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Questions for seismologists and USGS

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  Digital   Discourse   Foundation   By Malini Shankar In the wake of the Turkey Syria earthquake of 6 th February 2023 it has emerged that a Dutch scientist had forecast the seismic event just four days prior to the earthquake based on planetary alignment. If planetary alignment belongs to the realm of astrology or astronomy can best be left to the advocates of empirical facts for scientific documentation. But scientific facts like planetary alignment, lunar cycles, shooting stars, meteor showers, ionic content in the atmosphere, seismic pressure accumulation, and measurement thereof, are all easy to document. Why then are these phenomena not being documented by the scientific or seismological community to forecast geological calamities?   Let us go by facts alone… I hope it appeases the scientific community to lead them into desperately needed earthquake forecasting. The Great Andaman Sumatra Earthquake that triggered a massive ocean wide tsunami on 26 th December 2004 occur
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Prince Harry makes a point, a case for access to mental health care

  Digital Discourse Foundation Editorial Prince Harry’s recent series of media outbursts may well have been with an eye on profit and he may have been pushed to do so by marketing agents of his book “Spare” and in other sensational Netflix promotional interviews. All the same Harry’s insecurity stemming from being told that he was a Spare to the British Throne underscores the need for emotional support, access to counseling and in a larger societal context, access to Mental Health Care. His case clearly highlights the need for early intervention and relationship based parenting support to bring up children with life skills. Every single person alive has emotional grievances and grouses to address; but everyone is living with it, coping with it as best as one could. The bottled up stress will manifest in one or another unpleasant fashion in one’s lifetime, unless addressed satisfactorily. Mental health professionals and psychiatrists often worry that those with unaddressed emotio
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DDF Editorial: Relocating the cheetahs calls for caution more than credit

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  Digital Discourse Foundation  It is too early to applaud the success in relocating the first batch of Namibian cheetahs to the Kuno Palpur National Park in Northwest Madhya Pradesh where it adjoins the buffer zone for the migration of wildlife in nearby Ranthambore Tiger Reserve. Only political green horns, the ecologically illiterate and the eulogizing tribes will commend the relocation of these cheetahs. On paper, all the boxes are ticked favourably for the Namibian cheetah relocation. They will be reintroduced in batches, first enclosed in protected enclosures for acclimatization, introduced to prey, monitored and satellite tracked etc. Those singing eulogies may even cite the precedent of relocation and reintroduction of tigers into Sariska after poachers slaughtered 22 tigers in the premier tiger reserve. Let’s face facts. Sensitive fragile creatures like cheetahs can suffer serious injuries to life and limb when threatened. Namibian cheetahs thrived on grasslands and d
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