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The shocking toll of leaded fuels.
What a find.I enjoy/appreciate
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very much. This however was one of the truly elite pieces of research and presentation.
The story of how leaded petrol was developed and went on to poison hundreds of millions of people and damage our ecosystem is horrific.
There was no accident here. From day one the inventor and the company realised how dangerous the product was. It was killing their workers for a start as well as poisoning the inventor. The painstaking research to identify the effects of this lead on health, mortality and mental illness is excellent. If you go to the You Tube link all the research and collaborators are identified.
Also well worth checking out the WREN organisation that sponsored this video. It has some great projects.
Nice find Rumpy
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Super interesting, especially with regards to general intellect. For a helluva a long time I have noticed humans IMO used to have greater linguistic skills than at least over my own lifetime and have always wondered why.The shocking toll of leaded fuels.
I thought it was texting that has caused the loss of the ability to speak in sentencesSuper interesting, especially with regards to general intellect. For a helluva a long time I have noticed humans IMO used to have greater linguistic skills than at least over my own lifetime and have always wondered why.
This could explain that.
Nott as high tech as rocket ships, but we've found a practical use for 3d printers, for remedial work in our field.... Very useful in fact.At last. A practical use for 3 D printers. Lets 3D print a rocket that will take people to outer space and even Mars !!
At last. A practical use for 3 D printers. Lets 3D print a rocket that will take people to outer space and even Mars !!
At last. A practical use for 3 D printers. Lets 3D print a rocket that will take people to outer space and even Mars !!
And heres me thinking that the fact that time seemed to fly these days was just because I am getting old(er).The Earth recently completed a rotation faster than ever before at 1.59 millisecond under 24 hours, and the consequences for how we keep time have experts around the world alarmed.
It could be the first time in world history that global clocks will have to be sped up.
“This would be required to keep civil time—which is based on the super-steady beat of atomic clocks—in step with solar time, which is based on the movement of the Sun across the sky,” Time and Date reported.
Scientists don’t know what is causing our planet to spin faster than ever before, but some experts fear it could be “devastating,” while others speculate the shorter days could be related to climate change, of course.
Since the Earth’s rotation has always largely been slowing down throughout time, atomic clocks have thus far only added positive leap seconds to keep up. 27 leap seconds have been needed to keep atomic time accurate since the 1970s.
However, it just emerged that on June 29, the Earth recorded its shortest day since scientists began using atomic clocks to measure its rotation, in what was only the latest of speed records set for our planet since 2020. It even came close again more recently on July 26, having completed a rotation in 1.5 milliseconds under 24 hours.
A negative leap second would mean that our clocks skip one second, which could potentially create problems for IT systems,” the Time and Date website warned.
Meanwhile, Meta warned in a blog post last month that adding a negative leap second could have consequences for smartphones, computers and communications systems.
Citing Meta’s blog, the Independent reported that the leap second would “mainly benefits scientists and astronomers” but that it is a “risky practice that does more harm than good.”
Meta also warned that by adding a negative leap second, clocks will change from 23:59:58 to 00:00:00, and that this could have an unintended “devastating effect” on software relying on timers and schedulers.
“The impact of a negative leap second has never been tested on a large scale; it could have a devastating effect on the software relying on timers or schedulers,” Meta said.
This is due in part to the fact that time moving forward is seen as a constant in most technological systems.
If the internal clocks of these IT systems ever have to be adjusted backwards to account for an abnormally fast rotation of the Earth, widespread disruptions and massive outages are to be expected.
Time and Date suggests that the diminishing length of the shortest days may be related to Earth’s “inner or outer layers, oceans, tides, or even temperature,” although experts aren’t sure.
Leonid Zotov, Christian Bizouard, and Nikolay Sidorenkov will argue at the upcoming annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society this week that the Earth’s rotation speeding up may be related to the ‘Chandler wobble,’ the term given to the small and irregular movement of the geographical poles across the surface of the globe.
Experts say the ‘Chandler Wobble’ – a change in the spin of the Earth on its axis – may be to blame.
“The normal amplitude of the Chandler wobble is about three to four meters at Earth’s surface,” Zotov told Time and Date, adding: “But from 2017 to 2020 it disappeared.”
The International Earth Rotation Service in Paris, which tracks the planet’s rotation, will notify governments six months in advance if and when leap seconds must be added or removed.
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