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National Chocolate Wafer Day-----
The history of the chocolate wafer, this delicately sweet cookie could be traced back to the mid-1800s in the United States. When the makers make their wafer and designed as a light favor and layered creamy feeling, they never know it's going to be such popular. That these sugar cookies starting to appear more often on people's table as after-dinner treat and snacks. Despite its popularity, companies in North America begin to produce these cookies as an art form, which they took pride and great care in every step of the manufacture. Moreover, today, these sugary cookies are still American's favor due to its taste and flavor, also the fact it can be used as an ingredient of other treats. Due to its significant value and history, we now celebrate this day as a national holiday on July 3.
Source: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-chocolate-wafer-day-july-3
Independent Day- July 4-----
Independent day is a remarkable and significant day for every American citizen because it is the day when we declaring independent from the Kindom of Great Britain. On this day, adults and children celebrate this day with many parades and festivals, so we will never forget the history that for nearly 200 years we are suffering under British law, especially the taxes Great Britain enforced on the Americans because they need lots of money to help pay the French and Indian War. In term of celebrating, friends and families gathered together for delicious foods, singing National Anthem we together, and fireworks displays re-enacted the moment of victory, the Americans had won almost 200 years ago. During this period, Independent day has been changing to be more suitable for the Americans. For examples, considering it as a celebration, changing in the day and many others to make the life of the citizens better. That's why we have the Independent Day we have today, CELEBRATE JULY 4TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Source: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/independence-day-july-4/
UK 'modern-day slavery' ring that forced 400 victims to work for under 75 cents a day busted-----
Our president, Abraham Lincoln, has greatly contributed to the abolition of slavery in the U.S. where people were considered equal in rights and freedoms. Even though, slavery still occurred in many other parts of the world. In this case, the UK 'modern-day slavery' ring where victims are forced to work for less than 75 cents a day and lived in harsh living condition, while the masters earned over millions of dollars off the victims. This is something we are hardly able to prevent and keep under our control because the world is not able to take care of everything happening every day. Besides, we can't rescue these victims who are beaten and threatened with violence by the gang. We should put more attention to the social groups that have less knowledge of the area and little English language skills.
Dozens of Central Americans returned from the US are sent home by Mexico-----
Since the presidency of Trump began in 2016, he started to enforce immigration laws on its citizens and illegal immigrants. Especially, he is targeting the immigrant from areas like Central America and now dozens of Central Americans had been returned to their nations. This program is known as "remain in Mexico" began in the border city of Juarez where military force is applied to stop the illegal immigrants from going into the United States. At least 14,000 people are now returned to Mexico by the United States and many others that are on the way returning to the country. Also, under the recent agreement between Washington DC and Mexico to head off threatened U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods, Mexico agreed with the expansion of the program, so the U.S. tariffs on the Mexican goods will not increase and affect its financial power. There would be a better way to solve illegal immigration, but now there's an only overflowing number of immigrants that are trapped the shelters and a scarcity of foods.
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/central-americans-returned-from-us-sent-home-mexico
After two quakes shake Southern California, residents wonder: Are we getting close to the Big One?-----
For the past few days, the United States has been experiencing two earthquakes that have a magnitude of 6.4 and 7.1 in Southern California, which causes massive destruction in the area. Now, people starting to wonder is there going to be a big earthquake that's going to attack Southern California. The mob doesn't look like that are prepared for this upcoming event. Even though, the possibility that there is going to be a big earthquake is 1 out of 20000, a fairly small percentage for a big one to come. But we don't know what is going to happen, so we need to prepare for this unpredictable event from happening. Since the earthquake has already happened twice in Southern California, parents asked their kids to practice, so there will be a bigger chance for them to survive under the earthquake. The more information we know about the earthquake, the bigger the chance the crowd could survive.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/07/us/big-one-california-earthquakes/index.html
Dangerous flash flooding hits Washington DC during morning commute-----
On this day, July 8th, 2019, a dangerous flash flooding hits the United States' capital, Washington DC, which causes many traffic and delays. On this note, the heavy rain is about 3 to 4 inches in just a few hours, which is extraordinary danger weather for people to go to their working place or school. But still, some drivers are stopped on the road and waiting on top of the car for the help of others. Also, the fact that some metro station has to shut down since there is huge water streaming into the station and the schedule of other trains are delayed, not only this, the downpour appeared in the white house basement and the National Archive, which the important documents are kept safe. Luckily, firefighters are coming to rescue people that are stuck on the road and others with trouble in this dangerous weather. In such weather, like this people should just stay off the roads and low area and seeking to be on the high ground.
