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People often think of new babies as great sources of happiness to their new mothers. But many women (and there are reports that men are affected too) are often, at least initially, left feeling rather depleted by the experience. This can be for a short period of "baby blues", ... | web |
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Ophelia As An Innocent Victim English Literature Essay
Ophelia is portrayed as an innocent victim in the play due to the specific attributes that she has. For instance everyone tries to coerce her into doing things that she may not wish to do by her... | web |
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Unless greenhouse-gas emissions are curbed, warns James Hansen of NASA, global temperatures could climb 2 to 3 degrees Celsius by 2100. Such a rise would leave little of Manhattan but the skyscrapers. (Click to enlarge), Original photograph by Cameron Davidson; photo illustratio... | web |
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A fascinating folk dance of Sherdukpens - a small community of West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh, Bardo Chham depicts the victory of good over evil. The dance has an interesting background. According to the local beliefs, forces - both good and evil, rule mankind. The folks believe that in one year, twelve diff... | web |
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Halobacteria sp. strain NRC-1, each cell about 5 μm in length.
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Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Archaea
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The Archaea (AmE [ɑɹˈkiə], BrE [ɑːˈkiə]), or archaebacteria, are a major group of microorganisms. Lik... | web |
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Putting Sweet Sounds Together
The Gaelic inspiration for 'bee-loud glade' and other sources of W.B. Yeats's literary achievement. Wes Davis reviews.
In 1891, the year William Butler Yeats turned 26, he published a collection of prose by Irish writers under the title "Representative Irish T... | web |
NURSING DIAGNOSIS: Self-concept disturbance*
related to dependence on others to meet basic needs, feelings of powerlessness, and change in body functioning and usual roles and lifestyle associated with physical limitations and/or prescribed activity restrictions.
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Eastern Hemisphere at the beginning of the 1st century BC.
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CentiMorgans – the distance between two linked genes as measured by frequency of crossover events
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When Mendel first figured out the basic rules that govern inheritance by carefully controlled breeding experiments with peas in the garden of the monastery is Brno, all of the seven traits that he was interested i... | web |
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The Australian Dream or Great Australian Dream is a belief that in Australia, home-ownership can lead to a better life and is an expression of success and security. Although this standard of l... | web |
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News from the Antarctic suggests global warming may be accelerating, with the Wilkins Ice Shelf breaking free from the Antarctica. There are fears that as the ice shelf continues to break up and melt, sea levels may rise.
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Lipofuscin and Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Aging is a set of changes in your biochemistry, in the arrangement of atoms and molecules in and around your cells. Cells and the cellular environment are a connected web of delicate machinery - mess up their arrangement, and they stop working quite so well. One of the c... | web |
Does anger kill?
For thousands of years the cultural answer was yes. Rage provokes killing—and often leads to the death of the enraged. But what happens in modern life?
Therein's a tale involving personality, tobacco, and the changing mores of research.
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(The following questions were preceded by two survey screener questions—the first on primary specialty, the second on divided clinical time—and information about this survey).
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Experimenting with Hue and Saturation
Combining Hue, Sautration, and Color When we talked about hue we said that hue values are between 0 and 360 degrees because they are frequently laid out around a circle.
If we lay them out around a circle and also increase the saturation as we ... | web |
The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance
By: Kevin Underhill
You'll find more than 200 unusual, bizarre, and absurd laws that seem too weird to be true, but are indeed true. The book begins with the laws of ancient Sumeria and Babylon, then moves on to the laws of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and also features some examp... | web |
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I still don't know if the mitochondrion or chloroplast was first? I've looked for it on the internet and in various books but haven't found anything. Does anyone have the answer and a theory which backs up this answer?
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Benchmarking - Algorithms in a Nutshell
by Gary Pollice, George T. Heineman, Stanley Selkow
Each algorithm in this book is presented in its own section where you will find individual performance data on the behavior... | web |
The 1923 Chevrolet Series M Copper-Cooled model served as definitive proof that nobody is right every time. Engineering genius Charles Kettering, who'd devised the electric self-starter years earlier, got another bright idea in the early 1920s: an air-cooled engine.
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With each passing generation, music is becoming more portable.
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On July 1, 1979, Sony Corporation began selling the world's first personal stereo device, the Walkman. The original Walkman was a handheld, battery-powered cassette ... | web |
The private corporate enterprise is such an intrinsic part of the modern capitalist economy that few realize its relative youth. The antecedents of the corporation can be traced back to the medieval merchant guild systems or, more recently, to trading companies enjoying monopolies granted under royal charter, such as t... | web |
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Recommendations for Fluoride in Drinking Water Changed
Fluoride in drinking water has prevented dental disease for many years since it's introduction. Research supports an ideal amount of fluoride of 1 ppm (parts per million). There seems to be continued beneficial effect in caries prevention... | web |
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2. John, 1745–1803, American naval commander in the Revolution.
