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There are many timely links in the Sites By Subject section of the library's webpage. Look under Quick Reference: Almanacs, Quick Reference: Calendars and Holidays, and Quick Reference: Time for several online information sources.
Or take a look at A Walk Through Time: The Evolution of Time Measurement, the site mainta... |
NOBODY GOES TO THE TROPICS TO SEE GORGONIANS. The sea fans, sea plumes, sea rods and sea whips that make up Order Gorgonacea are just there, incidental bystanders on the “real” reefs of beautiful, stony corals. Sometimes, they’re in the way.
While none of the 500 or so species of fans, plumes, rods or whips can compare... |
Part of a series on the
|History of Italy|
Magna Graecia (/ , /, US / /; Latin meaning "Great Greece", Greek: Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, Megálē Hellás) is the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the present-day regions of Campania, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily that were extensively populated by Greek settlers; particularl... |
The first step of the ALPAGA project is to come up with a remotely controlled solution to air sampling. This includes a series of air tight containers, valves and pumps, as well all the electronics to drive them.
The drone will fly to some predefined positions in the air. Then, at each point, it will stabilize and wait... |
Teaching Resources for Constitution Day
September 17, 1787, was a seminal day for America.
Earlier that year in May, spurred by inadequacies in the Articles of Confederation and the need for a strong centralized government, 55 delegates representing 12 states met in Philadelphia to "take in to consideration the situati... |
About the TeleTrainer
The TeleTrainer is a teaching aid primarily designed for pre-school children. The TeleTrainer allows the child to learn to operate a phone using actual telephone sets. The TeleTrainer, unlike a toy, uses the same signals heard during real phone calls.
To use the TeleTrainer, simply connect two pus... |
As interest in “open” educational resources appears to be picking up, a leading policy group has launched a resource to help state and local officials make informed decisions about choosing and using those materials.
The Council of Chief State School Officers has created a Web portal that offers detailed case studies o... |
Transcription factors represents one of the most high-impact therapeutic targets in biomedicine. The authors developed a new strategy for blocking transcription factor function that could have broad applications to several diseases, including cancer. More than 1,500 transcription factors exist in the human body, each r... |
Civil War Trust
For Immediate Release: 11/01/11
"Freedom's Fortress" Becomes America's Newest National Monument
Civil War Trust applauds designation of Virginia’s Fort Monroe by President Obama
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, using the powers granted to him under the 1906 Antiquities Act, President Barack Obama officially ... |
An animated film designed as a lesson in “racial discourse” for students at a Virginia high school will not be shown after it made students uncomfortable and drew criticism from parents who called it “white guilt.”
The video was shown at Glen Allen High School in Henrico during two assemblies for Black History Month an... |
The varying cultures collectively called Mound Builders were inhabitants of North America who, during a 5,000-year period, constructed various styles of earthen mounds for religious and ceremonial, burial, and elite residential purposes. These included the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Archaic period; Woodland period (... |
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|Other names||Swedish cattle dog
|Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)|
The Swedish Vallhund is a breed of dog al... |
Reis’ telephone was perhaps the first loudspeaker of any kind, as it employed a magnetostriction driver mounted in a resonating box. But it would still take many years before inventors discovered the virtues of baffles and enclosures. As Hunt puts it, the baffle is probably the most frequently rediscovered feature of l... |
War of Canudos
|War of Canudos|
Map of northern Bahia, showing the location of Canudos
|Commanders and leaders|
| Gen. Arthur Oscar de Andrade Guimarães
Col. Antônio Moreira César †
Mjr. Febrônio de Brito
Cpt. Virgílio Pereira de Almeida
Lt. Pires Ferreira
| Antonio Conselheiro †
João Abade †
|12,000 military personnel... |
(b. 1560, Bologna, d. 1609, Roma)
The Carracci was a family of Bolognese painters, the brothers Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale (1560-1609) and their cousin Lodovico (1555-1619), who were prominent figures at the end of the 16th century in the movement against the prevailing Mannerist artificiality of Italian paintin... |
The Battle of Pavia and Acquisition of Milan
In the Battle of Pavia, fought on February 24, 1525, Habsburg troops vanquished the French. King Francis I had laid siege to Pavia, which was held by imperial soldiers. An army of German lansquenets and Spanish infantry arrived in time to relieve the city.
