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Our Top 10 Leonard Cohen Songs And Fan Favorites presents our picks along with fan favorites in showcasing some of the best songs Leonard Cohen ever released. Even though Leonard Cohen is gone‚ his nearly fifty years in the music industry gave us more than we can desire from him. Born in 1934‚ the Canadian songwriter and singer is probably what Malcolm Gladwell would call an Outlier in the music industry. Thanks to his writing‚ fiction‚ and poetry skills‚ Leonard Cohen maintained quite a high profile in the music industry for his lifetime in music. Even though not all of The post Top 10 Leonard Cohen Songs And Fan Favorites appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Our partner Rob Brezsny‚ who has a new book out‚ Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle‚ provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology‚ is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […] The post Your Weekly Horoscope: A ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny appeared first on Good News Network.

If you went out into the backyard of a house in a major metropolitan area‚ how many species of plants and animals would you expect to find there? Well scientists who decided to conduct an experiment at their Brisbane suburban home in order to answer that question managed to find over 1‚000 species of plants‚ […] The post Australian Scientists Manage to Identify 1‚100 Species in their Backyards‚ Highlighting Value of Urban Biodiversity. appeared first on Good News Network.

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If one of us humans was found having a cheeky nap‚ there probably wouldn’t be a whole scientific study on it. But for sharks‚ getting caught snoozing is an entirely different matter‚ especially when some species need to keep moving in order to keep breathing‚ lest they end up napping for eternity. This was thought to be the case for gray reef sharks‚ until researchers encountered them sleeping under reef ledges in Seychelles.Biologists have historically considered gray reef sharks as ram ventilators‚ meaning they have to “ram” oxygen-rich water over their gills to breathe. “On routine survey dives around D’Arros we found grey reef sharks resting under coral reef ledges‚” said Dr Robert Bullock‚ the director of research at the Save Our Seas D’Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC) in Seychelles and co-author of a study describing the finding‚ in a statement. “This is not something we believed they could do. The grey reef shark has been considered a ram-ventilating species‚ unable to rest‚ so to find these ones resting turns our fundamental understanding of them on its head.”So if the sharks aren’t using ram ventilation to breathe‚ what are they using instead?  Researchers believe the evidence points toward buccal pumping‚ which would involve the sharks actively pumping water over their gills whilst stationary‚ and it’s thought they could do this for at least 40 minutes at a time. Supporting this theory‚ divers observed slight lower jaw movements in the resting sharks. They also found sharks facing in different directions whilst at rest‚ suggesting they were not relying on currents to ram water over their gills.This discovery‚ the team believes‚ opens up a whole host of other questions. As Save Our Seas CEO and study author Dr James Lea explained: “It’s key to understanding how they use their environment and also how this may change in response to shifts in environmental conditions. How important is this rest‚ or possible sleep‚ for the sharks? And what’s the impact on them if they can’t get that rest if conditions change‚ such as oxygen levels rising or falling due to a changing climate?”Until those questions are answered‚ the researchers hope the study will encourage future research and a re-examination of our existing understanding of sharks. “I hope that these findings serve as a reminder of how much we still do not know and how exciting that is. Science is about being wrong quite a lot. And that’s OK‚” said Bullock.The study is published in the Journal of Fish Biology.

