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Are you smarter than a fiction writer?
The answer may surprise you.
Tess Gerritsen, one of my favorite thriller writers, has this to say:
Do you have to be smart to write fiction?
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What's a Tithe of Nothing?
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What's ten percent of zero? If you're in college, you're not earning much money. You go to church, and hear the appeals from the pulpit for regular tithing, and you can't decide whether to feel ashamed or angry or guilty.
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Worms spread on computer networks via network resources. Unlike Net-Worms, a user must launch a Worm in order for it to be activated.
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The liberal democratic camp defeated its authoritarian, fascist, and communist rivals alike in all of the three major great-power struggles of the twentieth century -- the two world wars and the Cold War. In trying to determine exactly ... | web |
Constructing and slicing geometric shapes
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Sun running out of Hydrogen.
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Communication between AS2 and AS3[basic]
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Paying the Price: Why Are S.F. Gas Prices So High?
Bay Area motorists pay the highest gas prices in the state
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When gas prices spiked above the $2-per-gallon mark in the Midwest this spring and caused a national outcry, Bay Area motorists could only laugh. Afte... | web |
Fertility specialists can now magnify human sperm by 7300 times its normal size and found that patients in a pilot program had an average of 30 per cent DNA-damaged sperm. "DNA damage can be genetic or caused by environmental or lifestyle factors including smoking, obesity and diabetes. Exposure to toxins, including ch... | web |
Smyril Line's high speed ferry Norröna travels between Iceland and Denmark
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The Faroe Islanders cling to the typical antiquated belief of other backwards whaling nations – that they have a right to br... | web |
Cross-section of a tree played like a record on a turntable
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How to Salvage a Damaged Audio Cassette.
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Ahead of the launch of the Cosmonauts exhibition at the Science Museum, the Culture Secretary John Whittingdale met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets to discuss cultural collaboration between the two countries.
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Smog dims the city of lights; our streetlamps might be driving away bats; and everyone's least favorite infectious disease, measles, has popped up in yet another city. It's all in this week's all-Gizmodo look at What's Ruining Our Cities.
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Artificial Intelligence can make you feel stupid.Often the words used to discuss it are miles away from the ones we use every day. It can feel like an exclusive club. This AI alphabet will bring you closer to understanding the language used to talk about machine intelligence. A is for Artifi... | web |
Better than Chemotherapy: Gene Therapy, a New Method to Cure Cancer
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Precise delivery of active agent to cancer cells
This new method in curing cancer involves precise delivery of free radical gas to kill cancer cells and induce apoptosis.
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Transform emotions
The Buddha Dharma is for clearing all the impurities of the mind.
There is nothing in the Dharma which is not aimed at clearing our negative emotions. There is nothing in the Dharma that is not a direct antidote for our negative emotions.
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We step back in time with the Hadza
Magama hands his bow and arrow to 14-year-old Travis. The arrow is tipped with a sharp metal barb. Travis lets fly, and his arrow lands close to the target, a burlap bag lying in the African dust.
Magama and the other Hadza hunters c... | web |
Expression of a Freedom
The meaning of art is an expression of a freedom. And freedom is something very valuable that is owned by everyone without limits untouched by what is called bondage. Meaning of this freedom is one which is the breath for a form of art. However, the issue of freedom of expression in the arts i... | web |
The Best Sprinkler for Wind
Wind carries misty water away from plants and forces it onto nearby pathways.
Manufacturers design different sprinkler heads for various yard applications, from watering low-lying grasses to sprinkling tall bushes with simulated rainfall. Every yard, however, is susceptible to some windy ... | web |
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Common sense tells us that either two things happen at the same time or they do not.
In a previous issue of Parabola (Vol 28 No 1, p26) David Tacon has written about prime numbers, that is integers greater than one which have only 1 and themselves as divisors.
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Bongo Bongo Land
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Jamhuri ya Bongo Bongo Ardhi
Republic of Bongo Bongo Land
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Racist Cartoon: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
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Error Recovery
It is not usually acceptable to have a program terminate on a parse error. For example, a compiler should recover sufficiently to parse the rest of the input file and check it for errors; a calculator should accept another expression.
