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life begins at conception , unless cas is involved .
catholic hospital 's lawyers argue fetus not a person
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this would be a very , very bad idea dprk . north korea threatens south korea ove un sanctions :
north korea turns its ire on south korea
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in n.a.a.c.p. , industry gets ally against soda ban hmmmmmmmm . . . .
in court , n.a.a.c.p. adds voice against bloomberg ? s soda ban
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about damn time ! ! ! new york governor signs nation 's first gun-control bill since newtown -
new york to pass first gun control bill since newtown shooting
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unemployment in # spain climbs again , with no relief in sight ...
spanish joblessness climbs again , with no relief in sight
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timothy cook , apple ? s ceo , said the pipeline of products was ? chock-full . ? ? we feel great about what we have in store ?
apple ? s profits are flat , and stock drops
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read that facebook has launched a new tool ( ) to search its huge database of social graph data .
bits blog : facebook unveils a new search tool
3.4
don 't know why i can 't stop reading about him - a data crusader , a defendant and now , a cause
aaron swartz , a data crusader and now , a cause
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i wish i could see this , it sounds cool ! second stage adds ' nobody loves you'
artsbeat : second stage theater adds ' nobody loves you'
3.8
nytimes : # lindarisspugach , whose life was ripped from headlines , dies at 75 # crazylove
linda riss pugach , 1937-2013 : linda riss pugach , whose life was ripped from headlines , dies at 75
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3d version of ? top gun ? was rejected by # china 's censors . the line " religion is darkness ' in " life of pi " gt the x too
in hollywood movies for china , bureaucrats want a say
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. kobe just saved about $ 100 mil
kobe bryant and wife call off divorce
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ny times communications executive bob christie is leaving . one of the industry 's few good spokespeople .
times communications executive is leaving
3.6
rip i have no words : ( at least 245 killed in brazil nightclub fire -
hundreds killed in brazil nightclub fire
3.8
property values : what you get for ... $ 1.6 million
property values : real estate for $ 1.6 million
4.4
# twolves fans should read this piece on kg by in the nytimes
either with him or against him
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india is a shockingly bad place to be a woman - how can it be so backwards ? ?
india ? s new focus on rape shows only the surface of women ? s perils
2.6
be careful what you eat -- particularly at restaurants ! ! !
9 calorie bombs at restaurants
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# britain ’ s prime minister defends decision to seek vote on # europeanunion
u.k. prime minister defends decision to seek e.u. vote
4.8
where in the world is àfrica ? selection of the boeing 787 's battery maker raises questions
common sense : selection of the boeing 787 ? s battery maker raises questions
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women have ' taken their posts with such seamless calm that the country barely noticed . '
op-ed columnist : military women and the front lines
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justice thomas hasn 't said a single word in the supreme court in 7 years.he broke his silence.he said " well he did not "
justice thomas breaks his silence in court
3.8
kids can 't trust anyone ! ! " : 50 arrested in florida child sex sting - including several teachers : "
teachers among 50 arrested in child sex sting
3.8
pentagon to lift combat ban
pentagon ends ban on women in combat
3.4
u.s. , other nations ground boeing dreamliners over fire risk ( cnn )
u.s. , other nations ground dreamliners
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i don 't normally agree with former pm john howard - but he is spot on about gun control in the us
op-ed contributor : australia banned assault weapons . america can , too .
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need a rubber stamp of chairman mao or lady godiva on her horse ? ink pad in the w. village has got ' em . # nabejoint
neighborhood joint | west village : 10,000 rubber stamps at ink pad in the west village
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he arts beat producer says james brown biopic is finally a go : the producers says he 's gotten the rights from th ...
artsbeat : james brown biopic finally gets go ahead
4.2
this is interesting - nytimes : parents ? financial support may not help college grades
parents ? financial support linked to college grades
3.6
ishikawa and wiratchant invited to augusta
ryo ishikawa and thaworn wiratchant get invites to masters
4.2
great idea " : should make capital gains regressive over time , based upon how long capital invested # startupact "
are we living the capitalist 's dilemma ?
