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Sunday, 26 October 2014
95th Birthday of Mohammad Reza Shah
This post is not only dedicated to His Imperial Majesty Shah-an-Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi who was born 95 years ago on 26th October 1919, but also to Reyhaneh Jabbari. The twenty-six-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged by the terrorist Islamic Republic in ... | web |
Saturday, August 04, 2007
And we thought we are clever... :(
Some recent discussions and readings are about cognitive science and behaviour. Behaviour sciences and anthropology are very interesting study areas where some people like to draw similarities between behaviours of animals and humans.
When we're young, we ... | web |
Monday, January 7, 2013
Looking for super powers ~ Southern Fried Science inspires this week's homework
I came across this blog post that matched five organisms with comic book characters who have the same super powers. The creature in the video is one of the five, which character can do this?
Thought it would b... | web |
The Curse of FAST Logic
Fifty years ago, John William Mauchly and John Eckert were hard at work completing the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computing machine. It was built using electron tubes (lots of them) and it was quite large. No doubt its inventors would have had a hard time believing that all of that com... | web |
Student Protests Could Use a Little Égalité
Because no one protests like the French.
By Yasser Ali Nasser, Oxford University
The United States is no stranger to student activism—our campuses have historically fought for or against a variety of issues: civil rights, involvement in Vietnam, the War on Drugs, the Iraq ... | web |
How to Calculate MTR
by Ryan Menezes
The marginal tax rate (MTR) is the amount of tax owed on a specific project or asset. This revenue source and the associated tax rate exist on top of a base income. If the increased income leaves the taxpayer in the same tax bracket as before, the marginal tax rate equals the high... | web |
The same old bullshit, for 2 hundred years. First it was the Catholics - German, Italian and Irish - and then Asians, and then Jews. Whose next?
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I would say that Bertrand Snell is a shinning example of the “Peter Principle”. Bertrand (above, with his ideologic... | web |
Death Takes a Holiday
So shalt thou feed on death, that feeds on men,
And death once dead, there's no more dying then.
Sonnet 146, William Shakespeare
Something happens to the personification of Death such that the very concept of death is suspended. Maybe Death just decides to quit, or maybe someone "captures" Death... | web |
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Many panographers like to present a pure spherical image, with no sign of the photographer or his/her apparatus. It is widely known how to use an additional "nadir shot" to replace the i... | web |
Backing down on climate change
Global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases rise every year, and within decades are expected to hit a worrisome atmospheric concentration threshold of 450 parts per million. At that point, there's a high probability that average global temperatures will be at least 2 d... | web |
Food Intolerance
A food intolerance, or a food sensitivity occurs when a person has difficulty digesting a particular food. This can lead to symptoms such as intestinal gas, abdominal pain or diarrhea.
A food intolerance is sometimes confused with or mislabeled as a food allergy. Food intolerances involve the digest... | web |
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Fact Sheet: Espaliering Shrubs
Jane Edmanson discusses an unusual method for covering a fence or wall
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Many gardeners grow climbing plants up fences and walls because they look good. However, climbing plants naturally grow in sea... | web |
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The Avignon Popes
A severe disagreement between Pope Boniface VIII and France's Capetian King Philip IV, the Fair (kings), led to the election of a French Pope in 1305.
1. Clement V (1305-1314), was Bertrand de Got, Archbishop of Bordeaux. Pope Clement V mov... | web |
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Another achievement completed by Henry Ford was the invention of theassembly line. Therefore, I feel that Henry Ford should have the outstanding honor of... | web |
Jayber Crow: A Novel Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 and 17.
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1. Who is Brother Whitespade?
