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Intelligent Design is not Science or Scientific
Advocates of Intelligent Design don’t want their beliefs taught in philosophy or history classes, they want them taught in science classes. Thus they need to portra... | web |
Survivor Of A-bomb Presses For Benefits
Nagasaki Man Says Japan Responsible For Medical Bills
March 02, 2001|By Uli Schmetzer, Tribune Foreign Correspondent.
NAGASAKI, Japan — Fifty-six years after an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" blasted him off his bicycle and destroyed his city, retired mail carrier Sumiteru Ta... | web |
Cosmological constant
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Estimated ratios of dark matter and dark energy (which may be the cosmological constant[clarification needed]) in the universe. Dark energy now dominates the energy of the universe, in contrast to earlier e... | web |
Last time I spent most of the time talking about the IDT file structure and a little bit of time talking about relational databases. If you remember, in the middle of the blog entry I hinted that the names of the columns had quite a bit of contextual information in them. Before I go on to discuss the actual workings of... | web |
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What do Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit have in common? More than many might think, according to a new production of the play “Fetch Clay, Make Man,” about the legendary boxer Ali (AKA Cassius Clay) and his unlikely friendship with the race-based comedian. The... | web |
What Microbes Are Growing In Your Office? Science Wants to Know
By Veronique Greenwood | June 1, 2012 12:56 pm
You basically live here. What else does?
Refrigerators, indoor pools, airplanes, daycares, public bathrooms, shower curtains, water heaters, pillowcases—these are just a few of the places swabbed by enterpr... | web |
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What If a Large Asteroid Was Heading for Earth?
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:15 am
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The asteroid “253 Mathilde” which orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
CLR INTERVIEW: Philip Plait is an astronomer who has written for magazines such as Astronomy a... | web |
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How To Breathe Better During Exercise
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Muscles need oxygen to work and the most important way your body gets oxygen is through the air you breathe. Exercise increases the amou... | web |
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While studying artificial neural networks, I stumbled upon the following question:
Are there any hard-wired axioms in the brain that must exist equally in every conscious mind?
I could imagine that, since neuron can't change their principal behavior, simple signal-modulating functions should... | web |
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Computer Hardware Required for Creating Subliminal RecordingsBefore beginning to design and create subliminal, supraliminal or paraliminal audio recordings, you should be certain that you have the minimal suggested hardware components to do so.
Most currently available laptop and desktop computers are more than likely... | web |
Size does matter—when it comes to the U.S. Navy.
Representative J. Randy Forbes (R–VA), chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R–NH), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, are the latest officials to raise concern over the U.S. Navy’s ... | web |
Microbial products often are classified as primary and secondary metabolites.
primary metabolites consist of compounds related to the synthesis of microbial cells in the growth phase.
Secondary metabolites usually accumulate during the period of nutrient limitation or waste product accumulation that follows the activ... | web |
Price of food basket at an all time high
January 29, 2006
At a seminar last week, which I was unable to attend, an economist presented some general graphs about the Venezuelan economy in 2005 and 2006. I got the presentation and reviewing it ,was surprised by a header which said that the price of one Venezuelan “Basi... | web |
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People hate aphids because they’re incredibly successful pests. Aphids love our vegetable gardens and our flower beds. They hang out under leaves, safe from the sun, and drain a plant’s energy by drinking the sap. They can also transmit al... | web |
Della Torre
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Coat of Arms of the House of della Torre.
Gravestone of Dionigi della Torre.
The Della Torre (or Torriani, Italian for "Of the Tower") were an Italian noble family who rose to prominence in Lombardy during the 12th-14th centuries, until the... | web |
The Polarizing Microscope
Polarizing microscopes are commonly referred to as petrographic microscopes because they are often used to investigate rocks and minerals. Petrographic microscopes use either polarizing sheets or double refractive Nicol prisms to polarize the monochromatic light emerging from the light source... | web |
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Magnetic soap made for oil spills
University of Bristol
A magnet plunged into test tubes filled with soap under an organic solution. The soap on the right is magnetic. You can see how it is attracted to the magnet.
Scientists have created the world's first soap that can be controlled by magnets.
That'... | web |
Iran Tests Long-Range Missiles Over Strait of Hormuz, Creates First Nuclear Fuel Rod
Iran has successfully tested two long-range missiles over the Strait of Hormuz—a crucial point for oil commerce—in response to Obama's December 31 sanctions against Iran's central bank. What's worse: Iran claims they have created thei... | web |
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15 Dec 2003 Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
Merely expanding the number of women in leadership roles does not automatically induce organizational change. Harvard professor Robin Ely and Debra Meyerson call for fundamental changes to transform organizations.
