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From Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions, 1894
The MISTLETOE had an early reputation as a guide to the other world. Armed with that golden branch, one could pass to Pluto's realm:—
"Charon opposed—they showed the Branch.
They show'd the bough that lay beneath the vest;
At once his rising wrath was hush'd to rest."
Its... |
What is acupuncture?
Practitioners use acupuncture treatment – a traditional Chinese medicine – by inserting thin, sterile needles at specific points on the body to treat pain, facilitate healing and promote physical and mental well-being.
Acupuncture stimulates energy channels on the body – called Qi – that are consid... |
What is family practice?
A family practitioner is a primary care doctor who provides health services to adults, children and adolescents. Family practitioners have a very broad scope of practice, but are usually the patient’s first consultation before being referred to other specialists, if necessary. The family practi... |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenagers who have irregular periods are more likely to be overweight and obese and to have early warning signs of diabetes and heart disease than those with regular menstrual cycles, suggests a new study.
While the link between irregular periods and heart disease and diabetes is well establ... |
Kroto is now one of several prestigious individuals, including the groundbreaking Chemist Linus Pauling, who have enriched the Linfield community at an Oregon Nobel Laureate Symposium.
“The lecture-symposium was scheduled two years ago,” Director of Communications Mardi Mileham.
She mentioned that Kroto was selected to... |
A collection of paper, parchment, or any other material containing print, paintings, or other inscribed works that are all bound between two protective covers are called Books. However, an e-book is is a collection of text that is electronically formatted. Antique books come in the form of scrolls and codex. The protec... |
tree-equal tree-1 tree-2 &key test test-not => generalized-boolean
Arguments and Values:
test---a designator for a function of two arguments that returns a generalized boolean.
test-not---a designator for a function of two arguments that returns a generalized boolean.
generalized-boolean---a generalized boolean.
tree-e... |
Jelly Mould Pavilions
27 March - 6 June 2010
'Jelly Mould Pavilions' is a quirky yet thought provoking exhibition by artist Lubaina Himid. The exhibition explores the challenges of commemorating the ongoing contribution of the people of the African diaspora to the history, culture and fabric of Liverpool.
'Jelly Mould ... |
Livescribe for Blind or Visually Impaired Students02/22/12
Limited access to graphical materials is a problem for many blind or visually impaired students. With the Livescribe smartpen, creation of these resources is low-cost, portable, and easy to execute. Students and teachers can create tactile diagrams, maps, or st... |
According to a research team at the City College of New York (CCNY), tobacco dependence has a firmer grip on those who are poor or uneducated, making it harder for them to stay off cigarettes.
Smokers who had participated in a statewide smoking cessation program in Arkansas were tracked following the program by researc... |
Wisdom From the Grammar Goddess: Rhetorical CommentsBy Diane Sandford, Published on July 26, 2004
Few people realize how badly they write. —William Zinsser, On Writing Well, 5th ed. (Harper, 1994), pag
People do not write well because they do not think well. They do not think well because they do not put in the effort.... |
- Nietzsche on Tragedy by M.S. Silk and J.P. Stern
Cambridge, 441 pp, £27.50, March 1981, ISBN 0 521 23262 7
- Nietzsche: A Critical Life by Ronald Hayman
Weidenfeld, 424 pp, £18.50, March 1980, ISBN 0 297 77636 3
- Nietzsche. Vol. 1: The Will to Power as Art by Martin Heidegger, translated by David Farrell Krell
Routl... |
Umesh Deshmukh, PhD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Approximately one-third of people with lupus develop nephritis, a complication that can cause kidney failure and sometimes requires chronic dialysis or transplantation.
Most research suggests that antibodies in the kidney play a role in the development of ... |
FreeBSD man pages : readlink (2)
READLINK(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual READLINK(2)
readlink - read value of a symbolic link
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
readlink(const char *path, char *buf, int bufsiz);
Readlink() places the contents of the symbolic link path in the buffer
buf, which has size bufsiz. The readlink(... |
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) is considered to be the greatest German mathematician of the nineteenth century. His discoveries and writings influenced and left a lasting mark in the areas of number theory, astronomy, geodesy, and physics, particularly the study of electromagnetism.
