Cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world's most high-emission industries.
Quiet, clean and green are not words you would typically use to describe a construction site. But the site at Olav Vs gate, one of the busiest streets in the heart of Norway's capital city, Oslo, was special. In a first of its kind in the world, all the machinery used on site – excavators, diggers and loaders – were electric.
Work began on the site in September 2019, converting what was once a hectic turning zone for the city's taxis into a new pedestrianised area. Locals may have initially raised eyebrows at what appeared to be just another inconvenient construction site, but soon it was clear there something very different about it. In fact, this was a pilot project for the first zero-emission urban construction site in the world.
"When I visited the zero-emission construction site I was extremely impressed," says Mark Preston Aragonès, a policy advisor at environmental non-profit Bellona. "I was looking at these big excavators that you generally associate with fumes and noise and general annoyances, but on this site, when the operator turned it on you couldn't tell the difference between when it was on or off. It was really impressive to see such big machines make such little noise."
Decarbonising the construction industry is something in which Oslo wants to lead the world. And it's with good reason
Using electric equipment in place of traditional diesel engines meant that everyone in the vicinity noticed a reduction in ambient noise and pollution. "We observed shops keeping their doors open towards the street, even when construction work was going on just outside on the pavement," says Philip Mortensen, a senior adviser at the City of Oslo's Climate Agency. "The workers also reported much better communication on site due to lower noise levels, and that as a consequence the working environment felt safer." TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions," the Stoic philosopher Epictetus once said, "but in having few wants." Sounds wise.
But that doesn't keep people from wanting to be rich. Even though we all define wealth and success differently, most of us factor at least some degree of wealth into our success equations. (If nothing else, money creates choices.)
So how, if financial success is your goal, can you get rich? Science says the answer lies not just in what you do, but also in who you are. According to a 2018 study published in British Journal of Psychology, rich people are definitely different.
Especially where personality traits are concerned. For example:
Rich people tend to be extroverted. No surprise there. Since no one achieves anything worthwhile on their own, the ability to engage with others, to build relationships, to motivate and inspire, and to genuinely connect is definitely important. (Just keep in mind introverts can also be extremely successful.)
Rich people tend to be more conscientious. Also not a surprise. Making smart decisions. Delaying gratification, and focusing on long-term goals. Doing what you need to do instead of only what you want to do. Even marrying well, but not in the way you might think: Research shows that people whose partners are conscientious tend to earn more promotions, make more money, and feel more satisfied with their work. (As Jim Rohn says, we tend to be the average of the people we spend the most time with.)
Rich people tend to be more emotionally stable. Making emotional decisions? Definitely a recipe for slowing progress toward long-term goals.
Rich people tend to be less neurotic. When you're quick to respond in a negative way, with anxiety, moodiness, worry, or fear -- what psychologists call "negative arousal" -- it's much harder to be successful.
Rich people tend to be more self-centered. While that sounds like a bad thing, there is this: As Adam Grant says, humble narcissists have very high expectations for their own success -- but they also understand that great achievements are almost always the result of collective efforts. That makes for a winning combination: Believing you can achieve big things helps you get started; knowing you need other people to make it happen helps you finish. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
It don't make a flying rat's ass if the WUHAN LABS in China manufactured the COVID virus and released it into the world or not because BIDEN and the Democrats, the Liberals, and Mainstream media ain't gonna do shit about it...
In a way that is good because the US would not be able to enforce anything in China even if we tried to do something... Plus, if we ever went to war with China, there is a good possibility that we would lose... not to mention the fact that Russia would join China along with most every country in the Middle East. The first thing the Chinese would do would be to subdue Japan.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, what the Democrats want to do is eliminate the Republican Party and make sure that monies are diverted from the Military and Homeland Security so that we can create a CLASSLESS society. However, the closest that we would ever get to a classless society would be THE WEALTHY and then everyone else... whether everyone else is middle class or lower class does not really matter.
Biden and his cohorts want to give everything away to all the citizens:
free education
free healthcare
free housing
free food
free transportation
free food
free income
Once we have everyone receiving free shit, then it does not matter who controls the rest of the world because it will not be the USA...
Actually, our country will not last very long at all before it is completely controlled by CHINA...
America was number 1 in the world in 1945 because the war was fought in Europe, the manufacturing base of the US was still in tact and supplied the rest of the world with goods and services... making us even more wealthy.
