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Did you know that parasites are a problem for millions of Americans? According to experts at the Centers for Disease Control, the problem is more common than many people realize. Moreover, many people that pick up a parasite often go undiagnosed, and suffer from illness and symptoms that could be treated or managed.
In... |
PICC Insertion Procedure Information
What is a peripherally inserted central catheter?
A peripherally inserted central catheter, often called a “PICC line,” is a long, very thin, flexible tube that is usually placed into one of the large veins in the arm, often just above or just below the elbow. This tube is threaded ... |
- The park is home to more than 2,000 sandstone arches
- Iron oxide creates the chemical reaction that turns the sandstone red
- Utah's high desert has scalding summer and freezing winter temperatures
- The best time to view wildlife in the park is October through December
During the summer, southeastern Utah's high de... |
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Many of us use artmaking practices as a vehicle for teaching social activis... |
How To Use A P10 Micropipette. Using an air displacement micropipette. You should aim to have it around 1 cm into the solution to avoid withdrawing close from the surface and taking in air, and avoiding any contact between the micropipette and the solution.
Use the balance to measure the distilled water’s weight. To us... |
In most cases, non-melanoma skin cancers are caused by overexposure to ultraviolet radiation, the invisible rays from the sun that can burn the skin. To reduce the risk of skin cancer, dermatologists encourage the public to be sun smart, including limiting sun exposure and using broad-spectrum sunscreens. Despite these... |
No Two Digital Cameras Are the Same: Fingerprinting Via Sensor Noise
The previous article looked at how pieces of blank paper can be uniquely identified. This article continues the fingerprinting theme to another domain, digital cameras, and ends by speculating on the possibility of applying the technique on an Interne... |
NASA's hobbled Kepler space telescope may be able to detect alien planets again, thanks to some creative troubleshooting.
Kepler's original planet hunt ended this past May when the second of its four orientation-maintaining reaction wheels failed, robbing the spacecraft of its ultraprecise pointing ability. But mission... |
By Catherine Varmazis
March 1, 2008 | In a major collaboration, researchers from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), several U.S. universities, and IBM are creating grid-enabled tools that perform high-throughput analysis of tissue microarrays to dramatically improve the accuracy and speed of cancer diagnoses.
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Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a multi-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to determine factors which may influence why African Americans are less likely than others to receive colorectal cancer (CRC) screenings, despite having the highest CRC incidence and mortality... |
This is a Java simulation of an air-core inductor. You should see an applet (below) with slider controls to select the coil's dimensions and wire size. (Trouble? See below.) Note this is only the coil and does not include a projectile.
How to Calculate Inductance
This program calculates inductance using Wheeler's Formu... |
For the last two and a half years, the government has been playing a game of chicken with the budget. And a lot of people are left nervously watching on the sidelines. The problem boils down to passing a spending bill to keep the government running. If the spending bill isn’t passed by the time the old bill runs out, t... |
Air Travel and Global Warming January 27, 2014 1 Comment Share tweet Op Ed By: Op Ed A person’s air travel has an outsized environmental cost relative to his or her other activities. Here is a rule of thumb: The environmental impact per passenger on a commercial airplane flight is about the same as that of one person’s... |
SMITH, ALFRED CORBETT, physician, medical superintendent, and leprologist; b. 7 June 1841 in Bathurst, N.B., son of James Smith and Susanna M. Dunn; m. 2 May 1866 Helen Young, sister of Robert Young, and they had two daughters and one son; d. 12 March 1909 in Tracadie, N.B.
Little is known about Alfred Smith’s formativ... |
|Anti-evolution books on sale during the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925. Credit: Getty Images|
Topics: Biology, Civics, Climate Change, Education, Science, Research
History.com: Scopes Monkey Trial
Nearly a quarter of a million science teachers are hard at work in public schools in the United States, helping to ensure t... |
A Credible Carbon Price Tomorrow Can Influence Decisions Today
Over-the-horizon carbon prices can do a lot of good, but only if the promises are believable, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research concludes in a new report.
