Quietly tucked away in Canberra, Australia, is one of the world’s most influential astronomers right now.
Lisa Kewley has been awarded the James Craig Watson Medal by the US National Academy of Science in recognition of her work’s impact on understanding how galaxies formed and evolved over the past 12 billion years.
Her pioneering research in theoretical modelling sheds light on power sources for galaxies, what happens when they collide, the history of stars forming, and how oxygen is distributed throughout the Universe.
This article is a must read! Biographical Note: Dr David Kear has a background in geology and engineering, becoming the Director General of the DSIR (New Zealand’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) in 1980. He is a Fellow and Past Vice-President of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Past President of the New Zealand Geological Society. Dr Kear has over 100 publications on New Zealand and Pacific geology, vulcanology and mineral resources. He has been publishing on sea-levels since the 1950s.
During his press conference last week, the sheriff listed 15 apps as ones that parents need to know about. (Six of them were used by suspected predators who were recently arrested.)
The first is ‘MeetMe,’ an app where teens can easily be in contact with users much older than them, with an emphasis on dating.
‘WhatsApp’ and ‘SnapChat’ are for messaging, but what you should know is teens can send unlimited messages, have video chats and even share their live location with other users, people they may not even know.
‘Skout’ is a flirting app that’s used to meet and chat with new people. Teens and adults are in different groups, but ages aren’t verified.
‘TikTok’ is used for sharing user created videos that can contain bad words, even adult content.
‘Badoo’ and ‘Bumble’ are dating apps for adults, but teens can still find ways to join.
‘Grindr’ is geared towards the LGBTQ community. It allows users to share photos and meet up based on phone’s GPS location.
‘Kik’ is specifically for kids, but anyone can join and anyone can contact or direct message your child.
‘LiveMe’ is a live streaming app, but you don’t know who’s watching and your kids location is revealed.
‘Holla’ is all about connecting strangers around the world through video chat. Enough said.
‘Whisper’ is a social confessional where kids can remain anonymous, but still share their feelings. And it can reveal your child’s location for a meet up.
‘ASKfm’ encourages people to allow anonymous users to ask them questions, which opens the door for online bullying.
‘Hot or Not’ rates users on attractiveness.. There’s no age verification and users can send each other messages.
And lastly, ‘Calculator%’ apps are several secret apps that allows kids to hide their photos, videos, even browser history.
New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression.
Tom: It is getting to the point where an over simplified bet VERY safe solution would be, “If your great grandmother wouldn’t recognis it, don’t eat it!”
That would leave you without a whole bunch of good foods unkown to her but also without most of the poisons we unknowingly ingest!
“You shouldn’t really be medicating them,” “because they have a normal brain and once you medicate these people, what happens is it’s much, much harder to work with them because now you’re working with somebody whose brain functioning is chemically, physiologically changed by the medications.”