Without seasons‚ the Earth would be very different – and it's quite likely we would not be around. If the Earth’s axis was much more tilted than it is‚ making seasons more extreme‚ civilization probably could not exist. The same might also be true if our seasons were more erratic (sorry George RR Martin)‚ as might be the case without the Moon. The best guide to how seasons might operate on planets within the habitable zone of other stars is to look at the diversity of our own Solar System‚ which certainly reveals there are lots of ways things could pan out. Since most of the world’s population is now experiencing the onset of winter‚ let’s concentrate on how that season looks on the other planets‚ if they have it at all.MercuryThomas Hobbes described life before civilization as “nasty‚ brutish and short.” The same could be said of winter on Mercury. With a year lasting just 88 Earth days‚ all seasons on Mercury are short. However‚ the lack of air – let alone oceans – to smooth out heat distributions leads to swings in temperature that make conditions nasty and brutish as well.On Earth‚ the seasons are largely a result of the tilt of the Earth’s axis‚ so one hemisphere gets more sunlight for a while and the other gets less. That’s not the case on Mercury‚ whose axial tilt is just two degrees. That doesn’t mean it has no seasons‚ however. Mercury’s distance from the Sun varies a lot‚ from 46 million kilometers to 69 million kilometers‚ so the whole planet is getting more than twice as much radiation at the closest point in the orbit as at the furthest. The true Mercury winter is when the planet is furthest from the Sun. Temperatures at midday at the equator are 150°C (270°F) cooler at this point than when the planet is at the closest part of its orbit.The biggest swings in temperature aren’t seasonal‚ however. Mercury’s day is 59 Earth days long. Consequently‚ there is plenty of time to heat up and cool down‚ creating wild variations. Even in winter‚ it gets very hot in the middle of the day (about 270°C/518°F) at the equator‚ but the night can be bitterly cold‚ dropping to -173°C (-279°F) even at the equator‚ and colder still near the poles.VenusHot. It’s just hot‚ ok? Even in the middle of winter‚ and the middle of the night‚ surface temperatures are not thought to drop below 438°C (820°F)‚ so the Yule fire is definitely out. Plus‚ there is the whole acidic atmosphere thing. This is what you get when you let too much carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere‚ and no amount of eggnog should make you forget it.MarsLike so many other features of the red planet‚ Martian winters are more like those of Earth than any other planet. With a year that lasts almost twice as long as Earth’s‚ winters are around four months long. They also take place against a much colder planetary average.Nevertheless‚ winters on Mars are familiar to us in ways that can’t really be said of other worlds. When it’s winter in one hemisphere‚ the icecap there grows by capturing about a quarter of the atmosphere as dry ice‚ before giving it up again in spring.Icy sand dunes during martian winter‚ captured by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaOn Earth‚ the effects of the seasons are moderated by the oceans‚ which act as huge heat stores. In its early days‚ this would have been true of Mars as well‚ although never to the same extent. Now‚ however‚ there is no such buffer‚ so the temperature range is greater. With a lower average point to move around‚ Mars can get very cold indeed in winter‚ with temperatures like -153°C (-243°F) being recorded. It’s probably worse than that‚ because many of the landers and rovers we’ve put there shut down in winter for lack of sunlight to charge their batteries‚ so we don’t record the coldest temperatures. A Martian winter: when even the rovers don’t run.JupiterJupiter doesn’t really do seasons. Its axial tilt is only 3 degrees‚ not much more than Mercury’s. Its orbit is also quite close to round‚ so the amount of sunlight it gets doesn’t vary much. With a rotation period of less than 10 Earth hours‚ there isn’t even the appearance of seasonality from long nights. Winter is just like every other time of the year‚ when you’d feel overwhelmed by the crushing force of gravity‚ not the desire to scream at your annoying relatives.SaturnSaturn’s axis is slightly more tilted to its orbit than Earth’s is‚ at 26.7 degrees. We’re now approaching Saturn’s equinox‚ but at other times one hemisphere is getting a fair bit more light than the other. However‚ that doesn’t change temperatures much. For one thing‚ even in the heat of summer Saturn is too far away to get greatly warmed. For another‚ its thick atmosphere redistributes a lot of heat. High in Saturn’s atmosphere‚ however‚ temperatures can vary between very cold in summer and an absurd -191°C (-312°F) in winter.UranusUranus has an axial tilt of 97 degrees‚ which means it is *almost* lying flat‚ but actually a little bit backward. This makes for very intense seasons in terms of sunlight‚ with one pole pointing almost directly at the Sun in its summer‚ and almost directly away in winter. That makes the winters very long and very dark indeed. They’re also cold‚ but that’s mainly because the whole planet is cold all the time; colder than Neptune despite being closer to the Sun.We haven’t had good observational data from Uranus (oh quit sniggering) long enough to really measure the difference winter makes‚ but the side pointed towards the sun does seem to darken as winter sets in.NeptuneAt 28.3 degrees‚ Neptune’s axial tilt is greater than Earth’s but in the same ballpark. Its orbit is also very circular‚ so like Earth‚ the seasons are about one hemisphere or the other getting more light‚ not a general fall-off from distance. However‚ it gets only about 0.1 percent as much sunlight as Earth does. Neptune's temperatures actually fluctuate much more than thought‚ and it can get pretty chillyImage Credit: NASA/JPLUnlike Uranus‚ it does get some respectable warmth from its core‚ but this doesn’t vary by season‚ so its winter cold isn’t that different from its summer cold‚ just with less sign of that bright star-like thingPlutoJust kidding‚ still not a planet. However‚ Pluto is indicative of the class of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) to which it belongs. These are all so far from the Sun that even with a large axial tilt the hemispheres don’t diverge too much.On the other hand‚ Pluto has a much less circular orbit than the real planets‚ and other large TNOs like Sedna mostly travel paths more elongated still. Consequently‚ there is quite a big difference in the amount of light received over the whole planet when they are close to the Sun and when further away. Even though temperatures are ridiculously cold all year round by our standards‚ in some cases the whole atmosphere freezes in winter‚ only to recover modestly on approaching the Sun. Often‚ however‚ the biggest difference someone marooned on such a world would notice between winter and summer is how bright the Sun appears‚ while always being thousands of times fainter than from Earth.All “explainer” articles are confirmed by fact checkers to be correct at time of publishing. Text‚ images‚ and links may be edited‚ removed‚ or added to at a later date to keep information current.