The noun αγγελος (aggelos) means messenger, emissary or envoy; someone who or something that carries a message or charge, without further specification as to what kind of being is doing the messaging. It occurs 183 times in the New Testament; see full concordance. Its associated ...
could be alone in the universe. The first reason Earth was able to become this welcoming blue sphere is because it's at just the right distance from the Sun, in a narrow zone not too hot and not too cold, where the temperatures are compatible with liquid water and life....
The Earth is divided into four interconnected spheres, one that is biotic and three of which are abiotic. Biotic sphere The biotic sphere, known as the biosphere, encompasses all living organisms. This includes a vast diversity of life forms, from microscopic bacteria to towering trees, as well...
As we have seen, there is not one but manygreenhouse gases. These gases are not taken into account independantly one from another in the models: at first, a sum of all these gases is performed, each gas being weighted by its carbon equivalent, and it’s this “sum” that...
Building and developing strong and sustainable relationships in the countries where we are already present is our non-negotiable. This will be a prerequisite to new opportunities for the corporation. Biosphere has previous experience in the active promotion of its products in the American market,...
Today, the Biosphere project is in temporary receivership. One founder was hospitalized for stress; another has been indicted on charges she sabotaged the Biosphere she once inhabited. A third--Edward P. Bass, the Texas multimillionaire who bankrolled the test-tube Earth--is prepared to face of...
If we care about human suffering, she said, we have to define sustainable another way. So Hannah adds “a good life for everyone today” to “low environmental impact.” This site offers illustrations of “sustainability” which is closely related to “sustainable:” Sustainability is the ...
For the last several decades, thousands ofwhite pelicans--known coloqquialy aspelicano borregones(flying sheep)--arrive from Canada on the shores of Lake Chapala in Mexico. The bird is one of the largest from Canada and the United States. Here, they are seen at the Chapala lagoon in Co...
Several months in, we realized our oxygen levels were falling. Rather than throwing in the towel by pumping oxygen into Biosphere 2, we decided to study the problem and how it affected us. After 16 months, our oxygen level had dropped from 20.9 percent to 14.2 percent, the equivalent of ...
The people who train these nets use a couple of tricks to avoid overfitting: injecting little bursts of noise into the signal, for example. Another technique is the “drop-out”: randomly removing data from the training set to make the whole thing sparser, and weaken local correlations. Sim...