The central event ... |
March 20, 2014
What's Happening to the Internet?
It sounds like something you don't want to know too much about. When you type an address into your computer's browser, you go to that address. How your computer knows where to find the Google image of kittens and puppies isn't your problem, is it? Well, it might be. Not ... |
— the side of an escalator
extending above the steps. It includes skirt
panels, interior panels, decks and handrails. Brake
— an electro-mechanical
device used to prevent the elevator from moving
when the car is at rest and no power is applied
to the hoist motor. On some types of control, it
also stops the elevator whe... |
The city of Guilin is located in the north-east of Guangxi Province, covering an area of 27,800 square km. It's a relatively small, thriving city famous for its lush green mountains, lakes and the Li river as well as its many limestone caves. Famous tourist attractions include 7 Star Park, Elephant Trunk Hill and Reed ... |
WASHINGTON — Our galaxy is looking far more crowded and hospitable. NASA on Wednesday confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system.
Scientists using the planet-hunting Kepler telescope pushed the number of planets found in the galaxy to about 1,700. Twenty years ago, astronomers had not ... |
Kalamazoo State Hospital
|Kalamazoo State Hospital|
|Building Style||Kirkbride Plan (Demolished)|
The choice of Kalamazoo as the location for the Michigan Asylum at Kalamazoo was helped by the fact that the governor was Epaphroditus Ransom, who once resided in Kalamazoo. Although the asylum was originally planned for a... |
Young, green and undamaged coconuts contain a clear liquid substance in the interiors of the drupe. This liquid is called coconut water. Coconut water is one of the most useful, refreshing and popular drinks all over the world. It is consumed by millions of people since there is a great number of health benefits of coc... |
Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure [EPUB]
07 February 2017, 16:12
2001 | EPUB | 1.68MB
In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and almost immediately the German army began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French... |
When the city of Toledo, Ohio, made news in 2014 for their water advisory—400,000 residents unable to use water due to a toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie—the idea that farmers’ environmental stewardship affects the whole population was driven home. It’s not just farms, of course, that caused the lake’s crisis, but they d... |
William Walker (diver)
In 1887, he began diver training at Portsmouth Dockyard. He worked through the roles of diver's attendant and diver's signal man, passing his medical exam and deep-water test to qualify as a deep-water diver in 1892.
In his time, William Walker was the most experienced diver of Siebe Gorman Ltd. ... |
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a premature baby is a baby born before 37 weeks completion of pregnancy. In the world, we have approximately 15 million babies who are born prematurely every year.
Based on the gestational age there are sub-categories of prematurity:
A late premature baby is one who is ... |
In the eighteen-thirties we find Mickiewicz in Paris, which happened to be filled just then with a crowd of brilliant Slavic exiles. Here he became the friend of Chopin, and one of Chopin's most talented pupils—a young Polish girl—made the first translation of the Sonnets into French. It was a wonderful and brilliant P... |
Homelessness is an extremely pressing problem nowadays, actually, it was always a burning issue. It was first documented in America in 1640 already. Since that time it has only been growing. According to various estimates, there are almost 650,000 homeless in the USA, while the NLCHP – the National Law Center of Homele... |
German Shepherd Dog
||Alsatian, Deutscher Schaferhund, GSD
||Germen Shepard, German Sheapherd, German Shephard, German Sheeperd, German Shepperd, Germanshepard, German Sheperd
Living with a German Shepherd Dog
Temperament: The German Shepherd is a direct, fearless and self-confident dog tending not to form immediate an... |
The study suggests that people with ample moral self-worth in one aspect of their lives can slip into immorality or opposite behavior in other areas -- their abundant self-esteem somehow pushing them to balance out all that goodness.
Think, for example, of that sugar- and fat-laden concoction that you wolf down after a... |
In 2015, Youyou Tu jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of a new therapy (Artemisinin) to treat Malaria, a disease which has been on the rise since the 1960s. Significantly, the antimalarial component was successfully extracted from the plant Artemisia annua only after consulting th... |
Pipetting is a forceful and repetitive activity, and there is a strong association between pipetting and the occurrence of repetitive motion injuries.
In fact, pipetting for just over an hour a day over the course of a year is enough to put researchers at risk, and the chances increase exponentially with workload and a... |
|Window in the southern transept of Cologne cathedral by Gerhard Richter.
