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Patients frequently come into the Urgent Care clinic for problems related to neck pain. It can be caused by a number of different factors including ligament or muscle strain, arthritis or a “pinched nerve.”
It is quite common, and in fact 10% of adults have neck pain at any one time. Most patients recover with conserva... | <urn:uuid:a91d52c1-61d8-4ea5-bd12-c3b401554527> |
June 3, 2011
KevinMD had a guest blogger who questioned the value of needing to treat one million strep throat infections with antibiotics to save one patient from rheumatic fever and heart disease. Typically, we only need to treat a particular strain of strep called Group A beta-hemolytic Strep (GABHS), which produces... | <urn:uuid:b3b2252a-55aa-4f85-805c-725cf9d393e0> |
Web Search Strategies in Plain English
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The Web may seem like a vast ocean when it comes to finding something you need. Thankfully, search engines can help turn oceans of information into small pools that make finding information easier. This is Web Search Strategies in Plain English. Before we ... | <urn:uuid:67275ad3-1958-49cf-ba24-06476e7f0429> |
Drill pipe is an industrial tubular used to drill into the ground. There are three major industries that use drill pipe. The most common application of drill pipe is in the oil and gas industry. Another industry that uses drill pipe is the underground construction industry, or more specifically, the Horizontal Directio... | <urn:uuid:a4d04c19-9589-4138-ad0f-f1cf513b1cad> |
M J K THAVARAJ^
The Concept of Asiatic Mode of Production:
Its Relevance to Indian History
MARX was preoccupied with the discovery of the laws of social development. Explorations into historical materialism led Marx to analyse not only the nature of transition from feudalism to capitalism in his immediate European envi... | <urn:uuid:b4375ad0-0611-4a0e-a757-94fd9656ac1c> |
Finding Data Citing data
DSS lab consultation schedule
*No appts. necessary during walk-in hrs.
Note: the DSS lab is open as long as Firestone is open, no appointments necessary to use the lab computers for your own analysis.
Interpreting Regression Output
This guide assumes that you have at least a little familiarity ... | <urn:uuid:63113b24-ff8b-476c-9ea3-6f3c963b10a2> |
Thunderf00t’s YouTube Video on the recent outbreak of swine flu.
And this is Thnderf00t’s comment to the video.
Basic health procedures from the World Health Organization.
How can I protect myself from getting swine influenza from infected people?
In the past, human infection with swine influenza was generally mild but... | <urn:uuid:8b387f17-bd7a-4141-9ecb-2c0767a0664d> |
CloudSat samples the atmosphere, taking the tiniest vertical slices of clouds and haze and dust and smoke and creating a profile of all that stands between us and space. This vertical sampling is possible because the satellite carries a radar instrument similar to those used to track storms on the ground, but more than... | <urn:uuid:5679a5ef-969a-469f-a864-2ded4adc6915> |
We are excited to display the preliminary results of our modeling research using eBird data. These maps, which are called STEM (Spatio-Temporal Exploratory Model) maps, use eBird stationary and traveling count checklists that report all species. The location of each checklist is associated with remotely-sensed informat... | <urn:uuid:6f5f0623-f7bd-45b6-9ca2-7485e3db11d5> |
What is in this article?:
- Forensic Casebook: The Case of the Missing Ground Wire
- SIDEBAR:Electrical Circuit Phenomena
Grounding problems on utility pole lead to death of a cable television technician.
SIDEBAR:Electrical Circuit Phenomena
Because the ground wire was not connected to ground and cut in two places, the... | <urn:uuid:e8ce3082-f640-4e60-9024-38b106aba8d7> |
Alan B. Krueger is an economist at Princeton.
Voting is usually considered the domain of political scientists, but economists are also interested in voter behavior for at least three reasons.
