#Dr. David Drumlin

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c o n t a c t, 1997 🎬 dir. robert zemeckis

[yung-ragnar]

Homework: Contact

The film Contact is about Dr. Eleanor Arroway who is a scientist working on SETI. The film shows that while Dr. Arroway is a good scientist, she is ridiculed for her work because others think that there is nothing for her there. Specifically, Dr. David Drumlin who pulls the plug on the work of Dr. Arroway and her colleague Dr. Kent. Regardless, the two plan to raise funds to fund their own research in the very large array in New Mexico. The months leading up to her finding new factors were hard since no one wanted to touch her research. She got the eye of one Hadden who agreed to fund her research.

It was 2 years before she made a discovery. A signal which sounded garbled Drumlin and the US government came to denounce her discovery that coincidentally another discovery was found. The Olympic speech of Adolf Hitler was embedded in the signal. Still, Dr. Arroway did not get recognition for her find. Instead, it all went to drumlin. More discoveries were made soon enough though. The signal also contained data which needed a “primer” in order to decode them. Arroway then receives a message from Hadden telling her to meet with him. In this meeting, he gives her the primer. It was included in the data all along.

The data after being decoded apparently contained blueprints for a machine. What kind of machine? Nobody knows until it was found out that it was a transport machine. Committees were formed in order to determine who best to send. Arroway was one and Drumlin was another ultimately the choice went to Drumlin because as the committee states Arroway lacks belief in God.

On the day of a test for the machine, all was going smoothly until a religion zealot blew the machine. All hope is not lost though since it was shown that there was another machine built with the help of Hadden and he with others wanted Arroway to be the one transported since Drumlin died during the machine test.

Before Dr. Arroway embarks, she is visited by her lover and the contrast to her atheism Palmer Joss. During the day of her journey, all went smoothly until they reach a critical point and lost contact with Arroway. Nevertheless, the machine proved to be washing when it sent Arroway to various worlds through a wormhole. Culminating in her arriving at a planet where she meets her long-dead father. It is then revealed that an alien was taking the form of her dead father to make it easier for her and that this was the first step in humanities’ journey. She is then sent back and finds that only were moments passed in contrast to what she experienced. A committee is formed in order to discuss Dr. Arroway’s story about Vega. Ultimately she could not prove what she saw, asking that they believe her in faith.

[sciencespies]

Climate Change Is Ruining Maple Syrup By Making It Less Sweet And Affecting When We Tap It

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Climate Change Is Ruining Maple Syrup By Making It Less Sweet And Affecting When We Tap It

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LINCOLN, MA – MARCH 1: A man reattaches a bucket used to collect sap from a maple tree in order to make maple syrup during an educational walk through the sugar bush at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, Mass. on March 1, 2015. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The

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Maple syrup season occurs between February and April of each year, when sap from sugar maple trees is extracted and converted into syrup. On average, it takes 40 gallons for sap to create a single gallon of maple syrup. Although maple syrup production has increased at a rate of 10 percent per year over the past decade, climate change has already begun to affect the industry. For example, the tapping season in New England now begins and ends approximately one week earlier than it used to. And, a new study shows that, by 2100, maple syrup season may begin one month earlier than it did between the years 1950 and 2017.

Maple syrup production is contingent upon two climate-sensitive characteristics: its sugar content and sap flow. Sugar content depends on the amount of carbohydrates the tree has stored after a year of photosynthesizing and taking up nutrients from the surrounding soil through its roots. Sap flow depends on the local area’s freeze-thaw cycle. Specifically, sap begins to flow in sugar maple trees during a very specific window: when freezing temperatures (at or below 0°C / 32°F) occur at night but warm up during the day.

A team of scientists spanning universities across Canada and the United States surveyed six sugar maple groves between the state of Virginia and Québec, Canada over the course of six years to see how sugar content and sap flow related to monthly and yearly temperatures as well as the prior year’s temperatures.

Using this information and historical temperature data, the researchers were able to develop a model that predicted how warming may impact maple syrup production if we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate. In addition to determining that sap production will occur earlier in the year by the end of the century, the team also found that syrup production will likely decline in Virginia and Indiana, but increase considerably in sugar maple groves further north. However, sugar content will likely decrease and become more variable from year to year.

According to co-author Dr. David Lutz, a research assistant professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth, “Maple syrup producers may want to consider adapting their technologies and collection logistics in advance, so that they are prepared for how climate change is going to affect production.”

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[my-psychological-tower]

Ohio University Marching Band - 1967 Halftime, with some footage of pregame and postgame. Vs. Kent State.

This is very special footage that we didn’t know existed until recently. This is the first ever performance of the 100 Marching Men of Ohio, under the direction of Gene “Coach”  Thrailkill. The drum major is William Fey, and the feature twirler is David Fowler, who would later become drum major and implement dancing.

Prior to 1967, the band was co-ed. When Coach was hired as director, he wanted to model the band after Big 10 bands such as Michigan State and his alma mater, The Marching Men of Michigan. The removal of women from the band was a controversial move on campus. The band was highly criticized, until the first note of pregame. The new look and new sound of the band won the crowd over, and allowed the traditions that we celebrate today to begin. On the sideline is the Kent State band, they would follow OU’s lead and go all-male in 1968.

Today’s Marching 110 follows the same physical standards and intensity as it did when it was all male, but in the modern era, typically just over half of the band is women. It’s fitting that on the 50th anniversary, the drumline has a record amount of women in its ranks.

Selections:  Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago, Up Up and Away, Lover's Concerto/Taste of Honey, Malaguena.