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pentagon breaking news , this going to be a big debate .
pentagon to open combat jobs to women
1.2
omo dey go tey : opinion : nigerians still waiting for their ' african spring ' sowore -
nigeria waits for ' african spring'
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not in my diet but hamburger eaters should be aware * horsemeat found in hamburgers in britain & ireland -
horsemeat found in hamburgers in britain and ireland
4.6
online internet aaron swartz commits suicide , relative says
online activist aaron swartz commits suicide
4.8
got a flu shot ? exercising can make it work even better. from
exercise can boost flu shot 's potency
4.2
for # armstrong it 's about rebuilding a revenue stream the same as always . # doprah
for armstrong , a confession without explanation
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disruptions : design rivals technology in importance : nice quotes !
disruptions : disruptions : design is driving technology forward
3.4
before there was dear sugar , there was deary abby : pauline phillips , flinty adviser to millions , dies at 94
pauline phillips , flinty adviser to millions as dear abby , dies at 94
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" france is increasing security at sites in # niger and at home . " # uranium # mali
france is increasing security at uranium sites in niger
4.6
on trial over the illegal use of sea unicorn parts : # dailywhale
2 linked to smuggling narwhal tusks plead not guilty
2.4
n. korea defiant on u.n. sanctions
u.n. security council slams north korea , expands sanctions
1.4
training tips from star athletes # motivation # fitness
personal best : training insights from star athletes
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interesting article ! she ’ s ( rarely ) the boss
op-ed columnist : she ? s ( rarely ) the boss
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christensen : we are living capitalist 's dilemma
are we living the capitalist 's dilemma ?
3.25
the ginger in me loves that world 's # 1 bachelor is part of the # gingerfamily
prince harry most eligible bachelor
0.8
: - \ hmv gone into bankruptcy equivalent ...
dealbook : british retailer hmv enters equivalent of bankruptcy
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really people ? ? ? ? : readers sue lance armstrong for book refund after doping admission ?
readers sue armstrong for book refund
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british woman sentenced to death in bali drug case
british grandmother sentenced to death for smuggling cocaine into bali
3.8
daily review : selected letters of william styron # review
? selected letters of william styron ?
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you 'll need to check the particular policies of each publisher to see what is allowed and what is not allowed .
if you need to publish the book and you have found one publisher that allows it .
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i am not aware of any university run participant pools .
at the universities i 've worked in north america , human-subject studies ( esp .
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apart from admission ( which normally should not be related to age ) , there is something that 's related to your question .
age is not a phd admission facor in the continental europe , too .
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this post refers to research in the stem fields , and may not be applicable to other research topics .
this is about my experience in computer engineering i found that reading for breadth was the more important approach .
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if you don 't want to pay for adobe acrobat pro , as @ schultem mentions , latex can do this with embedded hyperlinks .
if you don 't mind hosting your files online , slideshare is a good solution .
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i don 't think there are likely to be any standards that address this issue specifically .
you 're going to find answers all over the map for this one ( i.e. , there probably aren 't " standards " ) .
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my answer would be depending on which gre are you referring to ?
the problem i see with the gres is that the scoring range is highly compressed .
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if you have access to it , you can very easily do that with thomson reuters ’ web of science portal .
you can have a look at the arxiv cultoromics website at http : / / arxiv.culturomics.org , which however searches in articles on the arxiv .
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in general there are a number of different distinct workflows that lead to a poster .
for completeness , apple 's pages has quite a few nice poster layouts .
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it is perfectly okay to ask for the figure knowing well that the other person may not give .
you can always ask , then it is the choice of the author to accept or not .
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the academic year does start around september in the usa and i think most european countries .
i would not accelerate things , to avoid getting worse grades that you want .
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i will advise exactly the contrary of what bravo just said in another answer : go for a !
you could defer admission , but it 's a little unusual to defer for a year .
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edit , again : the question seems to have changed , yet again .
i can think of three reasons why a faculty member might reveal how a student performed on a qualifying examination .
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i agree with seteropere completely , " network science " is a very broad subject .
i would say you are approaching it in the wrong way .
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supporting an ideology in an ostentatious manner ( rather than privately or discreetly ) is a personality problem .
i think for an appropriate answer i 'd need to know exactly what the ' bad ' ideology is .
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this does not fully answer your question , but it is certainly one consideration .
i am a phd student in computational science , which is an interdisciplinary major spanning mathematics , computer science , and engineerning .
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a few possible problems : 1 ) such an id system seems a little intrusive .
in mathematics , we already have a database of this sort - two them , in fact , with in mathscinet and zentralblatt math .
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as an complement to the other answers , let me address the question of why planets tend towards tidal locking .
the other answers here are fantastic at explaining in a technical sense .
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stars are rotating , but that 's not the cause for their stability .
stars rotate due to the angular momentum of the gas they formed from .
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it indeed appears the andromeda galaxy ( m31 ) and the milky way ( mw ) are en route to a collision .
in a few billion years , the milky way and andromeda will collide .
