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i really and truly believe that there are only two genuine human superpowers, both of which can be actively cultivated:

the ability to find anything interesting, ie the ability to reframe and reflect on any situation or encounter, even/especially negative or boring ones, so as to make what is happening to you interesting, engaging, and personally meaningful to your human experience. this habit of mind is mostly curiosity but it's also woven through with psychological flexibility, especially the ability to regulate your own emotional reactions so that you can respond to challenging or tedious situations in more thoughtful and values-aligned ways that develop your sense of self instead of making you feel trapped or bored or fragmented

the ability to teach yourself new things. idk maybe as a teacher i am biased but i really believe that the single most transformative gift you can give any human being is a deep understanding of how people learn and improve at things. what is more hopeful, more inspiring, or more life-affirming than the realization that you can learn new things at any age, and that the new things you learn (plus the joyful process of learning itself!) can utterly transform the way you experience the world and understand yourself? what is more amazing or incredible than the realization that learning things is not a mysterious & passive process that happens to you but a reasonably consistent set of steps and tools that you can learn how to master and apply to virtually any skill or domain of human knowledge? the superpower of being able to learn/improve at anything you set your mind to… but also the superpower inherent in that quiet unwavering certainty that even if you feel stuck at various points in your life, you have within yourself the capacity to get unstuck through learning and changing and growing and experiencing new things. wowowowowowowow!!!!! what an extraordinary gift!!!!

[ajserino]

Teaching Philosophy Statement

Early in my career, I was offered a tenure-track teaching position in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. However, working in the same town as my spouse was deemed to be a higher priority at the time, so I postponed my love of teaching until later in my career when the opportunity to do so once again presented itself. Mid-career, after receiving an MBA from Rutgers Business School, I was asked by the Department Chair at Rutgers to teach an undergraduate course in Managing Technology, in part because of my extensive real-world experience doing so. While somewhat apprehensive at first, I rose to the challenge and enjoyed the experience immensely. The next semester, I was asked to teach a graduate level course on Managing Strategic Transformation to students in the MBA program. While I had not taken either course as a student in the program, I managed to receive student evaluation scores that were on par with the average of well-seasoned department professors. I used those scores as a measure of my effectiveness, but deep down I knew there were many things I could have done better. Nonetheless, in that 1 year, I gained a true appreciation for the rigors of teaching; researching topics of interest relevant to the subject, developing a syllabus, sourcing a text and supporting materials, and preparing lectures. Lessons learned from these teaching experiences are now part of my present teaching philosophy. Since then, I have honed my writing skills and prepared educational pieces for a variety of audiences. While I last taught chemistry in Graduate School, I have often been required to enlighten audiences on a variety of subjects in science and medicine, usually based upon a PowerPoint presentation that I had prepared.

In seeking a teaching position at [TBD], my first objective is to not only educate students in the subject matter but introduce them to the impact chemistry has on our everyday lives; from the products we consume to the environmental dangers associated with poor regulation. My goal is to educate in a way that not only makes learning about chemistry fun, but sparks a flame within at least some of my students to seek a deeper understanding of the chemical world around them. My second objective is to help my students realize that the ceiling for intellectual growth is unlimited, and that their study of chemistry could be one step in their journey. Far too many highly skilled and highly capable young adults steer clear of science in part because the subject matter is difficult, but also because they know little about the career opportunities in science that are available to them. In my first lecture of the semester, I plan to enlighten my students about the many types of careers paths available to students of chemistry, thereby dispelling any notion that their efforts in the course might be for naught.

Not unlike other technical courses, the study of chemistry requires a disciplined approach to learning; a fact I will stress upon my students during the first lecture. It is a subject that requires students to read the assigned content before class and to listen attentively during class. I reinforce the day’s lecture with exercises and/or quizzes that test comprehension. I encourage students to form study groups or some form of support structure to help solidify each other’s knowledge of the subject matter. During office hours, which I encourage all students to attend, I answer questions but strive to identify and tackle barriers that prevent students from deriving the answer themselves. I am not a fan of creating lecture notes for students, because it can have a deleterious effect upon their commitment to attend class, listen attentively, and capture on paper what is important to them.

In my first lecture, I will engage my students to define learning, in which we will ultimately agree that it is the process of gaining new knowledge or perspectives that change the way we think about the world. I will then ask them to reflect on how we go about gaining new scientific knowledge, which will lead us to a discussion about the Scientific Method and the steps involved by which scientists, collectively and over time, endeavor to construct an accurate representation of nature. I will convey to them the idea that our understanding of chemistry is based upon the work of scientists around the world who have built upon each other’s results of experimentation. In my class I stress that learning is not measured by how well a student is able to memorize facts, but by his/her understanding of the material and their ability to apply that understanding to explain experimental observations. Throughout the semester and whenever possible, I plan to interject real-world experimentation into our discussion to give my students an appreciation of the approach taken by scientists to enrich our understanding of the world in which we live. This might involve asking them to read a published article that reinforces the subject matter being presented. Linking this information to real-world research that has been published in the literature, and to real-world products that impact them and the environment, helps to reinforce the learning experience. How effective I am in this endeavor will undoubtedly be reflected in student evaluations, but more importantly, in student performance on exams. Like the subject matter itself, my style of teaching will undoubtedly evolve from semester to semester as I reflect back on what students learned best and what they struggled understanding. When evidence of the latter occurs, as is often the case after an exam, I take time to correct the deficiency in real time, while noting to ensure comprehension in future semesters before moving on to the next topic or chapter in the text.

