This Week I Learned - Week #12 2019
This Week I Learned -
* The Azure Monitor Status blog provides timely updates on the health of Azure Monitor products (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Service Map, Azure Alerts). This status blog is managed by their SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team. It provides detailed information on ongoing outages, planned maintenance events, or advisory notifications - Azure Updates
* Microsoft watches GitHub Commits for Azure secrets like connection strings
* "growth mindset" is basically the belief that you can improve your ability to learn--that it's not fixed. Thus instead of "I'm smart" or, "I'm dumb," (fixed states), it's, "When I'm challenged, I get stronger." - Inc
* The average life expectancy in Japan as of 2015 was almost 84 years
* More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s; a third of those over 85 do.
* There is about 50 times as much salt water on earth as there is fresh water. Israel has built the world’s biggest reverse-osmosis desalination facilities and now gets most of its household water from the sea, but that method is too energy intensive to be practical worldwide - MIT Technology Review
* Normally, the body cools itself by opening pores on the skin and releasing water and salts. As the water evaporates, it transfers the body’s heat to the air. Because water has a high latent heat, which is the heat required to change liquid water to vapor, this process usually carries away enough heat to do a good job of cooling the body. But the rate at which water — or in this case, sweat — evaporates depends on how much water is already in the air. On dry days, sweat evaporates quickly, which means it also carries away heat faster. On humid days, when the air is already saturated with water, sweat evaporates more slowly. This explains why it feels so much hotter in high humidity. When relative humidity reaches a high enough level, the body’s natural cooling system simply can’t work. Sweat evaporates very slowly, if at all, and the body heats up. In extreme cases, people begin to suffer from heat cramps or heat stroke, which is basically organ failure as the body begins to cook itself - MIT
* The hippocampus works like the brain’s GPS. But it does more than locate us in space, it also enables us to remember what we learned there - MIT
* Why don’t we get cancer of the hair or the fingernails? The simple answer: they aren’t made of cells. Chemotherapy often involves chemicals that kill cells by damaging DNA - MIT
* The kokum variety from the Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts from the coastal Konkan region of the state of Maharashtra in India has received the GI (Geographical Indication) tag.
* The Azure Monitor Status blog provides timely updates on the health of Azure Monitor products (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Service Map, Azure Alerts). This status blog is managed by their SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team. It provides detailed information on ongoing outages, planned maintenance events, or advisory notifications - Azure Updates
* Microsoft watches GitHub Commits for Azure secrets like connection strings
* "growth mindset" is basically the belief that you can improve your ability to learn--that it's not fixed. Thus instead of "I'm smart" or, "I'm dumb," (fixed states), it's, "When I'm challenged, I get stronger." - Inc
* The average life expectancy in Japan as of 2015 was almost 84 years
* More than one in 10 Americans over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s; a third of those over 85 do.
* There is about 50 times as much salt water on earth as there is fresh water. Israel has built the world’s biggest reverse-osmosis desalination facilities and now gets most of its household water from the sea, but that method is too energy intensive to be practical worldwide - MIT Technology Review
* Normally, the body cools itself by opening pores on the skin and releasing water and salts. As the water evaporates, it transfers the body’s heat to the air. Because water has a high latent heat, which is the heat required to change liquid water to vapor, this process usually carries away enough heat to do a good job of cooling the body. But the rate at which water — or in this case, sweat — evaporates depends on how much water is already in the air. On dry days, sweat evaporates quickly, which means it also carries away heat faster. On humid days, when the air is already saturated with water, sweat evaporates more slowly. This explains why it feels so much hotter in high humidity. When relative humidity reaches a high enough level, the body’s natural cooling system simply can’t work. Sweat evaporates very slowly, if at all, and the body heats up. In extreme cases, people begin to suffer from heat cramps or heat stroke, which is basically organ failure as the body begins to cook itself - MIT
* The hippocampus works like the brain’s GPS. But it does more than locate us in space, it also enables us to remember what we learned there - MIT
* Why don’t we get cancer of the hair or the fingernails? The simple answer: they aren’t made of cells. Chemotherapy often involves chemicals that kill cells by damaging DNA - MIT
* The kokum variety from the Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts from the coastal Konkan region of the state of Maharashtra in India has received the GI (Geographical Indication) tag.
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