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200th Anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe
by Patrcia Miller, CPL Librarian
Originally published by the Columbia Daily Tribune.
Jan. 19, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth. His creative imagination produced the genres we know today as horror, suspense, mystery, crime, fantasy and paranormal or even s... | web |
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As the Neutron Spins
September 16, 2009
losalamos_students.jpgFor a second consecutive summer, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Alexander K. Komives traveled with DePauw students to Los Alamos National Laboratory's Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) in New Mexico. They are collaborating with a tea... | web |
Is there a universal definition of common sense?
One of the ways I would describe a successful outcome of design thinking is "ingenious common sense". It seems that we want to develop a solution and that it might take some work to get to, but all along it turns out to be common sense. When we encounter something which... | web |
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Fun facts about our presidents
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We belong to a club with just 43 members.
All of our members are men.
Eight of us are from Ohio (see footnote on William Henry Harrison).
Twelve of us have been generals, and more than ha... | web |
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Ohio Standards:
-Explain the relationship of a selected work of art to the time period in which it
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- Describe sources visual artists use to generate ideas for artworks.
- Explain how choice of medi... | web |
Home Construction Sequence...
Successful home construction is dependent upon many differing factors. The sequence of construction is just one of these factors. The book devotes many chapters to the requirements of each sequence and fully explains how to accomplish each sequence. Below is a condensed sequence of home c... | web |
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Depression is a disease. It isn't caused by personal weakness, and it isn't a character flaw. When you have depression, chemicals in your brain called neurotransmitters are out of balance.
• Genes: Your chance of having a bout of depression is greater if other family members have had... | web |
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"Up to now, living organisms have evolved very slowly, and new forms have had plenty of time to settle in. Now whole proteins will be transpo... | web |
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Topical Paragraphing in Action Paragraphs
Yesterday, we looked at the use of a lead-in "topic sentence" in paragraphs of description. This same technique for paragraph shaping also can be used in action sentences.
The Awakening, Kate Chopin
In fact, if you want to see lots of really great... | web |
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5 Good New Math Apps for Teachers and Students
1- Free Math Flash Cards
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wipe left or right to answer if the fraction on the left is LESS, GREATER or EQUAL than the one on the right.Peek at the visual solution before committing your answer or wait until later to pr... | web |
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Brain Adapts Quickly to a Broken Arm
Shifts in the Brain Improve Skills So You're Not a Klutz for Long, Study Shows
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Jan. 16, 2012 -- Breaking an arm and wearing a sling or a cast is a real inconvenience, to say the l... | web |
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Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt,
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Public Release: Our ancestors lived on shaky ground
Scientists find link between tectonically active landscapes and ancient sites
University of York
IMAGE: This is the Makapansgat hominin site, South Africa, where our earliest ancestors lived three million years ago. view more
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Lead author, Sout... | web |
Supreme Court to decide if human genes patentable
Published December 03, 2012
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether human genes can be patented, a hotly contested issue with broad practical and ethical consequences for the future of gene-based medicine for millions of people worldwide.
T... | web |
Using Math.Pow Method to Compute Exponents in C#
If you require to compute exponential values like finding the square of the number etc , the Math.Pow method in c# could be handy for you to try .
The Math.Pow method is defined in the “System” namespace .
To use the method “Math.Pow” , you should first include the na... | web |
Skin color and IQ in the GSS
A question from Jason Malloy prompted a quick search of the GSS for data on the cause of the Black-White IQ gap. In 1982, the GSS characterized the skin color of Black participants on a 5-point scale (1:very dark brown to 5:very light brown). The very dark/light categories consist of only... | web |
Pholis gunnellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pholis gunnellus
Description: The butterfish has a long, slender, eel-like body which is flattened from side to side. It has a very slippery skin and is difficult to pick up, hence its common name. The coloration is usually yellowish-brown with darker brown mottling. Like yarrell's ... | web |
How to Write a Resume Objective Statement
What Does An Effective Resume Objective Statement Look Like?