(a) Head monk a... | web |
E-mail is Dead, Long Live E-mail
You may have at one point in time replied to each piece of spam you received. Perhaps you politely requested to be removed from the spammer's list. Perhaps you weren't so polite. Perhaps you gave that spammer a piece of your mind, feeling better about the whole thing until you got back... | web |
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When water speaks: solvents make catalysts more efficient
M. Farnesi Camellone, D. Marx
Snapshot of the charge transfer: Water-induced charge transfer at the interface between water and catalyst. The red and blue areas in the left and right image quantify the decrease or increase of the electron den... | web |
Asteroid kick started dinosaur age, according to scientists writing in Science, vol 296, p1305, 17 May 2002. American geologists have studied rocks and fossils dated around the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (200 million years ago) and found a sudden extinction of many plant eating dinosaurs, an increase in the number of l... | web |
Why Design Can Save Our World
In the rapidly changing world we are facing future generations will face increasingly challenging obstacles like climate change, pollution, poverty, lack of resources and other difficulties that have yet to manifest. Problems that were predicted years ago have become a reality that we can... | web |
About Jumano Indian Clothing
The Jumano Indian tribe, now extinct, lived in Texas during the 16th to 18th centuries. They lived peacefully with the Spanish settlers arriving in the area and took pains to mimic the lifestyles they encountered. Not only did they make changes in their clothing choices, but also their la... | web |
Differences Between CSV & XLS
Professionals use spreadsheets widely across the private, public and educational sectors. They are tools that allow efficient methods of storing and manipulating large amounts of data. Among the different formats for storing spreadsheet data are XLS and CSV.
FIle Format Defined
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Sensor integrates LEDs for fitness tracking wearables
September 11, 2015 // By Paul Buckley
Osram Opto Semiconductors has optimized the company's portfolio for the optical measurement of pulse rates and blood oxygen levels.
The SFH 7060 sensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed to measure pulse rates and the ... | web |
In the early days of my playing with ElasticSearch, I remember struggling with some of the basic terminology and concepts. Naturally, many of us try to equate ElasticSearch, with what we know of RDBMS. To that end, I thought of posting this simple topic as a reference to others:
Node = DB Instance
One Database Instan... | web |
retrovirus, type of RNA virus that, unlike other RNA viruses, reproduces by transcribing itself into DNA. An enzyme called reverse transcriptase allows a retrovirus's RNA to act as the template for this RNA-to-DNA transcription. The resultant DNA inserts itself into a cell's DNA and is reproduced along with the cell an... | web |
Candy containers capture childhood
My first recollection of getting a candy container was in 1932, when I was 7 years old.
Mom went to a five-and-ten store in East Palestine. When she returned from that shopping trip, there was a surprise in store for all of us, including my brother Bob and sister Anna Jean.
Mom ha... | web |
Crashed car
Spare us from bureaucrats who mean well. In the name of saving lives, The National Transportation Safety Board wants to ban drivers from using cellphones and other hands-free devices. So long, Bluetooth earpieces and in-dash hands-free modules. This would be an all-out-ban on mobile telephones used by the ... | web |
Foolish Checking
Repeat the following to yourself over and over and over again until you have it completely memorized:
"There's no such thing as free checking. There's no such thing as free checking. There's no such thing as free checking. There's..."
Okay. You probably had that memorized after the very first try, ... | web |
Limitations Quotes
The question is: How bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. I'm quite sure that I will never experie... | web |
Russian helicopter pilot rescued from Arctic ice floe relates tale of survival
A Russian helicopter pilot who spent more than 30 hours on an ice floe after ditching his small helicopter into frigid Arctic waters says he's not sure he would have survived much longer had searchers not seen his last warning flare.
Serge... | web |
Facts About the Gumball Tree
An attractive, large shade tree, the gumball tree is more widely known as the sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua). Its woody, spiny, rounded fruits are called "gumballs" and cover the ground in fall and winter once they drop from the branches. Grow a gumball tree in abundant sunshine and i... | web |
'I Am a Living Eyewitness'
The best-known scene in Elie Wiesel's book "Night" is apparently that of the execution. Three prisoners, two of them adults and the third a little boy, were hanged at the Buna camp in Auschwitz after being implicated by the Gestapo in the discovery of a weapons cache. The adults died immedia... | web |
New York Times Turns Blind Eye to EMP Threat
New York Times reporter William J. Broad recently pooh-poohed concerns about U.S. vulnerability to an electromagnetic pulse attack (EMP). It is the stuff of "science fiction," he implied. Along the way, he gets key facts wrong and omits many others that refute this view. He... | web |
Rulers and Subjects
Government and People in Russia 1801-1991
Gooding, John
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No other European country has had a government as harsh and dictatorial as that of Russia. Its rulers, whether Tzarist or communist, have been everything, and the ruled nothing. Why did Russians put up with such tr... | web |
The traditional idea of a short sale is selling something you don't have so that you can buy it back at a lower price. The easiest example is stocks. Short sale of a stock involves borrowing stocks from a broker in order to sell them, and when prices fall, buying back the stocks to return to the broker and keeping any ... | web |
Demonstrators march through the streets following a rally at Marshall Park in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, September 24, 2016. (Photo by AFP)
Angry protesters in the US city of Charlotte, North Carolina, have called on the city’s mayor and police chief to resign over their inability to end racial discrimination, a... | web |
Complications of primary sclerosing cholangitis may include:
• Liver disease and failure. Chronic inflammation of the bile ducts throughout your liver can lead to tissue scarring (cirrhosis), liver cell death and, eventually, loss of liver function.