American education was number 1 back then as well but over the years, it has dropped from number 1 to number 15 in the world based upon K-12.
Higher education has maintained its own but is faltering. In 1980 when I got my MBA, I had to pass with a "B" 60 hours of course work... which is 20 classes. Today, one can earn an MBA after 10 classes of course work or 30 hours. Does that mean our education is getting better?
I have also taught college students who cannot remember anything from the class that they just passed with an "A" because all they did was memorrize for the grade and not for retention. Does this mean we are getting better?
Prices are increasing but wages are not increasing as fast... at least for the workers that is true... but for management and upper management, their salaries are increasing all the time because they are meeting their goals at the expense of the workers... Does this mean we are getting better?
The gap between the wealthy and the middle class is increasing each year as the wealthy continue to increase their wealth as prices increase and as new markets are opened... Does this mean we are getting better?
America is more divided than ever before... not since the civil war has this country been more divided. Does this mean we are getting better?
In 1846, astronomer and mathematician Urbain Le Verrier sat down and attempted to locate a planet that had never been seen before by humans. Uranus (grow up) had been moving in unexpected ways, as predicted by the Newtonian theory of gravity.
Though the discrepancies were small, there was a difference between the observed orbit of Uranus and the way Newtonian physics predicted its orbit to be. In July, Le Verrier proposed that the difference could be explained by another planet beyond Uranus, and made predictions as to the orbit of this previously unknown body.
Being a mathematician first and an astronomer second, he wasn't really interested in finding it with a telescope now that he'd found it in maths, and the task of searching for it was left to German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. On September 23, 1846, Galle looked at the spot Le Verrier had predicted the planet would be, and found to within 1 degree of the spot... the planet Neptune.
So, having discovered a new planet by looking at the orbit of another, Le Verrier was called upon to take a look at a planet whose name doesn't also mean butt hole: Mercury. Mercury, being so close to the Sun, is the most difficult planet in our Solar System to observe (assuming there is no Planet Nine out there). Le Verrier was tasked with plotting Mercury's orbit using Newtonian physics.
But he couldn't. No matter how much he tried, Mercury's eccentric orbit didn't make any sense. According to Newtonian theory, the planets move in elliptical orbits around the Sun, but observations showed that Mercury's orbit wobbles more than could be accounted for by the gravity exerted by the other known planets. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
General relativity is wrong. GR is not based on nature’s foundation of Euclidean space and time permeated by energy carrying immutable point charges.
We can rehabilitate GR with the concept of Quantum General Relativity which has the following corrections :
QGR is rebased into Euclidean space and time.
QGR is based on geometrical, physically immutable, quanta of charge.
In the context of QGR, the quantum is redefined and reframed as the electrino and positrino point charges (at -e/6 and +e/6 respectively).
QGR deals properly with the fixed high energy limit per charge quantum and the associated density limits and electromagnetic configuration.
QGR is enhanced with the understanding that Euclidean space is permeated by structures that have characteristics that vary with their energy, as well as the energy of local structures, tapering with distance. These physical characteristics implement Einstein’s spacetime geometry.
QGR includes mathematical bridges between Euclidean coordinates in space and time and Riemannian coordinates in spacetime aether.
Fermion particles, have energy cores with a DeBroglie wavelength, and they ‘redshift’ energy to spacetime.
What is the mechanism?
Do their energy cores leak energy or pay a toll?
Dense standard matter such as is found in a planet or star or galaxy energizes the spacetime aether in and around them. The aether is rather passive — it is mostly doing the Einstein stretchy-curvy behaviour, so in some cases the energized aether is left behind as a wake. Astrophysicists call it dark matter. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
Illegal Immigration is a problem for this country because when those people are integrated into the general population, it will change the overall structure of this country in certain areas... like the cities where jobs are mainly available.
Immigrants came to this country for a better opportunity and that opportunity is not living off the handouts of our federal government but working and moving up through the ranks with or without education... but, with hard work.
These type people are not supporters of SOCIALISM... they are supporters of capitalism and the free market enterprise way of life...
DEMOCRATS and LIBERALS and PROGRESSIVES have made a miscalculation and they will soon pay for it...
Other problems that they will encounter will revolve around:
Defunding the police
Critical Race Theory
Becoming WOKE
Cancel Culture
2022 will be the telling factor as more and more people realize that what Biden and his bulldogs are doing is hurting not helping their way of life.