3. Leonora Marie Kearney (“Mother Lake”), 1849–1930, U.S. labor leader and social activist, born in Ireland.
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Cold winter weather and burgeoning industrial economies have made for difficult breathing in Asia and the Middle East this January. News reports from Tehran, Beijing, and other cities have described hazy sk... | web |
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I know first and second year undergraduate students are freshmen and sophomores respectively.
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To me, "over easy" seems to refer to the pan, because I think of a pan sitting atop an easy flame. "Over hard" makes me think it refers to the egg, because the liquid becomes solid. Then again, maybe it's something else altogether.
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PLOS | 10 Simple Ways To Increase Your Physical Activity
Regardless of your shape or size, physical activity has been shown to add years to your life, and life to your years. But believe it or not, the benefits of physical activity are not restricted to exercise performed in the gym. In fact, one of the easiest ways t... | web |
Critical thinking fosters good science.
The new bill allows public-school teachers to:
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E-Waste Toys Turn Trash Into Fun Educational Treasures
Electronic waste takes up massive amounts of space in the world’s landfills – and a lot of it is not actually broken, just obsolete. But even worse, in many parts of the world low-income children and adults risk their health to dig through the e-waste, looking for... | web |
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Suppose I have the LatLon of the two end points as well as a small number of middle points of a road segment.
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I am doing a project for an organization using OL. I was successful in creating buffers around a point for a given radius, but I was just shocked from their response,they just asked me is there a chance to create a amoeba shaped(no definite shape) object(just like circle,polygon) and project i... | web |
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After the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US declassified reports showed that the USSR only had four operational ICBMs in October 1962, notwithstanding contrary rhetoric during the 1960 presidential campaign suggesting the Soviets had many more. When did President Kennedy kno... | web |
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On the Genealogy of Rationality
Note: This is a paper I wrote for university in early 2011. The prompt was to take one concept from Friedrich Nietzsche's Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinn (On Truth and Lies in a Non-(Extra-)moral Sense), and to deconstruct it. I figured that... | web |
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“If they are allowed to experiment and do things on the computers that the teachers have not specifically given them permission to do, we would never get any computer education accomplished.” Beverly Sweeney, middle school teacher involved in the suspension of a student who used a DOS command... | web |
"In the Roaring Twenties, neon lit the night, jazz played, and in northern cities glistening new skyscrapers beckoned Negroes worn down by southern terrors. They came with battered bags and hope. Ossian Sweet was among them, carrying his parents' dreams for his future and little else. The grandson of a slave, the young... | web |
Evolution: Social exclusion leads to cooperation
December 4, 2012
Social exclusion as a punishment strategy helps explain the evolution of cooperation, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The study, by IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program postdoctoral fellow Tatsuya Sa... | web |
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I am teaching a course in proof technique to undergraduate students. One of the things they can do for their project is read an involved proof and explain it, for example Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Does anyone have any good proofs? They can come from any field accessible to a student with... | web |
Why complex numbers are fundamental in physics
History of complex numbers in mathematics
Cardano was able to additively shift "x" by "a/3" ("a" is the quadratic coefficient of the original equation) to get rid of the quadratic coefficient. Without a loss of generality, he was therefore solving the equations of t... | web |
With control of the United States Senate at stake in this year's election, the race in Alaska between the incumbent Republican, Lisa Murkowski, 47, and the Democratic challenger, Tony Knowles, 61, was too close to call with nearly half the votes counted.
Ms. Murkowski, who was appointed to the Senate after her father ... | web |
The ROCKSAW is the result of the toughest trenching project in history The Trans Alaska Pipeline -- and the constant innovation, research and refinement by the men who use it.
There was a reason to develop the ROCKSAW when its patented rock cutting chain system was introduced in 1974—and there’s a reason to use the RO... | web |
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There were people living in a certain town on the mainland. You know that in olden times the people did not use guns. They hunted with bows and arrows, and horn spears, and it was very hard work to use them. So, when they were going hunting, they had to... | web |
The role of credit in booms and slumps
August 24, 2007 | Page 8
PAUL D'AMATO explains how debt greases the wheels of the capitalist market--until it doesn't.
THE WORLD economy experienced a global credit crunch last week. Suddenly, nobody wanted to lend, and nobody wanted to pay money out.
The crisis of "liquidit... | web |
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Classification: Orbiter spacecraft.
Mission: Mars mapping.