In a simple interactive command p... | web |
The Women of Persia
Symbols of beauty and resistance
The famous Persian heroine, Apranik,
Under the patriarchy that evolved over the past 3000 years, women around the world have been sidelined from public office and disempowered. Yet without women, men could not survive or even thrive.
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Teaching Skills vs. Teaching Knowledge
This teacher quite emphatically favors the latter:
Here's my James Randi challenge to educators: Thinking Skills don't exist, at least, not in the way we are led to believe. Despite the fact that many schools like to flush precious resources on Thinking... | web |
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Your Day in the Sun: A Guide to Solar Filters
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Korean Journal of Materials Research, Vol.26, No.11, 604-610, November, 2016
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Fabrication and Photoelectrochemical Properties of a Cu2O/CuO Heterojunction Photoelectrode for Hydrogen Production from Solar Water Splitting
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Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad
Over the course of a decade and across 32 states, photographer and digital artist, Stephen Marc, followed the Underground Railroad, the network of people and places that served as a gateway to freedom during slavery in the American South, creating compelling and visual... | web |
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a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
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Portable Operating System Interface: developed under the IEEE, a set of standard operating system interfaces based on the UNIX operating system. The need for standardization arose because enterprises using computers wanted to be able to develop programs that could be used the computer systems of different manufacturers... | web |
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Supreme Court: Traffic stop OK despite mistake of law
The 8-1 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts said that such a stop does not violate the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches.
The Supreme Court agreed, finding that the Fourth Amendment requires police to act reasonab... | web |
Scythia (sĭthˈēə) [key], ancient region of Eurasia, extending from the Danube on the west to the borders of China on the east. The Scythians flourished from the 8th to the 4th cent. B.C. They spoke an Indo-Iranian language but had no system of writing. They were nomadic conquerors and skilled horsemen. They seem to be ... | web |
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LSPENueva's physical education program consists of individual and team-building activities that help students develop skills and confidence in a non-competitive and nurturing environment. Teachers emphasize lifelong physical fitness, sportsmanship, and risk-taking through a wide range of activities. Our facilities incl... | web |
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Who’s to Blame for ‘Under the Bus'?
From the tar pits of the blogosphere to the peaks of the mainstream media, one strange phrase has bubbled up in the wake of Sen. Barack Obama's sweeping speech on race in America: "He didn't throw him under the bus." The "him" is, of course, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Obama's for... | web |
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Fancy a Pint? Brew Throughout the World
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Has all the talk about the debt ceiling left you wanting to reach for a cold one? Or several? How likely are they to be drowning their sorrows elsewhere in the world?
You might not expect us to have an answer but, as it happens, we’ve been promp... | web |
Family uses Plugged In as a ‘significant compass’
Plugged In helps college student stand-up for his belief
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This book has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine. It is the 18th book in the "Magic Tree House" s... | web |
Deep Freeze 2014 was a rough one. At one time, between my daughter's house and mine, two of our three cars wouldn't start. The one that would was parked in front of one that wouldn't. And the car at my son's house was stuck in snow and on ice.
But all that cold was actually good for Mother Earth in some ways. Associat... | web |
A US government shutdown is possible on Tuesday, the first day of fiscal 2014, because Congress has so far failed to find a way to pay for it. A closure would have far-reaching consequences at federal agencies dealing with everything from sending out Social Security checks to collecting admission fees at national parks... | web |
NV 203. Martin Luther King Jr.
This course examines the life and philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr., including the historical context of his work, the basis for his religious beliefs, his commitment to nonviolence, his work for civil rights and his work against the Vietnam War and poverty.
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Hydrocarbons are organic compounds with the general formula CxHy. As a rule of thumb, many carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon molecule give higher boiling and melting points. For example, buthane C4H10 is a gas at room temperature where as the compound octane C8H18 is a liquid. All of them are flammable and often used as fu... | web |
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From Third World to Brave New World
China's embrace of state-driven eugenics should be of concern to bioconservatives and bioliberals alike
By George Dvorsky, October 27, 2003
China took a great leap forward on October 15 by becoming only the third nation in history to put a man in space. On top of a... | web |
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Popping steam bubbles used for underwater communications
• A new method of underwater communication relies on using lasers to make a series of tiny popping noises.
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Access is the time a parent spends with a child they usually don't live with. Access can be on a strict schedule, such as every other weekend, or on a flexible schedule, such as whenever the parents agree. In some cases, a parent might have supervised access where someone else watches the visit.
