So trees are essential for several things including
CO2 reduction, so we are chopping down trees and also pumping more CO2 in to the atmosphere, which is causing climate change, which in turn is also causing trees to die.
One way to sow the seeds of our own destruction. Once Humans are gone, I think the Earth will recover, probably quite quickly.
We have seen evidence of how wildlife takes back control, during the first lock down in March –> May 2020, with no cars or people around, villages had animals take over. See BBC news link below.
Well worth reading the article, for a picture of what is happening.
Citation information:
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. “Climate change threatens European forests: Well over half of Europe's forests are potentially at risk from windthrow, forest fire and insect attacks.” ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 1 March 2021. .
The Hubble Space Telescope: From Cosmological Conflict to Alien Atmospheres
Write up : 7th March 2021
This is a really interesting talk and overview of what the HST has undertaken since launch in 1990.
Some highlights
Gravitational lensing, found galaxies magnified 50x and detection of galaxies 10x fainter.
Precision cosmology & Hubble Constant calculations via several methods
Exoplanet Atmospheres
Exoplanets e.g 57 Pegasi
Exoplanets found from transiting host star
Planetary Atmospheres plus detection of organic molecules
Earth size Exoplanets (Trappist 1b and 1c)
The talk also makes reference to academic papers, which can be easily searched for, so for example
With the last point in the list above, this paper was
De Wit, et al 2016 Nature 537,69 – if you search for this you find
arxiv 1006.01103 which is publication in the above journal 2016Natur 537
The 537 refers to the volume, and 69 is the first page of the article, in this case the article is on pages 69 to 72.
So using the references from the talk you can do further reading.
Well worth watching
Space Telescope Science Institute
Public lectures
The Hubble Space Telescope: From Cosmological Conflict to Alien Atmospheres
Tue 2nd March 2021
Introduction to Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Just completed the above course with OpenWHO. Very interesting and also interesting to learn how complex infection control can be at a practical level.
This is a free course, Very useful for anyone who is looking at moving in to Healthcare or related professions.
This is yet another really good course, covered lots of ground in an hour, how to recognise signs, cause of distress, and de-escalation techniques using verbal and non verbal methods, Looked at the ABC (Antecendents, Behaviour, Consequences) method to help us be more effective.
Can be used with young people, by facility staff or equally by parents.
Great course, and looking forward to another free course next week perhaps.
After 15th May you can either accept the new terms set down by WhatsApp or you will need to leave the service, there are alternatives such XMPP, however you may want something to auto respond to message to let your folowers know you have swtiched.
Watomatic sends an automated reply to everyone contacting you on WhatsApp. This is especially useful if you are planning to migrate away from WhatsApp but can also be used as a vacation responder.
I have just completed a course on Essay and report writing skills [3] with OpenLearn [2], which is part of the Open University [1]. In fact, this course mirrors a student tool kit book I have here, also from the OU. It is nice to have a printed and bound version.
Very useful course, lots of useful ideas, pointers to writing good essays and reports. Topics included structure, referencing, quotations,drafting, polishing and letting go. So probably just as applicable in the workplace as it is in the Academic world
I am looking forward to further study.
The UK government want all adults to spend time learning. To this end have created the skills toolkit [4] to help adults find learning and development courses.
This is a great idea, provided that employers:-
Support employees in learning
Value any learning an employee undertakes
Value the commitment and work put in in order to learn new skills
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