Gauss was born in Brunswick, Germa... |
In the medical realm and other areas (e.g., automotive, networking), architects often ask themselves at the time a new product has to be designed if they can afford application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). In past years, a lot has been published about the pros and con of using ASICs. These reports always speak... |
The lacrimal or tear gland, located at the top outer edge of the eye, produces the watery portion of tears. The nasolacrimal duct system allows tears to drain from each eye into the nose. Disorders of these structures can lead to either eyes that water excessively or dry eyes. They may be congenital (present at birth) ... |
This early masterpiece of the Arts and Crafts Movement exemplifies the collaborative endeavors of William Morris and his circle to improve design standards. Morris believed that a return to the principles of medieval production, with fine artists creating functional objects, could help overcome the evils of industriali... |
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Doorway from Abbey of Notre-Dame at Nevers
Seated Virgin and Child
Browse current and upcoming exhibitions and events.
This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 001
According to tradition, the monastery... |
Benjamin Franklin was born to a poor soap boiler on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of many children in his family, and he learned to appreciate the rewards of hard work at age twelve as an apprentice at his brother James' printing shop. By the age of seventeen, Franklin's skills as a printer had ... |
Did San Luis Obispo produce any goods? Were they well-known for producing anything?
Did San Luis Obispo produce any goods? Were they well-known for producing anything? I'm working on a Mission report and I can't find any literature on
The primary products produced by the missions were cow hides and tallow. The cow hide... |
A new video explores the pros and cons of digital devices vs paper tools for recording and organizing ideas. It's a fun exercise to do. Like: no doubt that with Moleskine notebooks sharing demands a bit more effort. But they are more personal and need no batteries nor cables. No pinch-zoom function available on paper, ... |
Term applied to the work of Giorgio De Chirico and Carlo Carrà before and during World War I and thereafter to the works produced by the Italian artists who grouped around them. Pittura Metafisica was characterized by a recognizable iconography: a fictive space was created in the painting, modelled on illusionistic one... |
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Time: 90 minutes
Content: Definitions of rape/sexual assault
Discussion of rape myths and effects of rape
Cultural contributors to rape
-avoid committing sexual assault
-help a friend who has been raped
-speak out against rape
A... |
OTTAWA — Hop cultivation, which has been dormant in Quebec for more than 60 years, could see a revival, thanks to a $400,000 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Quebec Ministry of Agriculture research project in a rural part of the province.
The study will help two farmers in Pontiac Country, near the Ontario border, ... |
El Castillo/Temple of Kukulcán
The most dramatic structure in Chichén Itzá is El Castillo (the Castle), also known as the Temple of Kukulcán. At 24 meters (79 feet) it’s the tallest structure on the site, and certainly the most recognizable. Dating to around A.D. 850, the Castillo was built according to strict astronom... |
Radnor Lake State Natural Area
Just seven miles southwest of downtown Nashville, Radnor Lake State Natural Area (Otter Creek Rd., 615/373-3467) provides a natural escape for visitors and residents of the city. Eighty-five acre Radnor Lake was created in 1914 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, which impou... |
Since the 1960s, Washington has clamped a strict trade embargo on Cuba in the expectation that economic distress would oust Castro or at least moderate his behavior. Since 1996 the U.S. embargo has been embodied in law (heretofore it was an executive order). Here’s what Uncle Sam says the embargo, enacted on February 3... |
Definitions of human
a. - Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices. 2
n. - A human being. 2
The word "human" uses 5 letters: A H M N U.
No direct anagrams for human found in thi... |
Hidden for 10,000 years, Inner Space Cavern is one of the best preserved
caves in Texas and one of the few places where remains of prehistoric
animals were unearthed.
Inner Space Cavern was discovered by a Texas Highway Department
core drilling team in the Spring of 1963. While drilling through
40 feet of solid limesto... |
lot of wisdom that comes down from centuries cannot be proven scientifically.
Yet the modern world acknowledges a debt of gratitude to ancient people
who passed down their knowledge to their children who in turn transmitted
the knowledge to their children.
this reason, anthropologists and scientists study remote tribes... |
Texas Dust Storms
The same weather system that brought snow and ice to the American Midwest just after Thanksgiving 2005 also kicked up significant dust in western Texas and eastern Mexico. The winds associated with this cold front also fanned the flames of grass fires in the region, adding smoke to the mixture of aero... |
A few days ago, I wrote a post about why the word barrel is abbreviated bbl. I thought I had done my homework. I had checked my sources and it seemed like my post was reliably sourced (going back as early as 1904) when I had attributed the abbreviation bbl to the use of blue colored barrels in the Pennsylvania oil indu... |
The military ban on women in combat is coming to an end. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the overturning of a 1994 Pentagon rule that restricts women from artillery, armor, and infantry jobs.