[ajapasharma]

Educational History

Ph.D (in progress, 2018-Present)

Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Fields: Modern South Asia, Political and Cultural History, Imperialism, Diplomatic History, Legal History, History of Migrations, World History Current Research: Runaways, Refugees, and Exiles: Nepali Subjects and Nepali Sovereignty in the British Empire (1890-1950) Courses Taken:Culture and Colonialism in South Asia, Imperial Formations, Empire and Decolonization, Science, Technology and Global Encounters, Policing the Boundaries of Race, Gender and Sexuality in the United States, Expulsion, Exile and the Birth of the Modern Refugee: Forced Migration in Historical Context

M.Phil (2017)

Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Research Field: Modern South Asia, Political and Cultural History, Literary History, History of Political Thought, Nationalism, World History Thesis: Visions of the Self: Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala’s Writings (1931-1981) (Awarded Upper First Class)

M.A (2015)

Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi M.A Seminar Research: 1. Experiments in Nepali Modernity: The Writings of Balkrishna Sama and Laxmi Prasad Devkota 2. Language, Territory and Population: Political Possibilities for Nepali Speakers in Mid-Twentieth Century India Courses Taken: British Policies in India (1858-1905), The Indian National Movement (1858-1905), The Colonial State (1858-1947), Colonial Power, Region, Language and the Politics of Nation-Making, The French Revolution, Capitalism and Colonialism, Crime, Law and Order in colonial India (1765-1924), Elites and the Modern State in Africa, Problems in Indian Economic History, Historical Methods

B.A (2013)

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts Graduated with Magna Cum Laude and High Honors Majors: Sociology and Asian Studies Senior Thesis/Capstone Research in Asian Studies: Making and Remaking Identity in India: The Case of Nepali Speakers in Darjeeling (1900-1985) Primary Research in Sociology: State, Society and the Nepali Migrant Worker in the Arab Gulf Study Abroad Exchange Student at University of Sussex, Brighton (2011) School of Law, Politics and Sociology

GCE A LEVELS (2008)

Rato Bangala School, Lalitpur, Nepal Subjects: Sociology, Environmental Management, Economics, Mathematics and English Language and Literature

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Can You Feel Reiki Energy Staggering Cool Ideas

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*Applications invited for the Master's program "Geobiology and Paleobiology" (MGAP) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (Germany) for international students until 31Jan 2018* The Master's program "Geobiology and Paleobiology" (MGAP) is a consecutive, research-focussed, two-year Master of Science program at the Faculty of Geosciences of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, in collaboration with researchers of the Bavarian Natural History Collections and the GeoBio-Center @ LMU. MGAP aims to provide students with a comprehensive introduction into the interdisciplinary research fields of geobiology and paleobiology to prepare them for careers in science and beyond. The MGAP program is based on interdisciplinary, research-oriented courses in geo- and biosciences that address patterns and processes of evolutionary and environmental geobiology and paleobiology. The module-based curriculum provides an integrative approach facilitated by experts in different areas of expertise. Students will learn and acquire routines with a wide range of scientific methods such as modern techniques in molecular biology, fieldwork, collection management, comparative morphology, phylogeny, bioinformatics, statistics and (paleo-) biodiversity assessments. Students will learn independent scientific work in individual and intensively supervised research projects at early stages of the curriculum. *MGAP in brief* - International Master's program in Geobiology and Paleobiology (Master of Science, M.Sc.) at the LMU Munich - 2 years, 4 semesters, start in October (winter semester) - All courses taught in English - Course total: 120 credit points (ECTS) More information is available on the program's website: For the winter semester 2018-2019 (courses start mid-October) the application period for international applicants (from outside of the EU) ends on Jan 31, 2016. Applicants from the EU and Germany can submit their documents from mid Feb 2018 until May 31, 2018. Applications have to be submitted via our online submission portal: The Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences (Division of Palaeontology & Geobiology) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich offers an excellent multidisciplinary research and learning environment, one of its particular strength being the close interaction between Geosciences, the Biological Faculty, and the Bavarian Natural History collections ( ) in the framework of the GeoBioCenter@ LMU ( ). The LMU Munich is the leading research university in Germany, with a more than 500-year-long tradition, and builds upon its success in the Excellence Initiative, a Germany-wide competition promoting top-level university research. LMU Munich also has been successful in the "Qualitätspakt Lehre" initiative by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to promote innovative teaching and learning. Munich has also been repeatedly voted Germany's most liveable city. via Gmail

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Why You Should Use A White Noise Machine This Fourth of July

The following blog article Why You Should Use A White Noise Machine This Fourth of July is courtesy of https://www.ellymackay.com

And How to Find the Best Model For You.

Have you heard them? I’ve certainly heard them over the last few weeks — and they’re about to pick up steam as we head towards the Fourth of July, which is easily one of my favorite holidays each year.

I’m talking about fireworks, of course. It’s officially Fireworks Season here in Southern California, where they’ve been firing off for about a week now. And it’s not just SoCal. Several friends and clients across the country told me they’ve recently heard more bangs, booms and crackles at night.

I love it, but I also know those late night explosions can make it tough to fall asleep. Luckily, I’ve got my “secret weapon” ready to go: my white noise machine. White noise is a great tool you can leverage to help block out loud noises and create a quiet and peaceful sleep environment. Research indicates white noise machines can help people in loud environments get nearly 50% more sleep on average each night than those not using white noise machines.

If you’re facing insomnia or restless nights, I recommend buying a white noise machine. The best part is, they don’t just help when your neighbors are setting off fireworks; they come in handy all year. Whether it’s a barking dog, a loud party across the street, or your kids having a noisy sleepover with friends, a white noise machine can help make sure your sleep isn’t derailed.

We have a lot to cover this week. First, I’ll explain what white noise is, how it works, and why it’s so effective as a sleep aid. Finally, I’ll tell you how to find the best white noise machine for you — including my picks for the seven best machines you can buy right now.

What Is White Noise?

Let’s get technical for a moment. White noise is the consistent noise created by combining low, mid and high frequency sounds. It has a flat spectral density, which is to say white noise has the same amplitude, or intensity level, at all points on the audio spectrum (from 20 to 20,000 hertz).

I know that’s a bit confusing, so let me put it in simpler terms. Imagine you’re talking to a couple friends in person or on Zoom. If asked, you could easily point out which voice belongs to which friend, even if they’re talking at the same time. But if 100 people were talking at the same time, it would be much harder; distinct voices would instead blend together into one jumbled sound.

That’s how white noise works. It spans the audio spectrum and contains all frequencies, making it where one sound doesn’t overwhelm the other. The term white noise derives from white light, which similarly combines all colors of light together, similar to white noise combining all different sound frequencies.