America is supposed to be a civilized nation when compared to other countries around the world and yet, I believe we are no better than any other country.... our only difference really are the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution. Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms even though there is some justification to believe that our right to bear arms was temporary and only necessary until we were able to form a military and subsequent local police... yet, our FOUNDING FATHERS did not remove the right once our military was formed, so most everyone believes that right was meant to stay...
However, our Freedom of Speech has never been challenged to the degree that our right to bear arms right has and while we can question why that might have been, it really is not necessary because our LIBERAL side of the house wants to censor ALL CONSERVATIVE VIEWS, so there is no need to question its existence.
This really annoys me because like so many closeted transgenered people, I straddle the fence between being LIBERAL and being CONSERVATIVE... I like the idea of a balance budget, the elimination of debt, and I am against welfare because it is typically abused by Americans. Sometimes, people need some help and I think that we should help them... but, many welfare people have been on welfare for years... shouldn't we try to help them off?
I am in favor of abortion in the sense that a woman has the right to choose what she wants to do with her body and not the government
I favor the right to bear arms but I will never own a firearm myself
I want a strong, KICK ASS military, but I am against war, especially endless wars where nothing is achieved
I am against discrimination in all forms, such as:
against blacks
against whites
against women
against Muslims
against Russians
against Chinese
I am in favor of free education but not watered down education just so everyone can earn a degree.
I want our federal government to balance our bedget
I want our federal government to pay down the debt
I want a small federal government and low taxes
I want the BILLIONAIRES to take us into outer space
I want a flat tax with no exzemptions
I don't want American to fight anymore foreign wars
I don't think the wealthy should bear the tax burden
IN OTHER WORDS I AM NEITHER REPUBLICAN NOR DEMOCRATIC AND I AM PROUD OF IT BECAUSE I KISS NO ONE'S ASS FOR FAVORS... I AM SPIRITUAL AND HAVE LOADS OF FAITH AND BELIEFS, I JUST DON'T GO THE CHURCH BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION. I BELIEVE IN ANCIENT ALIENS AND THINK THAT ALL OUR MYTHOLOGIES ALL OVER THE WORLD IS BASED UPON ANCIENT ALIENS VISITING US INCLUDING CHRISTIANITY...
MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD... is a phrase Iwill never forget.
A newly discovered crescent of galaxies spanning 3.3 billion light-years is among the largest known structures in the universe and challenges some of astronomers' most basic assumptions about the cosmos.
The epic arrangement, called the Giant Arc, consists of galaxies, galactic clusters, and lots of gas and dust. It is located 9.2 billion light-years away and stretches across roughly a 15th of the observable universe.
Its discovery was "serendipitous," Alexia Lopez, a doctoral candidate in cosmology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the U.K., told Live Science. Lopez was assembling maps of objects in the night sky using the light from about 120,000 quasars — distant bright cores of galaxies where supermassive black holes are consuming material and spewing out energy.
As this light passes through matter between us and the quasars, it is absorbed by different elements, leaving telltale traces that can give researchers important information. In particular, Lopez used marks left by magnesium to determine the distance to the intervening gas and dust, as well as the material’s position in the night sky.
In this way, the quasars act "like spotlights in a dark room, illuminating this intervening matter," Lopez said.
In the midst of the cosmic maps, a structure began to emerge. "It was sort of a hint of a big arc," Lopez said. "I remember going to Roger [Clowes] and saying 'Oh, look at this.'"
Clowes, her doctoral adviser at UCLan, suggested further analysis to ensure it wasn't some chance alignment or a trick of the data. After doing two different statistical tests, the researchers determined that there was less than a 0.0003% probability the Giant Arc wasn't real. They presented their results on June 7 at the 238th virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
Natural selection can reverse evolution that occurs through sexual selection and this can lead to better females, new research shows.
The study — led by the University of Exeter and Okayama University — examined broad-horned flour beetles, whose males have exaggerated mandibles, while females do not.
Male beetles with the largest mandibles win more fights and mate with more females — an example of “sexual selection,” where certain characteristics (like a male peacock’s tail) improve mating success.
However, having bigger mandibles requires a masculinized body (large head and neck), and a smaller abdomen — which, for females, limits the number of eggs they can carry. A masculinized body is not good for females.
Experimentally enhanced natural selection through predation, however, targets the same males favored by sexual selection and this results in the evolution of less masculinized bodies and better-quality females.
