Noted child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters, a research psychologist and a pediatric oncology researcher, conducted a three-year survey of more than a thousand successful women to uncover what elements of their childhood and adolescence contributed to their success — and how today’s parents can give their own daughters the same advantages.

Should you encourage your daughter’s competitive streak? How important are social skills? Does birth order make a difference? Based on extensive original research, See Jane Win provides invaluable information distilled from women in nontraditional and traditional fields, from medicine, science, law, politics, and business to arts, education, homemaking, and mental health. Here is informed advice on helping girls deal with middle-school grade decline; math anxiety; eating disorders; social insecurity; self-esteem and competition; the career/family balance; the glass ceiling; and more.

See Jane Win is a parents’ guide for turning girls into happy, successful women. Child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters–a research psychologist and a pediatric-oncology researcher–spent three and a half years collecting data and conducting interviews to devise the 20 basic points detailed in this book. Their conclusions were based in large part on a detailed questionnaire completed by over 1,400 women with successful careers in a variety of fields, including science and technology, media, the arts, medicine, law, and education. (Homemaking and volunteer work do receive some token attention, but there is a clear professional bias in their definition of success.) Their goal is to “identify the essential childhood elements that encouraged these women to achieve fulfilling careers” in order to alert other parents to them. In this, they achieve their aim. See Jane Win is well organized and informative. Even if some of the advice leans toward common sense, the combination of professional opinion and personal experience is an effective one, animating statistics that could otherwise be as dry as chalk dust.

In the Rimms’ findings, education emerges as the key common denominator. High academic expectations, good study habits, strong math and science skills, and a love of reading (no television!) are all stressed. They also encourage parents to resist the urge to overprotect girls, and recommend fostering a healthy love of competition in order to build self-confidence. Indeed, self-esteem is a major underlying theme of the book. The authors discuss in detail how to combat eating disorders, social insecurities, and the negative image of women often portrayed in the media.

Overall, this is a useful compendium of sound advice and enlightening case studies that ultimately serves to underscore one vital point: Parents do make a difference. Sugar and spice are certainly nice, but See Jane Win offers a more substantial recipe for the raising of daughters. –Shawn Carkonen

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Ilokseni sain juuri lukea, että astronomit ovat lopultakin selvittäneet avaruuden ehkä kiehtovimman mysteerin, ns. supermassiivisen mustan aukon sijainnin. Astrophysical Journal -julkaisu kertoo tämän jättimäisen mustan aukon sijaitsevan linnunratamme keskellä.

Musta aukko syntyy massiivisen tähden romahtaessa pieneksi ja tiheäksi kappaleeksi, joka vetää puoleensa ympäröivää materiaa. Pienen tähden romahtaminen aikaansaa puolestaan joko ns. valkoisen kääpiön tai neutronitähden. Sen sijaan supermassiivinen musta aukko, joka näyttäisi nyt olevan kyseessä, syntyy ainoastaan galaksien tiivistymisen seurauksena.

Mustan aukon vetovoima on niin suuri, ettei sen gravitaatio- eli painovoimakentästä pääse pakenemaan edes valoa.

No, hirmuiselta kuulostaa, muttei niin hirmuiselta kuin edessämme oleva supermassivinen lama, joka vetää maailmantalouden alas kuin musta aukko konsanaan.

Ennemminkin tästä avaruuden aukosta voi olla ihmiskunnalle suurta hyötyä. Kuinkas nyt niin voisi olla?!

No, maapallohan hukkuu ensinnäkin veteen, ihmisen välitteisen toiminnan, ilmastonmuutoksen seurauksena. Toisaalta maapallo hukkuu jätteisiin (kauniisti sanottuna), ihmisen suoranaisen toiminnan seurauksena. Kun edellä mainitut ongelmat yhdistetään nyt löydettyn supermassiivisen mustan aukon ideaan, syntyy innovaatio, jota voisi kutsua nimellä

MAAILMANKAIKKEUDEN SUURIN HUUSSI

Tässä huussissa pönttö on niin suuri, että istumaan mahtuu isompikin taivaallinen takapuoli. Samoin hyyskän vetovoima hoitaa yhden Universumin tuotokset mennen tullen.

Käytännössä homma toimii kuin junan vessa: mystinen materiaali menemään ja vettä päälle!

Kaikki tämä tekniikka on nyt selvää ja ratkaistu. Ainoa ongelma on siinä, että Universumimme massiivisinta käymälää pääsee vetämään tasan 27 000 valovuoden kuluttua. Sillä sen verran pitkä on polkumme läpi maailmankaikkeuden ulkohuoneelle.

Tästä syystä toivokaamme, ettemme  saa matkallamme turistiripulia. Semmoista tautia on nimittäin liikenteessä. Voisivat mennä suurten innovaatioidemme tuotokset nobeleineen päivineen pitkin kinttuja.

P.S. Talouden mustan aukon vetovoimaa lisää tämänpäiväinen tieto siitä, että Wall Streetin  arvostetuimpiin talousneroihin kuulunut Bernard Madoff on sumuttanut pyramidihuijauksellaan sijoittajia ensikäteen arvioiden noin 50 miljardin dollarin edestä. Herra ei ole kuka tahansa, vaan on aiemmin toiminut mm. amerikkalaisen Nasdaq-teknologiapörssin hallituksen puheenjohtajana. Jälkeen kertyykin kysymys siitä, kuka on seuraavan paljastuksen kohde?!

