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When a wind blow through sharp edge, say, edge of a paper, you can see the vibration of the paper and hear the sound.
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To suck water through a straw, you create a partial vacuum in your lungs. Water rises through the straw until the pressure in the straw at the water level equals atmospheric pressure. This corresponds to drinking water through a straw about ten meters long at maximum.
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Since the mutual repulsion term between electrons orbiting the same nucleus does not commute with either electron's angular momentum operator (but only with their sum), I'd assume that the electrons don't really have a well-defined angular momentum (i.e., they do not occupy a pure $\left|lm\ri... | web |
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I have seen a lot of advice that it is better to do Type object; than
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Doe's any one know the history behind, or background of the multiple naming conventions for the equivalent risk functions. Different quant authors prefer using different names, does any one know why? which came first? why do some quants prefer one over the other. What is the history behind all... | web |
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Attributes of Pure Actuality
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Beaches are not only beautiful coastal areas, but they are also important biological habitats. (photo: Kip Evans)
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Slate’s Explainer has an answer and question post about moonwalking. Here is one of the very good questions answered there.
Would it be easier to moonwalk on the moon?
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A very long time ago, I had to build a LAN for a bunch of laptops, in a couple of tents. We ended up bringing a bunch of generators, stringing about 2 miles of networking and power cables, and generally having very little fun - mostly trying to keep alive a wireless radio link to the Internet.... | web |
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When looking over the member functions of the STL containers, an odd thought occurred to me. Why don't functions like std::vector<T>::push_back(T) not have an (optional) return value (iterator or even a reference to the appended object)? I know std::string functions like insert and erase retur... | web |
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Can anybody point me to the code that implements mkstemp() (C/C++) on Win32, or very close analog.
Must be race-free.
It's supposed to look like
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I'm using javascript with RaphaelJS to draw a smooth line through random points with output to SVG. The line goes strictly horizontally, without returning back in axis X. Currently, I'm using cubic Bezier curves to draw the line from one point to another.
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This goes back a few years now, but I still remember the shock. After a long stint as a resident of the Midwest, I moved to the Phoenix area in the 1990s. Having previously only driven through our 48th state to visit the Grand Canyon, I didn’t know what to expect.
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The 2013 Energy Budget requested by the White House gets many things right, including a focus on making wind energy more cost-competitive.
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One woman's dramatic encounter with Christ shows us that he came to deliver women from spiritual oppression.
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Ok, I have seen this spelled Occam and Ockham in this article. Which one is it?--Elamdri 06:26, 1 April 2007 (EDT)
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Book I. Of Laws in General 1. Of the Relation of Laws to different Beings. Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity[1] His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws,... | web |
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Marching to the Music: Songs from the American Labor Movement
And I'm Barbara Klein. Most of the world observes Labor Day on May first. But the United States has its workers holiday on the first Monday in September. Today on our program, we have a few songs from the history of the American labor movement.
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We did our first big sowing of Linseed/Flax this year. About 3 by 100 foot strips. Quite a learning curve there..
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For years, I’ve heard that local variables in JavaScript are faster than global variables when used inside of functions. Logically, this always made sense to me: the longer the scope chain the longer it would take to look up the chain and find a particular variable. If the variable was local, however, the search would ... | web |
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I have developed a concept of nursing care that aims to serve society by contributing to a therapeutic, curative, educative and preventative role in healthcare.
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The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is "equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet."
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Angels & Demons's science was a main concern to director Ron Howard, says Dr. Rolf Landua, a CERN scientist who worked closely with Howard. "We had a long discussion, almost the whole day," Landua says, "about how the science in the movie could be made as authentic as possible."
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BRATTLEBORO -- Stating the Department of Energy had hoisted itself "on its own petard," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled DOE cannot, for the time being, charge a fee to nuclear power plant operators for the future disposal costs of nuclear waste.
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This term comes from a Chinese proverb. It means that to communicate heart (or mind) with each other by means of their heart (or mind). In other words, to communicate with each other’s mind without speaking any words.
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School cellphone searches test boundaries of students' Fourth Amendment rights
It happened last week at an upstate New York high school, where a 14-year-old boy and his girlfriend are now under criminal investigation after a school principal discovered "inappropriate" photos of the girl while searching the boy's cell... | web |
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How modern cars already drive better than you do
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Happiness comes through the progressive realization of a worthy objective.
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Alkaline batteries are used in everything from cameras and flashlights to remote controls. They are less of an issue than other batteries when disposed of in landfills as the Mercury-Containing and Rechargeable Battery Management Ac... | web |
Climate Change Hysteria Not
The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability," was released last week to the usual fanfare, hype and alarm. The New York Times headline summarized the report by stating, "the worst is yet to come".
According ... | web |
You don't have to be rich
Rather than relying on billionaires why not yoke philanthropy to tax, and nudge us all into giving?
Sir Francis Bacon once said that money is like muck: no use unless it is spread. This is a view presumably taken by the American billionaires who recently proposed giving away half of their fo... | web |
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Outrageous new means of megastar demise spotted
Antimatter death blast sock-knocking phenomenon
Most big old stars at the end of their lives tend to go out in a fairly mundane way - either exploding with incredible violence as supernovae, or collapsing into ultradense universe-warping unfeasiblo-gunge... | web |
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Pine Island Glacier (right) and Thwaites Glacier (middle) in December 2012, as seen by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite.
updated 1/15/2013 7:21:58 PM ET 2013-01-16T00:21:58
Like a plug in a leaky dam, little Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice S... | web |
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