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/severe-storms-expected-rockies-midwest/story?id=64186871
COW APPRECIATION DAY-----
Today, July 9th, 2019, is a day that we appreciate cows. This day wouldn't always be July 9th, but it will always be in the middle of July each year. On this day, people will dree like bovines for free foods, which is an experience that was designed to save the lives of cows on the world for just one day of a year, so on this day people will not eat cow instead, they will eat chicken. Basically, across the country and towns, you can find spotted cowls of the black and white hoof around in transportation and on the street, the crowds grow and grow and keep on moving before it is the time for free food in Chick-fil-A. Yes, every cow appreciation day, this fast-food restaurant will be offering a free meal to whoever visits it. This is the day that we all led to a fun and entertaining promotion for restaurants that serve chicken.
Source: https://nationaldaycalendar.com/cow-appreciation-day-changes-annually/
Playing games with only your mind----
The brain is always the most mysterious organ of our body and we use our mind to give the brain message, so it can send signals to other parts of our body to perform a task. The fact that the University of Washinton had recently designed an experiment to test how our brain works with the help of two other people while playing a Tetris-like game using a brain-to-brain interface. But the rule of this game is that the team members forbidding to make any kind of contact or communication with each other and all three are placed in a different room. Senders are allowed to decide whether to turn the block or not and after the senders have decided to rotate the block or not, the receiver's brain will receive a concentrating on the corresponding light, which means yes or no about rotating the block. Even though the answer to the rotating block wouldn't just appear on the receiver's mind, however, with the help of a cable that was attached to the receiver's head, the message will appear in front of their eyes. The purpose of conducting this experiment is to pave ways for future brain-to-brain interface to solve the problems that one brain is not able to solve alone and for people to collaborate questions on a brain level.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190701163827.htm
Robotic ants that can work together-----
Generally when we heard the word "robot,” we usually think its something that has powerful strength and potential like the robots in Terminal. Unlike the robot in the sci-fi movie, this is the kind of robot that functioning the same way as the animals in nature, but with stronger adaptability to the environment than normal insects and more locomotion gaits that ants are not eligible to conduct. Because of their ability to quickly detect and overcomes obstacles and moving objects much larger than them, they can perform missions easily without being stuck by outside factors. Despite this robot-ant has a simple and weightless design, it can be efficiently manufactured at a cheaper cost. Nevertheless, there are three different roles for the robotic ant: leader, worker, and explorer: with a duty assigned to different ant the structure of the robot ant population will be more stable. With all the listed particulars about what these robot-ants can deliver, they are the perfect choice for locating targets over large surfaces and gathering information.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190710131931.htm
Wood products offset global carbon emissions-----
When we are talking about wood, we usually think that wood always offset the carbon emissions because of how plants use carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis. In 2015, research shows that global wood products offset 335 millions of carbon dioxide, which will 3 times more offset than 2030. Depended on how the economic growth of the countries went, we might end up in a different effect due to the fact of wood products. Yet countries with larger timer industries have a higher offset, but if the this goes on, then there will be a bigger gap between the emission and offset. Although the wood products affect the emission and do eventually decay, still it wouldn't be an effective contribution to the general environment. The only way to get out of this way is to plant trees, this will be quicker and efficient to the offset of carbon dioxide.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190701163837.htm
Ice Age-----
Many people know that there is a time when the temperature had fallen to an extremely low temperature called "Ice Age." Geoscientific paradigm the cooling has brought the formation of many many ranges because of the formation, it removed the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Today, global warming was caused by the increasingly high amount of carbon dioxide in the air, so if the CO2 is been removed the temperature will fall into a really cold level. The study has stated that the increased reactivity of the land surface will also decrease in CO2. As a result, when the mountains range were formed in the Ice Age the reactivity of the land surface has reached an extraordinarily high level where the temperature is so cold that 5 percent of absolute zero, it can keep the snow from melting in summer in Northern area. Managing the amount of CO2 is important to the living condition of the organisms.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190703134052.htm