Why are women so dramatically un... | web |
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Native American Legend of the Dreamcatcher
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...good dreams slip through the web and into the sleeper during the night
...bad dreams become caught in the web and are perished by morning light.
The legend of the Native American dreamc... | web |
SBMERGE (2.0) March 2008 SBMERGE (2.0) NAME sbmerge -- Combine concurrent single-bit (SB) mode data and create an output file of Science Array format which can be used with saextrct. USAGE sbmerge num_file infile outfile DESCRIPTION This task takes several SB mode data or an ASCII file that contains the list of SB mode... | web |
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Chapter 1- Kids Want to Know
1. How might the "working alone" culture limit student's development?
2. Consider the idea of teaching the reader-not the reading. How might that idea affect teaching in the classrooms in your school?
3. How could you use the principles of inquiry circles in your curricular planning?
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International Incidents
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The bond between the U.S. and China has rarely been very strong ... resentment of American power in Asia, on the other hand, is deeply rooted. Even when China wants U.S. technology and reasonably good relations between the two countries, the Commun... | web |
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March 30, 2013
Congress passed a bill last week that included a provision which "protects genetically modified seeds ... | web |
The Five Most Common Causes of a Check Engine Light and What You Should Do About Them
You're driving home from work one day when the car owner's worst nightmare happens: the check engine light pops on. It comes without warning and with no explanation. For most drivers, this means a trip to the mechanic, but it's not d... | web |
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Making an Improvised Stake Anvil
A DIY stake anvil, in the fashion of early iron age anvils.
A stake anvil is one of the oldest styles of iron anvil out there, they have been used to good effect since the Mid-Iron Age, well over 1,800 years, and was the most ... | web |
Twitchy Coating Shakes Off Ship Scum, Barnacles
This illustration shows the self-wrinkling biofilm repelling barnacles.
Phanindhar Shivapooja and Qiming Wang
A new coating for ships keeps clean by literally shaking off barnacle buildup. The coating moves, at a molecular level, whenever it's stimulated with stretching... | web |
Steve Zylius/UC Irvine UC Irvine computer science professor Michael Franz has devised a way to individualize software programs to help keep hackers from inflicting widespread damage.
Fighting off virtual attacks
Inspired by nature, Michael Franz develops new cyber security techniques
Franz, director of UC Irvine’s ... | web |
'Unimpressive' cull results warning
Culling badgers will have "unimpressive" results in reducing tuberculosis in cattle and cost taxpayers more than it saves, experts have warned.
But scientists, including experts who were behind a long-term trial which found that culling 70% of badgers in an area over four years c... | web |
Webinar: Why did people fear the Victorian workhouse? | The National Archives
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08 July 2014
The workhouse was a major feature in the lives of the poor, whether or not they were ever inmates themselves. This webinar will help you to explore records in The Natio... | web |
Arable plant species disappearing
Some of the most well-loved flowers of the British countryside are disappearing from arable fields, conservationists have warned.
