Three days in the life of Earth as seen by GOES-17, soon slated to be our latest operational weather satellite

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An animation of GOES-17 satellite images. (Source: CIRA/RAMMB/SLIDER) The newest U.S. weather satellite has moved into its operational position over the Pacific Ocean and is sending back stunning imagery despite a problem with its primary instrument. You can get a taste of that imagery in the animation above, showing the full disk of our planet over three days between Nov. 19 and 22, 2018. Click the image, and then make sure to zoom in and explore. Here’s another example of beautiful ...read more

Medical Ethics: “When a Dying Patient Confesses to Murder”

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What should a doctor do if a dying patient confesses to killing people decades ago? This is the question posed by a fascinating case report in the Journal of Clinical Ethics, from New Zealand-based authors Laura Tincknell and colleagues. The facts of the case are fairly straightforward. A 70-year old man with advanced cancer was expected to die imminently and was admitted to a hospital pallative care ward in severe pain. While being assessed by a junior doctor, the man expressed a wish to talk ...read more

Part Three of Curio Series: Q&A with Co-Founder, Conor Nugent

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This post is part three of a three-part series about how Curio can help citizens recognize, appreciate, and care for the highly beneficial green spaces around them. Special thanks to Megan Ray Nichols for putting all this together. Portions of this interview appeared in part one of this series. Part One | Part Two | Part Three Source: Curio.xyz What are the goals of this project? Our goal is to help connect people with both their local environment and the people who c ...read more

Part Two of Curio Series: A Word From Co-Founder, Paul Hickey

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This post is part two of a three-part series about how Curio can help citizens recognize, appreciate, and care for the highly beneficial green spaces around them. Part One | Part Two | Part Three Photo by Aleksejs Bergmanis When I was 8 years old, a friend of mine fell from the very top of an extremely tall cypress tree. I remember it well, because he grabbed my arm as he toppled backwards and took me with him. If life were a cartoon, there would have been a whistling nois ...read more

Part One of Curio Series: Protect Urban Forests With Curio

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This post is part one of a three-part series about how Curio can help citizens recognize, appreciate, and care for the highly beneficial green spaces around them. Source: Curio.xyz The word “forest” can conjure an image of distant, thickly wooded area, straight from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Curio, an app and website, brings trees a little closer to home. This is a platform for people worldwide to tell their own tree stories, discovering and mapping “urban forests&rd ...read more