A popular fear among some economists, the Potsdam researchers observe, is that “the an... |
The Human Heart: A Guide to Understanding How it Functions
From the very first time the heart starts pounding until the time of death, it may beat more than 3.5 billion times. The center of the circulatory system is the heart. The average heart beats 100,000 times each day, pushing around 2,000 gallons of blood through... |
Risk in Agriculture
Risk is an important aspect of the farming business. The uncertainties inherent in weather, yields, prices, Government policies, global markets, and other factors that impact farming can cause wide swings in farm income. Risk management involves choosing among alternatives that reduce financial effe... |
According to a recently released study, 34 percent of the Las Vegas Valley’s freeways and major thoroughfares are in a mediocre or poor condition which contributes to significantly higher costs on Las Vegas motorists. Dangerous road conditions are a leading cause of traffic accidents, and Las Vegas has an abundance of ... |
noun, plural: tissue cultures
(1) The technique of culturing animal or plant tissue in a controlled medium away from the source organism
(2) The biological culture of tissue grown and maintained through this process
Biological cultures are a common laboratory means in order to study living organisms. There are differen... |
The mini ice age starts here
By David Rose
Last updated at 11:17 AM on 10th January 2010
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predi... |
This book traces the lives of one of the great German Jewish banking families from its beginnings through the end of the 20th century. The M. M. Warburg Bank was started in 1798 in Hamburg and flourished modestly through the 19th century under the guidance of one family member or another. At the end of the century cont... |
From Sun to Earth
Outer SpaceThe enormous amount of energy continuously emitted by the sun is dispersed into outer space in all directions. Only a small fraction of this energy is intercepted by the earth and other solar planets.
The solar energy reaching the periphery of the earth's atmosphere is considered to be cons... |
We recently published a widely debated news story about one company's claim that its new texturing process will make games 70% smaller. That company is called Allegorithmic and the technology the guys there are developing is designed to keep texture quality standards as high as they are now, whilst making the size of t... |
This remarkable manuscript is very different to what the casual glance might suggest: despite the Islamic style carpet page, and the Arabic script, this is a Christian document - an account of the Gospels - made in Palestine in the 14th century.
The Four Gospels in Arabic, Palestine, 1337. Gospel of Luke
BL Add. MS 118... |
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard about thyroid eye disease (TED) and thought it was a pretty serious condition. After all, it can cause vision problems, pain, and even blindness. But is TED really as bad as it seems? And if so, can it be cured? In this blog post, we will explore the realities of TED an... |
For those of you that are exercising, and of course for those who aren’t here is why should you keep doing it, or even better start doing it. In addition to the strengthening of the cardiovascular system and the weight loss, the cardiovascular exercises are great for your brain. With improving the circulation, you will... |
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist ó but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.
The suggestions come in a new documentary series in w... |
Fasted training is training without eating before hand, for example before breakfast. This type of training has become a topic of conversation in many fitness and health circles. But the benefits of this training are hotly debated.
It is known scientifically that as exercise intensity increases, i.e. from walking to ru... |
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is the primary environmental regulator for New South Wales. We partner with business, government and the community to reduce pollution and waste, protect human health, and prevent degradation of the environment.
We encourage businesses to make sure their activities do not ... |
Test for Low-Level Brain Activity May Aid in Next Schiavo Case
Doctors may be able to tell whether a patient is in a vegetative or minimally conscious state by tracking signals on a path through the brain, a study said.
The findings could lead to a new diagnostic tool to help doctors with life-support decisions in case... |
River Stour Course
The river stour starts in Clent Hills, passes through Halesowen, Cradley Heath, Lye, Stourbridge, Amblecote, close to Kinver. And then towards Kidderminster, finally meeting the River Severn at Stourport-on-Severn.
Whist it is accepted that the river stour rises in the Clent Hills at roughly 250 metr... |
Family • Cucurbitaceae
Scientific names Common names Cucumis sativus Linn. Kalabaga (Bis.) Huang gua (Chin.) Kasimun (Bon.) Maras (Sul.) Madas (Sul.) Pepino (Span., Tag.) Pipino (Tag., Ilk.) Cucumber (Engl.)