• Repeated infections. If scarring of the bile ducts slows or sto... | web |
Wilson's disease is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait, which means that to develop the disease you must inherit two copies of the defective gene, one from each parent. If you receive only one abnormal gene, you won't become ill yourself, but you're considered a carrier and can pass the gene to your children.
A... | web |
Pythonic Parsing Programs
The Cover Your Bases Answer
The simplest solution to parsing is to parse a file-like object. Again for the newbies, I say file-like because Python has duck typing. According to Wikipedia this term, duck typing, comes from the saying of an old poet—James Whitcomb Riley:
But I prefer the sce... | web |
L. Augustin / LGGE
This ice core was drilled from a depth of 9,000 feet in Antarctica, one of several used for a new study that found carbon dioxide levels are rising 200 times faster than any recorded in the samples. The core is about 491,000 years old and contains a continuous time series of CO2 and other greenhous... | web |
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problem 1: You have been asked to present a formal Marketing Plan. Describe the significance and meaning of each of the different elements that you would comprise in the Marketing Plan.
problem 2: All Golf was the first retail store devoted exclusively to ... | web |
Spain - Infrastructure, power, and communications
The most developed part of Spain's infrastructure is the train system, which is one of the best in Western Europe. The National Network of Spanish Railroads (Renfe) operates the best part of Spain's 15,430 kilometers (9,588 miles, 1999) of railroads which originate fro... | web |
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Exposure to friendly soil bacteria could improve mood by boosting the immune system just as effectively as antidepressant drugs, a new study suggests.
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Jump-starting the hydrogen economy
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With computing resources from XSEDE, engineers at Ohio University explore ammonia as a source of hydrogen for tomorrow's fuel cells.
For the fuel cell industry, ammonia has all kinds of things going for it. It's abundant—the U.S. Geological Survey rep... | web |
rich nations
Wealth in the world is not equally distributed. Some nations are very rich whereas others are very poor. The Western nations such as the US, West Germany, UK are very prosperous. On the other hand, economically poor countries such as those in the African continent and India, Pakistan are lagging behind. W... | web |
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Performance - Based Bonus : Measuring Schools
Recently, the Department of Education (DepEd) in the Philippines issued Order No. 12 s. 2013. This is a memorandum that provides the guidelines on how the performance based bonus of DepEd employees are to be determined:
For teachers, it is import... | web |
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Gregory Heyworth is a textual scientist; he and his lab work on new ways to read ancient manuscripts and maps using spectral imagin... | web |
How Do You Catch A Satellite?
February 21, 2014
How Do You Catch A Satellite?
ESA’s Clean Space initiative is studying the e.DeOrbit mission for removing debris, aiming to reduce the environmental impact of the space industry on Earth and space alike.
Earth's debris halo
Decades of launches have left Earth surrou... | web |
Get it up: How levitation really works
Q. Levitation– floating in midair as if by turning off gravity– sure looks like fun in magic shows. Is it true a real frog has been levitated? And if a frog, why not you? H. Houdini
A. To the world's amazement, researchers at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory in Holla... | web |
Stories tagged Diversity of Organisms
Clonal grove of trees considered oldest and heaviest living organism
Aspen grove might be clones
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I wrote about Earth's tallest, biggest, and oldest trees about four years ago. This week Wired Science had a wonderful gallery of phot... | web |
The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has suffered a further setback, after Australian officials said wreckage from the aircraft was not on the seafloor in the area they had identified.
Flight MH370, carrying 239 passengers and crew, disappeared from radar screens on 8 March shortly after taking off from... | web |
Google and IBM, expanding an effort that began at the University of Washington, will launch an initiative to help computer science students and researchers learn a form of programming increasingly significant in the Internet age.
