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Rabu, 12 Desember 2012

Vast Diversity of Arthropods in Small Patch of Rain Forest

A scarab beetle in the understory of the San Lorenzo forest.

Though birds, trees, and orchids call the tropical rain forest home, they are immensely outnumbered by tiny arthropods, such as insects, spiders and millipedes. In the past, scientists had trouble estimating how many arthropods exist in the vastness of a forest. But thanks to new methods of sampling and analysis, researchers now think that over 25,000 different species of arthropods live in just one forest.

These findings are part of Project IBISCA-Panama, an extensive survey of arthropods in Panama's San Lorenzo forest supported by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The study, published in this week's issue of Science, revealed that an estimated 25,000 species of arthropods exist in the 6,000-hectare forest. By tallying these small organisms, researchers hope to get a better grasp of their many roles in the rain forest ecosystem.

Maya Calendars Actually Predict That Life Goes On

Doomsday? No way. Ancient Maya said we’ll be around another 7,000 years or so.
Tortuguero Monument Six, supposedly predicting the "end of the world" in December, actually tells the life and battles of a ruler.

This December, not everyone is concerned with making plans for the New Year—especially not the people who think doomsday will get here first. Instead of planning parties, they're stockpiling food, refining escape routes, and honing survival skills ahead of the alleged date on which the Maya calendar "ends"—December 21, 2012.

So should we all be preparing for imminent apocalypse? According to the scholars, no.

The ancient Maya are usually cited as the predictors of the world coming to an end this month: One of their "great cycles" supposedly ends now. But the Maya were brilliant mathematicians and fantastic record keepers. They didn't have just one calendar. They developed many different kinds, including a cyclical solar calendar and a sacred almanac. They also measured time with something known as the Long Count, which were great cycles of 5,000 years.

Sabtu, 17 November 2012

10 Small Things That Could Change Your Life

Most of us often fail to realize the importance of some small things that could do wonders for us. Great things need not be rare or costly. They need not be hard to practice either. Some small things can change your life. What are those small things? How would they change your life? Please keep reading….

1. Be cheerful: Cheerful persons are loved by all. They give out positive energy that would go viral with the people around them. How much would cost you to be cheerful? Absolutely nothing. Yet, how many of us practice this simple habit? Some people can remain cheerful even when they go through serious problems in life. On the other hand there are many people who are living without any big problems can’t remain joyful and enthusiastic.

2. Smile: lavishly: Smile costs nothing, yet it can give you much. It’s the most beautiful ornament you can wear.

Jumat, 13 Juli 2012

Procedure Text How To Make a Mushroom Chicken Soup

Ingredients:
• ½ lb boneless chicken breast
• 4 tbsp sesame oil
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 2 tbsp sherry
• 1 cup fresh mushrooms, quartered
• 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped

How To Make a Mushroom Chicken Soup
• Slice the chicken breast meat thinly
• Put the chicken stock into a rolling boils and add the chicken and mushroom
• When the soup is boiling again and all the ingredients float to the top, remove from the heat
• Add the sesame oil and sherry. Taste for seasoning. Add salt and pepper if necessary
• Serve in individual bowls and sprinkle the parsley on top of the soup

Senin, 26 Desember 2011

"Golden Chief" Tomb Treasure Yields Clues to Unnamed Civilization

A seahorse pendant is among gold ornaments found in a chief's grave at El Caño, Panama.

Newfound tombs in Central America are yielding thousand-year-old gold, gems, and even hints of murder by pufferfish. But the real treasure is the excavation's clues to the unnamed civilization of the so-called golden chiefs of Panama, archaeologists say.
"It's really a very spectacular find. ... probably the most significant" for this culture since the 1930s, when the nearby Sitio Conte site, also in central Panama, yielded a wealth of gold artifacts, anthropologist John Hoopes said.

Until now, Sitio Conte provided the only major evidence of the golden-chiefs culture, which can be traced from about A.D. 250 to the 16th century, when Spanish conquerors arrived on the scene.

Kamis, 08 Desember 2011

Building Healthy Family Relationships

Family, this word uncludes immediate family and relatives that you may not interact with as often. Building healthy family relationship is very important.

It is in a family that we first learn to interact with our world and the people in it. The word family is generally defined as a group of people with a degree of kinship either by blood, marriage and even adoption.

In an ideal home each child is loved unconditionally and nrtured into a virbrant and healthy adult. This person will be able to develop lasting relationship with other outsides of the family unit based on what they learned at home.

Having healthy family relationships will set the stage for the rest of a person’s life.