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Post by swamprat on Jan 18, 2021 3:11:56 GMT
11-Year-Old Iranian Girl Gets the Highest Mensa IQ Score, Beating Einstein, Hawking by Admin on 11:06 PM in Science
The Mensa IQ test, which needed to be answered within a set time, focused on the student’s ability to understand the meanings of words, according to Iran Front Page.
Tara Sharifi, a student at Aylesbury High School, recently took the Mensa IQ test in Oxford where she scored well above the “genius benchmark” of 140. The 11-year-old student scored 162 points on the test, which is two points ahead of Einstein, a theoretical physicist who is considered as one of the two pillars of modern physics, and famous cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking.
With the score she received, Sharifi now qualifies for the Mensa membership, which is also known as the High IQ society.
“It was a joint decision between me and my parents to take the test,” the girl said. “It will be a wonderful opportunity to meet other people within the Mensa system. I have told some of my friends at school and they were really impressed.”
She also added that when she becomes older, she would pursue “something related to mathematics.” Her father, meanwhile, admitted that he was surprised by the result, but was proud of what his daughter achieved.
www.sci-nature.vip/2020/05/11-year-old-iranian-girl-gets-highest.html?fbclid=IwAR1hQp1NlTIbOFT_wAjDauYDNLp-H-6JkSQEy7jCC2aYKhTqmFEN8DAtVvQ
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Post by ZETAR on Jan 18, 2021 15:36:35 GMT
#Trinaissance ® These miners found that 'Mother Earth' has a Unique Way of Rewarding Those...whom put Their Heart & Soul Into Their Work!
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Post by swamprat on Jan 18, 2021 16:50:15 GMT
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 19, 2021 2:50:17 GMT
This one is for Purr..I know she will love it..
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Post by moksha on Jan 19, 2021 12:29:41 GMT
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 19, 2021 21:11:07 GMT
moksha you will have a field day with the numbers here
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Post by swamprat on Jan 19, 2021 23:01:17 GMT
More interesting than politics.....1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says By Laura Geggel - Associate Editor 2 hours ago
This was a multipurpose glory hole.
The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent — for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying.
The dinosaur's derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its "back door," which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used during courtship — an anatomical quirk also seen in living crocodilians, said scientists who studied the specimen.
Although this dinosaur's caboose shares some characteristics with the backsides of some living creatures, it's also a one-of-a-kind opening, the researchers found. "The anatomy is unique," study lead researcher Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, told Live Science. It doesn't quite look like the opening on birds, which are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. It does look a bit like the back opening on a crocodile, he said, but it's different in some ways. "It's its own cloaca, shaped in its perfect, unique way," Vinther said.
The well-preserved booty belongs to the dinosaur Psittacosaurus, a bristly tailed, Labrador-size, horn-faced dinosaur, meaning it was a relative of Triceratops. Like its famous tri-horned cousin, Psittacosaurus lived during the Cretaceous period, which lasted from about 145 million to 65 million years ago. Previously, Vinther and his colleagues had studied this Psittacosaurus specimen, found in China, to determine its skin color, and at the time, he noted that its nether regions were preserved.
"Then, I got a chance to look at the specimen again, up close, and suddenly realized, 'Oh my god, the cloaca is actually quite well preserved, and we can actually see some anatomy that I didn't think we could see,'" Vinther said. So, he took a closer look with study co-researchers Robert Nicholls, a paleoartist, and Diane Kelly, an expert on vertebrate penises and copulatory systems at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
A close-up look of the preserved Psittacosaurus cloacal vent (top) and an illustration of how it may have looked (bottom). (Image credit: Vinther J. et al. Current Biology. (2021))
None of the reproductive soft tissues (like a penis) were preserved. So the researchers can't say whether the dinosaur was male or female. Even so, this dinosaur likely had copulatory sex, unlike some birds that bump butts when they do a "cloacal kiss" during reproduction, Vinther said.
To get a more complete picture of Psittacosaurus' cloacal vent, Kelly compared it with those of living land vertebrates. The vent is the opening, and the cloaca, which comes from the Latin word for "sewer," is the muscular chamber behind it. Based on its preserved anatomy, the opening could have been either horizontally oriented, like a bird's, or vertically oriented, like a crocodile cloaca, she said.
Moreover, the team noticed that the outer regions of the cloaca were covered with a dark shade of melanin. Perhaps this darkly pigmented area was a type of visual display, similar to bright-red butts seen in baboons, the researchers said. The reddish-brown Psittacosaurus was countershaded, meaning it had a dark back and a light underside, so its pigmented posterior would have stood out, he said.
This dark melanin may have also provided antimicrobial protection — something seen in humans. "We have melanin in certain parts of the body that never sees the light of day," Vinther said. "Our liver is chock-full of melanin … because we don't want microbial infections in these places."
The pigmented lobes on each side of the dinosaur's anal opening might have held musk-secreting glands, the researchers added. These glands are found in both male and female crocodilians, and in those creatures, they release a fatty, smelly substance during courtship, Kelly told Live Science.
And, just like in most land vertebrates (except for mammals, which have more than one hole for defecation, urination and reproduction), this dinosaur used its hole for everything, which explains why researchers found a fossilized poop in its butt. "It's like a Swiss Army knife of excretory openings," Vinther said. "It does everything."
The same Psittacosaurus cloacal vent was described in October 2020, when another team posted their research in the BioRxiv database, meaning it has yet to be peer-reviewed or published in a journal. Vinther, who had shared his data with that team for another project, said the researchers used the cloacal vent data without his permission. However, "there were misunderstandings and miscommunications about the nature of the research on both sides," said Phil Bell, a senior lecturer of paleontology at the University of New England in Australia, one of the researchers on the October 2020 study.
The new study was published online Tuesday (Jan. 19) in the journal Current Biology.
www.livescience.com/first-dinosaur-butthole-found.html
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Post by ZETAR on Jan 20, 2021 3:21:26 GMT
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Post by SysConfig on Jan 20, 2021 4:35:49 GMT
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Post by moksha on Jan 20, 2021 13:33:34 GMT
moksha you will have a field day with the numbers here Yeah, I guess Karma got that one. JUST 4 U
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Jan 20, 2021 15:15:06 GMT
More interesting than politics.....1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says By Laura Geggel - Associate Editor 2 hours ago
This was a multipurpose glory hole.
The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don't shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent — for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying.
The dinosaur's derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its "back door," which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used during courtship — an anatomical quirk also seen in living crocodilians, said scientists who studied the specimen.
Although this dinosaur's caboose shares some characteristics with the backsides of some living creatures, it's also a one-of-a-kind opening, the researchers found. "The anatomy is unique," study lead researcher Jakob Vinther, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, told Live Science. It doesn't quite look like the opening on birds, which are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs. It does look a bit like the back opening on a crocodile, he said, but it's different in some ways. "It's its own cloaca, shaped in its perfect, unique way," Vinther said....
The new study was published online Tuesday (Jan. 19) in the journal Current Biology.
www.livescience.com/first-dinosaur-butthole-found.html
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Post by swamprat on Jan 20, 2021 22:09:26 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Jan 21, 2021 15:12:35 GMT
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Post by ZETAR on Jan 21, 2021 15:41:54 GMT
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