The companies are dedicating a data center of several hundred computers for universities ... | web |
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The major challenge today is not finding information but selecting the information that is relevant to your given situation. And it all starts with finding the correct search tools.
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The libraries now give access to several hundred spec... | web |
Photosystem I and photosystem II are found in
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2. grana of chloroplast
3. matrix of mitochondria
4. inner wall of mitochondria
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Elements encompassing which of the following atomic number range are collectively known as the Actinide series?
Options :
1. 36 to 43
2. 89 to 103
3. 97 to 114
4. 101 to 115
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The Extent to Which Women Were Involved in the Dismantlement of Slavery
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blackseedBlack seed plant, also known as black cumin, or black caraway, has been used for numerous health problems and conditions. Here’s what it can do, what it might do for you, as well as side effects to be aware of and interactions with other drugs.
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Different cell organelles are present in the cell and they have different functions.
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World Record Set for (Paper) Plane Flight
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It's a world flight record even though it only lasted 26.1 seconds. Not your usual record, because it's origami, and it was achieved by the president of the Japan Origami Plane Association. Takuo Toda just missed matching his personal best of 27.9 seco... | web |
Questions and Answers about Stones
1. What is a kidney stone?
Kidney stones are typically firm objects that arise in the kidney due to an interaction of genetic and environmental factors in the majority of cases. Stones are formed when salts, minerals and other chemicals in the urine have a higher than normal concentr... | web |
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How to Blow Smoke from Your Mouth Without Using a Cigarette
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Interested in playing a fun trick on your friends or experimenting with the science behind water vapor? Try producing smoke from your mouth without a cigarette. This can be done in different wa... | web |
A look at how American society muddles through its claim of "morality".
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Until the 1980s, the American homeless population comprised mainly older males. Today, homelessness strikes much younger part of society. In fact, a 25-city survey by the U. S. Conference of Mayors in 1987 found that families with children make up the fastes... | web |
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at&t vs intel assembly syntax
Although intel is the standard assembly syntax on the x86 platform and is generally thought to be nicer than at&t there is still good reason to learn at&t as the gcc compiler emits code in this syntax.
Apart from a few aesthetic and operand-or... | web |
The curse of Lucy
Continuing the Captain Caveman series…
3.7 million years ago, two Australopithecines walked across the mud at Laetoli in Tanzania leaving their footprints behind. These hominids were clearly bipedal.
The most famous of this type of hominid is “Lucy,” whose remains were found in Ethiopia and are 3.1... | web |
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Health effects of vegan diets
Health effects of vegan diets
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Exponential family
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Not to be confused with the exponential distribution.
"Natural parameter" links here. For the usage of this term in differential geometry, see differential geometry of curves.
In probability and statistics, an exponential family is a... | web |
Inundating the Border featured in HYDROCity Exhibition
Inundating the Border, was recently included in the HYDROCity Exhibition organized and curated by the always interesting Infranet Lab. The exhibition was part of the HYDROCity International Symposium, featuring a great lineup of speakers.
F.A.D. was delighted t... | web |
BBS10 gene
Bardet-Biedl syndrome 10
The BBS10 gene provides instructions for making a protein that is found in many types of cells. The BBS10 protein is part of a group (complex) of proteins that functions as a chaperonin. Chaperonins help fold other proteins into their correct 3-dimensional shapes so they can perfor... | web |
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Filters are pruning the graph by keeping only nodes and edges that satisfies filters conditions. They are either predicates or functions that reduce the graph, predicates are easy and return only true or false, whereas functions input... | web |
Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining Simulation
Cookie Mining – with an example of cookies used for the activity.
This is one of my favorite activities from our minerals and mining unit. It takes about 1 whole class period to explain the activity, collect data, eat the cookie (& crumbs), and clean up. We discuss our results... | web |
Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… – “If Students Believe That A Teacher Has Taught Them Everything, They Will Be Less Motivated To Explore”.
These results suggest children are extremely sensitive to the subtleties of a teaching scenario, Schulz says: What matters is not if children are shown a function, but how th... | web |
Jazz Goes West: Allan Harris Gives the Black Cowboy a Makeover
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When many people think of the image of the black cowboy, they conjure up a flamboyant character played for comic effect: Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles, or Laurence Fishburne’s Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee’s Playhouse.