Features: The Mars Observer spacecraft was launched in 1992 aboard a Titan III with a Transfer Orbit Upper Stage. Unfortunately, communications with the ... | web |
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I have in my control panel ( HTML template editor )
$textarea = '<textarea>';
$textarea .= $template_code;
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for example -> $template_code = '</textarea> ......';
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Virtual Machine and Virus
Is the host OS isolated in terms of security? If I don't secure my VM could my Host OS be at risk? If it is secure then running windows in a VM on Linux may be the safest way to run Windows!
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I have done a project in CodeIgniter its working fine on my localhost but giving 500 Internal Server Error in remote server this is my .htacces file content.
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What's 'Out of Context'?
William Rusher
5/1/2008 12:01:00 AM - William Rusher
Whenever a political figure lets fly with some remark that bounces badly, he or she is likely to protest that it was taken "out of context." The implication is that, if the critics would just read (or, better yet, quote) the rest of the sp... | web |
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Psychiatric Nursing Theory
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Psychiatric nurses care for patients with mental or emotional health issues such as anxiety disorders, schizophrenia or depression. Psychiatric nurses design nursing care plans for each patient individually, based on the facts of the case as well as a number ... | web |
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Life During The Dutch Occupation – Part 2: May 1940, The Battle For The Netherlands
By Joeri Teeuwisse
When you look at the history of World War Two, the battle for the Netherlands seems little more than a footnote... | web |
Textbook of Psychoanalysis (Book Review)
Author: Person, Ethel S., Arnold M. Cooper, and Glen O. Gabbard
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, 628pp., 2005
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A Comprehensive Text
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Oskar begins with the image of a picturesque swimming pool, graced by many young, slender people. A youn... | web |
Leptin Resistance in Asian Women
Health challenges are a part of life for many people and Asian women are no different. Even if on average they have lower BMI’s than the average American. Of course, everyone has the desire to get healthy again but it is near impossible to overcome challenges without educating yourself... | web |
Nanchang Travel Guide
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Nanchang Overview
Nanchang, built on the site of a much smaller ancient city by the name of Gan, is the capital of Jiangxi Province (the name "Gan" is a shortened version of the name Jiangxi, and it also stands for the name of one of the dialects of Mand... | web |
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Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Summary and Analysis Scene 10
Later at the German court, Emperor Carolus tells Faustus that he has heard reports of his magical powers and he would like to see some proof of Faustus' skill. Faustus responds humbly that he is not ... | web |
Bedtime Stories from the Philosophers of Mind
The Turing Test
Turing test
Once upon a time, some friends invented a game with a teleprinter. Two would go into another room and answer questions via the teleprinter: the questioner on the other end had to guess which of them was a woman. They did not have to tell the tr... | web |
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Do Plants See, Feel, or Taste?
We normally think of plants as organisms that are pretty limited in what they can do. We normally feel that only animals can move, see, feel, and taste what is going on around them. Most of us look somewhat dubiously at those who claim that talking to their house plants makes them grow b... | web |
You can test for an average difference using the paired t-test when the variable is numerical (for example, income, cholesterol level, or miles per gallon) and the individuals in the statistical sample are either paired up in some way according to relevant variables such as age or perhaps weight, or the same people are... | web |
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Thanks to science curriculum in previous grades, your fourth grade scientist probably feels pretty confident recording temperatures, classifying common clouds, and identifying different kinds of weathe... | web |
How does microwaving affect the nutritional value of food?
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We posed this question to Helen Rasmussen, PhD, RD, senior research dietitian at Tufts’ Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging. It turns out that the effect of microwave cooking on the nutritional value of food i... | web |
U.S.-style primaries are inspiring the French Socialist Party
by Pauline Lejeune // Published October 14, 2009
On October 1st, members of the French Socialist Party (PS), the largest left-wing political party in France and the second largest party overall, were given the opportunity to amend their party's rules. At i... | web |
Mrtp Act and Competition Act – Difference
Following are the important differences between the MRTP Act, 1969 and Competition Act, 2002:
1) MRTP Act is based on the pre-liberalization scenario whereas Competition Act is based on the post liberalization scenario.
2) MRTP Act emphasizes on curbing monopolies wh... | web |
how do i put a stem back on my pumpkin?
my pumpkin's stem fell off but i need it on in order to do my carving in it i already tried hot glue
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Scientists will set their sights on taking an unprecedented variety of measurements around one of the saltiest spots in the Atlantic Ocean
SPURS will include five month-long research cruises to a region known as the Atlantic Ocean's salinity maximum
That's why scientists working on, Aquarius, the newest NASA Earth S... | web |
Noctilucent Clouds make a return!
Noctilucent clouds, those extreme-high altitude clouds that form during the summer months (and typically at higher latitudes), are back. July 1st afforded many within the Pacific Northwest a stunning array of the rare, wispy clouds about a half hour after sunset.