First, it is a seemingly irrational decision for any individual to vote, as the chance that a single voter influences an electio... | <urn:uuid:6847ca41-98ef-4459-852f-3f6c9e4c3b1d> |
What is the nature of mathematics? Becoming a mathematician in the 1960s, I swallowed hook, line, and sinker the Platonistic philosophy dominant at the time, that the objects of mathematics (the numbers, the geometric figures, the topological spaces, and so forth) had a form of existence in some abstract ("Platonic") r... | <urn:uuid:5fce24cd-ab6d-43f2-951a-3d25dddef848> |
In a Scientific American blog post Deep thought is dead, Long live deep thought, a bioinformatics analyst broods on the question, ‘Where are these jobs that will require such rapid “searching, browsing, assessing quality, and synthesizing the vast quantities of information?" and decides quiet a lot of information can b... | <urn:uuid:60f5563f-1543-4209-9013-e23330c03a2a> |
Last year as we celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the social studies class in my grandson’s middle school discussed the man and his ideas. However, it never once came up that Dr. King was a Baptist minister and his religious beliefs, as well as his philosophical beliefs, were the driving force behind his actions.... | <urn:uuid:04494c5c-cd92-46cc-8483-dd854d0eeadb> |
An Adjustment removes the interference to the body’s central nervous system, causing the body to function normally. An adjustment can help with anything from a common headache to improving your body’s energy and overall health.
How Does An Adjustment Work?
Throughout history, adjustments, or spinal manipulations, have ... | <urn:uuid:60d721f5-6d67-4afb-b3b2-731e819c926a> |
“The ground-plan of a typical Auvergnese church was developed from the early Christian basilica plan. Transept-arms and a choir give it the cruciform shape; the long nave is flanked by aisles; the primitive projecting narthex is replaced by a vestibule which is included behind the main façade; and the apse is encircled... | <urn:uuid:f275ad0d-45b6-43ec-83f4-97bd7a69b241> |
Level: B1/Intermediate and up
Skills: Reading, speaking, listening and writing
Language: nouns and adjectives (e.g. happy/happiness, grateful/gratitude)
The lesson starts with a short text to introduce the topic and get the students thinking about how people recognise and celebrate gratitude in their cultures. It then ... | <urn:uuid:943984a6-e63b-49c1-9f1d-5e7d8a6cf65a> |
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 – February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have... | <urn:uuid:6ff63cd8-4449-43b7-b984-071c2c5a785b> |
Georg Eberhard Rumphius
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Georg Eberhard Rumphius (originally: Rumpf; baptized c. November 1, 1627 – June 15, 1702) was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his wo... | <urn:uuid:76f14451-24cc-41bb-9e27-7c10d3b585b2> |
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
|Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve|
|Location||Lake Huron, Alpena County, Michigan USA|
|Nearest city||Alpena, Michigan|
|Area||448 square miles (1,160 km2)|
|Governing body||Michigan Department of Natural Resources, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi... | <urn:uuid:a209f4d5-1ac7-489e-864c-f48963aef7bc> |
The handfishes are a poorly known lophiiform family containing four described species in two genera: Brachionichthys and Sympterichthys. Handfishes are restricted to dispersed inshore marine habitats off southern Australia and primarily Tasmania. Like most other shallow-dwelling lophiiforms, they are exclusively benthi... | <urn:uuid:0180abe4-29a3-4b2b-838e-91f36315fdea> |
What is Nanotechnology?
The term nanotechnology refers to research and technology development conducted with particles and materials in the size range of approximately one to one hundred nanometers in any dimension (i.e., nanoscale). A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, approximately one hundred thousand times smal... | <urn:uuid:c19a27cc-01b5-47d3-8a7e-ba19e0cd1b5b> |
Everyone can play their part in preserving our nation's water resources. With the simple steps and informational tools below, you'll find that it's easier than ever.
