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Officers of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) don’t wear masks because their job is risky, writes Benjamin James Waddell. He points out that statistically, teachers have much riskier, life-threatening jobs: “ICE agents wear masks to instill fear while shielding themselves from the public they are supposedly protecting." -
Gas giants, such as Jupiter and Saturn, form from cores of rock and ice first (up to 10 earth masses), then the gravity of those cores draws in hydrogen and helium gas.The mass of the gas giants is so great that over time, they shrink under their own gravity.Jupiter shrinks about 1 mm per year.This contraction of gas increases the temperature which results in the emission of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, but 99.9% is in the infrared range. In that sense, it is similar to a star.Amazingly Jupiter emits more energy than it receives from the Sun, but very little of that energy is visible to the eye.
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Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living. -
Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living.
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Your weekly regional science update. -
The West is in a world of hurt this spring, warns writer Jonathan Thompson. We are two and a half decades into the Southwest’s most severe drought of the last 1,200 years, and this winter’s snow dearth is one of the most extreme on record. -
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A four-part series on the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. -
In astronomy, we rely heavily on visual information. Images from telescopes, graphs of light curves, plotted orbits, spectra and diagrams. Most of the ways we understand astronomy today are shown through these two-dimensional formats. It's almost always something we look at. But vision is only one way of interpreting information. From quantum physics to the largest structures in the universe, the underlying reality is governed by motion, frequency and structure. -
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In western Oregon, the Bureau of Land Management proposes a new Resource Management Plan without a single public meeting and with one goal: To quadruple the logging volume on Western Oregon BLM forests, returning these public lands to the “robust” levels of the 1960s and 1970s.The plan would open nearly 2 million acres to clearcutting with no protections for remaining old-growth, writes Pepper Trail, and the public only has 30 days to provide comment. -
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