Astronomical unit

energetic performance. “Tap is an unusual dance form because it depends on being heard as well as seen.” Over the hundreds of years in the making, tap dancing, the shoe worn, and the talent that has derived from this style of dance has had an astronomical influence on the dance…

The very idea of planets orbiting around stars would have shattered the views of many people throughout history. After the Copernican revolution taught us that the Earth is not at the center of the universe but rather planets orbits the Sun opened up the possibility that planets might also orbit other stars. About two decades ago, a new scientific revolution began with the first discoveries of planets orbiting around other stars, called exoplanets. An exoplanet, is any planet that orbits a star…

World War Two was a devastating conflict that encompassed the world and caused the death of over 50 million people including those who died from atomic weapons. The atomic bombs were major weapons in the second conflict that engulfed the world. Even though the bombs led to the death of thousands, it helped save thousands more. The use of the atomic weapons was required to end World War Two. The Second World War was a major conflict that enveloped the world. About thirty-five to sixty million…

Sthanapati: How did Dr Ramatosh Sarkar, a mathematician, help the planetarium in reaching its goals? Subramanian: Dr. Ramatosh Sarkar worked with us in Birla Planetarium as a Curator for more than 30 years. He was a very cooperative, very congenial, very knowledgeable person. Sarkar was with me almost from the beginning. At that time he was an M.Sc. in mathematics. We took him initially as a lecturer. He worked under me – in the sense it’s not as a higher staff to a lower staff, very close. If…

Introduction In our fast paced, modern day world we tend to overlook common day skills that have become routine. Our ability to speak and articulate sets us aside from other mammals and forms of life. With this ability comes a skill that has been crafted and evolved through centuries, this is the ability to write. Interestingly enough, nearly 60,000 years ago, the earliest form of writing was discovered and it was located on eggshells. Better yet is the article’s definition of writing, “the…

Dark matter leaves astronomers and physicists baffled as to what it possibly could be. Scientists design experiments to attempt to figure out what it is, but no one truly knows what composes dark matter. Physicists are so interested in understanding dark matter because it accounts for the formation of the Universe, as observable through studying the distribution of gravity within galaxies (Carnegie). Original attempts at studying dark matter referred to dark matter as baryonic, which is a word…

The answer is most likely to move their family member into a nursing home or assisted living facility. There are many long term care facilities that have Alzheimer’s units that can house Alzheimer’s patients. Long term facilities can be expensive, it is good to have a plan in place to take care of the expenses involved. Many times insurance companies offer long term care policies that the family can buy in order to pay…

This report has two major parts of the main body: the atmosphere of Pluto and surface of Pluto. For atmosphere part, I discussed its unusual extended range, composition, and the escape of atmospheric atoms. Atoms of tholins in the atmosphere can affect both the colour of haze and the ground of Pluto. The second part contains the geological features on Pluto, including two distinctive regions: Sputnik Platinum and Tombaugh Regio. In this part, further interactions of the atmosphere and geological…

Utilizing Nursing Informatics in Sepsis Quality Improvement According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2016) from 1999-2014 over 2 million Americans have died with sepsis listed as a contributing cause, making sepsis the 11th leading cause of death in the United States. Jones et al. (2016) and Jones et al. (2015) report sepsis costing hospitals over 20 billion dollars in 2011, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursed over 17 billion of those costs. Thus, the CMS initiated…

The Global Climate Change Debate - how do I know what to believe? Climate is defined by the Oxford Dictionary (University, 2015) as the average weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. It includes patterns of temperature, precipitation (rain or snow), humidity, wind and seasons (Adelsman, 2012). When there are changes in long-term averages of daily weather this is called climate change. Scientists believe that climate change is linked to the increasing…