domingo, 20 de março de 2016

Superbugs from hospitals end up at sewage plants - StarTribune.com

Superbugs from hospitals end up at sewage plants - StarTribune.com

Citando:
CRE, or carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae
But a growing number of studies show sewage plants can’t kill the superbugs. Instead the facilities serve as “a luxury hotel” for drug-resistant bacteria, a place where they thrive and grow stronger, said Pedro Alvarez, a professor of environmental engineering at Rice University, one of the scientists studying the problem.

What will a mission to Mars discover? - StarTribune.com

What will a mission to Mars discover? - StarTribune.com



Mais sobre o EXOMars. Sobre os budgets da ESA:

The budget of ESA, an agency backed by 22 European nations, has risen 75 percent since 2008 to $5.8 billion (though that’s less than a third of NASA’s $19 billion). The support shows that Europe wants to be a key actor in the arena.
 ESA also has made space exploration missions like the ExoMars more palatable by providing returns on investment. For each member, 1 euro invested in ESA generates between 5 and 7 euros in collateral investments in industry and jobs, the agency said.

domingo, 6 de março de 2016

Vícios não são vícios, são hábitos?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3476425/Think-ve-got-addictive-personality-s-no-thing-Drinking-coffee-working-hard-simply-habits-expert-claims.html
Quoting:
Addictive personality? There's no such thing: Drinking too much coffee or working too hard are simply habits, expert claims

By Professor Mark Griffiths
(...)
'Life is a series of addictions and without them we die'.
This is my favourite quote in academic addiction literature and was made back in 1990 in the British Journal of Addiction by Isaac Marks.
(...)
A behaviour should not be called an addiction unless it causes significant psychological or physiological effects in a person's day-to-day life

Galáxia a 13,4 Mal fotografada

O objecto mais distante até agora conhecido foi fotografado pelo Hubble. Tinha o universo cerca de 400M anos apenas e 3% do seu tamanho:
http://www.abola.pt/mundos/ver.aspx?id=600973

Ray Tomlinson morre aos 74 (senhor @)

o senhor arroba morreu aos 74 anos:
http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=814997