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Nutritional Problems In Reptiles
Health problems arising from an inadequate diet are one of the major concerns in herpetological medicine.
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Establishing Allah’s discourse in Islam
The only way that I see forward is neither ‘ijtihad’ nor ‘islah’, nor ‘ tajdeed’ ‘ehyaa’ or ‘tashkeel e nou’. Islam and Muslims rather need ‘ibtidaa e nou – min al asal’
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The Rename File dialog
Screenshot of the Rename File dialog.
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Stern–Gerlach experiment
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The Stern–Gerlach experiment demonstrated that the spatial orientation of angular momentum is quantized. It demonstrated that atomic-scale systems have intrinsically quantum properties, and that measurement in quantum mechanics... | web |
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ANTIUM (mod. Anzio), an ancient Volscian city on the coast of Latium, about 33 m. S. of Rome. The legends as to its foundation, and the accounts of its early relations with Rome, are untrustworthy; but Livy’s account of wars between Antiu... | web |
Bank (geography)
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Diagram of a river's left and right banks
A sloping sandy point bar (close side) and the vegetation-stabilized cut bank (far side) on the Namoi River, New South Wales, Australia. These two constitute the banks of the river.
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Composite Bows: Weapon of Ancient Nomadic Equestrian Cultures
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Archery is simple in concept, yet it represents an extremely sophisticated technology. In its most basic form, a bow is a piece of wood slightly bent and held in tension by a connecting bowstring. However, as the bow is drawn, tensile stres... | web |
The War in the Air
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It's dark and cold, no matter how much layers I put on it won't be enough to wear in the air because of the high altitudes. Us pilots are 21,000 feet up in the air and that's 35 degrees colder than it is on the ground, as well as being unarmed. I have layers and layers on but somet... | web |
Lactose Intolerance
Lactose intolerance is a digestive condition that happens when an individual does not produce enough lactase enzymes in the small intestine to digest the lactose in dairy products.
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The Greek island of Santorini, also known as Thera, is now a popular tourist destination. Some 3,600 years ago, however, it was the site of one of the worst natural disasters in human history, when a volcanic eruption virtually destroyed the island. The gigantic explosion led to the collapse of the Minoan civilization ... | web |
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Alarm over West Nile virus cases
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Holidaymakers heading for Europe, the US and Canada were last night warned to protect themselves against mosquito bites in a bid to keep the potentially deadly west Nile virus out of Britain.
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What every swimmer should know about "that smell"
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Swimming is probably the cleanest sport on the planet...or is it?
Who can argue with the facts: Swimmers literally immerse themselves in chlorinated water for hours at a time.
From a chemical standpoint, we are talking about being submerged in d... | web |
Does Caffeine Affect Fertility?
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Life we all say begins at 40 but unfortunately, most of us never get the chance to live up to this very lovely point in our lives. Whereas others fall prey to all kinds of sicknesses and diseases, others comple... | web |
Staircases | An Architect Explains
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Post-traumatic stress disorder is an unpredictable psychological consequence of Japan's most recent earthquake and tsunami. "'There will be people who will be able to move back to how things were, and there's going to be a subset of people who are going to have more mental health issues,' said Melissa Brymer, a clinica... | web |
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Skittle: A 2-Dimensional Genome Visualization Tool
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Fayetteville 3rd and 4th graders take part in 'We All Learn Differently Olympics'
3rd and 4th graders at Fayetteville Elementary School walked in some of their classmates' shoes on Thursday taking part in W.A.L.D.O., or the "We All Learn Differently Olympics."
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Automotive is the segment everyone looks to for significant growth over the next five to 10 years and beyond. Certainly, BMW has led the way with the i3/i8 program, as well as the Carbon Core in the 7-series. The trend toward electric vehicles will create increased demand as automakers leapfrog each other to increase r... | web |
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XPath assignment #1 answers
You can find an XML (TEI) version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at We’ve deliberately damaged some of the markup in this edition to introduce some incon... | web |
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Executions in Indonesia
A drug war implies killing. On 18th January Indonesia, executed six persons convicted of drug crimes, including five foreign nationals and two women. An editorial in the Bangkok Post set the context; “In a span of more than thirty years, Southeast Asian countries ... | web |
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