{"id":2593,"date":"2013-04-10T03:07:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T03:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/12\/30\/2592-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-13T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T09:45:31","slug":"random-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/10\/random-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact<\/strong>: &#8220;When humans cannot tell where the gaze is focused, they assume that people are looking at them.&#8221; {Narcissistic gaze prediction}.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: A\u00a0<em>Research Highlight<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0(April 11, 2013) on original research in\u00a0<em>Current Biology<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fact<\/strong>: Not all neurons follow neurotrophic theory, some die per pre-programming independent of environment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <em>Perspective<\/em> in <em>Science<\/em>\u00a0(April 5, 2013) on original research in <em>Nature<\/em>\u00a0(2012).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News<\/strong>: The European Space Agency voted between mission-options. Whether to: measure snow cover, atmospheric composition, and &#8211; the winner &#8211; forest biomass in unprecedented detail. Mission to launch c.2020. Cost at US$513 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Significance<\/strong>: Will measure trees heights and canopies in minute detail to create 3D maps. Biomass readings serve also as indicator of biodiversity, deforestation, and land usage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <em>Nature News Blog<\/em>\u00a0(April 2, 2013)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact: &#8220;When humans cannot tell where the gaze is focused, they assume that people are looking at them.&#8221; {Narcissistic gaze prediction}. Source: A\u00a0Research Highlight\u00a0in\u00a0Nature\u00a0(April 11, 2013) on original research in\u00a0Current Biology. Fact: Not all neurons follow neurotrophic theory, some die per pre-programming independent of environment. Source: Perspective in Science\u00a0(April 5, 2013) on original research in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2484,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/29\/greenblatt-the-swerve\/","url_meta":{"origin":2593,"position":0},"title":"Science Review: Molecular biology facts","author":"Pala","date":"April 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Background: GPCRs known to signal from surface and to be internalized. 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