Other vernacular names CHINESE: Huang kwa, wong gaw, qing gua, tseng kwa BURMESE : Thakhwa. DANISH : Agurk. DUTC... |
Math Games I for Special Needs and Struggling Learners
Math Games I is the perfect introductory course for special needs students or struggling learners! This course will strengthen each students understanding of numbers, problem solving ability math fluency and math. Students will develop problem-solving strategies an... |
Over the weekend, numerous Lowell area residents called 911 to report seeing a black bear roaming their neighborhood. The bear was not aggressive, but residents are cautioned to give it space. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has been contacted and they say bears tend to avoid humans, but may become aggressiv... |
Cooperative commitment brings continued conservation
What Has ANR Done?Several years ago, the Ormond Beach wetlands area became an approved Master Gardener project site. Decades of industrial waste were removed by the ton with the help of community groups and the City of Oxnard. Much research and work went into creatin... |
The world's largest discharge of municipal sewage sludge to surface waters of the deep sea has caused measurable changes in the concentration of sludge indicators in sea-floor sediments, in a spatial pattern which agrees with the predictions of a recent sludge deposition model. Silver, linear alkylbenzenes, coprostanol... |
While reading this paper on describing biological control of movement as a servomechanism, I came across a good explanation of the formation and value for muscle memory (even though the paper did not state it in the exact terms).
The gist of the paper is that, accurate biological movement would require both desired pos... |
As you should guess the whaleboat was a famous boat used to catch whales, this boat was created approximately in 1620 with the purpose of catching whales.
Its structure could be described in the next way: is a very narrow boat since the beginning until the end of the boat. These boats were propelled by oars. Nowadays t... |
Dropbox is a tool you can use to save your files through the internet! It allows you to share your files with your colleagues as well. Here are some ways you can use this as a teacher:
- Send your new files you compiled digitally instead of walking over with a flash drive to share them.
- Have parents send you photos o... |
Playground operators, owners and local communities can take the lead in preventing playground injuries.
The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) publishes voluntary playground standards (CAN/CSA Z614 “Children’s Playspaces and Equipment”) for outdoor public play spaces. This is considered the “gold standard” for public... |
To get a better visualization and comparison, we may need to extract some specific data based on certain criteria. In this article, we will show you how to extract data based on a drop-down list selection in Excel.
How to Extract Data Based on a Drop Down List Selection in Excel: Easy Steps
In the image below, a sample... |
Capital Budgetinggeting1.0 INTRODUCTION
Capital budgeting plays an important role in a firm’s financial management, the selection of a project is of great importance because it required a very large capital expenditure which will have a significant impact on the financial performance of the firm. Therefore a mistake in... |
The study by Professor Ausubel states that wind turbine energy produces 1.2 watts per square metre of land. A typical 1 megawatt (1MW) turbine can occupy as little as 10,000m2. Even if it took up 40,000m2, Dr Ausubel's figure would give us an output of 4.8kW. In fact, even at 10% efficiency our 1MW turbine would give u... |
Chapter 1, June 1861
1. How old is Charley, the main character in the story?
2. In what state does Charley live?
3. What is Charley's last name?
4. In what war does Charley want to fight?
(a) Korean War
(b) Civil War
(c) Vietnam War
(d) World War I
5. What is the date when the novel begins?
(a) June, 1861
(b) June, 195... |
Developing our capacity to be resilient, tapping into our inner strength and cultivating courage are essential qualities for maintaining overall balance, managing stress, and being able to deal with difficult emotions and situations.
Learning to be resilient can also help to make you stronger; with each challenge you e... |
The Inca made up the largest civilization in South America, which dominated what is now Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile and into the mountains of Bolivia and Argentina from about 1300 until the Spanish conquest in 1532.
After thousands of years in the Andes, the indigenous peoples adapted by developing one-third greater... |
An excerpt from Vijay Prashad’s The Karma of Brown Folk [link to book]:
The lives of migrants to the United States came under special scrutiny from those who fashioned themselves as guardians of its cultural inheritance. Benjamin Franklin, for instance, was struck by the entry of Germans into his “Anglo-Saxon” domain, ... |
How to Deal with a Housefly Infestation!jopagicc
Houseflies are one type of fly in the insect order Diptera, all of which have one set of wings. They are also known as “nuisance” flies. House flies are about ¼-inch long and gray.
Houseflies are found almost everywhere people live. They lay their eggs on animal faces, g... |
"Nazi" is still a dirty four-letter word in the USA, synonymous with hatred and annihilation of others aroused by their skin color, their religion or their nationality. Adolph Hitler killed millions in gas chambers simply because they were not members of a purported “master race.”