You've purchased some WaterSense labeled products and started down the road to savings, but don't stop there. There are lots of things you can do in your ... | <urn:uuid:6dfd0d35-957b-49d0-81cd-15fcb5146614> |
de Andrade, Rafael Barreto and Barlow, Jos and Louzada, Julio and Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Zagury and Souza, Mateus and Silveira, Juliana M. and Cochrane, Mark A. (2011) Quantifying responses of dung beetles to fire disturbance in tropical forests:the importance of trapping method and seasonality. PLoS ONE, 6 (10). -.
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An illustration of Geoffrey Chaucer as a Canterbury pilgrim. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father... | <urn:uuid:b75c3005-cd2a-44b2-bc57-ec119cc9997c> |
Ballistics is also used to describe the process of identify
ing a firearm
through test firings and careful examination of spent casing
s and bullet
s from those firings. It is a process used daily by law enforcement
personnel all over the world, as well as by those designing and testing new (or restored) firearms.
More... | <urn:uuid:84b4374d-2d29-47a5-a6fa-63be2dbaee85> |
Il-62 (Ильюшин Ил-62, NATO
code name "Classic
") was the first long-range jet transport built in Russia
, borrowing heavily from the four-rear-engine design of the British Vickers VC-10
. Even today, it remains the most successful Eastern bloc attempt at an intercontinental airliner.
Its first flight was in January of ... | <urn:uuid:3f7af394-dcca-4850-b342-8872d19076d8> |
Beware of what you add to Your Compost!
Posted: April 29, 2011
by Andy Beck, Penn State Extension, Schuylkill and Berks Counties
A grower recently called my extension office describing symptoms of herbicide damage that appeared on his tomatoes transplants. The plants were grown from seed during the winter months and th... | <urn:uuid:3147ae38-7b7b-4776-ba1f-a4314fcd23cf> |
It’s National Severe Weather Preparedness Week
“Know your risk, take action, and be a force of nature” by taking proactive preparedness measures and inspiring others to do the same during National Severe Weather Preparedness Week.
Last April, tornadoes raked the central and southern United States, spawning more than 30... | <urn:uuid:a5a24d72-396e-4373-a808-59bc05532816> |
Newborns and young infants can't easily raise their heads, so they need special protection from suffocation. But small children are at risk, too.
Protecting Kids From Suffocation
Protect kids from the dangers of suffocation by following these rules:
- Never place an infant face-down on soft surfaces such as a waterbed,... | <urn:uuid:1e1a354c-516b-4c56-8338-b7a5517ce7d7> |
Before the invention of the thermometer, our ancestors had no objective comeback to such snappy repartee as, “Cold enough for ya?”
Before the invention of the thermometer, our ancestors had no objective comeback to such snappy repartee as, “Cold enough for ya?” Temperature was subjective, measured only by the Goldilock... | <urn:uuid:d184da2e-68ef-4898-abdc-a8bcfbea921a> |
Lean forward when you are going up a hill on a mountain bike. This will create more even weight distribution and ensure the front wheel remains on the ground. Leaning back adds more resistance on the back wheel and makes it harder to pedal.
Exercising to tone up your body is only the first step. You must also fuel your... | <urn:uuid:4d67e524-e39c-47ac-ba8c-885f56955966> |
Sesame Workshop's Best Practices Guide for Children's App Development is now available for download. In addition to insight from the organization's more than 40 years of children's media testing, the paper, highlighted on Monday by All Things D, includes more than 50 touchscreen studies conducted by Sesame Workshop.
Th... | <urn:uuid:ad233598-9062-495e-829b-6d20a5108034> |
How to assign Swap Space on Linux PC
While installing many of we ignore Swap space. It does not matter what Linux Distro you are using. It can be the last Mint or Ubuntu or any older Debian based operating system. Swap space place a vital role in your systems performance. You cannot just ignore that. I had tested two s... | <urn:uuid:e4ed2575-cb2d-4da3-9175-b39bca8065af> |
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In a talk delivered to teacher-training students, Sangharakshita tells the story of the Buddha's life, shows that there is no place for God in Buddhism, and explains the Noble Eightfold Path to Enlightenment. An excellent general introduction to Buddhism.