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Before telling you about the latest supernova that had been discovered recently, Let me explain what exactly a Supernova is:

A supernova (plural: supernovae) is a stellar explosion. They are extremely luminous and cause a burst of radiation that often briefly outshines an entire galaxy before fading from view over several weeks or months. Each explosion ejects from one to several tens of solar masses at speeds ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers per second. The total kinetic energy, 10⁴⁴ joules (2.5 × 10²⁸ megatons of high explosive), is about 100 times the total light output, making supernovae some of the highest-energy explosions in the universe. The most recent supernova in our galaxy has been discovered by tracking the rapid expansion of its remains. This result, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array, will help improve our understanding of how often supernovae explode in the Milky Way galaxy.

The supernova explosion occurred about 140 years ago, making it the most recent in the Milky Way. Previously, the last known supernova in our galaxy occurred around 1680, an estimate based on the expansion of its remnant, Cassiopeia A. Finding such a recent, obscured supernova is a first step in making a better estimate of how often the stellar explosions occur. This is important because supernovae heat and redistribute large amounts of gas, and pump heavy elements out into their surroundings. They can trigger the formation of new stars as part of a cycle of stellar death and rebirth. The explosion also can leave behind, in addition to the expanding remnant, a central neutron star or black hole.

The recent supernova explosion was not seen with optical telescopes because it occurred close to the center of the galaxy and is embedded in a dense field of gas and dust. This made the object about a trillion times fainter, in optical light, than an un-obscured supernova. However, the remnant it caused can be seen by X-ray and radio telescopes.

Astronomers regularly observe supernovae in other galaxies like ours. Based on those observations, researchers estimated about three explosions every century in the Milky Way. The tracking of this object began in 1985, when astronomers, used the Very Large Array to identify the remnant of a supernova explosion near the center of our galaxy. Based on its small size, it was thought to have resulted from a supernova that exploded about 400 to 1000 years ago. Twenty-two years later, Chandra observations revealed the remnant had expanded by a surprisingly large amount, about 16 percent, since 1985. This indicates the supernova remnant is much younger than previously thought.

That young age was confirmed in recent weeks when the Very Large Array made new radio observations. This comparison of data pinpoints the age of the remnant at 140 years – possibly less if it has been slowing down – making it the youngest on record in the Milky Way. Besides being the record holder for youngest supernova, the object is of considerable interest for other reasons. The high expansion velocities and extreme particle energies that have been generated are unprecedented and should stimulate deeper studies of the object with Chandra and the Very Large Array. These results are scheduled to appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra’s science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Mass.

GateHouse – I should probably lead here with the bad news: We’re all going to die.

I know it seems like I’m saying that an awful lot these days. The thing is, I have a Google alert on the phrase “We’re All Going To Die,” and the wretched thing goes off several hundred times a day. It went off when they found the pharmaceuticals in the drinking water, it went off when the anthrax was being mailed everywhere, it went off when the White Sox won the World Series, it went off on Election Day 2004, and it still goes off every time someone older than 11 years old says “BFF.”

But at the risk of seeming redundant — and, it should be noted, wrong, since if you’re reading this there’s a better-than-average chance you are not dead — this time we really, really are going to all die. Really. No, really. I mean it. Stop looking at me like that. Start, I don’t know, flailing your arms and rioting in the streets or something.

The danger this week comes from Space, which, as you might recall, has been trying to kill us for years. First, Space sent us the asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs, which was a pretty good shot, though it tragically left intact the DNA that would eventually be used to form Nancy Grace. Then it sent us harmful sunrays, then it ate our ozone layer, then it sent us Nicole Richie, and now it’s sending us a monster blast of high-energy gamma rays. As any science fiction fan can tell you, these will either toast the entire planet whole like a Twinkie in a microwave or turn us all into Hulks. Frankly, given the choice, I’m pulling for the former.

Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia report that the dangerous gamma rays are roaring at us right now from an otherwise nondescript area of the constellation Sagittarius. Loosely translated from the Latin, Sagittarius means, “the one that’s going to fry you with the searing death gamma rays.” We should have probably seen it coming.

A star in the constellation called Wolf-Rayet is believed to be very near what the Web site Cosmos Online calls a “cataclysmic supernova explosion.” It sounds bad, but you know how Cosmos Online likes to totally exaggerate.

“When it finally explodes as a supernova, it could emit an intense beam of gamma rays coming our way,” Peter Tuthill told the Web site; Tuthill is the lead researcher of the team that report their findings in the current Astrophysical Journal (it’s the one with Lebron James on the cover).

Now, if this rings a bell to any of you, congratulations, and thanks for stepping out of Second Life long enough to read this column. A high-energy laser blast coming at a defenseless verdant planet from a sinister orb in the far reaches of the universe? Researchers in Sydney haven’t found a cataclysmic supernova explosion — they’ve found the Death Star. This Wolf-Rayet is apparently the ultimate power in the universe. I suggest we use it.

But the really good news about our collective forthcoming extinction is 1. Everyone can stop whining about global warming, and 2. We have some time to plan for it. The danger from Wolf-Rayet, thankfully, is not terribly imminent, and indeed we probably have a good few hundreds of thousands of years to think of a solution, although you know how things go when the Democrats control Congress. This will give us plenty of time to enjoy our last few good years here on planet Earth. I suggest we start enjoying them now, by immediately getting rid of Nancy Grace.