Sentences with phrase «black surfaces in»

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This weekend, video surfaced on Twitter of several officers surrounding and arresting two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday because they hadn't ordered anything.
Jewish identification has been reinforced by the influence of the black power movement, the ethnic revival in America and the surfacing of national - cultural - religious separatist movements throughout the world.
Each dark - brown to black, rough - surfaced spike resembles a male pine flower catkin, which when viewed in cross section reveals a cartwheel of up to 8 minute, dark - red seeds.
Inspired by the «unique surface of the moon» and «the sensation of floating in space», the black aluminium bottle design includes a «wicking» insert that allows the beer to flow in zero gravity.
In a 3 - quart, heavy soup pot (with lid), combine BLACK - EYED PEAS, DRIED ONION, SALT, PEPPER, and BAY LEAF; add enough WATER to cover 3» over the surface of beans (about 6 cups water).
IngredientsFor the dough1 1/2 cups (6 ounces / 170 grams) glutinous rice flour1 / 2 cup (3.5 ounces / 100 grams) granulated sugar1 1/3 cups water (8.3 ounces / 245 milliliters) 2 tablespoons (0.7 ounces / 20 grams) black sesame seeds for finishingCornstarch for work surface and rollingRed bean paste MethodFor the dough Combine the rice flour, sugar and water in a heat - proof bowl.
Remove from heat, whisk in the black salt if using, pour into a clean bowl, cover with clingwrap touching the surface of the mixture and chill.
The river appears black inthe dull light, and water vapor rises like smoke off the surface, marking itserratic course until it meshes in the distance with the gathering mist.
Those links lay out the truth in black and white and what's even more disturbing is this video that has surfaced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP-MIIg6kuQ
Ethan Czahor's sudden departure came just days after an advisor to Aaron Schock, who announced his resignation from Congress amid questions about financial improprieties, had to quit after Facebook posts surfaced in which he compared black people to zoo animals.
Adding the microspheres to a potassium hydroxide solution and heating it again at up to 800 °C corroded their surfaces, leaving behind a black powder covered in minuscule pores.
Then in November, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released pictures like this one from an expedition that found coral coated in black gunk 4,500 feet below the sea surface.
The very durable desktop surface is available in a variety of color combinations, from sleek black to traditional walnut.
The city of Los Angeles now requires that new or replaced roofs for homes and other residential buildings meet a solar reflectance index value — a measure of a materials» ability to stay cool in the sun between zero (black surface) and 100 (white)-- of at least 75 for flatter roofs and 16 for steeper ones.
This idea, proposed by Juan Maldacena at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., is called the holographic principle: Just as a two - dimensional hologram can depict a three - dimensional object, the surface of a black hole theoretically reveals everything inside of it.
Images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, released in October, show a pattern of cliffy scarps all across the lunar surface (as shown on the map above, with white dots indicating newly discovered scarps and black dots marking previously known ones).
Created in honor of this year's color - themed National Chemistry Week, the video explains why certain objects appear black and how scientists have created surfaces that are more than 100 times darker than black paint.
The species, native to the Caspian and Black Sea basins, was well known on that side of the Atlantic for its ability to fuse to any hard surface, growing in wickedly sharp clusters that can bloody boaters» hands and swimmers» feet, plug pipes, foul boat bottoms and suck the plankton — the life — out of the waters they invade.
Four - pronged impact Like carbon dioxide, black carbon absorbs sunlight and infrared radiation, trapping heat in the atmosphere — including the boundary layer closest to Earth's surface.
But curiously, it's the black hole's surface area, not its volume, that expands in proportion to how much stuff the black hole consumes.
Ocean water sops up the red so effectively that 100 feet below the sea surface only the bluish components of sunlight penetrate; a sunken ship's crimson lower keel appears black to divers since nothing can look red in the absence of red light.
More technically, a black hole's surface area depends on its entropy, as John Archibald Wheeler's student Jacob Bekenstein showed in the 1970s.
These snailfish live almost five miles beneath the ocean surface, in pitch - black waters and under immense pressure.
But in July, astrophysicists Jeremy Heyl and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics confirmed one of the strangest qualities of black holes: They have no surface, just an event horizon that marks the point of no return for anything falling into them.
Materials • Two tea candles • Matches or a lighter to light the candles — along with adult assistance or supervision for doing so • CD jewel case with one glossy, transparent surface • Dark surface (you can create one by laying a black T - shirt flat on a table) • Identical household items (paper clips, etcetera) in pairs (optional)
It is possible that the «laws» of perception we have explored so far evolved primarily to deal with shadows and to distinguish them from «real» objects, which would also produce luminance differences in the visual scene as a result of differences in reflectance (for instance, a zebra's stripes or a white cat standing on a black surface).