N.B. Poor original recording.
Talk given... | <urn:uuid:7bef1be1-d564-4ab5-bd2b-b7d3e7da5764> |
Jump ducks on small waters. Stock ponds, creeks, drainage ditches, and sloughs hold ducks until the water freezes. Sometimes you can spot and stalk birds, but often you'll have to crawl on your belly to the water's edge, jump to your feet, and hope ducks flush in range. If you spook a big flock of ducks off a pond or m... | <urn:uuid:6769d214-b521-4a0c-b8c5-2c334d21c480> |
Disability Resource Center
More Alike Than Different
What is a Learning Disability?
Learning Disability is defined as a persistent condition of presumed neurological
dysfunction which may exist with other disabling conditions. This dysfunction
continues despite instruction in standard classroom situations. To be catego... | <urn:uuid:a9208ed5-82d5-40b9-b2f4-1fb431b880a7> |
February 28, 2007
GCRIO Program Overview
Our extensive collection of documents.
Archives of the
Global Climate Change Digest
A Guide to Information on Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depletion
Published July 1988 through June 1999
FROM VOLUME 9, NUMBERS 10-11, OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1996
CANADIAN GLOBAL CHANGE PROGRAM
All publica... | <urn:uuid:cfe8f14e-d78b-4258-9e10-61b09fb1d662> |
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Arrival of the Brides Library and Archives Canada, Acc. no 1996-371-1
The Library and Archives Canada released this blog post yesterday -
"Summer 2013 marks the 350th anniversary of the arrival in New France of the first contingent of the “Filles du roi” (“King's daughters”), young women who be... | <urn:uuid:c741b754-085c-4250-97ca-3cb387a06c2e> |
The units of measure in old deeds are not really confusing if you convert them into current terms. For example, a chain is the length of a cricket pitch. The original measurement was called Gunter's chain or a surveyor's chain and is 22 yards or 66 feet. The whole of the United States was measured and mapped using the ... | <urn:uuid:0dfeedbf-b4b8-41ce-a7d5-3672860f8db4> |
Imprinted and More Equal
15 March 2007: An epigenetic change alters the phenotype without changing the genotype. As a result of their unique genetic make-up, imprinted genes act as nodes of susceptibility for asthma, cancer, diabetes, obesity and many behavioral and developmental disorders - a list that is surprisingly... | <urn:uuid:7f71c8ee-2ae0-42e7-914d-290463c6ae05> |
It’s like the plot for an action-filled Hollywood movie: the evil mastermind tries to gain power and control by indoctrinating the unsuspecting civilians. In this case, the villain is the American Chemistry Council, the chemical industry’s trade group. And the Council’s civilian targets? They’re California’s school chi... | <urn:uuid:00877f60-16d1-4b99-9fcd-a543aa787cbc> |
(FoodProductionDaily.com – Rory Harrington)
Canada became the first country in the world yesterday [October 13] to declare bisphenol A (BPA) to be a toxic substance that poses risks to human health and the environment. The announcement by the Canadian Health and Environment Ministries confirmed the chemical had formall... | <urn:uuid:3fa2710a-fb0b-4d78-9630-e1196586bd37> |
Supervillains rejoice: scientists have developed a way of steering lightning using lasers. I repeat: steering lighting with lasers. And they told me it could never strike in the same place twice!
Admittedly, the team of French scientists have only so far done this in labs, but it still works a treat. The team can creat... | <urn:uuid:6f7c1b62-0d33-4914-9551-4c30c1481f1b> |
There is a unanimous witness in the Christian gospels concerning the place of St. John the Baptist. In the Orthodox world he is generally referred to as the Forerunner. All of the gospels agree that he plays a key role in the coming of the Messiah. It is a role that is largely ignored by most of the Christian world.
Th... | <urn:uuid:a9a3ec55-3b9c-49c9-8dde-52ec9c7cefe9> |
History of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
Beginning with founder Dr. Dian Fossey, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International has more than 40 years’ history of gorilla protection and conservation.
