Searching for Sakura - Japanese Flowering Cherries

[Leo in N E Illinois]

If you want, listen to the last 15 or 20 minutes of the full 90 minutes Science Friday radio show/ podcast for April 12, 2019. Many NPR radio stations only play half the show so most areas missed this segment. Listen via the website. The interview with Naoko Abe is interesting. Japan and the rest of the world owes the obsession of Colinwood Ingram, of the UK, for preserving hundreds of cultivars of various Cherries, particularly the Yoshino cherries. Between 1902 and 1926 Ingram travelled to Japan many times to acquire different cultivars of cherries. His most famous find was 'Asano' a 100 petals variety of Yoshino cherry. A good listen and the related articles posted are good if you are into cherries.

The beginning of that episode of Science Friday is the story of the first image of a black hole. By the way, the person who developed the math algorithm to use multiple telescopes to function as if they were a single telescope was a female graduate student. Now she is a full professor, and part of the team that made the announcement. It took years to get all the technology together, and the supercomputer time to assemble the image. So check it out. The image is fascinating, but more amazing is the algorithms, techniques and technology developed to make the image. The excitement is what they will apply this process to next. The possibilities are endless.

https://www.sciencefriday.com

Extract of the Sakura book and additional information here
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/searching-for-sakura/

I do geek out every now and then.

 

[queenofsheba52]

^^^ And we love it when you do ^^^

 

[Traken]

Not to take away from the horticultural side of the thread, but that black hole photo was amazing, especially the zoomed out one showing the entire field it’s devouring. So cool.

 

[0soyoung]

The beginning of that episode of Science Friday is the story of the first image of a black hole. By the way, the person who developed the math algorithm to use multiple telescopes to function as if they were a single telescope was a female graduate student. Now she is a full professor, and part of the team that made the announcement. It took years to get all the technology together, and the supercomputer time to assemble the image. So check it out. The image is fascinating, but more amazing is the algorithms, techniques and technology developed to make the image. The excitement is what they will apply this process to next. The possibilities are endless.

Lets hear it for Katie Bouman !!! ?????????