And how does it sound? A white noise machine tends to sound like wind is steadily rushing by, akin to a fan blowing air.

How White Noise Helps You Sleep

I know, it’s a bit counterintuitive: noise to help you sleep. But white noise is different. You can think of it almost as an anti-noise, working to distract your brain while you sleep.

Typically, when you wake up during the night, it isn’t necessarily a loud sound that jars you awake. Sure, the loud sound is a factor. But the real issue is the sudden change in noise frequency that alerts you. That’s what wakes you up.

White noise counters that problem, essentially acting as a mask to cover up any sounds that could disturb you during the night.

Remember, white noise is a combination of all audio frequencies, which safeguards your body from being caught off guard by a loud noise. White noise reduces the frequency gap between what you’re hearing and a sudden loud noise, like a firework going off at night, giving you a better shot of staying asleep.

How White Noise Machines Work

Multiple studies have shown using white noise machines are an effective way to get better sleep in loud environments.

Hospitals have tended to be the best place to research the benefits of white noise machines. One study, published in the Journal of Caring Sciences in 2016, looked at 60 patients staying in a coronary intensive care unit. Half of the patients were given a white noise machine at night, while the other half slept without one.

White noise machines were shown to significantly increase the time patients spent asleep. Patients using a white noise machine, after three days, saw their average sleep time rise 49%, from 4.75 hours per night to 7.08 hours per night. On the other hand, patients who did not have white noise machines reported “no significant changes” in their time spent sleeping.

Ultimately, the researchers concluded “white noise is recommended as a method for masking environmental noises, improving sleep and maintaining sleep” in a loud environment.

The findings built on a similar study from 2005 in the journal Sleep Medicine. In that study, researchers played recorded hospital sounds for some participants while they slept, while the others did not receive a machine. Researchers found participants without a white noise machine dealt with more sleep arousals during the night than usual, due to the hospital noises, while those using a white noise machine did not experience an increase in sleep arousals.

More research will continue to look into white noise and how it impacts sleep. But to this point, studies have shown white noise machines help people sleep better and longer by avoiding nighttime sleep arousals.

The Best White Noise Machine For You

Alright, we’ve established white noise is a big help when it comes to getting great sleep, no matter how much racket there is around you.

The challenge, though, is there are countless white noise machines to pick from. That’s why I’ve chosen my 7 favorite white noise machines to help you cut through the mediocrity and make a great purchase. Here are my go-to white noise machines:

The Best White Noise Machine for Any Room:  The LectroFan

This is an awesome and affordable machine, no matter how big or small your room is. The LectroFan takes up less space than most white noise machines, and its smooth “shhhhh” sound helps block out high-pitched sounds. If you have a loud dog, this is an ideal machine for you — and it only costs about $45. This USA-made machine comes equipped with 20 different sounds, a sleep timer, and a powerful speaker. It’s a great bang for your buck.

The Best Looking and Functioning White Noise Machine: Douni Sleep Sound Machine

I simply love the way this one looks. Douni’s Sleep Sound Machine comes with a classic wood grain finish. It also has a number of great, easy-to-use features, like its sleep timer, which automatically turns off the machine after 30, 60, or 90 minutes. (That’s if you want to turn it off at all.) It also has more than 20 relaxing sounds, including 7 different categories of white noise to choose from.

The Best White Noise Machine for a Baby: Hatch Baby Rest

White noise can be a parent’s best friend. That’s because research suggests babies fall asleep quicker when accompanied by white noise. With that in mind, what parent wouldn’t want to put a white noise machine in their child’s room? And for babies, I’m a big fan of the Hatch Baby Rest Sound Machine. Parents can easily program the machine via the Hatch Baby Rest app on their phones, for one thing. And it’s more than a white noise machine — it’s also a night light! Other features I like include the two-way audio monitor that’s built-in, allowing you to check on your baby while they sleep, and the “toddler lock,” which makes sure if it gets bumped, the settings won’t change.

The Best High-End White Noise Machine: Sound Oasis S-5000 

This one is fully-loaded. The Sound Oasis S-5000 isn’t just a white noise machine, it also has an AM/FM radio, iPhone jack, and three powerful speakers, including a rear subwoofer. There are also 145 sound options to choose from, allowing you to create the ideal sleep environment.

The Best Multi-Function White Noise Machine: Zenergy Bedside Sleep Therapy Machine

The iHome Zenergy machine is the best bang for your buck in my eyes. The machine offers 10 soothing sounds to pick from, including “ocean,” “zen” and white noise. It also has 11 light therapy patterns, guiding you through one stage of sleep to the next by shifting between colors. It’s Bluetooth-enabled, too, allowing you to take speakerphone calls or change the radio station directly from its app.

The Best Decorative Multi-Function White Noise Machine: Zenergy Himalayan Salt Rock Lamp

It’s tough to beat the look of Zenergy’s Himalayan Salt Rock Lamp. The lamp illuminates a radiant burnt orange glow when it’s activated, easily separating itself from the rest of the machines you’ll find. And if someone walks into your room, it looks like a beautiful decorative rock you took back with you from a trip to the Himalayas (without having to travel all the way to Nepal).

The Best White Noise Machine for Travel: Manta Sleep Machine 

I don’t go anywhere on the road without my Manta Sleep Machine. It’s small, it’s square shape fits perfectly into my carry-on, and on top of that, it’s versatile, with 40 different sounds to choose from. If you’re feeling like taking a break from white noise, be sure to try out the campfire setting.

Hopefully, by now, I’ve convinced you a white noise machine is a good investment. Sure, it can be a big help when it comes to sleeping through fireworks as we approach Independence Day, but they’re useful year-round. The data is clear: white noise will help you sleep better and longer, no matter what loud and alarming sounds pop up during the night. If you end up buying one of the machines we just covered, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

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How a Science Research Program Taught Students to Pursue Futures Fueled by Passion

When Antonio was 16, he had bugs in his basement. While this sounds like a reason to call the exterminator, it was actually planned. Antonio’s mother had been in touch with his science teacher and was brave enough to allow her son to hatch praying mantis eggs in their basement as part of his research.