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Umbrella term
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An umbrella term is a phrase that organises a broad number of related concepts that all fall under a single common category. For example, cryptology is an umbrella term that includes cryptography and cryptanalysis, among other fields. Sim... | web |
Cultural Norms
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Society comes from the French word “société” and the Latin word “societas” which mean fellowship and companionship respectively. Other popular definitions of society are; a group of people living together because of their same inte... | web |
The limits of my language
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Language is defined as “a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar, or the system of communication used by the people of a particular country or profession”. (Collins English Dictionary)
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The Advanced Configuration & Power Interface is an industry standard for letting the OS control power management.
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14 Types of Bacteria & 10 Strains of Fungus Are Responsible for All the Delicious Flavors of Cheese
If you want to appreciate the value of microbes, look no further than a chunk of cheese. Because cheese roughly traces back to the Neolithic Era, we might say the earliest cheesemakers were the first humans to manipulat... | web |
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Most people think that opening data is a scary thing because we never know how it might be used after all. In the following article, Nicolas Terpolilli, our Chief Data Officer, will debunk the myths about what comes after you open your data.
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US recession deepens as home sales fall, foreclosures rise
The sale of previously owned homes in the United States dropped 27 percent in July to their lowest level in 15 years and US foreclosures are up.
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How much energy does it take to transform 500 g (0.5kg) of liquid water at 20 oC to steam at 100 oC? Note that the specific heat capacity of liquid water is 4.28x10^3 J/Kg/oC and the latent heat of v... | web |
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Light of wavelength 600nm passes through two slits separated by .2mm and is observed on a screen 1.0m behind the slits. The location of the central max... | web |
What Does "Rule Out" Mean?
Understanding How an Accurate Diagnosis is Made
Therapists rule out various mental health issues when they meet with teens.
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Two-factor authentication
Two-factor authentication (2FA) provides your account with a higher level of security than a traditional password.
A traditional password should be complex, but you need to be able to remember it. You should be careful not to share it with others and change it frequently. Even if you take al... | web |
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Stress has been defined in many ways in different literatures. It is not that easy to define stress as it is non-audible and also cannot be seen but it can be felt. It produces measurable changes in the body chemistry. The simplest definition of s... | web |
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Communication is an important part of business. Opportunities are created because of maintaining good communication with your colleagues and clients. Nearly every transaction is impacted by communication, so the importance of th... | web |
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Teens not ready to live alone.
If confronted by a teenager who wants to strike out on his or her own, parents need to be prepared to present the strongest argument possible to prevent such a move. In many states, that action is illegal and parents are held liable for their children's actions, even if... | web |
I decided it was time to read the Rig Veda, and now I have, sort of. I’ve read Wendy Doniger’s compilation of 108 hymns from the book– 1/10 of the total. If she had done the whole thing it would amount to over 3000 pages, so I’m not feeling too guilty.
Indra, chief of the Vedic gods
You may well be saying, the Rig... | web |
Yellow Jaundice (Hyperbilirubinemia)
About half of newborn babies get some yellow jaundice and their skin turns yellow. They aren't born with it — it develops when they are two or three days old.
Why do newborns get yellow jaundice?
The yellow color comes from a chemical called bilirubin. We all make bilirubin all t... | web |
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Always-Sometimes-Never Intro to Identities
Today, I tricked my students into writing identities, without saying the word identity even once. And I think I got them to appreciate how awesome truth is.
The progression during this class was that my students:
1. classified statements as Always ... | web |
Coyote Logic
Posted Jan. 05, 2010, at 5:27 p.m.
If anyone were looking for proof of the gulf between man and animals, the recent flap over a coyote hunting derby in Jackman is exhibit A. Driving the derby is the widely held belief that coyotes are “bad” animals, undesirable because they devastate the state’s deer her... | web |
Monday, December 20, 2010
Special thanks to Peter Bell, Susan Langley, and Ole Varmer for sending in news items.
1. Ahoy, leave that ship alone [Ballina, NSW]:
2. Historic ship’s bell found at scrap yard [Queensland Maritime Museum, Brisbane]:
3. Why wartime wrecks are slicking time bombs:
4. 13th century shipwrec... | web |
Food and Culture
Food and Culture by Pamela Goyan Kittler and Kathryn P. Sucher
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0538734973 | 560 pages | PDF | 18,5 MB
FOOD AND CULTURE is the market-leading text for the cultural foods courses, providing current information on the health, culture, food, and nutrition habits of the most common ... | web |
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