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the short answer is : we are made from the " stuff " contributed by many stars .
it is highly unlikely that we 're made out of stuff from only one star .
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all we know is this : distant objects are receding from us at a rate proportional to their distance from us .
the expansion of space means that objects in cosmological distances are receding away from each other .
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like chris said above , stars rotate to conserve their angular momentum .
stars are rotating , but that 's not the cause for their stability .
3.4
according to this website the peak visible magnitude will be about 10.5 around february 2nd .
the aavso data seems to indicate that it might have already peaked , at around 10.5 ( visual ) .
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all of these effects are related to the 11 year solar cycle .
i will be specific to answering the part regarding the prediction of solar flares .
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we are moving " ... relative to the comoving cosmic rest frame ... at some 371 km / s towards the constellation leo " .
there is no ' still ' that is not relative to some other object .
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yes , it 's true that the apparent size of the moon is 30 arcmin .
when you gaze at the moon " live " , you are not seeing a still image .
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let us assume the data for a globular cluster to be equivalent to that of m13 .
globular clusters occupy an interesting place in the spectrum of composite stellar systems .
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why is the speed of light 299,792,458 m / s , and not ( for instance ) 3,1 or 4,3 x 10 ^ 44 m / s ?
speed of light being finite is one of the fundamentals of our universe .
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as per your definition , a star formed in a binary system ( hence near some gravitating body ) is a generalised planet .
the main flaw with your definition of a " generalised planet " would be the boundary between stars and planets .
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a method used to calculate the distance between stars is 3 dimensional trigonometry .
you only need two-dimensional trigonometry if you know the distances to the two stars and their angular separation .
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the farther away , the faster the galaxies move away from us .
here is my answer to a similar question posted on the physics stack exchange website .
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stars form in star-formation regions , which itself develop from molecular clouds .
it may be possible for a solar system like ours to exist outside of a galaxy .
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a black hole ( briefly ) , is nothing more than a dead star whose mass was more than 3 solar masses .
i think you mean to ask , " what is the local sidereal time of greenwhich ? " .
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yes , but it does not stay in the same constellation .
constellations are human constructs to make sense of the night sky .
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asteroids are what are called minor planets - small inner solar system rocky bodies .
the objects you are refering to are actually two different objects : asteroids and comets .
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here is a lexical decision task i wrote years ago using php and javascript ( github link ) .
just for reference , i ended up writing simple web-based lexical decision task software myself .
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it 's pretty difficult to imagine a person with social anxiety disorder being an extrovert .
on the surface , it does seem like social anxiety disorder and extroversion shouldn 't both exist in the same person .
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it is hard to delineate emotion completely from thoughts or sensations , because emotion can contain both .
technically speaking , an emotion is not different from thought the way it is processed in brain , both involve neurotransmitters .
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i 've found an additional concept that may be related to the original question : prototype theory .
according to current models of human concept learning , the answer to your question is both .
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there are individuals who possess extraordinary memory ability , sometimes called eidetic memory .
there are many arguments for why this is not the case .
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spike trigger is a specific type or you could say a sub-set of reverse correlations , covariance and probabilities .
there 's the naïve version of spike triggered averaging , and the sophisticated version .
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as mentioned in the other comments , anova is problematic when mixing types of predictor variables .
i like to think of multitasking as rapid task switching .
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q : what is the reason for people to implicitly trust their peers in extreme ( or not ) situations ?
one human-being reliance on other ( s ) awareness is defined by the level of trust between the humans .
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intrinsic reward is the emotional pay-off that you get by completing an activity .
according to frederick herzberg 's two-factor theory of motivation , intrinsic rewards are motivators ( e.g .
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presumably the decision of drivers to slow down in response to work zone signage is influenced by many factors .
this short talk deals with issues of " cheating slightly " : dan ariely : our buggy moral code .
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when studying adult iq , general adult norms are often used .
basically , what you do is you compare each age group iq to the standardization sample .
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some ancient historical precedent exists for preferring $ 10 $ , but also for $ 6 $ , so that 's mixed support from wikipedia on perfect numbers .
this is indeed possible , but i haven 't seen it done experimentally for reasons other than feasibility .
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these are interesting studies , but the bottom line is : yes , environment affects cognitive abilities .
i 'm not sure what you mean by cognitive capacity , but i absolutely believe that language shapes the way we think .
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since this is a relatively new problem for behavioral researchers , i don 't know that there is a common consensus .
i 'll address just the first of your three sub-questions , the others have been answered by chuck sherrington .
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