Antonio was just one of the memorable students in my first science research class at Christ the King Regional High School, a parochial school in Queens, New York. Projects like this were not uncommon in the early years of developing our authentic-learning science program in the mid-nineties.

At the time, our school had a reputation for high standards, but its instructional model was very cookie cutter. Science classes were lecture-based with occasional labs, and each course culminated in a statewide Regents Exam.

By 1996 I had already been teaching earth science for 20 years. I enjoyed my work, but I was searching for something that would have more a lasting impact on my students’ lives. I knew that I was teaching valuable learning skills and preparing students to become informed citizens, but was I really helping them see science as a possible career path?

Then I attended a six-hour workshop that radically changed my approach to teaching. At that workshop, I was introduced to a model that involved developing a 3-year program, a version of which I later adopted at my school.

Beginning in 10th grade, students would be taken through a process that would help them choose their own personal topic of interest. There would be a focus on research, writing and oral presentation skills. Students would have opportunities to develop collaboration and sharing skills throughout the program. In 11th grade students would develop their own unique experiment and carry it out with a mentor in their field of interest. In 12th grade students would write a formal research paper and use their findings to enter numerous competitions, including the most prestigious of all at that time, the Intel Talent Search. (This competition is still in existence today as the Regeneron Science Talent Search.) If they put in the requisite number of hours during the three years and summers, they could earn 12 college credits for their work.

My 15-year-old students had the confidence to email and call some of the top scientists in the country to ask questions about what they had read and seek advice for their own experiments

It was an ambitious and daunting task. How could all of this fit in to a student’s scheduled day? I decided we would use the before-school zero period. At 7 a.m. each morning a group of the most motivated students I have ever worked with would come together to work on their research. While many teenagers were just getting out of bed, these students would listen to presentations given by their peers and provide critical feedback on both the scientific methods used and their oral presentation skills. They would help each other with research techniques and fill out competition applications together.

Every two weeks I would conference with each student individually to learn about how their research was progressing. We would work on organizational skills and plan out next steps. We would identify mentors, people in the scientific community who would be willing to answer questions and hopefully guide the experiments of these budding scientists. That was probably the most difficult task in this development process. Christ the King was known for its wonderful athletic program, not its science program, so it was almost impossible to procure mentors. We didn’t have the pedigree of Bronx Science or Brooklyn Tech. We still had to prove that we could compete with the big-name science schools in New York.

We persisted. After six years the results showed a program that had grown from eight students to 36. Our high school students had become experts in their field of interest, and had developed a broad range of research skills, like developing hypotheses and reading dense texts, as well as organizational and public speaking skills. They critiqued the work and presentations of their classmates with a positive approach and a level of maturity that belied their young ages.

My 15-year-old students had the confidence to email and call some of the top scientists in the country to ask questions about what they had read and seek advice for their own experiments. They competed alongside the top science students in New York City and walked away with their share of awards. They presented their work with the community at an annual symposium that became more impressive each year.

Did all of the students pursue science as a career? Of course not, but many found a career path that they didn’t even know existed before they embarked on this journey.

They left this program with the ability to figure out what they were interested in because they had already experienced that process. They had actively participated in an instructional model that encouraged them to pursue projects fueled by their passions.

Now well into their thirties, many of my former students have kept in touch via social media. Antonio, the praying mantis hatcher (aka “bug boy”), now works as a forensic scientist. Gretchen, who researched the effect of urban sounds on coyotes, is now a zoo keeper at the same zoo where she conducted her research and experiment almost 20 years ago. Lenny, an Intel semi-finalist who launched rockets in a park and built a robot in his bedroom, is a technical staff member at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory where he provides analysis to the U.S. government to develop and maintain the national Ballistic Missile Defense System. Gina, who studied the genetic and environmental factors involved in forensic psychology, works at Cornell University focusing on chromosomal abnormalities and genetic testing and counseling.

Even the students who did not continue in scientific fields use what they learned in their professions. One student, Kelly, has contacted me several times to inform me that she was learning about institutional review boards and how to record data in graduate courses she was taking for her master's degree in education—something she reminded me I taught her in 10th grade. Jennifer has written to me about how she uses what she learned in our science research program to motivate her math students. She recalled being challenged to do things she did not think she could do and pushing herself to succeed.

This was a learning experience for me as well. I was in the middle of my career as an educator, but I learned valuable lessons about going beyond delivering a curriculum. I learned how to understand each learner so that I could teach them more than facts. I wanted to teach them not only how to learn, but how each of them learned individually.

As I look toward the end of my career in education, which has spanned over four decades, it’s clear that the crux of my journey lies in the personal relationships I forged with students and the positive impact those relationships may have had on their lives and careers.

It’s also pretty symbolic that as I’m about to retire, education researchers, journalists and politicians are buzzing about personalized learning. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s not new. It’s what good educators have done for a long time—or at least since the nineties.

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7 Giant Crazy Real Things That Look Straight Sci Fi, Son

A whole bunch of hardcore science stuff went into designing pretty much anything within your line of vision right now. Why, your smartphone alone took up to three Science to induce. Three! Some of those Sciences were Scienced up in bearing old Science Buildings, sure — but some of them were birthed from bizarre, fantastical landscapes like …

7

The “Russian Woodpecker” Looks Like A Kaiju Wall

In 1976, radio signals around the world were interrupted by a strange, regular, tapping noise over the airwaves that people nicknamed “The Russian Woodpecker.” Nobody knew what it was exactly, but radio geeks eventually managed to triangulate its origin to a place just outside Chernobyl, in Ukraine. Specifically this thing TAGEND Ingmar Runge/ Wiki Commons It was, at the time, the scariest thing anywhere near Chernobyl .

This was before that other incident that made Chernobyl famous, so of course back then it appeared a little … fresher … than it does these days.

Ryan Menezes But it’s holding up pretty well for 40 -year-old untended steel .

Given the supervillain-bent of most massive Soviet projects, and, well … just the looking of that crazy damn thing, supposition was rampant: It was a mind-control device, a climate machine, hell, maybe only a giant antenna to pirate Martian pornography. We weren’t genuinely on speaking words with the Soviets, so it’s not like we could just ask them.