This country has had a storied history of women fighting for the country, despite various forces dissuading them from d... |
Spider silk can be scary enough to insects to act as a pest repellant, researchers say.
These findings could lead to a new way to naturally help protect crops, scientists added.
Spiders are among the most common predators on land. Although not all spiders weave webs, they all spin silk that may serve other purposes. Fo... |
Science Friday is a National Public Radio program for kids interested in science. The program menu allows one to listen to the weekly program, read questions related to the program and get suggestions for further study. Another good option in the program menu is the Sounds Like Science Mentor page. A topic of current i... |
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
Crackles in Inhaling
what is the cause of crackles? What can be done ?
"Crackles" refers to a non-specific... |
Sumatra, erected by a Decree of 30 June, 1911, and entrusted to the Dutch Capuchins. Previously it formed part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Batavia, which is under the care of the Jesuits of Holland. The new prefecture comprises Sumatra and the surrounding islands, including Bangka (area, 4888 sq. miles; population, 7... |
Environmental History of Georgia: Overview
Native American Influences
Humans arrived in the Southeast roughly 12,000 years ago. Over the millennia, Native Americans interacted with the landscape in numerous ways. Fire setting, first used to promote hunting, had perhaps the most significant impact.
Fire setting was prob... |
SETI Pioneers by David Swift, University of Arizona Press, pp 434, $35/£32.50
The scientist at the sensitive radio receiver was baffled by the strange signals apparently coming from deep space. 'The thought flashed through my mind that the disturbances I had observed might be due to intelligent control . . . The feelin... |
DID shrinking guts and high-energy food help us evolve enormous, powerful brains? The latest round in the row over what's known as the "expensive tissue hypothesis" says no. But don't expect that to settle the debate.
The hypothesis has it that in order to grow large brains relative to body size, our ancestors had to f... |
Together, hydraulics and pneumatics are
known as fluid power. Fluid power is a partner in an evolving
high technology alliance that provides the world with
unprecedented control of force, torque, position and motion.
The combination of fluid power systems
with advanced electronics adds control and flexibility to the
st... |
The Aurora Collection returns to the Natural History Museum
A world-class collection of 296 naturally coloured diamonds has been loaned to the Natural History Museum by diamond collectors Alan Bronstein and Harry Rodman. The Aurora Collection comprises 267.45 carats of exceptionally rare stones, from the 12 colour vari... |
Thursday November 8 2012
There are more than half a million people with autism in the UK
“Genetic mutation discovered in people with autism,” The Daily Telegraph reports.
The newspaper goes on to say that this mutation “cuts communication between brain cells to about one-tenth of normal levels” and offers “a likely exp... |
Hyperkalemia is higher-than-normal levels of potassium in the blood.
The kidneys normally remove excess potassium from the body. High potassium levels are more likely to occur when the kidneys are not working properly and are less able to get rid of potassium.
If your kidneys are not working well enough, taking extra p... |
Invisible Learning :: a collaborative book & an online repository
Invisible Learning is a collaborative book & an online repository of ideas for sustainable innovation. Invisible Learning is a project that is open and distributed publically to share and disseminate innovative learning ideas.
The project places special ... |
Pigments in sixteenth-century European painting
Marika Spring, Scientific Department, National Gallery, London
Making Art in Tudor Britain
Abstracts from Academic Workshops (2007-8)
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
Over the last few years, as part of the programme for revision of the scholarly catalog... |
Standing Bear in his formal attire
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
On their journey westward in 1804, Lewis and Clark learned about the Ponca, a small tribe living on the west bank of the Missouri River and along what are now the lower Niobrara River and Ponca Creek in northeast Nebraska. The... |
Virginia Tech's Bill Hopkins holds a female wood duck, as part of the studies he and his colleagues are conducting to determine how the physiology and behavior of female amphibians, turtles and birds affect their offspring, and the consequences these interactions may have for population health. See more images and read... |
|Extracts from SCN News (UNSSCN, 1991, 8 p.)|
The photograph on our cover is horrifying. Another baby girl dies unnecessarily. The Department of Child Development, Government of India, with assistance from UNICEF, has produced a compelling account of the plight of "The Lesser Child".