In Shelton, the scen... | web |
Who Is at the Door: The SYN Denial of Service
The Transport Station
Network traffic arrives at a given host and accumulates at the IP-TCP boundary, but nothing happens until a user-level process performs a request for network service through the transport station (TCP or UDP).
Most user-level Internet applications u... | web |
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Alan Macfarlane likes to shock historians out of their complacency and out of a narrow preoccupation with their own period or their own mode of historical study. He is a pr... | web |
Four Field Colloquium Series: "America, Genealogy, History: ‘New World’ Technologies of Race" by Duana Fulwiley
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Navigation systems include the gyrocompass and repeaters, the dead reckoning system, underwater log, LORAN, magnetic compass, and sextant.
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The End of the Minimum Wage Debate?
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In Washington and Annapolis, lawmakers and policy researchers are debating the idea of raising the minimum wage. Supporters say an increase would help poor fami... | web |
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Old Masters: Australia's great bark artists
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John Bulunbulun. Photo: Australia Council for the Arts.
Gurrumba Gurrumba clan, Ganalbiŋu language, Yirritja moiety
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Presentation Speech by Professor Carl Nordling of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Ladies and Gentlemen,
The air that... | web |
From "The Europeans" - Howard Barker
A young girl, Katrin, has been gang raped by the Turks during the fight between Islam and Christianity. She describes her rape in detail to officials. The difficulty of trying to describe what happened comes across strongly in this speech:
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Count me among the surprised last week when word got out that former President George W. Bush had a minimally invasive heart procedure to open a blocked artery.
Immediately after the news of the heart procedure, I started trying to figure out why a man, committed to physical fitness, at the increasingly “young” age of... | web |
Planting milkweeds can help the local monarch butterfly population
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Tropical fruit trees are best planted in the heat of summer. They take advantage of the warm weather to get off to a fast start before cooler fall temperatures prevail. This is especially true of papaya trees, which are the fastest gro... | web |
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From 1754 to 1763 Europe and the Americas were caught up in a conflict between England, under King George II, and France, under King Louis XV. In Euro... | web |
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Halley's Comet and the 6th century AD
At ... we hear that a piece of Halley's comet might have impacted with Earth in AD536, blasting dust into the atmosphere and cooling the planet. No, this does not involve Mike Baillie - but it does resurrect some of his work. It is a new study led by Dallas Abb... | web |
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How many places can you recognize?
Geo Photo Trivia is a game where the goal is to guess where a photo is located.
You will see a photo and 3 maps with 3 possible locations.
You have to tap the map which contains the pin where you think that the photo is locate... | web |
Sex with cavemen gave humans immune boost: study - Taipei Times
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Sex with cavemen gave humans immune boost: study
SLEEPING AROUND:Cross-breeding between early and archaic humans had a very useful effect in that it gave the more developed human a more resistant gene pool
Sexual ... | web |
Why airlines resisted setting safe dust level for flights – until now
Fear of accident after all-clear had blocked deal
About turn by carriers due to losses from ban
World flight routes volcanoes
How world flight routes cross active volcanoes. Click image for full graphic. Source: ICAO Guardian
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Weatherwatch: thunderstorm lightshows
lightning show
Lightning strikes Cape Town, South Africa — and the show can be seen from outer space. Photograph: Steve Bloom/Getty Images
Thunderstorms hurl electrons towards Earth, producing dramatic bolts of lightning. But it isn't just electrons that emerge from thunder cloud... | web |
Windows 8 security: everything you need to know
The security enhancements that Windows 8 brings
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New Windows 8 PCs have UEFI Secure Boot firmware, which enables your PC to check security certificates for the boot loader, kernel, system files and drivers against a database as Windows loads.... | web |
Murat II.
Murad II was born in 1402. His father was Mehmed I and his mother was Emine Sultana from the Dulkadirogullari State. He was a tall man with light complexion, he had a falcon nose and a beautiful face. He spent his chilhood in Amasya and he ascended to the throne at the age of 19. He was a perfect orator. His... | web |
Egypt: Funerary Cones (Funerary Stamps)
Funerary Cones
(Funerary Stamps)
by Jimmy Dunn writing as Mark Andrews
Funerary Cones
Wiedemann published the first real study of these stamped objects in 1885, which was followed by an additional systematic corpus of the objects by Daressy in 1893. However, a corpus of fac... | web |
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Ian Morris’s Big Idea: Why the West Will Fall Behind
Why has Europe and America dominated human advances in the last few hundred years, and is China poised to take over? Stanford historian Ian Morris answers those questions in his new book, The Measure of Civilization.
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The act of removing one's own testes, normally caused by overexposure to emasculating content.
Shane performed a self-castration after watching "twilight".
by Dr. Skinner April 19, 2010
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1. To remove one's own genitals with a knife or their teeth.
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