Image courtesy of Derix Glasstudios GmbH & Co.KG, Taunusstein.
That [Chamber] at the eastern extremity was hung, for example, in blue -and vividly blue were its windows. The second chamber was purple in its ornaments and tapestries, and here the ... |
Make Puffy Paint & Use to Paint Snowy Scenes
In this science activity, kids will use a glue and shaving cream solution to paint snowy scenes.
Simple Explanation: Mixing the glue and shaving cream makes a "solution" that you can use for art projects. This is chemistry!
Detailed Explanation: While puffy paint is a totall... |
written by Tom Henderson
supported by the National Science Foundation
This is an interactive tutorial for introductory physics on the topic of Coulomb's Law. It explains the concepts underlying Coulomb's Law equation, provides example calculations, and allows students to self-test their understanding.
This page is part... |
X-23 with X-24
X-23 with Orbital X-24
Credit: Lockheed Martin
American manned combat spacecraft. Cancelled 1961. At the beginning of the 1960's, the USAF examined a number of approaches to a manned spacecraft designed to rendezvous with, inspect, and then, if necessary, destroy enemy satellites.
The preferred design wa... |
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that DNA "linker" strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way unlike any other spontaneous arrangement of rod-shaped objects. The arrangement-with the rods forming "rungs" on ladder-like ribbons linked by multiple DNA strand... |
The Milesians and the Book of Invasions, the Leabhar Gabala, are associated with this area in Kerry. The book became one of the most popular and influential works of early Irish literature. It is usually known in English as "The Book of Invasions", or "The Book of Conquests".
The Book is a collection of poems & prose n... |
The lottery is a popular form of gambling, with a history stretching back to the Old Testament and even earlier. The casting of lots was often used to settle disputes, distribute land and property, and even determine the fate of Jesus’ garments after his crucifixion. In modern times, lotteries are a popular way for sta... |
Tomato a Day? Lycopene Intake is Related to Heart Health
Lycopene is a carotenoid and antioxidant that is present in red and pink colored fruits and vegetables. Previous research has indicated that lycopene likely has benefits for heart health, however not all research has been consistent. Studies measuring circulating... |
An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years from Earth, enabled NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM Newton Observatory to observe a dip in X-ray intensity as the planet transited the star.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Poppe... |
WILLASTON cub scouts have learned how to make their homes a safer place after a day-long lesson organised by experts from National Grid.
The 36 member strong pack were shown how to identify potential gas, electricity, water and fire safety risks in their homes and the steps to take to deal with them.
Their hard work on... |
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tomboy mean?
• TOMBOY (noun)
The noun TOMBOY has 1 sense:
1. a girl who behaves in a... |
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Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) look like messenger RNA, with a 5’ cap and poly-adenylated tail, though it’s a mystery why they go untranslated. LncRNAs inhabit what Bernhard Dichtl, an RNA researcher at Deakin University in Australia, calls a “shadow world of gene expression.” Althoug... |
What is the purpose of peer review?
As stated in the foreword by R. Menges in N. Chism’s book Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook, peer review “helps to reinvigorate teaching, whether the purpose if formative or summative. For formative purposes, peer review provides detailed information for appraising one’s own work... |
Societies can help, whether or not your ancestor joined a society. Genealogical, historical, lineage, veterans, fraternal, family name, and ethnic societies often collect, transcribe, and publish records useful to family historians. Local genealogical societies often help family history researchers contact local record... |
Student Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit of instruction students will be able to:
Descriptive and Predictive Research
You will remember from earlier readings that there are many types of research that can be categorized as "descriptive." These included the following:
Surveys (questionnaires, Delphi meth... |
Emotional regulation is an essential ingredient of addiction recovery. Emotional regulation means learning to manage and put up with emotional distress. In addiction recovery, addicts have to manage their negative feelings without taking drugs. On the other hand in active addiction, they are used to managing their emot... |
The word proctor, which is a result of the shortening of the term procurator, has three definitions. Initially a proctor was involved in the legal field with specialization in church law, and maritime law. Proctors also proofed wills. Sometimes the proctor was specifically a specialist in church law and would represent... |
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Masking is one of the most important utility .