"In a culture that idolizes sons an... |
U.S. sees increase in shark attacks
Published: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:37 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 11, 2013 at 9:37 p.m.
Shark attacks in the U.S. increased last year, and Florida led the way, claiming nearly half of those attacks. But don't panic — that could actually be a good sign, said scientists... |
The coastal cactus wren builds its nests in patches of old-growth prickly pear cactus, providing itself protection from predators.
However, recent fires and past land uses have eliminated most of the mature cactus, which in turn threatens local cactus wren populations.
Irvine Ranch Conservancy Docent Lynda Armbruster p... |
Trees are amazing organisms. They are tall, massive, mighty and upright. But trees can be really really unusual. From deadly trees that throw exploding fruits, to those with rainbow branches and trunks, here are some of the strangest trees which will change the way you looked at these beautiful creatures.
Animals have ... |
Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War : Quarrel with the King tells the story of the first four earls of Pembroke, their wives, children, estates, tenants, and allies, following their high and glamorous trajectory from the 1520s through 1650 - the most turbulent and dramati... |
Avery Coonley Gardens
The Coonley Estate was built by Frank Lloyd Wright and originally included the House, the Stable, The Gardener’s Cottage and extensive gardens. Jens Jensen designed and implemented a landscape plan in 1913 for the property which utilized Wright’s hardscape plan.
Today the landscape contains a numb... |
The Storyline of the operetta follows that of Wilde's brilliant play. The plot hinges on two young men - John (Jack) Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff - who both use the name "Ernest" to woo two young ladies - Gwendolyn and Cecily - who have made up their minds they can only marry men by the name "Ernest". The hidden ide... |
Malaria is a deadly disease spread by mosquitoes and is estimated to kill one person every 30 seconds, according to the World Health Organization. The majority victimized by this disease are children under the age of five, living in impoverished conditions throughout Africa . Yet, as the epidemic continues to escalate,... |
The History of Information (III)
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A waste book was one of the books traditionally used in bookkeeping . It comprised a daily diary of all transactions in chronological order. [ 1 ] It differs from a daybook in that only a single waste book is kept, rather than a separate daybook ... |
In 1900, The Prohibition Act, sometimes called the "Scott Act", and described as "An Act Prohibiting the Sale of Intoxicating Liquor", was passed by the Provincial Legislature.
This Act replaced all previous legislation dealing with liquor and totally prohibited the use or sale of any form of liquor for beverage purpos... |
Poisonous to: Dogs
Level of toxicity: Generally moderate to severe
Common signs to watch for:
- Abnormal drinking or urination
Grapes, raisins, and even currants (some currants are actually small, black grapes) are toxic to your dog! In fact, there have been anecdotal reports of cats and ferrets being affected by these... |
Fourth Pennsylvania CavalryMade in United States, North and Central America
Artist/maker unknown, American
Oil on canvas
Currently not on view
1968-222-3The Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1968
LabelThe troops of the Fourth Pennsylvania Cavalry were mustered into service between August and Oc... |
S-1. Sunlight & Earth
S-1B. Global Climate
S-3.The Magnetic Sun
S-4. Colors of Sunlight
Optional: Doppler Effect
S-4A-1 Speed of Light
S-4A-2. Frequency Shift
S-4A-3 Rotating Galaxies
and Dark Matter
S-5.Waves & Photons
Optional: Quantum Physics
Q3. Energy Levels
Q4. Radiation from
One widely used property of waves is ... |
Mechanics: Circular Motion and Gravitation
Circular Motion and Gravitation: Audio Guided Solution
A loop de loop track is built for a 938-kg car. It is a completely circular loop - 14.2 m tall at its highest point. The driver successfully completes the loop with an entry speed (at the bottom) of 22.1 m/s.
a. Using ener... |
Should I write: [itex](1-t)[(1-t)(2-t)-2 = -(t-3)(t-1)(t)[/itex]. This is the characteristic polynomial. Thus, the roots are 3,1,0. These are the eigenvalues. If I have equations,
(1-t)x + 2y = 0
1x + (2-t)y = 0
(1-t)z = 0,
and I plug in for t=0,1,3, I find for t=3 that eigenvectors are multiples of (1,1,0). For t=1, e... |
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p value (stats)
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data
Measurements o the percentage of enrichment of 12 fuel rods used in a nuclear reactor were reported with a sample mean of 3.26. Test the hypothesis H_0: [tex]\mu[/tex]=2.95 versus H_1: [tex]\mu\neq[/tex]2.95, and draw ... |
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Reflections: Why was the hatter mad?
