Sun Orbit Everything’s orbiting something it seems. The Moon goes around the Earth, and the Earth orbits the Sun. But did you know that the Sun orbits the Milky Way galaxy? Astronomers have calculated that it takes the Sun 226 million years to completely orbit around the center of the Milky Way. Since the Sun is 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way, it has to travel at an astonishing speed of 782,000 km/hour in a circular orbit around the Milky Way center. It’s estimated that the Sun will continue fusing hydrogen for another 7 billon years or so. Are you interested in more articles about the Sun? Here’s an article that describes the process astronomers used to determine the orbit around the Milky Way. We have recorded an episode of Astronomy Cast just about the Sun called The Sun, Spots and All. References:NASA Imagine the Universe! Related Earth's Orbit Around The Sun November 21, 2014 In "Astronomy" Galaxy Rotation May 11, 2009 Galactic Alignment
Guide to Accomplishing Your Goals Did you achieve the goals that you set for yourself this past year? Probably not. It’s not that goal setting doesn’t work, you just suck at it. Are you worried you run the risk of the same thing happening again in 2014? I know I was, so I put together a solution for myself. Each new year I set goals for what I’d like to accomplish for the upcoming year. I’m a pretty unorganized person. Some habits I’d grown accustomed to: Never waking up with an alarm clockBeing ridiculously disorganizedBeing able to do what I wanted/when I wanted, including not working for days/weeks/months at a time.Procrastinating and being unproductive until the last minute on things. These are things I would wear as a badge of honor. Starting two years ago, something happened with my goal setting. I focused almost exclusively on the main goal(s) I achieved, and everything else was irrelevant. Starting in 2012 I’d make one main goal, and a few secondary goals. This will be my first time attempting to implement this. 1.
Learning About Self-Image and How We View Ourselves Self-image is both a conscious and subconscious way of seeing ourselves. It is the emotional judgment we make about our self-worth. We form our self-image through interaction with others, taking into account their reactions to us and the ways they categorize us. We can’t help but compare ourselves with others, much as we might try not to. We assess ourselves continually. Scientists in Montreal recently found that people with a low sense of self-worth are more likely to suffer from memory loss as they get older. Self-image often is the focus of therapy. Evidence suggests that the self-image of young people has significantly deteriorated in recent decades. Educational achievement seems to be closely linked to self-image – the better a child does in school, the happier he or she seems to be. Elementary school-aged children need to build academic and social foundations. This can be provided by taking part in sports, art, music, crafts, travel, and family gatherings and traditions.
What Is Self-Awareness and How Does It Develop? Self-awareness involves being aware of different aspects of the self including traits, behaviors, and feelings. Essentially, it is a psychological state in which oneself becomes the focus of attention. Self-awareness is one of the first components of the self-concept to emerge. While self-awareness is something that is central to who you are, it is not something that you are acutely focused on at every moment of every day. Instead, self-awareness becomes woven into the fabric of who you are and emerges at different points depending on the situation and your personality. People are not born completely self-aware. When Does Self-Awareness Emerge? Studies have demonstrated that a more complex sense of the awareness of the self begins to emerge at around one year of age and becomes much more developed by approximately 18 months of age. Researchers Lewis and Brooks-Gunn performed studies looking at how self-awareness develops. How Does Self-Awareness Develop? Levels of Self-Awareness
Speed of the Milky Way in Space As we all know, a galaxy is a massive ensemble of hundreds of millions of stars. The galaxy where we live in today is called the Milky Way. The name itself came from the ancient Greek galaxies kyklos, or ring of milk, due to its faint milky appearance. Our Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy. Ever since four hundred years ago the settlement that the Earth is moving about the sun, and one hundred and fifty years ago that the sun is moving about the center of the Galaxy, it shouldn't be surprising if we learned that the Galaxy is also moving. In 1928, an American astronomer Milton La Salle Humason found a galaxy that was receding at a speed of 3,800 km/s, and by 1936, when he observed the same galaxy again, he found it receding at a speed of 40,000 km/s. If our galaxy exerted a repulsive force, that force should be felt with the local groups, however it wasn't. In conclusion, galaxies experience neutral attractions on one other. Patricia Kong -- 1999 Burstein, David.
