Predicting Natural Disasters: Nature's Precursors to Unexpected Events

 Although earth scientists do not have sensors that can be used to clearly predict, in the short-term, natural disasters such as earthquake and tsunami, animals do.

Enormous amount of information abound to suggest that animals can feel an earthquake or tsunami coming a few days before these disasters actually happen. But unless more extensive research is carried out, such oddities will remain more a source of amazement than part of a systematic and precise method of forecasting natural disasters.

Earth's Place in the Galaxy Relative to Galaxies in Deep Space

There may not be a more humbling experience than looking at Earth's place in the Galaxy in relation to other heavenly bodies in Ultra Deep Field.
   
Hubble scientists attempted to accomplish something extraordinary in 1996, so they trained the Hubble telescope on a part of the sky that appeared absolutely empty. A patch no bigger than a grain of sand, held out at arm's length and devoid of any planet, stars or galaxies. The area was close to the familiar constellation, the Big Dipper.

Hubble, a space telescope launched in April 1990, has been orbiting the earth ever since. Its unparalleled advantage lies in the fact that it is stationed outside of Earth's atmosphere, thus giving it a clear view of space.

It was somewhat a risky undertaking by the astronomers, considering that observation time on this telescope is in very high demand and some questioned whether it would be wasted looking at mere darkness. Others feared that the images thus collected would be as black as the space at which it was being pointed.

The Nature of Habit: Harnessing the Power of Thought to Create the Habit One Desires

Habit is at once humanity's heaviest liability and greatest asset; it can be used to obtain whatever one dreams of, just as it can be used for self-destruction.