Made in Australia – Boardriders Clubs – Chapter 3

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The Australian boardriders club is a uniquely Down Under proposition which gives a sports-mad nation a way of turning a solo activity into a team adventure, a reason to yell and scream and carry on, and an opportunity to celebrate every triumph and drown every tragedy. If you’re bred on the beach (90 percent of Australians live within 20 miles of the coast), you don’t have a say in which club you’ll join; it’s long been decided by your family history and proximity to a particular spot.

But as most clubs work, your team-mates are your brothers. You compete with them. Travel with them. Fight for and against them. Sneak your first beers with them, then steal into caravan parks and kiss girls alongside the guy you’ll take on in the first heat the next day. You learn from the older generation, though it’s hard-knocks schooling, the likes of which you’ll never see in a classroom.

Chapter 3 of Made in Australia takes a deeper look at the rich history of the many Boardriders Clubs that define the Australian surf community.

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Hubble Survey Unlocks Clues to Starbirth

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In a recent survey of young, blue star clusters in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31), astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found new clues into stellar birth in our neighboring galaxy.

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/02/image/a/

The technical term is called the Initial Mass Function (IMF). Nailing down its parameters is fundamental to interpreting the light from distant galaxies and understanding the formation history of stars in our universe.

Measuring the IMF was the primary driver behind Hubble’s ambitious panoramic survey of our neighboring galaxy, called the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) program. Nearly 8,000 images of 117 million stars in the galaxy’s disk were obtained from viewing Andromeda in near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared wavelengths.

The PHAT Survey as given astronomers unprecedented views of stellar clusters allowing them to better quantify the percentages of stars by type in star clusters.

Please join +Tony Darnell Dr.+Carol Christian  and +Scott Lewis  to learn what the heck an IMF is and discuss the results of this important survey with Dr. Dan Weisz from the University of Washington and Dr. Anil Seth of the University of Utah.

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