You possibly can hear knowledgeable perception from with Mark Borkowski, founding father of the Borkowski PR company, which specialises in disaster and digital communications.
The primary snowfall has been recorded on Japan’s well-known picture-postcard Mount Fuji after unseasonably heat climate fuelled a record-breaking delay for the primary time in 130 years.
We have now evaluation with Adam Smith, a post-doctoral analysis affiliate on the College of Glasgow, who specialises in numerical modelling within the faculty of geographical and earth sciences.
Additionally on this episode, a research by Bavaria’s Regensburg College suggests being extra lively within the morning and night might reduce the chance of bowel most cancers by 11 per cent.
Plus, world’s first picket satellite tv for pc launched and emperor penguin pops up in Australia…over 2,000 miles from house.
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Hey, I am Mark Blunden, and that is The Customary’s Tech and Science Day by day podcast.
Arising, snow lastly falls on Japan’s Mount Fuji after record-breaking heat spell.
I wish to thank the American folks for the extraordinary honour of being elected, your forty seventh president and your forty fifth president.
Sure, Donald Trump’s been re-elected President of the USA, beating his rival Kamala Harris by some margin.
Tech and Science Day by day appears at Group Trump’s digital communication technique, massive tech backing and his all-important choice to guess massive on podcasts, notably Joe Rogan, and the way this in comparison with the Democratic candidates’ media recreation plan.
Mark Borkowski is founding father of Borkowski PR, a specialist in disaster and digital communications.
He walks us via Trump’s media technique.
I believe Trump’s strategic embrace of podcasts, I believe we’ll decide it as a masterstroke in connecting significantly with the youthful, predominantly male demographic that he wanted, and on peering on platforms like Joe Rogan and the previous weekend with Yvonne, a Trump tapped into audiences that conventional media typically overlooks.
These appearances allowed him to current what Trump is, a extra unfiltered persona.
You understand, and it resonated with the listeners who truly had been on the lookout for that Trump authenticity over the place the opposite campaigns had been enjoying with that type of over-polished rhetoric.
And we requested how this in contrast with the technique of Group Harris.
Kamala Harris is technique was in distinction to that.
She leaned closely on conventional shops.
She appeared for high-profile endorsements, in a means, a standard presidential marketing campaign.
And I believe she lacked a focused place of Trump.
He is a showman, however truly by no means underestimate his understanding of the gang.
And I believe that got here out significantly with Joe Rogan.
I imply, there was sure sections in Joe Rogan the place he was fairly irrevential to Trump and defined to Trump his personal recognition, which I believed listening to the podcast or watching a podcast in that case, that Trump was type of stunned by it.
However Harris’ marketing campaign actually underestimated the shifting media consumption habits, significantly amongst the younger voters.
There was additionally the position of social media, notably Elon Musk’s ex.
And we had been eager to know in regards to the intersection between social media posting and getting out to vote.
I believe we have to get a stability about this between social media engagement and motion to precise votes.
And I believe the correlation in all probability is tenuous at finest.
The important thing issue for me is what Elon Musk has performed with X.
And I believe his monetary contributions definitely, and his donations, Trump marketing campaign.
I imply, definitely when that occurred, raised eyebrows and questions in regards to the affect of those tech moguls, significantly in politics.
However I believe he was important, not solely offering a monetary increase, but in addition a sign to his huge following, a tactic of endorsement of Trump’s candidacy.
So I believe that was actually necessary.
And with Musk now, and Trump’s in a circle, all eyes shall be on Silicon Valley and any strikes in the direction of deregulation.
You possibly can’t ignore the truth that the Silicon Valley giants needed to see Trump in energy, significantly for deregulation and fewer curbs on them.
And so successfully, how sure messages had been turbocharged, when you’re contained in the camp with, say, X, and it will be profound, and you have to consider locations like Rumble and the opposite channels he is utilizing, you understand, as a result of we’re reaching an age the place individuals are disengaged with mainstream media.
And that’s, for my part, a large, large drawback for democracy.
Now, the primary snowfall has been recorded on Japan’s well-known image postcard Mount Fuji after a record-breaking delay for the primary time in 130 years after unseasonably heat climate.
The newest that Mount Fuji has ever had snow is the twenty sixth of October.
And that was earlier than this 12 months.
And so it needs to be capped with a phenomenal snow cap.
Snow ought to have been falling from when the mountaineering season ends, from about 2nd of October.
The document has been prolonged by 10 days from the final longest 12 months.
And it is the longest that Mount Fuji has ever not had snow on it.
Adam Smith, a post-doctoral analysis affiliate on the College of Glasgow, who specialises in numerical modelling within the College of Geographical and Earth Sciences.
Usually you’d have snow falling on the tops of mountains as a result of air is cooler.
And so you might have these moist parcels of air that are available, are blocked by the mountain, are compelled to rise after which they cool, after which they snow on the highest of the mountain.
However clearly the temperatures are so excessive in October this 12 months, and all through the summer time in Japan, that the air just isn’t chilly sufficient to condense rainfall into snow, and also you not have that freezing course of, and so that you simply haven’t got snow falling on the highest of the mountain.
The dearth of powder falling on the just about 12,400 toes tall peak breaks the earlier document when snow didn’t arrive till October the sixteenth in 2016.
The common October temperature is minus 2 levels Celsius on the summit, however this 12 months it was 1.6 levels C, and that is a document excessive since 1932.
We’re now seeing this development in warming temperatures and excessive climate occasions.
And I believe it is a sample that we have actually seen within the final decade.
Ten of the very best years on common have come from the final decade.
You had the strongest hurricane season this season, the Class 5 hurricanes which have devastated Florida.
You now have snowfall coming very late in Japan.
And that is actually a development that we’re seeing internationally.
Now, a research by Bavaria’s Regensburg College suggests being extra lively within the morning and night might reduce the chance of bowel most cancers by 11%.
Researchers counsel that highlighting particular occasions when bodily exercise is most useful might pave the way in which for focused most cancers prevention methods.
The research used information from the UK Biobank to evaluate round 86,000 folks aged 42 to 79 who had their bodily exercise tracked by carrying an accelerometer on their wrist.
Some 529 instances of bowel most cancers occurred over a follow-up interval of half a decade, however the crew discovered two every day peaks in exercise at round 8am and 6pm was related to decreased colorectal most cancers danger past the advantages of general bodily exercise.
Arising, why picket satellites being despatched into house, plus an emperor penguin pops up in Australia over 2000 miles from house.
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In a beautiful fusion of excessive and low tech, the world’s first picket satellite tv for pc has been blasted into house.
It is a part of a undertaking that goals to analyse the position that timber can play to cut back house junk.
It’s because scientists at Japan’s Kyoto College anticipate the picket parts of the satellite tv for pc to simply expend when re-entering the Earth’s ambiance reasonably than creating extra hazardous steel particles.
The experimental satellite tv for pc system referred to as LignoSat is simply 4 inches sq. and is first certain for the ISS earlier than being despatched deeper into house to check its robustness.
And eventually, an emperor penguin has popped up on an Australian seashore over 2000 miles from its house within the Antarctic.
Surfers in Ocean Seaside, about 270 miles south of Perth, had been shocked to see the fowl waddling over the sand.
Penguin’s Odyssey from the frozen Antarctic to the significantly hotter Australian local weather marks a document swim for the species, as it is the furthest north an emperor penguin has been noticed within the wild.
It appeared malnourished and is now being sorted by wildlife specialists earlier than launch.
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