Alexander Blecher, blecher.info It would be decades till Russians occupied and controlled the White House .

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Woodpecker maintained tapping for a couple more years and then fell silent. It was merely after the Cold War aimed that we were able to find out what it truly was: The virtually 500 -foot-tall metal wall known as Duga-3 was one of three radar installings capable of seeing incoming American weapons. That’s not as interesting as our wild guess: Giant Gamera fence. But reality so rarely is.

Wow, what a truly amazing structure, rendered virtually instantly obsolete by satellites .

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The World’s Most Silent Laboratory Look Like Weird Video Game Levels

Want a little peace and quiet? Go to the park. Want all the peace and quiet? Your alternatives are TAGEND

1. The grave, or …

2. An anechoic chamber, like the one at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Because if there’s one thing we all associate with jet engines, it’s absolute silence .

It looks like aliens holding Air force One for ransom, but that blue spiky padding is just sound- and radar-absorbing polyurethane, which totally shields the inside of the building from outside sound and electromagnetic waves, permitting the Air force to test sensitive radar equipment.

Inside, you hear nothing, other than your own hollering hallucinations .

And this isn’t some bizarre technology limited to the military — scientists all over the world make use of these chambers for testing sensitive voice and radio technology. Eckel Industries has one that looks even more alien TAGEND Are we sure this isn’t a 2001 screen cap ? And, of course, techno-supervillains Apple have furnished 17 of these rooms at a total cost of $ 100 million to test transmitters and general iPhone performance TAGEND

To eradicate audio, they started by removing all headphone jacks .

But if you’re looking for the quietest place on the entire planet, that’s Microsoft’s audio lab in Redmond, Washington TAGEND We don’t hear much activity in Bing headquarters .

It’s so quiet in that room that people can hear their own blood . It’s the only place in the world where instruments was in fact pick up the audio of goddamn molecules brushing against one another. And Microsoft utilizes it pretty much exclusively to prove that they’re better than Apple.

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California’s Water-Saving Devices Look Like Alien Egg-Spheres

California’s historic drought has necessitated some fairly novel water-conserving technologies. Take, for example, this clutch of gleaming black extraterrestrial eggs infesting Los Angeles’s municipal watering holes.

It looks less gross than most LA water, but still .

It looks like the West Coast is about to be swarming with hundreds of millions of face-huggers, but these are actually only harmless plastic “shade balls” that the LA Department Of Water And Power deliberately dumped into the city’s reservoir in 2015.

Stimulating it the most epic suit of throwing shade in city history .

There’s about 96 million balls in the reservoir, which means, even though each individual whatchamacallit only expenses 36 cents, the whole project cost around $34.5 million.

It’s the most expensive teabagging imaginable .

And while dumping the entire GDP of a small country straight into a water supply would ordinarily be labeled a bizarre cataclysm, there’s a good reason for this: the balls reduce evaporation and slacken algae growth. The department calculates it saves around 300 million gallons per year, and merely seems a little like alien caviar.

Alien caviar is $120 a plate at Spago .

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The World’s Biggest Solar Power Plant Looks Like A UFO Launch Pad

Deep in California’s Mojave Desert, there’s something that looks like a Prius charging station for electric UFOs.

Note: This is one photo , not several put together .

That’s the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the world’s largest solar plant, and a major step toward California’s goal of providing 33 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable sources by 2020.

To milk that much juice out of the shine daystar, you need a hell of a lot of mirrors. Around 173,500, to be precise. Their undertaking is to take most of the sunlight that falls on the 3,500 -acre facility and concentrate it all onto one of the three Ikea-brand Eyes Of Sauron that stand at the center.

Water inside the nearly 460 -foot-tall towers is turned to steam and funneled into a turbine. The facility has a capacity of 377 megawatts, and at full production, the plant could light up 140,000 California homes.

The environmentally-minded developers constructed sure to relocate an endangered species of tortoise so that they could develop on its natural habitat. So it’s various kinds of ironic that the facility unwittingly triggered a bird holocaust. See, those invisible beams of sunlight that the mirrors are shooting out are hot enough to instantaneously incinerate anything that passes through them. Regrettably — well, you know how a bug-zapper works? Imagine one big enough to work on rare falcons. Merely the rarest . Reports suggest that Ivanpah incinerates an unsuspecting bird around every two minutes .

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The World’s Most Powerful Lasers Look Like … Well, The World’s Most Powerful Lasers

According to the University Of Rochester, the purpose of its Laboratory For Laser Energetics( LLE) department is “to investigate the interaction of intense radioactivity with matter.” This is a research grant-friendly route of saying “blow shit up with lasers.” Lasers like this one TAGEND

Fact: This is how God constructed the universe .

That’s the 30 -foot-tall, virtually 330 -foot-long OMEGA laser system. Among the world’s most powerful lasers, its rays deliver 40,000 joules of ass-shattering energy in a single billionth-of-a-second detonation onto a fuel pellet the size of a pencil tip-off. Here’s what it looks like from inside the chamber, moments before a bumbling lab intern turns you into The Hulk.

It’s “ve called the” OMEGA laser because it’s the last thing you’ll insure . The OMEGA laser is in friendly competitor with the National Ignition Facility( NIF) in Livermore, California. Unlike the OMEGA’s direct-drive method — zapping a gasoline pellet with lasers — the NIF focuses an insane 192 lasers on a tiny golden enclosure, producing X-rays which then strike the pellet. It also appears exactly like a Borg sphere TAGEND

Or their sex toy .

From the inside, it looks like something Jeff Goldblum is about to blow up with a Macbook virus TAGEND It is also able to locate all mutants worldwide .

2

The Soviet Union Actually Had Crazy Giant Tesla Coils

In Command And Conquer: Red Alert , the Soviet team could construct giant Tesla coils that incinerated hapless Allied soldiers. Turns out that wasn’t made up: They truly existed.

Weird. We didn’t realize “Thor” was a Russian name .

