According to The Gaurdian, during a total lunar eclipse, the Earth, sun and moon are almost
exactly in line, with the moon on the opposite side of the Earth from
the sun. As the moon was full when it moved into the shadow of the Earth
it dimmed markedly, but remained visible because of the sunlight
passing through the Earth’s atmosphere.
So why was it reddish?
The sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere was filtered and
refracted in such a way that the green to violet light on the spectrum
was scattered more strongly than the red light. This left more red light
to reach the moon’s surface.
What did this moon look like from different places around the world?
The blood moon, or supermoon, during a total lunar eclipse over Caracas, Venezuela. [Miguel Gutierrez/EPA]
Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on September 28, 2015.
Most people say children's brains grow when they sleep, but as adults we need sleep for different reasons. Researchers have long known that lack of sleep can be bad for your
health, affecting everything from immune function to cognitive acuity.
The components of the brain that carry information to Long-term
memory turn off while sleeping. For the same reason, dreams quickly
fade out after you wake up. Although you may have quite a few dreams in
a night, they aren’t being memorialized into Long-term memory. Normally
only the fragments of a dream left in Short-term memory have a
possibility to be converted after you wake up.
According to studies the record for the longest time for someone to go without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours and 40minutes. The individual who participated reported hallucination, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech, memory and concentration lapses.
Getting too little sleep creates a "sleep debt,"
which is much like being overdrawn at a bank. Eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid.
Sooner or later your body will just shut down, without your control. Remember Nightmare on Elm Street? How the characters bodies shut down without them knowing they were asleep.
With a title like that, one could easily think it is a children's story book. However this story is a horror, were Cecil ends up dead, stuffed and displayed as a trophy piece on a Dentists wall.
Walter Palmer an American dentist from Minnesota is no stranger to hunting, but sparked outrage around the world for hunting and killing Cecil the lion, Zimbabwe's favorite lion.
According to BBC News Palmer said he had no idea that the lion was a "local favourite". Like that makes killing an animal without provocation okay...
The two local men who assisted him are face charges of up to 15years in jail, in my opinion is not severe enough. Palmer paid the approximately R650 000 (which is a lot of money) to arrange for his little trip. After luring the animal out of the National park with bait Palmer shot him with a cross bow and rifle, according to BBC News, the hunt took 40hours but once over Palmer skinned him. Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33695872 Poaching is illegal in most parts of the world but in Africa hunting lions is illegal! Palmer stated he is regretful, as he was tricked by the guides who said they had arranged all the legal paperwork. He calls the ignorance card... He is no stranger to Hunting... whether legal or illegal in this case... below are some of his previous hunts
Firstly we need to understand that viruses evolve, they can have different strains eg. the influenza virus, because the flu virus gets stronger and evolves into different strains, vaccines have to be made to counteract them (that is why we get flu shots once or twice a year, the virus changes).
According to researchers, HIV is a different strain of another virus that were common in a certain type of primate (chimpanzee) found in West Africa. Thy also had an immunodeficiency virus called Simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV. Scientist believe that the virus was transmitted to humans and evolved into HIV when humans
hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their
infected blood. Over the many years this virus slowly spread across Africa to other parts of the world.
HIV is an acronym for, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This is a virus that weakens your immune
system by destroying important cells that fight disease and infection.
A "deficient" immune system can't protect you.
Your body has white blood cells form part of your immune system and these cells defend your body from bad bacteria and viruses that attack your body. They are the soldiers of your body, HIV does not attack your body, this virus attacks your soldiers, your white blood cells, destroying them while multiplying.
Above is a simple clip explaining how the HI virus attacks our White Blood Cells.
HIV is just the first stage, if your body has one or more opportunistic infections (TB, Leukemia etc), certain
cancers, or a very low number of CD4 cells (are a type of white blood cells that play a major role in protecting your body from infection) then you have progressed to the final stage which is AIDS.
What Is AIDS?
AIDS
stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Acquired means 'to get', Immunodeficient mean your immune system is not working well and Syndromemeans 'a collection of
symptoms and signs of disease'. AIDS is a syndrome, rather than a single
disease, because your body now is attacked by many other infections and diseases like