PPC is one of the best way to earn money online .Search engine advertising is one of the most popular forms of PPC. It allows advertisers to bid for ad placement in a search engine’s sponsored links when someone... |
Basic Books • 1996 • 272 pages • $26.00
Rita Simon teaches in the department of justice, law and society, School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C.
Author Peter Salins says up front that he had two major reasons for writing Assimilation, American Style. First, to tell about the wonderful contrib... |
|April 12, 2013
Source: Audi Media
· LED headlights recognized as energy-efficient technology
· Audi is already equipping five model series with LED technology
Ingolstadt – LED headlights from Audi verifiably improve fuel economy. That is why the European Commission is now certifying this technology.
Lighting systems h... |
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STUDY: Study supports belief that diet is to blame for adolescent acne.
JOURNAL: Cordain, L. et al. Acne vulgaris: a disease of western civilization. Archives of Dermatology, 138, 123 - 321, (2002).
ABSTRACT: US scientists are throw... |
Introduction: Night Light
Do you need a colorful night light, or just a simple weekend project to pass the time? Then this instructable is for you. This project is fun to build for all ages. It's a simple but very cool design in the end.
All you need to build your own night light is:
RGB LED (1)
Three resistors (220 oh... |
Good memory comes with a lot of practice and not just any practice, but effective practice. Dive deep into this article to gain access to information on popular memorization techniques.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could remember everything you come across and just not forget what you don’t want to forget? From face... |
What is the meaning of noel ?
Every year at Christmas, people sing songs like “The First Noel,” and many of them are unsure of what a “noel” actually is. Joyeux noel is French for “Merry Christmas.” The Middle English term nowel, which Webster’s 1828 Dictionary characterized as “a cry of delight or Christmas song,” is ... |
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ALTAMIRA, Brazil, Jun 29 2010 (IPS) - At dawn, the “captain” fired on the village leader and the shooting began. “The forest trembled,” says one survivor: the local indigenous people fled, leaving their d... |
There were several
different types of Indians who occupied what is
now Ohio. These people ranged from the Paleo-Indians
who date back to 13,000 B.C., to the Shawnee and
Algonquin Indians who occupied the area during the
Colonial and Early Republic times.
were the first humans to occupy present-day Ohio.
These people da... |
Chandrayaan-1′s Hyper-Spectral Imager (HySI) has sent moon imagery, lunar craterlet BarrowH HySI image (64 Bands), and a strip (20 km across x 40 km along track) from the moon’s equatorial region in 64 bands.
The moon imagery has been captured by the HySI and the Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on November 16, 2008. The l... |
This text comprises chapter 1 of Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics. It specifies a non-equilibrium (temporal) interpretation of Marx’s theory of value which demonstrates a fully consistent transformation of values into prices and reproduces Marx’s tendential law of the falling profit rate. It seeks to explain why this... |
The Marine’s and other law enforcement at a counter-terrorism summit last week jumped on the zombie apocalypse bandwagon as a theme for emergency preparedness. But, honestly, according to science, would a zombie apocalypse ever really be possible?
The short answer, as told by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown in their ... |
Southern Educators Perpetuate Myths When They Should Know Better!
The nature of the stealth campaign being waged today against the Constitution and traditional republican values is much like others we have seen in other places and in other times. When the South was attacked in 1861, Americans witnessed the beginning of... |
To battle cancer and other diseases of the gut, we could one day use genetically altered bacteria that release medicines to tumors or the gut.
A new study performed using mice demonstrates how doctors might one day better regulate those therapeutic microbes by engineering them to respond to temperature. For instance, i... |
July 5, 2018
Remembering Space Architect and “Design Outlaw” Constance Adams
Adams’s work, including her projects for space habitats, broke the law of gravity.
“You take gravity out of the equation and everything goes kablooey.”
This quote pretty much sums up my friend and classmate, space architect Constance Adams, wh... |
Teaching a Shih Tzu puppy or a Shih Tzu dog proper socialization skills is vital to the safety of both your dog and other dogs and people with whom he comes into contact. A properly socialized Shih Tzu dog is a happy dog, and a joy to be around for both humans and animals. A poorly socialized Shih Tzu dog, or one with ... |
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The 1969 Gujarat riots refers to the communal violence between Hindus and Muslims during September–October 1969, in , . The violence was Gujarat's first major riot that involved massacre, arson and looting on a large scale. It was the most deadly Hindu-Muslim violence since the 1947 , and remained... |
Paul Younghusband reviews The Art and Science of Digital Compositing which delves into the artistic and scientific techniques used to blend multiple 2D elements seamlessly.