These 130 -foot lightning towers, tucked away in secluded woodland 25 miles from Moscow, weren’t designed to obliterate encroaching adversaries, but simply for scientific curiosity and testing electrical insulation. At least, that’s what they tell us.

They tested the electrical insulation of Gulag prisoners .

The High Voltage Marx And Tesla Generators Research Facility is a mess of tubes and wires that could have been inspired by mid-century science fiction B-movies. And when it’s set to full power, it can match the entire country’s electrical potential with lightning ten-strikes that rise 500 feet into the sky.

Targeting the USSR’s number-one enemy: hope .

It is now the property of the Russian Electrical Engineering Institute and supposedly not at all evil, though it’s still operational, and can sometimes be seen sparking its bolts high into the air for what we are sure are utterly benign scientific purposes.

Today, all it does is pump out high-energy Putin memes .

1

Fusion Power Research Looks Like Something From An Alien Sequel

Fusion power is a clean, sustainable energy source that, if mastered, would eliminate our need for non-renewable fuels and offer dirt cheap electricity for everyone on countries around the world. All we have to do is find a way to imitation the conditions at the core of the sun. Easy!

Toward this end, MIT has created the “Alcator C-Mod, ” basically a large metal donut that confines a stream of crazy-millions-of-degrees-hot plasma within a magnetic field. Don’t worry, they tell us the reaction occurs on a small scale and is pretty well contained, so it probably won’t kill you. Unless you bang its giant superconducting girlfriend.

Then, it’ll smack you so hard you’ll get permanent fisheye vision .

Unfortunately, the Alcator C-Mod was necessary to shut down after losing sponsorship from the Department Of Energy, though not before setting a new fusion world record on its last night of operation. In spite of attaining temperatures of 35 million degrees at an unprecedented 2.05 atmospheres of pressure, federal fusion funding was diverted to France’s International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor( ITER ), soon to be the world’s biggest, baddest magnetic imprisonment experiment.

Though its model here is more of an adorable Star Wars droid .

Scheduled for finish in 2015, numerous delays have pushed that to 2021 at least, with its cost soaring from an initial$ 5 billion to about $40 billion and counting. But hey, it’s shaping up to look dope as hell.

It’ll be an amazing venue for the 2022 World Cup .

Meanwhile, in Japan, they have the Large Helical Device( LHD ), a project of the National Institute For Fusion Science in Toki, Gifu Prefecture. The LHD attempts to mimic the action at the core of stars by trapping hellishly hot plasma within a magnetic field restricted inside a twisted 44 -foot metal tube. More importantly, though, it looks like they ripped the design straight out of H. R. Giger’s nightmares.

From the outside, the LHD looks pretty innocuous TAGEND Just a run-of-the-mill planet mill .

But on the inside, its eight intertwining superconducting coils look like the kind of porn that Japanese robots won’t admit to watching …

They had to invent four new dimensions to construct this .

To achieve fusion without the gravitational advantage of a body 330, 000 times the mass of the Earth, terrestrial fusion devices must heat ga to about 100 million degrees Celsius. This roiling hell-stew would speedily melt the very machine that created it, so magnetic fields exerting 1,000 tons of pressure per meter are required to separate the plasma from the inner walls. For some reason, this requires giant metal tentacles.

We’re not about to question it; they seem to know what they’re doing.

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The Lancet Commission: One Third of Dementia May Be Preventable

- The Lancet releases International Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care - - U.S. NIA shares inaugural research grants on health disparities in Alzheimer's -

LONDON, July 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- In a report presented today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2017 (AAIC 2017) in London, The Lancet International Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care reported that more than one third of global dementia cases may be preventable through addressing lifestyle factors that impact an individual's risk. These potentially modifiable risk factors have been identified at multiple phases across the life-span, not just in old age.

The Lancet Commission's report was simultaneously published in The Lancet and presented at AAIC 2017.

Also at AAIC 2017, the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) announced inaugural research grants to investigate health disparities in Alzheimer's disease.

"Today's findings are extremely hopeful," said Maria Carrillo, PhD, chief science officer at the Alzheimer's Association. "At an individual level, many people have the potential to reduce their risk of cognitive decline, and perhaps dementia, through simple, healthful behavior changes. At a public health level, interventions based on this evidence could be extremely powerful in managing the global human and economic costs of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias."

The Alzheimer's Association offers 10 Ways to Love Your Brain, including practical guidance to reduce your dementia risk based on the latest research.

The Lancet International Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention and Care The Lancet Commission brings together 24 international experts to consolidate the huge strides that have been made in our knowledge and understanding of dementia risk factors, treatment and care, and the emerging knowledge as to what we should do to prevent and manage dementia. The Commission conducted a new review and meta-analysis; based on which they extended current models of risk by including hearing loss and social isolation. Incorporating potentially modifiable risk factors from across the life-span, they proposed a novel life-course model of risk, highlighting the opportunity for prevention.

Among their key recommendations are:

Be ambitious about prevention. Interventions for established risk factors may have the potential to delay or prevent one third of dementias.

Treat cognitive symptoms. To maximize cognition, people with Alzheimer's dementia or dementia with Lewy bodies should be offered cholinesterase inhibitors at all stages, or memantine for severe dementia.

Individualize dementia care. Good dementia care spans medical, social and supportive care; and should be tailored to unique individual and cultural needs, preferences, and priorities.

Care for family carers. Family carers are at high risk of depression. Effective interventions reduce the risk and treat the symptoms, and should be made available.

Plan for the future. People with dementia and their families value discussions about the future and important upcoming decisions.

Manage neuropsychiatric symptoms. Management of the neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia - including agitation, low mood or psychosis - is usually psychological, social, and environmental, with drug treatment reserved for more severe symptoms.

Consider end of life. A third of older people die with dementia, so it is essential that professionals working in end-of-life care consider whether a patient has dementia as they may be unable to make decisions about their care or express their needs and wishes.

