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Immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attack, some people compared that attack to the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 12/7/1941. It now seems that the comparisons might be more appropriate than anyone could have i... | web |
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Recall that any rock can be changed to a metamorphic rock. Whatever the beginning rock is, it is called the PROTOLITH of the metamorphic rock it is transformed into. Three things contribute in varying proportions to the transformation from a protolith to a metamorphic rock: heat, pressure, and fluids (mostly water wi... | web |
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Are You Happier Than Your Friends?
The takeaway: “Hope is a tremendously powerful factor in happiness,” says Maria Sirois, PsyD, a psychologist and wellness guide and Kripalu Healthy Living faculty member. Money, on the other hand, is not. “Research has shown that once a family earns about $40,000 a year—enough for... | web |
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Some 5km south of central Nagoya, amid extensive wooded grounds, lies the ancient shrine of Atsuta-jingū (熱田神宮), home of the kusanagi-no-tsurugi, or “grass-cutting sword”. This, along with the sacred jewels in Tokyo’s Imperial Palace and the sacred mirror at Ise-jin... | web |
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The following is an exercise in Hungerford (Ch. III, ex. 5.6).
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity. If $f=a_nx^n+\dots+a_0$ is a zero divisor in $R[x]$, then there exists a nonzero $b$ in $R$ such that $ba_n=ba_{n-1}=\dots=ba_0=0$.
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Starting with Java 1.5, When you have generics, List<String> (a List guaranteed to contain nothing but Strings) and List<?> (a List containing any sort of Object) are considered the same class, however, List<String> is a subtype of List<?> because every List<String> is also a List<?>. When you ... | web |
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Geology of the Ugly Islands.
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Cosmic Soup
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Organic compound found in the stars
Astronomers have found the largest negatively charged molecule so far seen in interstellar space. The discovery, of an organic compound, suggests that the chemical building blocks of life m... | web |
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I've run into a conceptual road block. I'm coming to you guys because I think my adviser is getting annoyed with me. The concept involves a meniscus being pulled up a cylinder. I understand that the main force "pulling" on the meniscus at the contact line is due to the difference between the s... | web |
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Rubella, a virus that once caused tens of thousands of birth defects and deaths in a single outbreak, has been eliminated from the United States, health officials say. But Americans must still vaccinate their children, and pregnant women must still ensure they are immune, because the disease exists elsewhere, the Cente... | web |
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Are You Passive, Aggressive or Assertive?
As humans we all have needs, but some are better at expressing them than others. Some of us quietly but resentfully keep our needs undercover for the sake of others, some will push everyone aside to get what they want, and the healthy person can make their needs clear without ... | web |
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There's a way for shy people to feel happier about socializing: Be kind to someone. Psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Lynn E. Alden and Jennifer L. Trew, studied 142 shy people. For two days a week, some challenged their withdrawn habits (striking up conversations, for example), others w... | web |
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3D Printing Buildings on the Moon? Let's do it First on Earth
A lot of fuzz about Foster's plans to print buildings on the moon, but shouldn't we work harder to develop something like this on earth?
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Could Nighttime Deliveries Solve a Lot of Our Traffic Problems?
Jose Holguín-Veras would like you to guess how many deliveries are made in Manhattan every day.
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The USS Constitution never looked better than on the morning it sailed from Alexandria, Va., fully provisioned, with an inexperienced but enthusiastic crew of 450 men eager for action and adventure.
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New Test for Nerve Entrapment
Pressure on a nerve can cause entrapment leading to symptoms such as pain, numbness, and/or weakness. Two of the most common nerve entrapment syndromes are carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome. A new diagnostic test for these conditions is now available.
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These incredibly dry mountains see an average of less than .004 inches/.01cm of rain per year. Many times this area will go without rainfall at all for years. Some places in the Atacama D... | web |
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Mary Schiebe implies in her letter to the editor that the U.S. is a country that has not had signs of bigotry for its existence of over 200 years. That is hardly a true fact and if she studied U.S. history she would find countless incidents of bigotry. Let me ... | web |
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Portrait Maurice LevauxMaurice Levaux, 57 years old, is head of GRIMP, the hazardous environment search and rescue group in Aywaille, Belgium ("grimpe" is another word for "climbing" in French thus the acronym). GRIMP's creation and history are closely linked to a recent event. In 1997, during a club outing at the Sy/O... | web |
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The Masai (Maasai) are an African ethnic group located in Kenya, Eastern Africa. What's surprising about them is that there is no even one person suffering with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, myocardial infarction, and obesity. ... | web |
The Panama Canal Authority, in Panama known as the Autoridad del Canal de Panama (ACP), is conducting a geotechnical investigation along the footprint of a new bridge crossing the new and existing Panama Canal. The initial stage of the geotechnical investigation consists of a geophysical survey which was done in an are... | web |
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A transporter bomb is a combat tactic commonly proposed by inexperienced Trekkies involved in versus debates. The attack may have been first introduced as part of the Star Trek board game, ... | web |
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'Missing link' element created
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The achievement fills the final gap in the list of observed elements up to element 118.
The team produced the elusive element 117 by fusing together atoms of calcium and a rare, heavy element known as berkelium.
After smashing calcium atoms into a target of ... | web |
Asymmetric warfare
Military planners are only beginning to grasp the implications of September 11 for future deterrence strategy
The new buzz phrase of the moment is "asymmetric warfare": the September 11 attacks on the United States were the epitome of this. A few pilots armed with Stanley knives launch an assault on... | web |
The war against cancer is being won with potential therapies that attack cancer on three fronts.
This was the year my friends got cancer. Carleen, who ran our household with love and efficiency, died of cancer. Vicki, Chip, Tom, and Mick all went under the knife and survive, but cancer is still very much part of the... | web |
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Chemotherapy drugs are sometimes delivered through an IV catheter.
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What Is an Acoustic Wave?
Soundwaves cause the eardrum to oscillate, or vibrate, then move into the middle ear.
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\CHER-lish\ Hear it!
What does it mean?
: rude or grumpy
How do you use it?
Curtis, who had forgotten his lunch and then got lost in the museum, was a bit churlish on the way home from the field trip.
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Pumpernickel, the name for the dark-brown, rye bread, comes to us from the German. The German name has been around since at least 1663. The origin is not certain, but it most likely comes from the dialectal German verb pumpern, meaning to fart, and nickel, meaning demon or imp. (Which is from the name Nicholas, a commo... | web |
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"we are lawfully wedded now";
- wed
Verb: wed (wedded,wedding) wed
1. Take in marriage
- marry, get married, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse, tie the knot, get hitched
2. Perform a marriage ceremony
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Adjective: incoherent ,in-kow'heer-unt
1. Without logical or meaningful connection
"a turgid incoherent presentation"
2. (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation
3. Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently
"incoherent with grief";
- tongue-tied
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boxing day
I was thinking about Christmas and its aftermath the other day. I had always heard about Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, but never why it was called that. What did it mean? A little internet research quickly turned up that it was probably British in origin, dating back to t... | web |
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if a drug's recommended dose is 5 mg/kg, and a solution contains a concentration of 2 mg/ml of the drug, What volume of the solution should be given to a cat that weighs 8 pounds?
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