As much as we in the United States bel... |
NASA CGI image of an exoplanet which could potentially support life
Hot on the heels of Earth 2 - another planet discovered this summer which has the potential to harbour life - Wolf 1061c is the closest planet outside our solar system which could hold alien life.
Dubbed Earth 3, it is more than four times the mass of ... |
USAF lost nuclear missile in the sea reveals documentary
The move came during the Sixties – at the height of the Cold War – as the US and Soviet Union battled it out to be the ultimate superpower on the ground and in space. Both nations had already tested several nuclear weapons and other countries – including Britain ... |
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2720. Deductions from pay by employers have been part of the income tax system for a very long time. For example in 1803 tax on emoluments from public offices and employments of profit was actually assessed on the employer. ... |
PORTLAND, Maine — The runaway oil train that caused explosions and fires that killed 47 people in a Quebec town underscored the dangers of transporting hazardous materials via rail. But there are other materials as dangerous as oil that are shipped over rail lines in Maine.
On any given day, freight trains rumbling thr... |
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Media mixup on what ship really rescued Terra Nova crew in 1943
Posted September 14, 2012
The recent discovery off the coast of Greenland of the remains of the SS Terra Nova, the ship that carried Briton Robert F. Scott and his team to Antarctica in 1910, generated headlines around the world.
It also ... |
Written by Hilary Reno, MD, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine
In November, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released two reports detailing the increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections in the US. As a provider of care for patients with sexuall... |
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Horticulture and forestry
Leaves can be a valuable source of biologically active compounds that effectively protect the body against oxidative stress and resulting disease. The aim of the experiment was to det... |
The Boston Massacre was a clash between American colonists and British soldiers. It took place in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1770. The colonists wanted to end the British Parliament’s control over their taxes. The soldiers were there to enforce those taxes and other laws in the town. As news of the massacre spread, ange... |
Most of the time, counseling and psychotherapy refer to the same thing. In all probability, there is some counseling and some psychotherapy intermittently taking place in the course of any single therapeutic hour.
Technically, the word counselor means advisor, or one who advises or teaches. In counseling it is understo... |
This video on plastic is called Alphabet Soup- A Look at Pollution in the Ocean #1.
And here is #2.
From Wildlife Extra:
Lush bow to pressure and ditch plastic glitter from products
Lush remove microplastic glitter from products
January 2013. Lush Cosmetics have decided to remove all glitter and microplastics from thei... |
Curve Shape in Digital Photography
(Why a Linear Curve May Not Be Straight, And Other Curiosities)
* The eye's response to light is logarithmic.
* In film photography, we always use logarithmic scales.
* The computer screen's response to pixel values is close to antilogarithmic.
* In Photoshop, the tone curves represen... |
NEW YORK – Usually, physics research starts with a known problem. There are surprises, of course, but they don’t often come from Internet videos, as happened with the case of the mysterious chain fountain.
It started with Steve Mould, a host of science television shows in Britain. Mould, who has a master’s degree in ph... |
Sheets of Cheap Carbon Nanotubes Now a Reality
March 3, 2008 12:33 PM
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No shadows and mirrors -- a Nanocomp employee poses next to a 3x6 ft sample mesh composed of randomly overlapping millimeter long carbon nanotubes.
(Source: Nanocomp Technologies)
The birthplace of the nanotube sheets is Nanocomp... |
- What virtue do today's young people most need to learn?
- This reproducible resource provides a variety of Bible related activities to help students understand what it means to respect God, parents, other people and themselves.