Cornflowers, corn marigolds, pheasant's eye and, in some areas, poppies are becoming increasingly threatened species in the face of more intensive agricul... | web |
Dinosaurs Had the Worst Luck
Dinosaurs aren't dead. Not completely. Birds carry on their Mesozoic legacy. But all the forms that inspire our dreams and nightmares - the tyrannosaurs, ceratopsids, sauropods, and their ilk - are all gone. They were wiped out in a blink of geologic time, roundabout 66 million years ago. ... | web |
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Ice hockey is definitely the most brutal form of hockey. Many violent collisions, fights, and bodychecks occur during every game. That is why it is perfectly appropriate to demonstrate the rules of momentum, impulse, and collisions using examples from i... | web |
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Christopher Abbott, M.D, M.S., will be the principal investigator on a three-year $200,000 grant from the Dana Foundation as pa... | web |
NASA News National Aeronautics and Space Administration John F. Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899 For Release: Jan. 12, 2001 KSC RELEASE NO. 08 - 01 LAUNCH COUNTDOWN FOR SHUTTLE MISSION STS-98 BEGINS JAN. 16 NASA will begin the countdown for launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-98 Jan.... | web |
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Excellent column by Prof. Dorff. Mathematics is more than simply arriving at a correct answer. In my opinion it is mostly about teaching the student to understand what it is he is attempting to accomplish and teaching him the necessary skills to reason hi... | web |
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3.ventricles begin to depolarize at apex; atria repolarize
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The Student Government Association was officially formed in 1921 as a representative body to the university, though it was then called the Student Council. In the 1950s, the organization became known as... | web |
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This section reviews a few basic linux commands. You can use the tutorial information presented on this page or for more in-depth coverage go to For help running programs on the Stern GRID see GRID Processing at ... | web |
National Basketball Association
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National Basketball Association
Current season or competition:
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Sport Basketball
Founded 1946
Commissioner Adam Silver
No. of teams 30
Country(ies) United States
Most recent champion(s) San Antonio Spur... | web |
Reeve's Muntjac
Reeve's Muntjac
COMMON NAME: Reeve's muntjac, Chinese muntjac
KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Chordata
CLASS: Mammalia
ORDER: Artiodactyla
FAMILY: Cervidae
GENUS SPECIES: Muntiacus (Sunda language for muntjac) reevesi
DESCRIPTION: The Reeve's muntjac is a small brown deer with branched antlers, and a lo... | web |
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I always thought the two could be used interchangeably (meaning "the Spanish language"). But I recently got into an argument with someone where they insisted there was a difference (although I didn't quite understand what that difference was).
So, is there a difference between "español" and ... | web |
Developers who are proficient with SQL are accustomed to posing questions to SQL Server in its native tongue. However, SQL statements are arcane, and you can't expect your Web site's visitors to be able to create complex query statements to extract the information they're looking for. You can try to anticipate visitors... | web |
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I am interesting and would like to learn more on java , how write into existing excel sheets / manipulating the existing data. I was wondering if you could give me an idea on how to edit an existing excel file and saves it using the jxl api / Apache POI or perhaps give me a sample program on h... | web |
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Everything you need to know about the Venezuelan protests
Dozens have died in protests that have shaken Venezuela's government. Why are Venezuelans angry?
"People will take to the streets, and they won't be going home."
"People will take to the streets, and they won't be going home." (REUTERS/Jorge Silva)
What are the... | web |
ZeroAccess: A look at just how big a botnet can get
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine just how contagious a botnet can be, and then sometimes you see them from space. Security researchers at F-Secure created this look at ZeroAccess botnet infections today, across the United States and the world.
Image if each one of tho... | web |
2 The Archival Information Package
The OAIS describes a single abstract entity known as an archival information package (AIP), which bundles together inter alia, a byte stream representing original content, representation information by means of which that content information can be recreated, and metadata by which it... | web |
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The first visitors from the Western world compared ancient architecture of Angkor Wat to the best examples of ancient Greek and Roman architecture. A Portuguese monk, who saw it in 1586, wrote that «its extraordinary construction is not possible to describe with a pen».
Angkor Wat is ... | web |
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Rape Survivors
Dealing with the after effects of rape is a nightmare. The physical hurts can often soon be mended, but it's the inner pain that people can't see that takes longest. It's also the hardest to deal with because it's not like healing after surgery, there is no set time li... | web |
How to Increase Metabolism During Marathon Training
When Amanda, a young runner I coach, started training for her first marathon earlier this year, she weighed 125 pounds. Twelve weeks and hundreds of miles later, she was a lot fitter but also six pounds heavier. Concerned, she contacted me and asked if I had ever hea... | web |
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Never Give Up (10/22/13)
Colonel Sanders went to more than 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he found an interested buyer. The fact that we can buy Kentucky Fried Chicken today attests to his perseverance.
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5pMU2. String vibrations in hammered dulcimers.
David R. Peterson
A unique characteristic of the hammered dulcimer is that the middle bridge splits string courses into a length ratio of 3:2, so the two string segments have an interval of a musical fifth. When the longer segme... | web |
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As the name implies, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is natural gas in its liquid form. The conversion of natural gas to a liquid is called liquefaction. LNG is formed by super-cooling natural gas through a refrigeratio... | web |
Suli - Meaning of Suli, What does Suli mean?