An effective resume objective statement may set a candidate apart from other job applicants. Employers use the resume to quickly assess a candidate, and an objective statement can briefly represent an applicant as a... | web |
Microeconomics - Modifying Output
The "Short Run"
The short run is a time period so short that the firm cannot alter some production factors (typically these factors include the size and/or number of plants, the technology used, equipment and the management organization). Those factors are sometimes referred to collec... | web |
Muhammad Farid Wajdi
Muhammad Farid Wajdi (1875-1954) was a prolific Egyptian author, whose writings aimed at integrating modern knowledge into the classical system of Islam. His Quranic commentary, al-Mushaf al-mufassar (The Koran Interpreted), aimed at providing a modern scientific exegesis of the Quran. From 1933-5... | web |
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You want to reduce the amount of Java coding in your JSP using a JavaBean component.
Use <jsp:useBean> with t... | web |
2000 Summer Olympics Highlights
The 2000 Summer Olympics highlights were momentous occasions in athletic history. It was also known as the Millennium Games and was celebrated in Sydney, Australia. The Summer Olympics was held between September 16 and October 1.
1. First Medal: The first medal of the 2000 Summer Oly... | web |
Think humans are the only noisy sleepers? Think again.
There are countless anecdotal reports from zookeepers and pet owners about how their animals snuffle, wheeze and snort in their sleep.
While many species may make noise during slumber, that doesn't mean these animals are necessarily snoring.
Mammals are the only... | web |
Chief Justice Roberts' Long War Against the Voting Rights Act
Roberts has been a critic of the Voting Rights Act for 30 years. Now he will help decide whether the law's most important section lives or dies.
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Then-President George W. Bush nominates John Roberts as chief justice on Septem... | web |
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Feline hyperthyroidism
By Michele Gerhard Jasny V.M.D. - October 11, 2007
The entire senior class had been called down to the pathology lab to look at the postmortem on an unusual case. A partially dissected cat was laid out on the stainless steel table. He was thin as a rail and his heart was ... | web |
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Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: "So do you use sleeping tablets to organize yourself?"
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.Net 2.0's System.Security namespace
2.0's System.Security namespace
The hormal strings are kept as plain-text in memory and thus unsecure. You can even make the string immutable so it behaves as a read-only string and makes a single copy of it. MoreOver, you can wipe it out of the memory from code by calling its Dis... | web |
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It is exciting to watch history being made.
Bitcoin was supposedly the birth of a new international currency five years ago that has no nation of issue and no central bank to manage it.
For some reason its advocates do not call it fiat money even though it has no physical form. T... | web |
Whether for business or home use, wireless LANs should be secured—and at an absolute minimum that means turning on WEP, but soon there will be alternatives.
The convenience of an untethered network connection, coupled with the rapidly plummeting prices of wireless networking hardware, has led to an explosion in the nu... | web |
Firewalls and security
February 1, 2003
Computer networks are increasingly vulnerable to security threats,and e-mail is perhaps the most critical threat.
Industry analyst IDC predicts that by 2005 there will be 1.2 billione-mail boxes and 36 billion person-to-person e-mails each day. VirtualPrivate Networks (VPNs) p... | web |
May 19, 2011
It’s Not Easy Being Green
Salk scientists grow understanding of how photosynthesis is regulated
The seeds sprouting in your spring garden may still be struggling to reach the sun. If so, they are consuming a finite energy pack contained within each seed. Once those resources are depleted, the plant cell... | web |
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Because of environmental consequences of rising temperatures, those species that survived the extinction didn't fully recover for 5 million years.
The study adds a new chapter to the story of how life was forever altered by giant volca... | web |
When Did Filling Out A March Madness Bracket Become Popular?
Millions of Americans will fill out a NCAA basketball tournament bracket this year. How did it become such an incredible social phenomenon?
Even the President of the United States takes time away from work to fill out his bracket. (Wikipedia)
The odds of i... | web |
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Lawton to Ban Smoking on City Property
Published 03/20 2014 05:08PM
Updated 03/20 2014 06:17PM
The city of Lawton wants to put an emphasis on health, after the CDC rated Oklahoma one of the most unhealthy states in the country.
Now, they are working to obtain a grant that would help pay for more health initiatives.... | web |
Space debris could be about to hit us with some weighty legal conundrums
The laws governing space exploration and accidents are throwing up all sorts of interesting challenges
Nasa's upper atmosphere research satellite (UARS), which plunged to Earth early on Saturday. Photograph: Nasa/Reuters
After the anti-climax of... | web |
Consider the dumpling
From doughboys to clooties, the dumpling's day may come again. Are you a fan of these doughy delights?