In the study, broad-horned flour beetles were exposed to a predator called the assassin bug, which ate males with the largest mandibles.
By removing these males, predation effectively reduced the benefits of sexual selection and this means natural selection has an increased impact.
After eight generations of this, females produced about 20% more offspring across their lifespan, compared to a control group of beetles where large-horned males were not removed by predation.
“Males and females of every species share genes, but in some cases — including broad-horned flour beetles — the genes good for one sex aren’t always ideal for the other,” said Professor David Hosken, of the University of Exeter.
“We see this process, known as intralocus sexual conflict, across the natural world.
“For example, humans share the genes for hips — which males need for walking, and females need for both walking and childbirth. Optimal hips for women would be broad enough to allow childbirth, while optimal hip width for men is narrower. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
One of the members of the SQUAD recently said that if someone was against Critical Race Theory then that meant that they were a RACIST.
When I hear people say that shit, all it does is makes me more angry at their stupidity and generalizations and trying to blame lack of agenda support on racism. As we say in EAST TENNESSEE, that dog don't hunt...
Using that logic I must be against God and Religion because I support a woman's right to choose... I must be against the Second Amendment because I don't want to own a firearm. I must be against the Progressives because I believe in the FIRST FRIGGING AMENDMENT... now that dog do hunt...
Because of the Black Lives Matter Movement, I don't want to do a damn thing to help the blacks... And, because of Critical Race Theory, I am not even more supportive of the Confederate South and all that it stands for... except, I think that slavery is fundamentally flawed because we should only be slaves to God...
I think half of the UNITED STATES right now is AGAINST:
Black Lives Matter
Critical Race Theory
Being WOKE
Support Cancel Culture
AND... I think the blacks might have just OVER-PLAYED their hand on this one. Think about this one:
WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN HALF THE POPULATION IS AGAINST YOU???
I happen to like Starbucks coffee and while it may be a little pricey... I still like to purchase it, especially when I am given a Starbucks card to use...
I always get the same thing: a large vanilla cappuccino...
Using data from NASA’s IBEX satellite, scientists created the first-ever 3D map of the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
For the first time, the boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped, giving scientists a better understanding of how solar and interstellar winds interact.
“Physics models have theorized this boundary for years,” said Dan Reisenfeld, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author on the paper, which was published in the Astrophysical Journal on June 10, 2021. “But this is the first time we’ve actually been able to measure it and make a three-dimensional map of it.”
The heliosphere is a bubble created by the solar wind, a stream of mostly protons, electrons, and alpha particles that extends from the Sun into interstellar space and protects the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation.
Reisenfeld and a team of other scientists used data from NASA’s Earth-orbiting Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, which detects particles that come from the heliosheath, the boundary layer between the solar system and interstellar space.
The team was able to map the edge of this zone — a region called the heliopause. Here, the solar wind, which pushes out toward interstellar space, collides with the interstellar wind, which pushes in towards the Sun. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE...
whites are oppressors and that all blacks are the ones being oppressed... it also divides the races making sure that whites are different from blacks and in some cases teach people to HATE THE WHITE RACE...
60% of the population is white
14% of the population is black
There is much to hate about the United States of America but hating a different race is not one of them...
If you want to hate... then hate:
POLITICIANS
The WEALTHY
MANAGEMENT
FAKE NEWS
People who HATE
Socialism
Government Control
Double Standards
Ice on the roads
Racism
NOTE: the more we hate each other, the more our enemies can take advantage of us by dividing us even further. Who wants to defend a country that they HATE???
Quiet, clean and green are not words you would typically use to describe a construction site. But the site at Olav Vs gate, one of the busiest streets in the heart of Norway's capital city, Oslo, was special. In a first of its kind in the world, all the machinery used on site – excavators, diggers and loaders – were electric.
America is supposed to be a civilized nation when compared to other countries around the world and yet, I believe we are no better than any other country.... our only difference really are the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution. Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms even though there is some justification to believe that our right to bear arms was temporary and only necessary until we were able to form a military and subsequent local police... yet, our FOUNDING FATHERS did not remove the right once our military was formed, so most everyone believes that right was meant to stay...
Its discovery was "serendipitous," Alexia Lopez, a doctoral candidate in cosmology at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the U.K., told Live Science. Lopez was assembling maps of objects in the night sky using the light from about 120,000 quasars — distant bright cores of galaxies where supermassive black holes are consuming material and spewing out energy.
