Brain Post: Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall? It was officially the first day of fall this week, which can only mean one thing; winter’s coming! And as the temperatures drop and the seasons change, we get to revel in the beauty of the fall colors. The mixtures of red, purple, orange and yellow are the result of processes that take place in the tree as the seasons […] Brains The Brains | September 22, 2022 2 Comments
Brain Post: How Much Time Does the Average American Spend Outdoors? People often think that the reason we get colds and flus more often in the winter is because it’s cold out. False. We get colds and flus more often in the winter because we are inside more often and exposed to more higher concentrations of airborne pollutants including cold and flu viruses. […] Brains SnowBrains | June 2, 2022 187 Comments
Happy Earth Day! | NASA’s Best Photos of Earth: Nasa is marking Earth Day by releasing some of its best images of our planet taken from space – by its satellites, its research aircraft and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) – in the past year. A Sky View of Earth From Suomi NPP. This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. Tropical Cyclone Joalane can be seen over the Indian Ocean. Sea Ice Off East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast. On April 5, 2015, the […] SnowBrains | April 22, 2020 0 Comments
Brain Post: 17 Interesting Facts About Mount Everest Everest climbing season is here. Summits are about to be had. Lives are about to be changed forever… for better or for worse. MOUNT EVEREST FACTS 1. Everest grows 4mm higher every year due to geologic uplift. 2. 1 in 10 successful summits ends in death. 3. Over 4,000 people have attempted to climb Everest. 4. George Everest, Surveyor General of […] Brains SnowBrains | May 3, 2019 101 Comments
Brain Post: How Big is Your Blind Spot? We all know cars have blind spots. Some larger than others, but that’s no new news. The question here is: Do skiers and snowboarders have blind spots? And if so, where? The answer lies not in the gear, or the thick layers of fleece, down, and Gore-Tex apparel. Nor does it have anything to do with those nice new, brightly colored, reflective […] Brains Bevan Waite | October 16, 2018 3 Comments
New Hi-Res NASA Photos & Video of the Mountains of Pluto are Stunning NASA’s piano-sized New Horizons spacecraft has sent back the sharpest ever views of Pluto’s mountains obtained on it’s July flyby. Humans may not see photos this close-up of Pluto again for decades. “These new images give us a breathtaking, super-high resolution window into Pluto’s geology.” – New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. […] Brains The Brains | December 5, 2015 0 Comments
Brain Post: 8 Signs You’re Smarter Than Average Business Insider has put together this simple list of things smarter than average people do. It’s pretty fascinating. How many do you do? What do smart people have in common? Researchers have seen patterns in everything from choice of pet to height. Check out the graphic below to see what other things they have in common. (Note that correlation does not imply […] Brains The Brains | November 30, 2015 0 Comments
NASA: “Pluto Has Big Mountains Made of Ice” Unless you’ve been under a rock recently, you know that NASA sent its New Horizons spacecraft 3.6 Billion miles to Pluto and it flew past the former planet two days ago. It flew within 7,700 miles of Pluto’s surface while flying 28,000 mph and took some killer photos. Our first ever high resolution photos of Pluto. The first thing scientists noticed about Pluto is that it has big mountains. “They would stand up respectably against the […] Brains SnowBrains | July 17, 2015 0 Comments
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