Taking factors such as sea surface temperature, greenhouse gases and natural aerosol particles into consideration, the researchers determined that changes in the concentration of black carbon could be the primary driving force behind the observed alterations to the hydrological cycle in the region.
The results showed no significant change in the quantity of black carbon deposited for the past 60 years or the quantity and mineralogical makeup of dust compared to the last 12,000 years, meaning that deposition of these light absorbing impurities is not a primary cause of reflectivity reduction or surface melting in the dry snow zone.
Evolutionary Edge The deep black interior of a moth's eye is one of the least reflective surfaces in nature.
When she headed back to the surface, the preserved oxygen re-expanded into the lungs and prevented the sea lion from blacking out in the shallows.
Images from the Deep Space 1 spacecraft show that Comet Borrelly is the darkest object yet observed in the inner solar system, and several spots on its surface are blacker than anything planetary scientists have ever seen.
On Wednesday, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Rosetta spacecraft will release a washing machine — sized lander, Philae, in the hope that it alights safely on the dusty, black surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.
Ajne explained that while skaters call the surface black ice, it is actually congelation ice, also known as columnar ice or «Kärnis» in Swedish.
So to confirm Hawking's theory, physicists have taken to building artificial analogues in the lab by mimicking the physics of a black hole's event horizon, the surface beyond which light can not escape.
The equation that describes the evolution of the stirring of water in a cup is similar in form to the equations that describe the evolution of the surface of a black hole.
«These calcifying algae evidence two rapid decreases in the salt content, at approximately 8,400 and again 7,600 years ago, which can only be explained by the fact that a higher volume of low - saline surface water flowed from the Black Sea into the northern Aegean at these times.
For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.
However, X-ray fluorescence scans can only be used to detect bone black on the surface of a painting and not in sub-surface layers, such as is found in hidden sketches.
Furthermore, IBS researchers discovered that the surface of black phosphorus is actually hydrophobic, in contrast to previous experiments.
Most of the images from Rosetta have been in black & white, so these colour ones are a nice change and show incredible detail, including patches of water ice on the rocky surface.
For the 15 - year period starting in 1927, surface temperature is lower in 110 of the 114 model simulations (brown bars in the left graph below) than in the real - world (black line).
One legitimate objection could be that they vertically mix heat into the ocean more efficiently than the observations support (Forest [2008], Hansen [2011], & Kuhlbrodt & Gregory [2012]-RRB-, i.e they have weaker - than - observed surface stratification - the black line bulge in Figure 3 (c) in the top 200 metres of ocean.
Climate change can also turn down the thermostat as a team led by Dr Michael Grose from CISRO in Tasmania in collaboration with CPDN's David Karoly and Mitchell Black discovered when they examined an unusual high surface pressure anomaly off the south coast of Australia in August 2014.
Zebras in warmer areas have more stripes, for example, and biting flies such as horseflies avoid landing on black - and - white striped surfaces.
(Bottom right) A drop of water applied on the surface of freshly cleaved black phosphorus shows that the material is hydrophobic, but it becomes hydrophilic when oxidized in air.
«This newly discovered analogy has the potential to be a significant step forward in our understanding of turbulent flows in free - surface vortices and to provide insights into diverse areas of study ranging from civil engineering hydraulic structures to weather systems in the atmosphere and even extending to the details of how galaxies rotate around the black holes at their centres,» Dr Richard Sherlock, a lecturer in Physics at IT Sligo, said.
When an energetic event occurs (like a black hole merger or neutron star collision), spacetime becomes violently disturbed and energy is carried away from the event in the form of gravitational waves — like ripples traveling across the water's surface after dropping a pebble in a pond.
Physicists believe that information about the contents of a black hole radiates out from its surface in the form of Hawking radiation.
Connecting channels (with shapes suggesting that they were carved by a liquid) lead in and out of black patches that essentially reflect no radar signal and so must be extremely smooth like a liquid surface.
195º Low simmer 210º High simmer 212º Boiling water at sea level; light or vigorous boil 213º - 214º Boiling temperature of salted or sugared water; 1 teaspoon per quart 250º Maximum pressure cooker temperature 250º Butter smoke point 300º For seasoning lightly oil - coated pans in the oven 325º Water drops dance on skillet surface 325º Black pepper burning point 350º Clarified butter smoke point
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