually evaporate completely gives rise to the profound ‘information paradox,’ which asks what happens to information about the stuff that fell into them.” In a first, scientists took the temperature of a sonic black hole https://www.sciencenews.org/article/f… “To produce the sonic black hole, the researchers used ultracold atoms of rubidium, chilled to a state known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, and set them flowing. Analogous to…
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The Most Detailed Map Of Galaxies, Black Holes and Stars Ever Made
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team’s work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, imaging millions of stars, black holes and galaxies in unprecedented detail. If we maintain our pace, she says, we can map every large galaxy in the observable universe by 2060. “We’ve gone from arranging clamshells to general relativity in a few thousand years,” she says. “If we hang on 40 more, we can map all the galaxies.” Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED…
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The Mysterious Microbes Living Deep Inside The Earth
The ground beneath your feet is home to a massive, mysterious world of microbes — some of which have been in the earth’s crust for hundreds of thousands of years. What’s it like down there? Take a trip to the volcanoes and hot springs of Costa Rica as microbiologist Karen Lloyd shines a light on these subterranean organisms and shows how they could have a profound impact on life up here. Get TED Talks recommended just for you! Learn more at https://www.ted.com/signup. Follow TED on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TEDTalks Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/TED Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has…
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The Futurist New Deal For America
US Transhumanist Party candidate for President, Johannon Ben Zion has a futurist new deal for America. This concept stoked my interest when I was listening to the debate between all of the US Transhumanist Party candidates. I wanted more information on this concept and Johannon Ben Zion was kind enough to forward this information to me. What I am going to do is quote some content from his plan below. It will be short and condensed, to read more into the exact details of the plan you can download the PDF file at the end of the article. I am also going to list an interview that was done between…