Why was the hatter mad?
By William L. Bulla
What is a Mad Hatter? He is not something we experience in our every day life. However, he is something we read about, even as children, in the story of "Alice in Wonderland", and again, "Through the Looking Gl... |
|Sat August 11, 2012 08:59PM (PDT)|
A map displaying historical seismicity within 50 Km of a queried earthquake.
Historic Map Legend
The sizes of symbols scale with earthquake magnitude, and their color with either the age of the earthquake relative to the one starred or its depth, as shown in the legend below, and sel... |
Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes a... |
What is Ipecac Syrup?
Ipecac syrup is a medicine that causes vomiting.
In the past it was used to partially empty a person’s stomach after a poison.
It is now rarely recommended.
It is NOT necessary to keep ipecac syrup in your home.
In case of poisoning, call the poison center right away at.......
What Happened to Ipe... |
For a few short weeks last September, the Northwest and Northeast passages through the Arctic Ocean were simultaneously ice-free from end to end, the first such clearing in the time that satellites have monitored the region. Merchants have long sought routes through the ice packed waters that link the pacific and Atlan... |
Causes of Spotting at 26th Week of Pregnancy
| December 1, 2011
It is only natural for a woman to get highly concerned on noticing spots of blood on tissue or her underwear during the course of pregnancy. This is because spotting could be a sign that something is wrong with the baby or the pregnancy. Fortunately, since... |
The number of people aged 65 and over living with cancer in the UK is set to treble by 2040, Macmillan Cancer Support is warning today.
According to new research funded by Macmillan and carried out by King’s College London, the number of older people with cancer will increase to 4.1 million by 2040, up from 1.3 million... |
If you look back on your own days as a student, you can recall with ease teachers who made learning fun. You wanted to be in their classes. Best of all, you were certain that those teachers liked you and missed you on those days when you had to be absent. If you succeed at nothing else in your career, you should aim to... |
Learn All Year Long
ReadWriteThink has a variety of resources for out-of-school use. Visit our Parent & Afterschool Resources section to learn more.
Telling My Story: Make a Bio-Cube
|Grades||3 – 5|
|Activity Time||20 to 30 minutes to create and construct the cube, plus time to write and discuss|
The Bio-Cube tool asks... |
The thirty-third day of the Omer, is a festival known by the phonetic sound of the number thirty-three in Hebrew, Lag b’Omer. Bonfires are lit and ecstatic dancing and mystical studies are undertaken in honor of the memory of the luminary of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai, known by the acronym Rashbi.
Rashbi ... |
Pakistan’s National Mammal Is Making A Comeback
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that the markhor – a majestic wild goat species – is making a remarkable comeback in Pakistan due to conservation efforts.
WCS-led community surveys have revealed that markhor populations in northern Pakistan’s Karga... |
How to Animate Photos
While several computer programs allow you to turn still photographic images into animated films, the process is also possible using simple handheld devices. Optical toys popular in the 19th century brought to life still photographic images. The thaumatrope (a card that spins), flip book, and zoetr... |
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Report on the restoration success of two lowland streams following re-meandering projects
Lowland streams are characterised by a gentle slope of terrain (zero to five per mill) and sandy soil. They occur in the flat lowland areas of the Western European plain. Lowland streams are fed by rainw... |
THE BAN ON
Anti-personnel landmines are an insidious weapon of war. They are simple and cheap
to produce, costing only about $30.00 U.S. to manufacture. They either maim or kill anyone
who steps on one. They remain active for decades. They keep on injuring and killing people
long after the war has ended.
They are usual... |
Everyone has heard of coccidia at some point or another or have been the owners of reptiles with this bothersome parasite. For those who don't know, coccidia is a protozoan parasite that affects reptiles of all species and tends to cause a bad runny diarrhea usually of yellow coloration. The parasite attaches to the in... |
Egypt's Mubarak -- from presidency to prison
REUTERS - Here is a look at Hosni Mubarak from the start of his presidency to when he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday for his role in killing protesters involved in a uprising that toppled him from power last year:
October 6, 1981 - Vice-President Mubarak is t... |
An Internet of Food
March 03, 2006
Innovation Lab coordinates a new pilot demonstrating future uses of RFID in the prepared food sector. RFID tags are poised to replace the traditional bar code, not least because the tags allow producers and retailers to manage inventory and the supply chain more efficiently. But what ... |
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The fly half is the pivotal attacking position in the team. With the full compliment of running, passing and kicking skills, they decide what to do and when to do it.
