Pando (Latin for "I spread") is a clonal organism representing an individual male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). It was identified as a single living organism because its parts possess identical genetic markers and it is assumed to have a massive interconnected underground root system. The plant is located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in south-central Utah, United States, around 1 mile (1.6 km) southwest of Fish Lake. Pando occupies 108 acres (43.6 ha) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes (6...

Камень Слободский — это живописные невысокие скалы из известняка вблизи Коуровской астрономической обсерватории в селе Слобода городского округа Первоуральск Свердловской области. «Камень» стоит на правом берегу реки Чусовой. На отвесах Слободского камня имеется ряд небольших пещер. Сплавы по реке Чусовой начинаются в том числе и от данного камня; входит в верхнюю часть туристического маршрута сплава. Камень часто посещаем, имеет быструю и простую доступность для пешего и автомобильного туризма. Совместно со скалами Георгиевский камень, камень Собачьи Рёбра, камень Часовой (Гуляй) формирует ландшафт...

Kourovka Astronomical Observatory, officially known as K.A. Barkhatova Kourovka Astronomical Observatory, is an observatory in Kourovka, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The observatory is operated by the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, a subdivision of Ural Federal University. It is named for a former professor at Ural Federal University, K.A. Barkhatova, a Soviet astronomer. == Description == Kourovka Astronomical Observatory established in 1965 by Ural State University (now Ural Federal University), which had already established a smaller observatory in 1957. At the time, the Soviet...

Anton syndrome, also known as Anton-Babinski syndrome and visual anosognosia, is a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe. Those who have it are cortically blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their blindness, that they are capable of seeing. Failing to accept being blind, people with Anton syndrome dismiss evidence of their condition and employ confabulation to fill in the missing sensory input. It is named after the neurologist Gabriel Anton. Only 28 cases have been published. == Presentation == Anton syndrome is mostly seen following...

Interjection: howay

1. /həˈweɪ/
2. (Tyneside) A general cry of encouragement.
3. Howay the lads
4. Howay man ye slowin' wa doon like!

Hypatia (born c. 350–370; died 415 AD) was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy. Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrine female mathematician, she is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded. Hypatia was renowned in her own lifetime as a great teacher and a wise counselor. She wrote a commentary on Diophantus's thirteen-volume Arithmetica, which may survive in part, having bee...

Contract (Russian: Контракт) is a 1985 Soviet/Russian animation based on the short science fiction story Company Store (1958) by Robert Silverberg and directed by Vladimir Tarasov. The song I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby is used in the animation. == Plot == A colonist arrives on a deserted planet and is immediately attacked by various monsters. Moments before the colonist meets his death, a protective field is activated by the trading robot QBF-41. It turns out that the monsters are merely a ploy used by the robot. Using the mass transmitter (a device that creates "everything necessary...