We were established in 1978 as the Digit Fund, with the purpose of preserving and protecting the world's last m... | <urn:uuid:efbab065-a67f-4029-861d-e4e70062eea9> |
How to Do a Kip in Gymnastics
A kip is an intermediate skill done on the uneven parallel bars in women’s artistic gymnastics. It is also performed in men’s artistic gymnastics on the high bar and parallel bars, but for the purposes of this guide, we will focus on women’s uneven parallel bars.
In women’s gymnastics, the... | <urn:uuid:d075eabc-7d55-48a7-85b4-d521269c6f8c> |
§ Lord Palmer
asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether Articles 9 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights cannot be interpreted as justification for unbridled freedom of expression.
§ Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
Article 9 of the Convention guarantees the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, i... | <urn:uuid:b2846064-a87a-4bd0-9213-4424cacc6f14> |
There’s less of a problem with sulfur than phosphorus (P) in Nebraska alfalfa fields, says Charles Shapiro, University of Nebraska soil scientist. Soils in other states are also suffering from a lack of P, according to a recent fertility report from the International Plant Nutrient Institute (IPNI).
Growers, Shapiro sa... | <urn:uuid:acebcf2e-a3e4-4502-aede-767882961d47> |
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
In a new study, HBS professors Francesca Gino and Joshua D. Margolis look at two ways that companies can encourage ethical behavior: the promotion of good deeds or the prevention of bad deeds. It turns out that employees tend to act more ethically when foc... | <urn:uuid:498f9752-27d7-4bef-80a1-c3768168b96f> |
The heart’s pumping action is driven by electrical stimulation within the heart muscle. The heart’s electrical system allows it to beat in an organized pattern. Electrical signals in your heart can become blocked or irregular, causing a disruption in your heart’s normal rhythm.
A premature heartbeat is an extra beat be... | <urn:uuid:b7b1ef82-c0b3-45cd-b3ed-fd024d1f005c> |
Avoid Empty Carbohydrates
If we had to pick the one single class of food that does the most overall damage to the health of Americans it would be empty carbohydrates, meaning sugar (as in candy, cake, soda, etc.) and carbohydrates (as in pastries and noodles).
- Most people don’t look at food the way it really is...
- ... | <urn:uuid:620dd540-3afd-4cdc-a028-34dc80739e71> |
A winged robot the size of a fly has taken its first flight, courtesy of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. After more than a decade, engineers at Harvard University have finally finished the first model of the “RoboBee” — the world’s smallest flying robotic insect. Here’s what you should know abou... | <urn:uuid:c9bf8977-15f6-40bd-bd17-560fc6d3d169> |
World War II is thought of as bombs being fired between countries, major economic global powers pitting against one another, weapons blasting between each other on the ground and in the water. Let us not forget the power of the radio. The radio was the television or internet of its time, used to persuade its listeners ... | <urn:uuid:df2d4a17-3387-44e5-a3a2-556ce976fd71> |
by John Connell
Each day, more than half a million new connections are made to the Internet. 500,000 people who were not on the Internet yesterday are today taking their first tentative steps onto the global network of networks. The majority of these new connections are being made with a mobile device of some kind, in ... | <urn:uuid:46c48e31-5dce-4e92-b9f5-5d9bc7da681f> |
Today marks the 14th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, commemorating the lives of those lost due to violent transphobia.