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[ syll. su-li, sul-i ] The baby girl name Suli is pronounced as SUWLIY †. Suli's origin is Icelandic. Suli is a familiar form of the Estonian name Sula... | web |
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The pottery that had attracted the greatest attention from the mid-eighteenth century was the Athenian, particularly the red-figure made between about 520 and 380 BC. Here the draughtsmanship was more accomplished than it had ... | web |
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The 21st of December 3012 was when Guru Smeze of the alien race Azeruman first landed on earth officially. At first when they came to earth some 5 years before they found a co... | web |
Climate Change: Global Temperature
(Updated June 2, 2014)
Temperatures measured on land and at sea for more than a century show that Earth's globally averaged surface temperature is experiencing a long-term warming trend.
The concept of an average temperature for the entire globe may seem odd. After all, at this ve... | web |
Where Did Oracle Come From?
July 13, 2005
As an Oracle DBA, you know that Oracle is a relational database management system and that it performs many complex functions well. In the pressure to learn how to be a DBA or what it is you should be doing, it is hard to take the time to sit back and appreciate the origins o... | web |
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1. extreme intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
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Symptoms of High Blood Glucose
Why do I feel so awful when my blood glucose is high? When the blood glucose is high, many people feel unwell. Here are the most common symptoms, and the reasons for them:
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Wet meadows are characterized by moist to saturated soils with standing water present for only brief to moderate periods during the growing season.
Vegetation includes a wide variety of herbaceous species, from sedges and rushes to forbs and grasses. Woody vegetation, if present, accounts for less than 30% of the tota... | web |
Drug Testing Policies
Drug testing programs have increasingly been used to justify discriminatory policies against people who use drugs or have addictions. Since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration began to heavily promote workplace drug testing, it has proliferated from safety-sensitive jobs to non-safety sensi... | web |
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Make a Weather Calendar
No two days are exactly alike. Each season brings different weather and each day new possibilities. Here's a way you can explore each season with your students.
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Explanation Text, tahukah kalian apa dan bagaimana jenis teks bahasa Inggris yang berfungsi menjelaskan ini? Sebelum melihat kumpulan contoh text explanation, akan lebi... | web |
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Carpool Lanes: Not Just for Carpools Anymore
WASHINGTON — If helping the environment isn't a good enough reason to buy a hybrid car, lawmakers are contemplating a powerful appeal to drivers' self-interest: an easier commute.
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Old English balca "ridge, bank," from or influenced by Old Norse balkr "ridge of land," especially between two plowed furrows, both from Proto-Germanic *balkon- (cognates: Old Saxon balko, Danish bjelke, Old Frisian balka, Old High German balcho, German Balken "beam, rafter"), from PIE *bhelg-... | web |
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The physical remains of holy men and women and objects associated with them embody aspects of the divine and ther... | web |
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Homemade Ant Killer- recipes for “Do-it yourself solutions”
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Where do Ants come from and why do they get in your house?
Ants almost always enter homes only to search for food and water. All ants live in colonies made up of egg-laying females, males, and workers (sterile females). The ants that you fi... | web |
2030: Robot Competence Comparable to Larger Mammals
Second generation universal robots may have mammallike cognitive ability. A conditioned learning mechanism would let past experience guide them among alternative actions in their application programs, gradually adapting to their special circumstances.
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Locard’s Exchange Principle
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Germans Would Have Used Producer Gas Rather than Diesel Engines
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Spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of the bubonic plague epidemic in India
Hwa-Lung Yu and George Christakos*
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Department of Geography, 314 Storm Hall, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4493, USA
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‘The True Sage of Woodstock’
Stressed by Murray is “the specifying note of political association” which differs from associations like the employer-employee relationship, voluntary associations, or married family life where “the forces of life itself” define the association more than reason. Rather, the essence of t... | web |
Forum Keeps Parents Aware of New, Dangerous Tech Trends
By: Allison Hunt
By: Allison Hunt
Knoxville (WVLT) - If you have kids in their teens, chances are you've heard of the website myspace, but are you able to make sure they're using the site, or even the internet safely?
Volunteer TV's Allison Hunt attended a meet... | web |
Wagon Train story missed one name
webmaster | 04/15/13
I read the April 9 Madera Method Wagon Train article and I noticed that a person was missing from the narrative. That was Bill Coate.
Coate forgot to mention that he was the one who found many of the people to participate in it. Madera County Cattlewomen (MCCW)... | web |
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Lesson 148: Intro to Locus Problems
The locus is a set of points that satisfy a certain condition. In this lesson we'll learn the basics of how this topic works.
The definition of locus (plural: loci) is the set of... | web |
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