Focus on Prevention The Lancet Commission launched a novel life-span-based model of dementia risk, showing interventions that may maximize cognition, decrease distressing associated symptoms, reduce crises, and improve quality of life. The team estimate the contribution of each of the risk factors to the overall incidence of dementia, at the population level. The combined evidence to date shows that roughly 35 percent of all cases of dementia are attributable to nine potentially modifiable risk factors. Many of the risk factors occur at particular life stages but some, such as smoking and hypertension, are likely to make a difference at all life stages. The nine modifiable risk factors include:

Early life - Education to a maximum of age 15

Mid-life - Hypertension; Obesity; Hearing loss

Later life - Depression; Diabetes; Physical inactivity; Smoking; Low social contact

Risk factors that are more common account for a higher percentage of population risk. For instance, the authors estimate that eight percent (8%) of all dementia cases could be associated with poor early school education; and five percent (5%) could be associated with smoking. While the mechanism linking education, hypertension, diabetes and smoking to dementia is relatively well understood, the recognition of hearing loss as a potential risk factor is still new, and the research is at an earlier stage.

The Commission's report delivered recommendations for targeted public health strategies that the researchers expect will significantly lower the global burden of Alzheimer's and other dementias. For example:

The authors strongly recommend vigorously treating hypertension in middle aged and older people without dementia to reduce dementia incidence.

Other recommended interventions include more childhood education, getting regular exercise, maintaining social engagement, stopping smoking, and management of hearing loss, depression, diabetes, and obesity.

The authors stated that, due to lack of data, the study did not include dietary factors, alcohol use, visual impairment, air pollution and sleep.

"While public health interventions will not prevent, or cure all potentially modifiable dementia, intervention for cardiovascular risk factors, mental health, and hearing may push back the onset of many people for years," said Professor Gill Livingston, MD, from University College London and lead author of The Lancet Commission. "Even if some of this promise is realized, it could make a huge difference and we have already seen in some populations that dementia is being delayed for years. Dementia prevalence could be halved if its onset were delayed by five years."

According to the Commission's report, worldwide dementia prevalence could be reduced by more than 1 million cases with a 10 percent reduction in the prevalence of seven principal health and lifestyle factors. An intervention that delayed dementia by a year might decrease the number of people living with dementia globally by 9 million in 2050.

"Overall, there is good potential for prevention and, once someone develops dementia, for care to be high-quality, accessible, and give value to an underserved, growing population. Effective dementia prevention and care could transform the future for society and vastly improve living and dying for individuals with dementia and their families. Acting now on what we already know can make this difference happen," said Lon Schneider, MD, from the University of Southern California and co-author of the Commission.

Advancing health disparities research in Alzheimer's - National Institute on Aging inaugural grants According to the Alzheimer's Association 2017 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about twice as likely to have Alzheimer's or other dementias as older whites, and Hispanics are about one and one-half times as likely to have Alzheimer's or other dementias as older whites. Yet, these populations are underrepresented in Alzheimer's and dementia research.

The NIA has identified a clear need to diversify research cohorts and improve methods and tools for conducting health disparities research related to Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Two funding opportunities were created to encourage research that examines disparities in Alzheimer's disease using diverse cohorts of subjects. At AAIC 2017, NIA will announce the inaugural grant recipients and their projects, and highlight the new information expected to be generated because of these awards.

"Aging research using a framework that incorporate factors at multiple levels needs to be conducted with study populations that have robust demographic diversity," said Carl V. Hill, PhD, MPH, Director of the NIA Office of Special Populations.  "When cohorts are diverse, new pathways that link environmental, sociocultural, behavioral and biological factors can be identified. This is our hope for these research awards."

According to the funding opportunity announcements, health disparities populations include: Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Populations, and Rural Populations. Additional populations may include: Disability Populations, and Sex and Gender Minorities.

About Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) is the world's largest gathering of researchers from around the world focused on Alzheimer's and other dementias. As a part of the Alzheimer's Association's research program, AAIC serves as a catalyst for generating new knowledge about dementia and fostering a vital, collegial research community. AAIC 2017 home page: www.alz.org/aaic/ AAIC 2017 newsroom: http://ift.tt/2gM524Z

About the Alzheimer's Association The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care, support and research. Our mission is to eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research, to provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer's. Visit alz.org or call +1 800.272.3900.

Gill Livingston, MBChB, PhD; Lon S. Schneider, MD, MS. The Lancet International Commission on Dementia Prevention and Care. (Funder(s): University College London, Alzheimer's Society UK, Economic and Social Research Council, Alzheimer's Research UK)

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Carl V. Hill, PhD, MPH and Rachel Whitmer, PhD, chairs. Advancing Health Disparities Research with the National Institute on Aging (NIA). (Funder: U.S. National Institute on Aging)

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Tired All the Time? Try These Natural Energy Boosters

If you're tired regularly you're not alone. The Centers for Disease Control and also Avoidance have gone so much as to call Americans' lack of rest a 'public health and wellness epidemic.' Chronic exhaustion is also connected to a range of clinical conditions including autoimmune illness, thyroid problems, depression, as well as anemia. Combine any one of these opportunities with lengthy hrs at the workplace and also it's not a surprise you're grabbing a third cup of coffee by 3 o'clock. But there are various other all-natural methods to increase power that will certainly give a more sustainable lift and also will not jeopardize your capability to unwind at night so you could finally get the remainder you need. Review on for a couple of research-supported methods to remain stimulated all the time long.

Balance your carb consumption. That mid-day depression could take place due to the fact that you're bored at job, but greater than likely it has a lot to do with just what you simply consumed for lunch. Your body as well as mind need food for fuel, yet when a great deal of the calories you eat come from carbohydrates-such as the bread utilized in sandwiches or a passionate dish of pasta-you could begin to really feel drowsy regarding an hour after eating. Carbohydrates are taken in into your blood stream almost instantly after consuming. Right after a carb-heavy meal your blood glucose will certainly experience a big surge then, when all the carbohydrates are made use of up, your blood glucose will certainly plummet, causing that feeling of tiredness. However, calories that come from fiber, fat, as well as healthy protein take longer to launch. For also all-day power, eat a mix of nutrients at each meal and treat, including plenty of fiber-rich veggies and also fruits, lean proteins such as hen or beans, and some healthy fat, such as that found in avocados and olive oil.