Very rarely does one get a book on visual effects that focuses on 2D techniques, and most that do tend to cover a specific software package, such a... |
First and Foremost: What is the definition of supply chain? The Supply Chain is the process through which a company creates and distributes its products and services to the end user. This process includes a number of specific elements such as: production planning, transportation management, material sourcing, warehouse... |
A recent study published in Nature Climate Change claims that earthworms may be contributing to global warming. The invertebrates join the ranks of humans, cows and dinosaurs as creatures said to have contributed to the planet’s destruction.
The U.K. Guardian has more on the study conducted by researchers from the Neth... |
So. Where might one begin, if it is not our own frame of reference? Without our perspective we have no matter to analyse, no space to start in and not even a beginning as there is no time. We start out with nothing.
How about we do? Literally start with nothing.
Out of the ideas I wish to explain, this one might be the... |
Infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) is uncommon but apparently emerging in the high-income regions of North America, Western Europe and Australia. However, HEV is relatively common in parts of Asia, Africa and Central America. In these regions, HEV is commonly spread to people when sewage contaminates drinking water... |
Last week, the UN officially named 2013 the year of quinoa, and while the health benefits of the whole grain are laudable, the Guardian points out that quinoa's popularity does have some downsides.
Noting the price increase in quinoa, Joanna Blythman writes that an ethical dilemma enters the picture when discussing qui... |
Originating from West African countries like Ghana and Nigeria, Prekese has a long history of traditional use in healing practices. The fruit is usually dried and ground into a powder before being used in cooking or as a medicinal supplement. This article delves into the various Prekese health benefits, facts, and esse... |
This month, Pickering and Chatto Publishers will publish Church-State Relations in the Early American Republic, 1787-1846 by James S. Kabala (Rhode Island College). The renowned historian Gordon Wood has this to say about Kabala’s superb looking book: “This superb account of church-state relations during the most tumul... |
Fact or Fiction?
In today's information age where everybody's got a venue and is pedaling something, it's hard to know when you're dealing with facts, someone's spin, or just plain fiction.
With some very powerful and monied interests lined up against U.S. farmers and ranchers, understanding the facts about exactly who... |
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WILHELM WATTENBACH (1819-1897), German historian, was born at Ranzau in Holstein on the 22nd of September 1819. He studied philology at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, and in 1843 he bega... |
In the dynamic world of finance, equity investment stands as one of the most popular and potentially rewarding avenues for investors. However, the allure of significant returns is accompanied by inherent risks that require careful consideration and strategic management. Equity investors adopt a range of approaches to n... |
Definitions for Sacramentˈsæk rə mənt
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word Sacrament
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
sac•ra•mentˈsæk rə mənt(n.)
a rite considered to have been established by Christ as a means of grace: the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Eastern Orthodox sacrame... |
Observing the successful experience of Taiwan Center for Disease Control which applied SuperGIS software to the study of disease distribution and medical resources management, the Department of Virology in National Institute of Infectious Diseases consulted with Information & Science Techno-System Co., Ltd, SuperGeo’s ... |
At some point in our lives we have all thought about (or perhaps actively denied) the traumas of middle school—those three years when so little actually happened, but we felt like we’d been through a civil war with our peers, our health teachers and ourselves. Many claim middle school is a crucial academic period, but ... |
Setting the Scene (allowing for the children to contribute)
Do you remember the Story about how once there was nothingness, just a really huge, dark, empty space and how into that space there came a fiery cloud, a bright spark of energy and how all of the universe was in it? Do you remember how it settled down, very sl... |
It has now been several months since President Donald Trump promulgated his new strategy for the US war in Afghanistan. So far, his approach has failed to roll back the Taliban and bring the 16-year conflict closer to a resolution.
After the 9/11 attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan and quickly dislodged the Taliban reg... |
Configuration management is a buzzword that gets tossed around quite a lot these days. Defined as the process of identifying, controlling, tracking, and auditing changes made to a baseline, configuration management is a critical part of a strong security program. Change and configuration management within an organizati... |
Definitions for mafikengˈmæf ɪˌkɪŋ
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word mafikeng
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a town in N Republic of South Africa: besieged by Boers for 217 days in 1899–1900. 6500.