- Includes suggested Bible stories that emphasise the importance of showing respect in eve... |
The Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station sits near the shore of New Jersey, in Lacey Township, a small town in Ocean County. The single boiling water reactor, commissioned in 1969, was the first large-scale commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. It has a capacity of 625 MW, producing over 5,000 GWh in ... |
Tilapia Nutrition Information
Tilapia A Good Source of Vitamins and Minerals
While many are saying that tilapia is much like bacon nutrition wise, one has to note that the white fish deemed as the Fish of the 21st Century is an excellent source of minerals like niacin, phosphorus, potassium, and selenium. Tilapia is al... |
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Co-operation and psychological information enhance the functioning of students with ADHD symptoms at school
Behavioral problems in school are common and especially prevalent with students who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Increasing multi-professional co-operation ... |
The lack of a
consistent signal inside the office or home means that users
experience dropped calls and slower data speeds. The answer to this
problem seemed to be femtocells. A femtocell is a small device that
looks similar to a router for internet access that picks up the
wireless call and sends it over the user's br... |
Recipe by Aleigh Michelle
My compost rules are this: no citrus. It takes forever for those rinds to break down, and plus, some of those compost microbes really don't enjoy the citrus. Why can't citrus be composted? Citrus fruits (and randomly, onions) are not friendly for compost because of their acidity.
Why does acid... |
|American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)|
Botaurus is a genus of bitterns, a group of wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae. The genus name Botaurus was given by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens, and is derived from Medieval Latin butaurus, "bittern", itself constructed from the Middle English name for... |
Pesticide Guide: The Dirty Dozen and The Clean Fifteen
Are you interested in lowering pesticide exposure in your diet but you aren’t sure where to start? The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health has produced a guide that can help yo... |
When your gums bleed easily after brushing or flossing, it's usually a sign of an underlying oral health problem, such as gum disease. According to the American Dental Association, an estimated 100 million Americans don't go to the dentist every year, even though regular dental exams and good oral hygiene can prevent m... |
A college campus is often associated with political correctness and liberalism. We are told that prejudging people based on their ethnicity, gender, socio-economic class or other categories is immoral, narrow-minded and ignorant. When you need help with a math problem, is it your first instinct to go to the sorority gi... |
A heat-reflecting, futuristic supermaterial that looks like a roll of plastic wrap could one day cool both houses and power plants without using any energy, according to a new study.
Unlike solar panels, the material keeps working even when the sun sets, with no additional electricity. And the plastic wrap is made up o... |
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to put in the proper state, to fix, prepare, or bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.
to figure out the extent, dimensions, quantity, capacity of, as by a comparison with a prede... |
This project investigated what impact different settings (structured vs unstructured) have on the engagement and the learning attitude of young children in a makerspace using a longitudinal approach (multiple visits in a makerspace of the same children).
More specifically we offered children two alternative settings:
a... |
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A new species of coral found in the Caribbean has been named after the singer – Jennifer Lopez.
Researchers found the new species in Mona Passage off the coast of Puerto Rico.
The Pontarachnid mite represents a common but still unstudied group of marine animals.
Vladimir Pesic, the lead auth... |
'Deep learning' software automatically detects diseases
University of Saskatchewan PhD student Yi Wang developed software that can get higher image quality. It improves current computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) technology, which assists doctors to detect diseases from medical imaging scans such as ultrasound, computer to... |
A few months ago, a packed plane pulled into the gate at Reagan International Airport in Washington, D.C. As people were preparing to unfasten their seatbelts and collect their belongings, the pilot announced that we had had the honor of bringing home a fallen soldier along with his family. He asked everyone to show th... |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2005 September 19
Explanation: What are asteroids made of? To help find out, Japan's JAXA space agency launched the Hayabusa mission to rendezvous w... |
The tariffs imposed on goods traded between the United States and China are re-shaping the global economy, but not the way the chief antagonist in that battle, US president Donald Trump, has predicted.
While trade with China has fallen slightly, the statistics also show that imports to the United States from other deve... |
Accretionary and collisional orogenesis in the Tarim and North China cratons during Paleozoic time can be correlated with events associated with the assembly and subsequent incipient dispersal of Gondwana. Zircon U-Pb and Hf isotopic data from the northern margins of the two cratons and neighbors have revealed comparab... |
Even mine vehicles such as the cage – an elevator-type device used to transport miners to and from the surface and considered a safety net for miners in case of emergency – could themselves be danger traps. In early November 1910, 10 miners had boarded their cage at the No. 4 colliery near Lansford for their usual desc... |
What’s new in pituitary tumor research and treatment?
Research into pituitary tumors is taking place in many university hospitals, medical centers, and other institutions around the world.