The fly half position on the field is crucial to how they mount an attack; they decide when to run and break through the opposition d... |
Rabies is still a threat worldwide and in Missouri. In the U.S., it has been reported in nearly every state. This summer, the Missouri Health Department reported that one of the showhorses, shown in the Saddlebred Show and stabled in Barn C, had contracted the disease. The horse was noticeably sick on Aug. 17 and died ... |
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1787 A Little Pretty Pocket Book-First Book To Mention Baseball
Starting Bid - $5,000.00, Sold For - $22,040.00
Offered here ... |
Many years ago if you wanted to design something that used a microprocessor, you pretty much had to use some standard package provided by a vendor who had specialized software specific for that processor. You would use a non-standard interface to generate non-standard code to do the non-standard things that your produc... |
Excursus on the Public Discipline or Exomologesis of the Early Church.
(Taken chiefly from Morinus, De Disciplina in Administratione Sacramenti Pœnitentiæ; Bingham, Antiquities; and Hammond, The Definitions of Faith, etc. Note to Canon XI. of Nice.)
“In the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that at the beg... |
The SAGE idea is modeled after interscholastic sports. It works like this. A team of at least three teenagers is formed, either by the teens themselves or in conjunction with an entrepreneurial coach or adult ally (e.g., teacher, business leader, or sponsoring organization). If the team is affiliated with a high school... |
What is Obesity?
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an increase in 20 percent or more above your ideal body weight is the point at which excess weight becomes a health risk. Today 97 million Americans, more than one-third of the adult population, are overweight or obese. An estimated 5 to 10 million ... |
14 June 2007. Two recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies support the notion that many genetic variants each contribute a little to the risk of developing bipolar disorder. The largest of the new studies, published in Nature on June 7, comes from The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, a collaboration of genet... |
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The National Football League is facing lawsuits by 4,000 former players who allege the organizations failed to protect them from the long-term consequences of concussions.
A psychologist that consulted with the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and treated players with concussions for 15 years undertook research into the ... |
Mar. 18, 1998 One in 10 health care workers frequently exposed to rubber surgical and examination gloves is on the cusp of developing allergy symptoms that could seriously affect both their health and their careers, according to a new study from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
Tests show that 2.5 percent of the gro... |
Sep. 28, 2008 Auctions are an old and widely used method for allocating goods that have become increasingly common with the advent of internet auctions sites such as Ebay. Previous economic research has shown that in an auction people tend to bid "too high," or overbid, given the value of the item for sale.
By combinin... |
Apr. 26, 2009 During these trying financial times, the cost of healthcare and how much we are willing to pay for it is at the top of our economic concerns. The financial value of pain has a wide ranging influence, affecting drug prices and injury compensation. But what about on an individual level — is it possible to p... |
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Descriptions of the Fields of Science
Chemistry is the science of matter at or near the atomic scale. (Matter is the substance of which all physical objects are made.)
Chemistry deals with the properties of matter, and the transformation and interactions of matter and energy... |
Download the Exhibit Descriptions in Portable Document Format (PDF)
Exhibition consists of a set of connected wall panels of different building materials in a mock "earthquake zone," setting the stage for all of the interactive components. The Shake Table is freestanding; the rest of the exhibits are attached to the wa... |
IN THE TANK: The Daya Bay experiment currently employs six detectors, with a total of 120 metric tons of liquid detector material, to register passing neutrinos. Image: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Neutrinos are devious little particles. Only in the late 1990s were they shown to have mass, aft... |
Ritalin Dose Changes Effect
Research with rats finds that Ritalin at low doses encourages neurons to fire together, but at high doses it's just another stimulant. Christopher Intagliata reports
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In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the ren... |
The Ultimate Science Project Experimenter's Catapult Kit!
With 400+ possible configurations and tuning options, this historically accurate catapult provides a hands-on example of basic physics, including mechanical advantage, levers, gravity and energy. This kit is perfect for school science fairs!
No glue required: ki... |
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