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Beef casserole with dumpling and vegetables. Photograph: Alamy
The English fancy themselves the kings of dumplings, proud lordlings of a doughy fiefdom. They believe thi... | web |
When the first computer lab was put into the tribal college where I was a consultant, the professor in charge of the project complained that students were spending time in the lab on Yahoo, MySpace, emailing friends on other reservations, downloading software and all sorts of non-academic activities. He asked what he s... | web |
Commerce in schools put under spotlight
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Vending machine in school
Two pupils from the Queensbury Upper School in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, choose a snack from the "Green" vending machine which was installed. Photograph: Chris Y... | web |
NYPLAn 1877 cartoon depicting William Gladstone
The most troubling fact about international politics in the nineteenth century is not that moral appeals to save suffering humanity were absent but that they were commonplace. The British, who led the international campaign to end the slave trade, and then slavery, abuse... | web |
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Why People Purchase Goods And Services Marketing Essay
The study of how and why people purchase goods and services is termedconsumer buying behaviour . The term covers the decision-making processes from those that precede the purchase of goods or services to the fina... | web |
UVM geologist studying climate change in Antarctica
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A University of Vermont geologist is on a research expedition in Antarctica.
Tom Neumann is an expert on ice flow and polar snow chemistry. He and a group of scientists are traveling over the ice in special Norw... | web |
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Most browsers allow the user to change the color settings to override the Web page's CSS and HTML color schemes. This is supported by all versions of Internet Ex... | web |
A social network for robots is set to launch, designed to enable them to share tips over the web about how to be better human caretakers.
The apocalyptic-named RoboEarth is a far less sinister view into our future than it sounds. It is in fact a "Wikipedia for Robots", that will see our robot helpers learning how to ... | web |
Halloween gives bats a bad rap
Halloween is a night for goblins, witches and bats. Actually, Halloween has given bats a bad rap. Despite all you think you know about them, bats won't suck your blood or get tangled in your hair.
According to Department of Fish and Wildlife (DWF) senior environmental scientist Scott Os... | web |
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1. Of or relating to or shaped like a quadrangle
"The part of this gap between the long head of the triceps and the surgical neck of the humerus is usually called the quadrangular space"
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The 21st Century Monolith
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From William Buckler, Author of The Privateer
The 21st Century Monolith
For all intents and purposes, there have been two US Presidents thus far in the 21st century - George Bush (the younger) and Barack Obama... | web |
Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration on the Internet
Helpful Suggestions from K-12 Teachers
Tips and Q&A from Joan Vandervelde's Web page and minilectures that she has used with teachers in online classes. This is based on a compilation of questions she has received in the past three years.
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A very sarcastic way of saying NOT GOOD.
"Well, that was just f*cking GREAT!"
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2. More than usual.
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Khufu Built the Big One
by David Down and Dr. John Ashton on August 13, 2009
Seneferu was succeeded by his son Khufu, known to the Greeks as Cheops (pronounced Kee-ops), and he built the biggest pyramid of them all. It is 751 feet (229 m) at the base and originall... | web |
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Temporal range: Miocene-Holocene,[1] 17.1–0 Ma
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An Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea)
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come out (third-person singular simple present comes out, present participle coming out, simple past came out, past participle come out)
1. To be discovered, be revealed.
It came out that he had been lying all the time.
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We have begun a series of notes on the basics of Corporate Law. This post deals with Securitization by Umang Singh.
Securitization process generally refers to pooling of homogenous financial assets which have regular cash flows attached to it and then repackaging it into securities which can be sold as a commodity t... | web |
Snow Ecology
Photograph of an Arctic hare
The Arctic hare grows a thick coat of white fur that keeps it warm during the cold winters and also helps prevent predators from seeing it in snowy landscapes.
