The blooming process of a moonflower cactus has been captured on video for the first time and was watched by over 400,000 people online. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rare-moonflower-bloom-caught-on-camera.html
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Google’s Internal Data Suggests Employees Feel Less Productive At Home
The Information reports:
Google’s engineering directors are grappling with a worrisome trend: internal data that indicate productivity during the coronavirus shutdowns deteriorated among engineers, particularly newly hired ones. One internal survey viewed by The Information found that in the three months ended in June, only 31% of the company’s engineers polled felt they had been highly productive, down 8 percentage points from…
A Chinese perspective on autumn
In Chinese thought, autumn is with the direction west, considered to be the direction of dreams and visions. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/autumn-equinox-cycles-of-nature-and-chinese-philosophy…
Beautiful blooming phytoplankton create swirling art in the Baltic Sea
This image released by NASA’s Earth Observatory shows a giant bloom created by phytoplankton off the Swedish coast Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732981-800-beautiful-blooming-phytoplankton-create-swirling-art-in-the-baltic-sea/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Neil Gaiman, William Shatner Join ‘Read-a-Thon’ Celebrating Ray Bradbury’s 100th Birthday
An anonymous reader quotes Rolling Stone:
To mark what would have been author Ray Bradbury’s 100th birthday on August 22nd, the Library of Congress, the Los Angeles Public Library and libraries from across the nation have banded together for a virtual “read-a-thon” dedicated to Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Actors William Shatner and Rachel Bloom, authors Susan Orlean, Marlon James and Neil Gaiman and…
What the Heroin Industry Can Teach Us About Solar Power
ljw1004 writes: Helmand Province in Afghanistan produces two thirds of the world’s opium. Its opium production has more than doubled in the past eight years, due mostly to solar power. “Solar is by far the most significant technological change” in the region for decades, says Dr. Mansfield, author of the report (PDF). The first solar panels were introduced there in 2013….
Pink ‘watermelon snow’ threatens major Italian glacier
The high Presena glacier has turned pink in a major bloom of dangerous, ice-melting algae. Source: https://www.livescience.com/presena-glacier-pink-ice.html
Stanford Economist Predicts Working-From-Home Continues, City Centers Decline
The new “working-from-home economy” will likely continue after the pandemic, predicts Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, in an article shared by Slashdot reader schwit1. Bloom cites results from several nationwide surveys he’s conducted: We see an incredible 42 percent of the U.S. labor force now working from home full-time. About another 33 percent are not working — a testament to the savage…
Sexy, stinky corpse plant blooms to life on live stream (watch here)
Streaming video from NYC offers a stink-free view of the notoriously malodorous corpse plant in bloom. Source: https://www.livescience.com/corpse-flower-blooms-nyc.html
10 Tips On How To Keep Plants Alive During Summer Time
Do you always find your flowers, shrubs, and trees turning brown and lifeless every time a heatwave hits the state? Check out our simple yet effective tips on how to keep plants alive during summertime! RELATED: 50 Gardening Tips And Tricks To Become A Successful Homesteader 10 Effective Tips How to Keep Plants Alive Amidst…Continue Reading
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