Moons of Mars
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are thought to be
captured asteroids. Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph
Hall and are named after the characters Phobos (panic/fear) and Deimos
(terror/dread) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares,
god of war, into battle. Ares was known as Mars to the Romans.
Could plants move in connection with the moon?
There is a possibility in the correlation between the moon and the movement of leaves.
Peter
Barlow of the University of Bristol made the discovery while attempting
to determine why the leaves of some plants seemed to move up and down
during the night despite the lack of sunlight.
After gathering as much data as he could on
the subject Barlow hypothesized that water motion within the joints
of the leaves may be responsible for this peculiar form of movement. The phenomenon has since come to be referred to as “leaftide”.
Werewolf plant, the only known plant species that relies on the lunar cycle for survival.
At night, Ephedra foeminea secretes small translucent globules of sugary liquid to
attract nocturnal pollinating insects. The globules are like tiny beads
oozing out from cone-shaped female organs and appeared exactly when the moon was full, but a wind-pollinated relative showed no lunar correlation.
You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart.
Lunatic (adj.) late 13c., “affected with periodic insanity, dependent on the changes of the moon,” from Old French lunatique, lunage ”insane,” or directly from Late Latin lunaticus ”moon-struck,” from Latin luna ”moon” (see Luna). Compare Old English monseoc ”lunatic,” literally “moon-sick;” Middle High German lune ”humor, temper, mood, whim, fancy” (German Laune), from Latin luna. Compare also New Testament Greek seleniazomai ”be epileptic,” from selene ”moon.” Lunatic fringe (1913) apparently was coined by U.S. politician Theodore Roosevelt.
Then, among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
— Theodore Roosevelt, autobiography, 1913.
A new study finds that around the full moon humans get less shut-eye and their slumber is not as deep, even if sleep is restricted to windowless rooms free of environmental and time-based cues—such as those found in a sleep lab. The findings … suggest that restful sleep takes a hit during a full moon as well as a few days before and after the phase. Still, no one has any idea why that would occur or what biological mechanism could be at work.
Phases of the moon, Geomantie’ (Geomancy), Codex Palatinus 833 Germanicus.
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