How plants breath-----
Plants, animals and all the other living organisms need to perform respiration for the organisms to stay alive. Especially, plants, they have a similar respiratory system like us human, but instead of taking in oxygen, they taking in carbon dioxide to perform their respiration. Besides, leaves have pores--called stomata and it actually has a similar like the veins inside our body, veins transport and circulates the blood and oxygen around to our cells. On the other side, stomata provide a steady flow of CO2 to every plant cell and the stomata is a really important factor on how the plant shaped and mass, the fewer the pores and fewer the air channel means that the plant will have less water and CO2 been transported to some parts of the plant structure. By knowing this we can control the structure of the plants, which means we can make plants into some other structure that we desired.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190627113953.htm
Brain consumes half of a child's energy-----
Childhood is not only a time for the kid to have fun and enjoy whatever they got from their parents but also a time where the development of kids' body and brain taken place.
During this time, children's brain consumes used half of the energy been consumed in their body -- in other words, this is the time that's hard for weight gain in kids' body. It is a huge hole of energy expenditure in our understanding, by any access for us to know more about, then we can understand the brain's pattern of energy use. This means that we can control the weight gain based on the brain's pattern of energy, which means we could design a better program for early childhood development. Also, we will have a better understanding of how should uses this period for better development for children's brain. Improvement on the development fo the brain may produce a clever generation for the better future of human beings. Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190617164629.htm
Joshua trees-----
Global warming, the cause that led to the endanger of animals, which lived in the North and South pole and it also causes some plants facing extinction. Joshua tree, this is the type of plants that outlived the species in the ice age, including, mammoths and saber-toothed tigers. But the study has shown that this species wouldn't survive much past this century because of the heat-trapping gases that the carbon emission affects Joshua tree habitat. The fate of these trees are in the hands of ours, human beings are the only one that is capable of solving such case, although, human beings are the ones that cause such from happening. Not only facing the threat of carbon emission but another threat of the Joshua trees "wildfire," fewer than 10 percent of Joshua trees survive from wildfire. By protecting the Joshua trees from all outside factors, they can maintain the biodiversity and stabilize the environment. There's only going to be benefits and no harmful effects by protecting the Joshua trees, so it's the responsibility for human beings to protect the environment.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190716073719.htm
Grasshoppers top insect antioxidant-rich list-----
As the study has measured the antioxidant levels in commercially available edible insects, we find some source of antioxidant that's equated to other food products. For example, crickets pack 75% the antioxidant power of fresh OJ, and silkworm fat twice that of olive oil, this shows that we have founded a way that benefits the planet by eating. Human beings are concerning everything that might harm their health and the people around them, meanwhile, they do not bother to find a new source of food that is benefiting out body with many nutrients our body needs. These insects including grasshoppers, silkworms, and crickets have the highest antioxidant capacity in them, which defend from the effects of aging on us and provided us with a great value of nutrient. Besides, the insects have less carbon footprint, land, and water compared with livestock, a better source of food than what we had eaten. Improving insects' antioxidant value might be important for human consumption.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190715075432.htm
Sea level rise-----
The ice on West Antartica has collapsed at a faster rate because of the increasing carbon emission. Scientists think that the entire collapse of West Antartica will raise the average sea level by 3 three meters and this process will take a hundred years. A possible solution to the problem is by snowing ocean water onto West Antartica, by sacrificing West Antartica we can save the coastal region of many countries. Even though, if we greatly reduce the carbon emission, the ice sheet melting in West Antartica will not stop melting. To prevent an unprecedented risk, humankind needs to take certain unprecedented efforts, too. There's always effects from one's action, but the one will always able to take some efforts to prevent the effects.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190717142709.htm
Healing heart disease-----
