Panorama-Blaze

Technically, this is supposed to be a post on the letter 'x'. But 'x' is a tough one. Before this post, I was thinking about words that begin with 'x'. I had a pretty tough time coming up with a word I like. I then resort to the dictionary and it did me no good because I couldn't find  a lot of variety in there. So I began to think about all the scientific names of flowers that begin with the letter x. Did I hear you ask, "Why flowers?" Well, it's spring and since spring sprung, I haven't done any post on it.

And really, flowers are what put the word "spring" in this season. Of course, I had to turn my attension to science to find a flower name that begins with an 'x'. In in my findings, I came across many but they did not interest me much. Then I thought, x chromosomes! It just popped up in my head out of the blue. With chromosome, we cannot mention 'x' without 'y'. So voiala, I had to fuse my posts on 'x' and 'y' into one. Yeah, I found a creative way to do it. No, I didn't cheat! Ha!

What are x and y chromosomes anyway? Ultimately, at the mention of x and y chromosomes, we automatically mention genetics! Do you know how we get the features of our parents to become who we are? Do you have a clear understanding of what goes into the genetics of your physical appearance? These videos will take you through a step by step explanation of what genetics are all about. Enjoy the rest of the post. I hope you learn as much as I did.

Vision

I have not walked on common ground,

Nor drunk of earthly streams;

A shining figure, mailed and crowned,

He makes the air so keen and strange,

The stars so fiercely bright;

The rocks of time, the tides of change,

Are nothing in his sight. 

A Brief Hisstory Of Time

This is a history of how we have twenty-four hours in a day. It was previously published on the Writer's Almanac.

Universal Time was established on October 13, 1984. This was done using the longitude line running through Greenwich in London, England. It's the origin of why we say GMT, or "Greenwich Mean Time," to use as a standard point of reference for time zones.

Before the notion of standard time, cities around the world were using the local position of the sun to set their own official clocks. But this became a problem in the second half of the 19th century, when new technology gave rise to new forms of transportation, like steam engines and trains. Trains could travel so fast over such long distances that train conductors needed to readjust their clocks to local, uncoordinated time. They would have to do it many times on a single long train ride, and it was all very confusing.

And so in 1879, a man named Sanford Fleming suggested that we divide the world into 24 hour time zones. Read The Rest On The Writer's Almanac

Do not let anyone tell you rejections don’t hurt no matter how tough you maybe. Now, imagine a world with utter bliss and completely devoid of rejection of any kind. We would not hurt so much like we do.  No, make it never hurt at all. Why do we feel depressed if we do not get that famous school, that luxurious job, that promising program or that big position which appeared in our daydreams and night dreams on a daily basis before we applied to them?

Tell me why we even get jealous when someone we are not attracted to openly appears not so into us? Whether it is a dating calamity, being forgotten in a group outing or being the only friend not tagged in a friend’s Facebook note, it’s tough to brush the slightest rejection off our shoulders. Ouch! They hurt! Yes, rejections hurt.  But do we really have control over rejections?