Category: Geography (places)
Mahikeng – formerly, and still commonly, known... |
How Low-Poverty Countries Do It
Earlier this week, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its newest slate of poverty and inequality data for its member countries. The OECD data is the best out there for seeing how social indicators in the United States stack up against a few dozen ot... |
The Sylhet valley is formed by a beautiful, winding pair of rivers named the Surma and the Kushiara both of which are fed by innumerable hill streams from the north and the south. The valley has good number of haors, which are big natural depressions. During winter these haors are vast stretches of green land, but in t... |
A Vertebrate Looks at Arthropods
At close range even a familiar arthropod like a grasshopper may seem appallingly strange. The creature’s expressionless eyes give no indication that it can think or feel. Its colored armor plating seems more suited to a machine than to an animal. There are too many legs jointed in too m... |
THE WASHINGTON POSTEASTVILLE, Va.
A fireball two miles across and traveling at 30,000 mph crashes into the ocean off the Virginia coast. The impact vaporizes billions of tons of water, rips a hole in the sea floor six miles deep and fractures the bedrock far into the Earth.
The splash is 30 miles high. Debris is lofted... |
In most respects, the Quebec Act (Acte de Québec) was a consolidation of reforms and tolerances pushed by Guy Carleton during his time as Governor of Quebec. The Act would declare religious freedom for the French Canadians, that is, the ability to freely practice Catholicism. It would also endorse the continuation of c... |
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Lesson Plan: The lesson plan includes all the lessons for the week, as well as optional ideas. Items following the lesson plan are just the printables or links ... |
In another life, I must’ve been a dog. Whenever I’m out walking and see a squirrel, I have an almost uncontrollable urge to see how close I can get to it before the scrappy rodent scrabbles up a tree. Inevitably, a staring contest ensues, which the squirrel usually ends up winning.
My suppressed animal urges aside, I d... |
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
Science Museum's Hands-on
Exhibits Let Visitors See Dinos,
Reach for the Stars
by Kelly Melhart
From the Editor: The following article appeared in the June 22, 1997, edition of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It gives families one more idea about things to do in the Dallas/For... |
Thin-Film Device Eyed as Power Source for Wearable Tech
A thin-film energy storage device, seen attached to a polymer backing, retains its battery-like and supercapacitor-like qualities even after being flexed 1,000 times, according to tests at Rice University. Rice chemist James Tour led the team that developed the su... |
We all know that the wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round, but have you ever given much thought to what's on those bus wheels -- or what's on the wheels of your own car? That's right, you car's tires. They connect your car to the road. They give you stability and traction, no matter what the weather is. And, though y... |
In 1868, a committee on fisheries and navigation submitted a list of questions to fishermen, shipmasters and collectors of customs in various parts of Canada. Included in the questions was a request for them to state where additional lighthouses, guns, fog bells, or whistles were required. A. Riverin, who fished for he... |
"In recent decades, tropical forests have suffered extensive clearing, fragmentation, degradation, and depletion of biodiversity. Once blanketing 12 percent of the world’s landmass, they now cover just 5 percent. While destruction continues in many places, tropical forest restoration is growing and may sequester as muc... |
Theory of operation
In 3 dimensional area, an item would possibly both rotate approximately, or translate alongside any of 3 axes. Therefore the item is claimed to have six levels of freedom (three rotational and three translational). A rotary level shows just one level of freedom (rotation approximately one axis). In ... |
Spring Grove History
Spring Grove Hospital Center was founded in 1797 and is the second oldest psychiatric hospital in the United States. The oldest psychiatric hospital in the country is the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, which was founded in 1773 and remains in operation today as a psychiatric hosp... |
Is it possible to have a 'figure 8' orbit around the Earth and the Moon? I'm looking for a non-decaying orbit that will not require significant rocket fuel to maintain, unlike the orbits used in the Apollo missions which (I think, not 100% sure) would decay if it was maintained for more that one orbit.
I'm looking for ... |
Value At Risk Advantages: Why Use VAR in Risk Management
VAR is widely used and has both advantages and disadvantages
Value At Risk, known as VAR, is a common tool for measuring and managing risk in the financial industry. While there are several advantages which have led to big popularity of VAR, anybody using it shou... |