Scientists are discovering new cells every moment, now they found a new cell that can finally heal heart diseases. This cell found in the pericardial fluid could lead to a new treatment for patients with heart diseases. For now, they found a cell in the sac of mice with heart injury and discover that it might cure heart injury since mice have very biological similar to human and many of the same disease, they found the same cell around the sac of human. Heart disease doctors were really surprised about cell around the heart can heal heart diseases because of the fact the heart has a really small capacity to be repaired. This pericardial fluid could open the door to new therapies and hope for millions of people suffered from the diseases. The further study of this new fluid will be important and typical for us to understand the heart.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190716113027.htm
Insect: Chronic pain-----
Scientists had discovered that insects experienced pain just like human beings since 2003. Not only this, but scientists also discovered that insects also experienced chronic pain that lasts long after their injury has healed. Many people thought that insects wouldn't be experienced pain like us, however, many different invertebrate animals can sense and avoid dangers. This sense is called nociception, which detects potentially harmful stimuli like heat, cold, and physical injury. Therefore when insects got damaged to the nervous system, in humans, is described as a burning feeling. As we discovered what caused neuropathic pain in insects, later we could find what caused neuropathic pain in mice and probably human.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190712120244.htm
Volcanic eruption-----
Since the molten rock that feeds volcanoes can be stored on earth's crust, as a result, we can predict when is the next volcano eruption. Researchers used volcanic minerals know as 'crustal clocks' to calculate how long magma can be stored in the deepest part of the volcanic system. And by determining how long it stored in the Earth's crust, it can help us to model the process that might trigger the volcano eruption. Also, the researchers need to measure the magma that was stored in the boundary area where the magma is spread. Therefore they used a volcanic mineral known as spinel like a tiny crystal clock, by using mineral, researchers able to model the composition of the mineral changed over time as magma was being stored. By knowing the magma storage, we can find out find it will happen and find out a solution.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190718145408.htm
Mosquito brains integrate diverse sensory cues to find a host-----
A team of scientists had discovered how the female mosquito find their host for her blood meal. Female mosquito's olfactory system to sense certain chemical cues then uses here visual system to scan the nearby and fly toward their potential hosts. These findings can help us develop a new method to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases and mosquito control. What trigger the mosquitos to find the host is CO2, to them, this is a telltale sign that a potential meal is nearby. This affects mosquito's flight behavior and brain reaction to olfactory and visual cues. It might not be the only one that affects the behavior of mosquito, other factors might also contributing to it.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190718112528.htm
Sensitive climates-----
The new search has revealed that a decade without any global warming is more likely to happen if the climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide emissions. This directly related to the sensitivity of the climate, which the amount of global warming increases as atmospheric CO2 concentrations rise. The higher the sensitivity, the warmer the temperature after the increase of CO2. And this helps us better understand how the climate throughout the centuries with its climate sensitivity. But we still have no idea about the exact range of natural variability in trends in the upcoming decades, however, the study of the risks should not be considered separate from the climate sensitivity. Still increasing the climate sensitivity would increase the mean of global warming.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190722111921.htm
Climate is warming faster-----
The climate across the world now is warming way faster than it has in the last 2,000 years. During the little ice age (1300-1850), the temperature appears to be colder across the whole world, but the temperatures vary in different place and time. The temperature during the pre-industrial time was primarily affected by random fluctuations within the climate system itself and only a few external factors like volcano eruption and solar activity, but these factors are not strong enough to change the averaged global temperature. Out of all the factors, the industrial time is the period when the temperature has been affected the most from different climate epochs. However, the different region has a different minimum and maximum temperatures, which stood out that cannot be inferred from regional temperature phenomena like the "Medieval Warm Period" in Europe and North America. The results have demonstrated that the warmest period in the last 2,000 years is the 20th century when the industry has reached its height.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190724131624.htm
