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WELCOME TO PAGE 104 - THE STILL TO BE DETERMINED PAGE !!
Woah! That's a good one.
Feels like one of Barney Stinson's pickup lines in a scientist's suit.
Congratulations on taking over 1st place. You have been putting up some good stuff.
Thank you Frank. Truth is, I am trying to compensate for the next month a bit. I know it's not gonna work, but, I'd really love that Xbox.
Yawning is something you likely do every day, but, oddly enough, scientists still aren't sure why.
Recently, the scientific community has moved toward the idea that yawning is a thermoregulatory behavior that cools down the brain, but its true biological function is still unclear.
What's more, scientists aren't entirely sure why it's contagious among social animals, such as humans. A 2005 study published in Cognitive Brain Research found that the networks in your brain responsible for empathy and social skills are activated when you see someone yawn. Researchers have also observed that chimpanzees can "catch" yawns from humans.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
The Chorioactis geaster is the only mushroom species in the Chorioactis genus, and it's found only in Texas and Japan.
The two locations are on the same latitude, but mycologists have not been able to figure out why these mushrooms grow only in these two spots. A 2004 study of the mushrooms' DNA, published by Harvard University Herbaria, suggested that the populations were separated into two lineages about 19 million years ago.
In Texas, the mushroom is known as the "devil's cigar," since it looks like a cigar before it opens into a star shape.
No one knows why Saturn's north pole has a swirling, hexagon-shaped storm.
At Saturn's north pole, there's a weather system the size of two Earths in the curious shape of a hexagon. The storm was photographed and observed for years by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, but it remains mysterious.
The only other naturally occurring hexagonal shape scientists have found is in crystals, so they have no idea how Saturn's storm came to look like this. To make matters more confusing, the storm appears to have changed color, shifting from turquoise to yellow over just a few years.
Humpback whales have gone from being solitary creatures to living in "super-groups," a shift marine biologists are still trying to suss out.
Humpback whales are ordinarily solitary, but they have begun to feed in packs of 20 to 200 off the coast of South Africa over the past several years, according to a 2017 study from the University of Pretoria.
Marine scientists aren't sure why the nature of this ancient creature has changed, but there has also been a rise in the population of humpbacks, so that may partially explain this change.
"It's quite unusual to see them in such large groups," Gisli Vikingsson, head of whale research at the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland, told New Scientist.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next.
OMG! this is crazy!
There's no explanation for these curved trees in the 'Dancing Forest' in Russia.
Nicknamed the "Dancing Forest," this area in Kaliningrad is filled with pine trees that are contorted into spirals, rings, and other configurations.
They were planted in the 1960s and are the only tree species to ever do this. According to Atlas Obscura, some theories include extreme winds, unstable soil, and interference from caterpillars. Some locals call it the "Drunken Forest."
NEW YEAR QUOTES
New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Dark matter isn't like regular matter, and we don't understand much about it.
Matter is made of protons, neutrons, and electrons, but dark matter's makeup is still a mystery.
One theory is that dark matter is made of particles that we simply haven't detected or identified. A 2016 study suggested dark matter might be made of primordial black holes.
Dark matter doesn't reflect or emit light, but high concentrations of the substance can bend light, which is how scientists know that it exists.
Assuming our knowledge of the universe and physics is correct, there is more dark matter than matter in existence. Dark matter, in fact, seems to be required for gravitational pulls to be strong enough to create planets and galaxies.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
New year is the glittering light to brighten the dream-lined pathway of future.
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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
Scientists understand how cats purr, but they're still not sure why they do.
For a long time, cats' purring mechanisms were an unsolved mystery. According to the BBC, it's now widely thought that the muscles around the feline larynx constrict, creating a vibration that makes the classic purring sound.
But the reason cats purr at all is still debated. One hypothesis is that purring promotes bone growth because the vibration frequency leads bones to harden in response to the pressure.
"Purrs at a frequency of 25-100Hz correspond with established healing frequencies in therapeutic medicine for humans," Gary Weitzman, a veterinarian and the CEO of the San Diego Humane Society, told the BBC.
We're getting hundreds of unintelligible signals from space every second.
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are brief, brilliant emissions of radio light that release enough energy to power 500 million suns.
Astronomers believe that one happens almost every second, but only about 30 have been identified.
FRB 121102, which originated outside of our Milky Way, is the only signal that has shown up more than once from the same location. It has been tied to a young neutron star, one of the densest objects in the universe. Studies have also recently shown that FRB 121102 is one of two types of fast radio bursts.
There's an otherworldly looking crater in Siberia that hasn't been explained.
This giant crater, nicknamed "Patom" after a nearby river, is a 520-foot-wide, 139-foot-tall mound of broken limestone.
Some locals, however, call it "Fire Eagle's Nest" and believe the area is associated with death, given the lack of growth and animals' unwillingness to go near it.
The crater was first officially reported by the Russian geologist Vadim Kolpakov in 1949, but it was created about 500 years ago. Ideas about its origin include nuclear explosions and spaceships, but Russia Beyond said the most likely theory is a "steam explosion that happened either during magma emplacement into hydrous rocks or due to the faulting and decompression of heated hydrous rocks."
NEW YEAR QUOTES
No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.
Stone spheres in Costa Rica
Giant stone spheres — some dating as far back as A.D. 600 — pepper the Diquis Delta of southern Costa Rica. Known locally as Las Bolas ("The Balls"), these monuments were the works of a Pre-Colombian civilization, and most are made from gabbro, a rock that forms from molten magma. The people who carved the stones into their perfectly spherical shapes likely did so using other small stones, according to archaeologists who study the ancient rocks.
Many non-experts have speculated that the so-called Diquis Spheres were used for astronomical purposes, while others think they may have pointed the way to significant places. The truth is that no one knows for sure, and perhaps this historical mystery will never be solved. The Chibchan people who once populated Costa Rica and other parts of Central America vanished in the wake of the Spanish conquest, and the purpose of the spheres vanished with them, John W. Hoopes, an anthropologist at the University of Kansas, told JSTOR Daily in January 2016.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
You can get excited about the future. The past won’t mind.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.
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The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.
Antikythera mechanism
Like something from a fantastical treasure movie, the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism remains a major archaeological head-scratcher.
Found in the sunken wreckage of a Greek cargo ship that is at least 2,000 years old, the circular bronze artifact contains a maze of interlocking gears and mysterious characters etched all over its exposed faces. Originally thought to be a kind of navigational astrolabe, archaeologists continue to uncover its uses and now know that it was, at the very least, a highly intricate astronomical calendar.
It is still the most sophisticated device ever found from that period, preceding the next appearance of similar devices by 1,000 years.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
NEW YEAR QUOTES
Sometimes a year has been so disastrous and so terrible that entering a new year will automatically mean entering a wonderful year!