—Credit: Cathy Haglund, flickr
Ecology is the study of the complex ways that living things interact with their envi... | web |
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Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Cervidae
Subfamily: Capreolinae
Genus: Odocoileus
Species: ... | web |
Lady Liberty
statue-of-liberty-addressLady Liberty stands in New York Harbor proclaiming: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Lady Liberty: A beacon of freedom the entire world sees. A symbol of a better way of life anchored in liberty, opportunity and equal protection under ... | web |
V.I. Lenin
Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy
5. A. Bogdanov’s “Empirio-Monism”
I personally,” writes Bogdanov of himself, “know so far of only one empirio-monist in literature—a certain A. Bogdanov. But I know him very well and can answer for it that his views fully accord with the sacramental formula ... | web |
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Every year Fortune magazine in cooperation with CNN Money provides results of a survey, which examines the top list of “best places to work”. In reviewing and evaluating these corporations generally researchers look at not only monetary factors like hiring practices, pay incentives, recognition a... | web |
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It started with a hippopotamus named Rose. At 4 years old, Jane Sorenson fell in love with the diversity of life as exemplified by New York City where in the same day--on a whirlwind visit from Cleveland--... | web |
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Algebra I Recipe: Translating Verbal Phrases into Algebraic Expressions OR Translating English into Math
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REST's uniform interface constraint requires the operations that can be invoked on a resource to be generic, meaning that the applicability of an operation must not depend on the actual nature of the target resource. The uniform interface does not prohibit... | web |
The Search for Self-Understanding12.4
All of the personality theories discussed in this text have one thing in common: They are all designed to explain who we are in man’s quest for improved self-understanding. Many focus on the why of personality, such as Freud’s idea of psychosexual stages or Erikson’s crises that ... | web |
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According to the General Theory of Evolution, about 14 billion years ago “all the matter in the universe was concentrated into one very dense, very hot reg... | web |
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I've looked at an aptitude tutorial and read the man page, but I just don't get it. After you launch aptitude, how do you say "install package foo"? Or search for all packages with "foo" in their name?
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Currency Principles and Definitions
A currency is anything that is accepted as a means of payment, i.e., a medium of exchange.
Money is first and foremost a medium of exchange.
Except for full-bodied coin, every currency is a credit instrument.
In the modern world, virtually all money ... | web |
Thursday, December 1, 2011
I've actually met a man named Madrigal, so I did not just make this one up. My family was on a cruise ship and he was our waiter. He was from Spain, and after researching this name that makes sense.
Madrigal (pronounced "MAH-drih-gal") is derived from the Latin word matricalis, literally m... | web |
Sunday, March 07, 2010
Choosing the number of clusters I: The Elbow Method
It's time to take a brief break from the different clustering paradigms, and ponder probably THE most vexing question in all of clustering.
How do we choose k, the number of clusters ?
This topic is so annoying, that I'm going to devote more ... | web |
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Aether model of semiconductors
Being particle fluid based, Aether model can simplify even the intuitive understanding of processes, which are notoriously described in common textbooks, for example the behavior of semiconductor junctions. Because movable electrons doesn't penetrate atom interior... | web |
Unless the global aid community reverses its support of agricultural privatization and begins to cultivate Malawi-style state subsidies, continuing localized food crises may transform into an unprecedented global famine. The Malawi Model The streets of Blantyre, the second largest city in Malawi, one of the poorest cou... | web |
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The original Clay Mathematics Institute icon took the form of the sculpture "Figureight Knot Complement vii/ CMI" by sculptor Helaman Ferguson. The CMI commissioned the sculpture in early 1999, and the sculptor hims... | web |
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Mr. GRAYSON, after recapitulating the dangers of losing the Mississippi, if the power of making treaties, as delineated in the Constitution, were granted, insisted, most strenuously, that the clause which the honorable gentleman had cited as a security against a dismemberment of the empire ... | web |
Climatologists report that the global weather phenomenon called La Nina has been intensifying. La Nina is characterized by a massive reduction of the water temperature from the eastern Pacific to Australia. It's the opposite of El Nino, which is the warming of water in the same area.
Last year's El Nino had little imp... | web |
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve lies on the Pacific Coast of Alaska south of the St. Elias mountain range. The first recorded charting of the area was done in 1794 by George Vancouver, in which he showed the bay being a small ... | web |
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Mote con Huesillos, Chile’s favorite summer sweet
On my first trip to Chile, in 2005, I kept seeing stands selling “mote con huesillos.” My Spanish-English dictionary was no help, so I tried it and found it to be a stewed dried peach served in a glass with lots of light syrup and a few table... | web |
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Men dumping alcohol into sewer manhole after a Prohibition-era raid
How Teachers can make the most of Prohibition
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The old adage “history repeats itself” has little basis in fact, for as we know past events cannot be replicated. And yet, there are many times when ev... | web |
Restoration in the Thornscrub Biome
I. Extent of thornscrub in North America; Biome types
1) Thornwoods of arid tropical climates
2) Warm semi-desert
1) Dsi (Broadleaf, deciduous, shrubform, frequently not touching)
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My name is Denise Ava Robinson. I am Tasmanian, often referred to as a Tasmanian Aboriginal Artist. Others question or ‘challenge’ me on being Aboriginal. Almost daily I raise this question myself. I have no simple answer. In the wor... | web |
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What is the history of "X is dead. Long live X"?