According to the Trans Murder Monitoring Project, over the past twelve months alone, 265 transgender people were murdered around the world.* This number is a conservative estimate and does not t... | <urn:uuid:6b5e1576-2908-47fb-a7ad-38117eaf8a13> |
Help tomatoes beat the heat
You may love em, but theyre prone to trouble
The most exciting garden event of the summer arrives when juicy, fresh tomatoes are ready for harvest. Last weekend my family and I were delighted to enjoy an armful of this tasty fruit. We ate our tomatoes with a little salt, with white gravy, an... | <urn:uuid:0d867c58-0f9a-4d07-9fea-da2406588cde> |
In class last week, we discussed Herbert Kohl's book, Shall We Burn Babar? In prep for it, I stopped in the local library to grab copies of Babar books. I found one I hadn't seen before... It is titled Babar's World Tour, published in 2005 by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
"World tour," I thought to myself. What did dear old Ba... | <urn:uuid:a24f70d0-476e-4343-8481-85c00658a9c0> |
Anaya Urges Presidential Support for Apology
S. James Anaya, a United Nations fact-finder, has learned that vibrant Indian cultures are often invisible in the United States mainstream and that problems of Indians today seem trivial to U.S. citizens who tend to believe Natives and Native issues exist only in the distant... | <urn:uuid:0d5e8ce4-9bd2-4fb1-bcdd-d0e82c5d952b> |
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FRA will act as a facilitator to the 2nd international policy-making colloquium of the European regional office of the Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The event, entitled “Roma... | <urn:uuid:895051a2-b45a-48bc-8d38-3745ae871899> |
Languages differ in how much they distinguish between the present and the future. Professor Keith Chen found that speakers of languages that do not rely on the future tense make more future-oriented choices, including saving more money, retiring with more wealth, and smoking less.
The language we speak predicts a range... | <urn:uuid:5633db23-3988-459c-bad4-223a867b33a3> |
Sight Words Learn to Read for iOS – Kids Recognize the Most Common Words
Sydney, Australia – Indie developer Karina Ranaldi today is pleased to introduce Sight Words Learn to Read 1.0 for iOS, her app that helps pre-schoolers and kindergarteners learn to recognize the most frequently used words by sight. Since some of ... | <urn:uuid:c21b9035-8c23-444d-a3b0-be4ac55772f4> |
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea)
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Tall fescue, a cool season perennial grass, forms clumps with upright leaves. It is found throughout California, except the Great Basin and deserts, to about 8900 feet (2700 m). Tall fescue is especially invasive in coastal scrub and grassland on the North an... | <urn:uuid:144092fa-b1e3-4811-89dd-8598b18a88aa> |
Read more about the rescue of the Danish jews during October 1943 in the menu to the right.
The architect Daniel Libeskind was inspired by the Jewish concept of Mitzvah on which he has based his design of the inside of the Museum. The Hebrew word Mitzvah has numerous meanings, two of which are: "the duty to do the righ... | <urn:uuid:4ba9bd4e-91dd-4604-845d-2ce1985134d5> |
Collections: Objects of the Month
Henry King, Jr. Eternal Light, 1898
Object #: 1975.01
Donor: Robert Reich
Description: Brass eternal light, 1898
Caroline King donated the ner tamid (eternal light) to Washington Hebrew Congregation in memory of her late husband, Henry King, Jr. The inscription reads "In memory of H. K... | <urn:uuid:6c02c420-3671-45db-b9e7-ac6c825fabe7> |
Photo Challenge: Follow the Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds applies to all visual art and is a concept that every photographer should know well. It states that when composing an image you should imagine there are lines dividing the image into nine equal parts (two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-space... | <urn:uuid:c17f85aa-dff5-4c8f-9f57-1522400c1c53> |
Mr. Pablo Cuadra Religion Class
The Works of Mercy :
The Works of Mercy The works of Mercy are divided in two main categories: Spiritual Works of Mercy Corporal Works of Mercy According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church the works of Mercy are: # 2447 “Charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor... | <urn:uuid:825e13b4-9cc9-458e-89d7-80e2419102b3> |
THE FIBONACCI SERIES
by Nikhat Parveen, UGA
Introduction to Fibonacci
The Fibonacci Series is a sequence of numbers first created by Leonardo Fibonacci (fi-bo-na-chee) in 1202. It is a deceptively simple series, but its ramifications and applications are nearly limitless. It has fascinated and perplexed mathematicians ... | <urn:uuid:e9dfaef2-8c39-4ff8-8721-e04ec794db9b> |
Not only is artemisinin one of the most important drugs in our arsenal for fighting diseases globally – it is also the most interesting. A derivative of the wormwood plant, artemisinin’s anti-malarial properties were discovered thanks in part to the Vietnam war and Mao Zedong. The history of this drug reads more like a... | <urn:uuid:bee418d0-d8be-4121-85b8-602dcaa0fc30> |
This is a piece of history I wish I could’ve incorporated into Beaufort 1849 but the timing just wouldn’t work.
