A drain fly’s body divides into the head region, thorax, and abdomen and is approximately\(2.61 \pm 0.36\)mm long and\(1.14 \pm 0.19\)mm wide with a mass of\(1.9 \pm 0.4\)mg (mean ± standard deviation) (Fig.1a
Love of Nirvanawas a heartbreak fest from the start. It stars none other thanAllen Ren Jialun, an actor known for having seven dramas with BE (bad ending), which basically means it had sad ending, in his 10-year career. In many of his roles, either Ren Jialun’s character dies or, ...
Let’s see a couple of examples: stillness: sinking into the rocks a cicada’s voice 一Matsuo Bashō The opening word,stillness, sets the tone of the scene. This is reinforced by an image of rocks in which a cicada's voice suddenly appears and disappears. In just a few words the poet...
In Chinese, the word 天 (tiā) refers to both the sky and the heaven. When heaven opens, one would expect to be showered upon with all kinds of blessings. Therefore, this expression means to have a very fantastic idea, to daydream, or to have one’s head in the clouds. 以他微薄的...
General Electric Company was the first to patent a method of making tungsten filaments for use in incandescent light bulbs back in 1906, and the method hasn’t changed a great deal during that time. Although they do have the lowest initial cost, compared to CFLs and LED light bulbs, incande...
It's a book that forces you to see the world through another's eyes, or even to imagine what it would be like to have a dozen eyes or none at all. That's next on the TED interview. [BREAK] [00:03:10] Steven Johnson: Ed Yong, welcome to the TED interview. [00:03:13] Ed ...
aTo construct and maintain roads is a public service administered by the government. However, where does the money come from? Somebody believe that the government should allocate money from national finance on the road construction; but others think that the roads are constructed for people, so ev...
Yesterday, Facebook was down for a couple of hours. It got people thinking...what if it went away forever? What would happen to all of the photos I have saved there? How many of you have been saving all of your photos on Facebook as if it was your own personal scrapbook? First of...
Thank you so much. I really do think being an artist does have some bearing on my approach to photography. The processes I undertake in my work as a visual artist are mirrored in a lot of ways. I begin with a subject that charms me, and from there I work towards enhancing that subje...
But in the Papua New Guinea highlands, witches don’t bother with the faff of transmogrification. They can, I mean, if they want. They might become a quick, highly mobile creatures: bat, rat, bird, moth, grasshopper, butterfly, cicada… or they might simply become invisible. ...