Doctors now have a better understanding of the genetic basis of pituitary tumors. This is already leading to improvements in geneti... |
Definitions for gallinago
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word gallinago
Gallinago, genus Gallinago, Capella, genus Capella(noun)
Gallinago is a genus of birds in the wader family Scolopacidae, containing 16 species. This genus contains the majority of the world's snipe species, the oth... |
9 July 2013
University scientists have made a significant advance in their ability to target skin cancer. Researchers at the School of Medicine are part of a team that has developed an artificially enhanced molecule called a T-cell receptor, derived from a white blood cell that targets and kills melanoma cells.
Working... |
Cultivation of Hemp (Cannabis) for industrial and medical purposes: a synopsis
Dr. Robert Gorter, et al.
Robert Gorter, MD, PhD, is emeritus professor of the University of California San Francisco Medical School (UCSF)
Introduction to Industrial Hemp and Medicinal Hemp
Section I: Fiber Hemp
Fiber Hemp contains less tha... |
Robots that help severely disabled people are often assumed to must be tremendous smart, capable of altering human caretakers. Engineers at Georgia Tech decided to take a extremely completely completely different technique, instead of empowering disabled of us to manage the robots that help them.
The expertise permits ... |
It’s what keeps you hooked on running. Or you think it does anyway.
But what exactly is runner’s high? And what could possibly cause it?
And hell — is it even real?
The Happy Chemical
Runner’s high is often contributed to a rise in your endorphins, which are the ‘happy’ chemicals naturally produced by the body that can... |
Notarial and Authentication (Apostille)
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An Apostille is a certificat... |
The 5 Types of Pacific Salmon in British Columbia Waters
With so many species of fish to fish for in BC waters, there is something to catch at practically any time of the year. One of the most popular fish that draws anglers to our region is salmon. You’ll find this post on the different types of salmon helpful if you’... |
Cats greet in several ways, and their body language is a large part that can tell other cats whether they are welcome to get closer or not. Stretching out the head and sniffing is an encouraging welcome. They sniff faces to get a sense of the identify of the stranger from the smell. Cats who know each-other or are gree... |
Telling—and listening—to stories goes back to the dawn of mankind. Before there was writing of course, stories which were often embellished to become more that that—to become narratives—were the only way to pass knowledge from generation to generation. What’s behind the narrative process, and how does the creative use ... |
You can see the smoke from space. It looks like wisps of cotton stuck on a branch, floating toward the blue of the sea. On the ground, amid the actual flames and swirling winds, there’s nothing but orange, in all shades: tangerine flames, brick-hued sky and a bloody, hazy horizon.
Many animals are dying in this hellfir... |
A trip on the Camino del Diablo
The Camino del Diablo – Devil’s Highway, is a trail for those who love history.
Created from virgin desert as many as a thousand years ago by the Papago Indians on their way to trade (or maybe make war) with tribes to the west, it was a foot trail until the Spanish arrived in Mexico.
The... |
Red meat, processed foods and dairy products: the risks these foods that are the basis of a Western-style diet can cause to your health are underscored by a new study in the American Journal of Medicine. By examining medical data for a number of British adults from 1985-2009, researchers found that, by eating the fried... |
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Scientific American reports that the world economy is growing without increases in CO2 emissions, which the author attributes to the rise of green energy. However, there are several issues with this claim.
World Economy Grows without Growth in Global Warming Pollution
Energy-sector emissions... |
GE Jenbacher Landfill Gas Engines Generate Renewable Electricity For Grid
Renewable energy production initiatives in North Carolina, U.S.A. recently received a boost with the formal opening of a new landfill gas-to-energy plant in Durham, the state’s fourth largest city. Built by the landfill gas project developer Meth... |
Cato Policy Analysis No. 300
April 9, 1998
TWO CHEERS FOR
THE 1872 MINING LAW
by Richard Gordon and Peter VanDoren
Richard Gordon is professor emeritus of mineral economics, the Pennsylvania State University,
and Peter VanDoren is assistant director of environmental studies at the Cato Institute.
Metal mining on federa... |
It feels like there’s nothing to do but eat. Most of us learned quickly that whatever snacks we bought to hold ourselves over through quarantine can only last a few days. Often, the eating is just thoughtless: We’re near our kitchens all the time now, and there’s nothing stopping us from picking through everything edib... |