Author: Marta Koblanska
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Are power users critical for grid resilience? The perception of the security of supply is changing.
Photo: Bharat Siddam, Pixabay Cyberattacks on grids may disrupt power supply as nowadays computers are steering the volumes. Are we willing to have a transforming station at home? Power grids are a kind of skeleton or nervous system of the country. There are grids with higher and lower frequencies that are subordinated to the volumes…
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Losing and awakening heartbeat. What is sleep in real?
By Marta Koblańska, February 21, 2025 Photo: This model suggests that the physiological processes influenced by fluctuations in norepinephrine (NA) during NREM sleep—particularly those related to memory consolidation and glymphatic clearance—function best when these fluctuations occur approximately every 50 seconds. Authors: Anita Lüthi, Maiken Nedergaard. Sleeping is a kind of disengagement from the environment to…
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Is it Earth’s destiny to sustain life? At least the one we know
By Marta Koblańska, February 16, 10:30, Photo: PIRO, Pixabay When a new life is arising, an old one is passing away. Ancient belief for life cycles may be true, as chemistry set up founds for environmental processes crucial for emerging lives on Earth. One of the greatest ever philosophers Baruch/Benedictus Spinoza claimed that Earth in…
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Are war supporters leftish? That might be the case in the Ukrainian war
By Marta Koblanska, February 10, 18:00, Photo: MayaQ, Pixabay Over-trusted governments may cheat their voters with social welfare redistribution while in fact keep silent on human costs on the battlefield outside ruling area. Ukrainian war started after Russia attempted to invade the country what might have been planned for a very long time. The reasons…