The Right Mindset: Change Your Mindset in 6 Steps Developing the right mindset is really crucial to succeed in anything. When I was switching my career in 2009 from my co-founded company to my new personal business, I knew that there was a way for me. I kept looking, getting educated, testing, optimizing – and I knew it would pay off eventually. I had a gut-feeling of it. And it did. What is a Mindset? Your mindset is the sum of your knowledge, including beliefs and thoughts about the world and yourself in it. It’s often used for a specific part in your life, as in “the mindset of an entrepreneur” or “the growth mindset”. Developing the right mindset is then the way learning something new and strip out the most relevant information. And I think a good mindset will reflect reality and will help you. Find the beliefs that are most supportiveCheck if the beliefs are in harmony with (a potential) reality You want to use your mindset to make a positive change. If you believe “I am a successful entrepreneur”, you will act in that way. 1. 2.
What Is the Self? Philosophers, psychologists, and ordinary people are all interested in one pressing question: Who are you? The traditional philosophical answer, found in the writings of Plato, Kant, and many religious thinkers, is that the self is an immortal soul that transcends the physical being. However, some philosophers who don't subscribe to this metaphysical view have swung in the other direction and rejected the idea of the self altogether. David Hume, for instance, said that the self is nothing more than a bundle of perceptions, and Daniel Dennett dismissed the self as merely a “center of negative gravity." article continues after advertisement In contrast, many psychologists have taken the self very seriously, and discussed at length a huge number of important phenomena surrounding it—including self-identity, self-esteem, self-regulation, and self-improvement. In a new article, I argue that the self is a complex system operating at four different levels.
A Seven-Step Prescription for Self-Love Self-love is a popular term today that gets tossed around in normal conversation: "You have to love yourself more." "Why don't you love yourself?" "If you only loved yourself, this wouldn't have happened to you." "You can't love another person until you love yourself first." These are just a few of the self-love directives we give or get to suggest a way to more living fulfillment. article continues after advertisement Self-love is important to living well. What is self-love? Self-love is not simply a state of feeling good. 7-Step Prescription for Self-Love Become mindful. If you choose just one or two of these self-love actions to work on, you will begin to accept and love yourself more.
MACS J0717- New Image Exposes Violent Collision of Galaxies - Physics-Astronomy Astrophysicists at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have collected data from a variety of devices to generate a stunning compound image of crashing galaxy clusters mutually identified as MACS J0717. MACS J0717 is about 5.4 billion light years away from Earth in the Auriga constellation. The composite makes this the record well-studied galaxy cluster, and the photo was issued at the 224th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Image Credit: Van Weeren, et al.; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA. The blue and red areas symbolize several of the most sensitive images ever collected by these instruments, and the radio waves exposed outcomes that were pretty amazing. The distorted red area is the most thrilling, as it is assumed to specify particles that interrelate with magnetic fields throughout the collisions, with radio waves being released as a consequence. MACS J0717’s lensing power will also be used by the Frontier Fields task for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Helping Parents Understand Their Teenagers Provided by This past weekend, I was speaking to several hundred parents at a seminar in the San Francisco Bay Area. I asked them, “How many of you received good, healthy, value-centered sex education from your parents?” A total of three people raised their hands. I then went on to tell them something that youth workers already know, “The more positive, value-centered sex education kids receive from their parents the less promiscuous they will be.” As a youth worker and a parent, it is very safe to say that parents need help understanding their kids. One of the most effective ways to come alongside parents in your church is hosting parenting seminars on a regular basis to assist the parents in understanding their teenagers. There are basically three ways of bringing the content to them: You can study a topic yourself and deliver the content.You or a volunteer can facilitate a video-based parenting seminar or small group experience.Use an expert in your area on a specific subject.
What Is Self-Concept? 10 Things Parents Just Don't Understand About Teens | HuffPost 24 years ago, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (Will Smith) dropped their timeless teen anthem “Parents Just Don’t Understand.” More than two decades later, parents still buy us clothes that seem like they’re “from 1963,” and claim that we “don’t need” friends who laugh at our “Brady-bunch trousers.” But even the Fresh Prince (now an awesome parent himself, by the way) would have been horrified to see the things parents don’t understand about teens today. 1. Help us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard. Parents, sure a ton of teens are Beliebers and Directioners (just look at how many followers they have on Twitter!) 2. Parents, when you get mad at us for staying out past our curfew and going out with our friends on the weekends, stop pretending you weren’t doing the same things when you were teens. 3. Parents, as nice as it is that you guys try to protect the innocence of our ears, you really don’t have to apologize for cursing. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.