Sniff some mint. Have you ever before noticed that medical spas have the tendency to odor of flowers such as lavender and ylang ylang? Researches show that these aromas boost peace, which is appropriate for that setup. If you were to try to find a vital oil that had the other effect-one that made you more stimulated and also alert-choose pepper mint. This distinctive smell has the contrary effect of comforting necessary oils, although it's still an enjoyable aroma. Pepper mint could even enhance your memory, according to a study in the International Journal of Neuroscience.

Take in more B12. Also if you consume a well balanced diet regimen, you might lack important nutrients. If you're feeling slow-moving, try raising your intake of vitamin B12. This vitamin is naturally found in animal-derived foods like meat, fish, fowl, and milk, which clarifies why several vegetarians as well as vegans may not obtain enough with diet regimen alone. (Vitamin B12 is additionally essential for anemia avoidance.) Vitamin B12 supplements could be discovered in the vitamin aisle of a lot of supermarket, you could take this vitamin on its own or in a blend of other B vitamins.

Go to yoga or take a walk. It may look like being active will only make you feel more exhausted as well as it can be true-going to an intense bootcamp course may make you intend to sleep. Engaging in drained or moderate activity-such as a brief walk or a yoga exercise session-can boost power levels, according to a short article from the journal Psychotherapy as well as Psychosomatics. This type of workout is enough to boost your circulation-and with it the blood and oxygen circulation to your body as well as brain-without really tiring you out. The next time you really feel tired yet you really should be awake, attempt it out: Take place a brisk 10- or 20-minute walk and see exactly how you really feel after. Chances are you'll be a lot more awake than when you left. For a fast yoga pick-me-up attempt some reps of Sunlight Salutation A, showed in the video clip below.

Relax to rev up. If you're really feeling worried or distressed, all of that mental churning can zap your power levels-it's the equivalent to your mind running a marathon. Change your ideas to even more of a leisurely walk as well as you'll feel a lot less drained pipes. Easier stated than done? Attempt reflection. Just concentrating on your breath could aid you kick back and also, according to a research study in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, it could likewise increase your alertness. To start: Close your eyes and notice your inhales and breathes out for a number of mins. Allow your ideas wander in and out, trying not to concentrate on any type of one.

Breathe some fresh air. When the couch is calling, return to nature. A study from the Journal of Environmental Psychology discovered that remaining in the outdoors is a straightforward method to enhance sensations of vitality. In the research, people who spent just 20 mins outside felt more awake than those who invested the same quantity of time inside. Being energetic, such as strolling or gardening, could help enhance these feelings. No opportunity to escape 4 wall surfaces? Simply envisioning a natural setting could help, according to the researchers.

Set a routine bedtime. To put the power in your power match, you need to provide your body and brain appropriate time to rest as well as reenergize during the night. If you commonly struck snooze in the morning or awaken really feeling like you haven't relaxed enough, move your going to bed forward to ensure you access least 7 or 8 hours of sleep each evening. (Have a tough time shutting off your screen time? Set an alarm system on your phone to advise you it's time to take a break.) A current study in the Journal of Primary Health Care discovered that going to bed earlier and also exercising better rest hygiene, such as limiting screen time before bed, boosted sleep for 73 percent of participants.

Keep a water bottle handy. If you're feeling worn down, keeping H2O at hand will certainly assist refill your power shops. Even mild dehydration can make you really feel weary and also reduce your capacity to concentrate, according to a research in The Journal of Nutrition. Experiencing frustrations or feeling tired can indicate that you need much more liquids. Really feeling parched could likewise be an indicator that you're already dried out. Objective to consume around eight 8-ounce glasses (no way, this is not a myth!) or 4 16-ounce containers of water every day. If you work out consistently, you may have to consume alcohol more.

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*Applications invited for the Master's program "Geobiology and Paleobiology" (MGAP) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (Germany) for EU students until 30 May 2017* The Master's program "Geobiology and Paleobiology" (MGAP) is a consecutive, research-focussed, two-year Master of Science program at the Faculty of Geosciences of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, in collaboration with researchers of the Bavarian Natural History Collections and the GeoBio-Center @ LMU. MGAP aims to provide students with a comprehensive introduction into the interdisciplinary research fields of geobiology and paleobiology to prepare them for careers in science and beyond. The MGAP program is based on interdisciplinary, research-oriented courses in geo- and biosciences that address patterns and processes of the evolution of life and its habitats on our planet. Principal topics are evolutionary and environmental geobiology and paleobiology, supported by courses in complementary areas e.g., bioinformatics and statistics. The module-based curriculum provides an integrative approach facilitated by experts in different areas of expertise. Students will learn and acquire routines with a wide range of scientific methods such as modern techniques in molecular biology, fieldwork, collection management, comparative morphology & phylogeny, bioinformatics, statistics and (paleo-) biodiversity assessments. Students will learn independent scientific work in individual and intensively supervised research projects at early stages of the curriculum. *MGAP in brief* - International Master's program in Geobiology and Paleobiology (Master of Science, M.Sc.) at the LMU Munich - 2 years, 4 semesters, start in October (winter semester) - All courses taught in English - Courses are combined in Modules - Course total: 120 credit points (ECTS) More information is available on the program's website: For the winter semester 2017-2018 (courses start mid-October), application deadlines are as follows: May 31, 2017 for German and EU students. All applications have to be submitted via an online submission portal: The Department of Earth- and Environmental Sciences (Division of Palaeontology & Geobiology) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich offers an excellent multidisciplinary research and learning environment, one of its particular strength being the close interaction between Geosciences, the Biological Faculty, and the Bavarian Natural History collections ( ) in the framework of the GeoBioCenter@ LMU ( ). The LMU Munich is the leading research university in Germany, with a more than 500-year-long tradition, and builds upon its success in the Excellence Initiative, a Germany-wide competition promoting top-level university research. LMU Munich also has been successful in the "Qualitätspakt Lehre" initiative by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to promote innovative teaching and learning. Munich has also been repeatedly voted Germany's most liveable city. Oliver Voigt via Gmail