Libreoffice 7
This video details the new features found in LibreOffice 7.x
Resources
Yale University Chemistry BootCamp
If you are interested in careers in Chemistry, then there were posted to Youtube by NoreenGenChem
Four Yale chemistry graduate students experiences of Chemistry,
Session 1 – Careers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDD5iD966A
Session 2 – Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyZsrLRrg0o
Session 3 – All about 2020 Yale Chemistry graduate admissions with some insider advice (with Q&A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbCZ-UAgHUk
#Yale, #University, #Chemistry,#Bootcamp,#Shared,#Experience,#Research
The search for life on Mars
One of the advantages of being a higher education student or in my case alumni is you get to join groups. I have just been watching a live webcast on the experiments that are being used onboard Mars rovers to look for possible indicators that Mars once supported life.
Exploring the Habitability of Mars with the Curiosity and Rosalind Franklin rovers and Orbital Missions
I am not sure if there is a recording of this going up, but the link to a some more information is here.
I am currently undertaking Particle Physics but there is also a really interesting series of lecutures on AstroBiology I want to check out too.
#OpenUniversity,#OU,#space,#science,#mars,#curiosity,#rover,#talks,#education,#chemistry,#biochemistry,#biology, #orgnaic,#OrganicMolecules,#NASA,#JPL,Rovers, #RosalindFranklin.#OrbitalMissions
Meteorites Talk
Just been watching a really interesting talk by Dr Tim Gregory – Meteorites from 8th October 2020 – YouTube.
This was really interesting and accessible people with both a science and non science background,
Briefly touched on how the solar system was formed, protoplanetary disks looked at the two different types of asteroids, how they are formed, what makes them up internally, and finished off with a quick look at some of the organic molecules that have been found and how these could have found their way to earth.
Well worth a look, the video can be found on Youtube.
Thank you to the OU Science Club for pointing me to this talk.
#science,#astronomy,#chemistry,#space,#asteroids,#meteorites,#cosmochemistry,#geology,#rocks,#solarsystem,#planet,#formation
CPD UPDATE OCTOBER 2020
As I am still looking for work, I am keeping my knowledge up. I have completed the courses below from Creative Education
- Make a Success of Remote Teaching
- Spot and Support Attachment Disorder
Also completed
- Covid19 awareness course
Grub boot menu
By default Debian using the Grub bootloader, if you want to change a few settings you can either edit the configuration files manually
There is a section in the Debian Administrators Handbook which covers Grub, and also the LILO boot loader(s).
If you are not comfortable with this then you can use a program such as grub-customizer.
apt install grub-customizer
So the first screen you see is a list of installed operating systems.
So you can fine tune which kernel or add extra parameters.
The next tab
Allows you to customize how Grub works, you can change how long the Grub menu appears for, or hide it altogether.
You can also change how grub looks
Advanced tab should only be touched if you know what you are doing, here for reference anyway.
Don't forget to save your settings, however if you exit without saving then you will lose changes. This is good if you think you may have messed something up.
#debian,#boot,#Grub,#Configuration,#grub-customizer
Intro to repl.it
This is a great video from Andy Colley on teaching with Repl.it
Libreplanet 2021 call for sessions
The Call For Sessions deadline for (the fully-online) #LibrePlanet 2021 is coming up on October 28, and we want YOU to submit a session about how you're empowering users to take full control of their computing: https://u.fsf.org/359
#sessions,#freesoftware,#libreplanet,2021,fsf,gnu,software,#submissions
Ubuntu 20.10 release day
According to the Ubuntu release calender Ubuntu 20.10 ( Groovy Gorilla ) has been released today October 22, 2020
More information can be found here
Info: (based in Beta Release announcement
- Gnome 3.38
- Linux Kernel 5.8
- 1GB ram when idling.
You can learn more on the Community page
Recommended spec for the previous release 20.04 was
CPU : 2 GHz dual core processor or better RAM : 4 GB system memory HDD Space : 25 GB of free hard drive space Other : Internet access is helpful Install media : DVD or USB
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope review
In post on 6th October I posted a link to the October lecture [1] from the Space Telescope Science Institute (2).
Here is a short review of the lecture:-
The first part of this was an overview of who Nancy Grace Roman was, he connection to NASA and the new space telescope. One of the early pioneers,got started with NASA and had real vision on how space could be studied.
The 2nd part of the lecture covered the new telescope, features, and how it is hoped it will be used, but there is far more potential for science here, it will produce massive amounts of data to keep people busy and new models on how to handle, and process this data will need to be utilised.
Exciting times ahead, from studying stars, supernovae, galaxies, looking for exo planets, stars with exoplanets as they pass in front of other stars, looking for dark matter and energy and much more.
There is a related lecture to this, which was from the 15th October
Next lecture is November 10th – Astronify
Previous lecture (Sailing across the local universe-with-ullyses) is here
This has an excellent explanation of the electromagnetic spectrum and how absorption works.
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