For example,
Location is dead. Long live Location.
JavaScript is dead. Long live JavaScript.
I feel like I'm missing out on a joke.
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I often utter the phrase 'Man up', or I talk about 'taking it like a man' or earning 'man points' (that last one, not so much, but I hear it still). I don't want to keep doing this, for obvious reasons; It's a bad habit, but I find myself saying it anyway.
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She drives well on a highway.
This sentence makes sense to me, but so does the next one:
This car drives well on a highway.
I'm not sure why. The car can't drive on its own but second sentence isn't saying that it's simply saying a driver can drive the car well on a highway.
Let's say if I... | web |
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We have the word "forearm" — but what's the other half of the arm called by itself? Does it have a corresponding positional name?
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mid-14c., auncyen, from Old French ancien "old, long-standing, ancient," from Vulgar Latin *anteanus, literally "from before," adjectivization of Latin ante "before, in front of, against" (from PIE *anti "against," locative singular of *ant- "front, forehead;" see ante). The parasitic ... | web |
A variable star is any star which undergoes changes to its apparent brightness, caused by the physical behavior of the star itself (not including terrestrial causes like clouds and scintillation). There are thousands of known variable stars, and their variability has many different causes.
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Frog Skin may Help Beat Antibiotic Resistance
Frog skin may be an important source of new antibiotics to treat superbugs say researchers.
The foothill yellow-legged frog is one potential source of antibiotics, say researchers
.So far, more than 100 potential bacteria-killing substances ... | web |
Eating Meat Is Why You Can't Have a Baby
This headline, like many good things in this world, is perhaps an exaggerated simplification of a scientific topic, yes, but an exaggerated simplification rooted in the latest research. A new NIH study found that PCBs—"mostly banned" chemicals with industrial uses—are linked to... | web |
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What is Parkes Weber syndrome?
Parkes Weber syndrome is a disorder of the vascular system, which is the body's complex network of blood vessels. The vasc... | web |
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I am wanting to find a latitude and longitude point given a bearing, a distance, and a starting latitude and longitude.
This appears to be the opposite of this question (Distance between lat/long points).
I have already looked into the haversine formula and think it's approximation of the wo... | web |
Discussion in 'All Languages' started by Setwale_Charm, Mar 8, 2007.
1. Is Death a he or a she in your language when it is portrayed in a symbolic way, as a personality? Does its gender always correspond with the gender of the actual word: la mort, la muerte etc?
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Injury to the sensory branches of the nerves to the face and oral structures can occur due to a variety of reasons including trauma, or as being a known risk for common oral surgical procedures such as wisdom tooth removal, dental implant placement, root canals, tumor removal, and injection of local anesthesia. Many o... | web |
Astronomers Discover Earth-Like Planet Close to Us
Tau Ceti is very close to Earth. It's only 12 light-years away, which in cosmic terms is just around the corner. It's so close that we can see it with the naked eye at night.
The most exciting news is about the Earth-ish planet found in this solar system's goldilock... | web |
Resurrecting the Optigan disc format
The Optigan and Orchestron were a pair of electronic organs built by Mattel in the 1970s which used swappable optical discs to store instrument information. The discs can still be found today, but the organs are extremely scarce, much to [Gan’s] dismay. After researching the organ... | web |
A hypothetical collection of some sayings of Jesus that is assumed to be the source material for the overlapping parts of Matthew and Luke not found in Mark.
Q (short for Quelle, which is German for "source"), is a proposed solution to the . It is also sometimes referred to as the Q document or Q Gospel.
For informat... | web |
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-}
-- | Defines the types for a source, which is a producer of data.
module Data.Conduit.Types.Source
( SourceResult (..)
, PreparedSource (..)
, Source (..)
, SourceInvariantException (..)
) where
import Control.Monad.Trans.Resourc... | web |
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