Robert Smalls began his life in 1839 in a slave cabin in Beaufort. In his teens he was sent to Charleston and hired out to work for wages that his owner would collect, a not uncommon practice. He worked in a ... | <urn:uuid:0f58a4f2-7b91-47d9-adf4-f62baeed9438> |
Center for Neuroscience Research
Sometimes children may have behavioral disorders linked to neurological conditions. To treat or prevent neurological and behavioral disorders in children, our Center for Neuroscience Research focuses on understanding the cellular development of the central nervous system, including the ... | <urn:uuid:a7dd40c7-9a60-441f-ad2c-fc8d028d6d42> |
Can I Raise Pigs?23 Jul 2009, by post in
Things to ponder before you get a pig, by Brian Wright.
This is a question we get all the time from people considering whether to raise their own pork. It is natural to think that raising pigs is hard, or that it takes a special building or constant care. The truth is that pigs ... | <urn:uuid:a03ed510-c172-4617-8d6a-e40af5fae1f0> |
Guest post by Amelia “Amy” MacIntyre, Health Research & Policy Analyst, North American Management
The uninsured, the underinsured and those living in underserved communities in which health care services are scarce are the segments of the U.S. population that are disproportionately affected by cervical cancer. These po... | <urn:uuid:c735f328-2697-43f5-9c4b-ae632b0a1110> |
||General Francisco Villa (1877-1923) was the famous and well loved rebel general of the Mexican Revolution who invaded US territory and led American soldiers on a wild goose chase all over the harsh Mexican countryside for months.
Along with Emiliano Zapata and Francisco I. Madero, Villa led peasant armies to a swift ... | <urn:uuid:98cf73c1-3011-4dc3-8bd4-fea95d0bbed4> |
Their family legend is that John Wilkes Booth survived and lived for many more years. Using modern DNA testing, the family was hoping to compare the remains of Edwin Booth (John's brother) with those believed to be John Wilkes Booth to definitively conclude that it was indeed John that was killed.
As it turns out, thei... | <urn:uuid:e63e73e9-171e-4793-afcd-e46e1329d018> |
This chapter provides a historical overview of the American influence on Israel’s jurisprudence of freedom of expression from the 1950s to the first decade of the twenty first century. The chapter uses the format of decades, presenting representative cases for each decade, to record the process by which Israeli judges ... | <urn:uuid:e9a72eb1-5772-4195-aeb8-d46f51e79ac6> |
The fact that our memories degrade over time is nothing new. Everyone knows that as we get older it's harder to remember where you put your keys or parked your car. Now, one neuroscientist thinks he understands how it happens.
According to Michael Yassa, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University, the reason things g... | <urn:uuid:db6d0606-ee03-4a59-bdc7-53ef2f75818a> |
After my visit in April of 2013 to Gagosian Gallery to see the Basquiat show, I was inspired to publish a project I have been working on since Summer of 2012. The artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is widely known for structuring his drawings using diagrams, text and symbols— in addition to color and line—to shape his work. M... | <urn:uuid:c6780daa-a41c-4101-8ef5-b0494958fd85> |
An early C19 landscape laid out to accompany a purpose-built private lunatic asylum. The therapeutic use of the grounds at Brislington House and their layout were influential on the development of later C19 establishments for the treatment of mental illness.
Brislington House was established as a private lunatic asylum... | <urn:uuid:6fa0e1f3-1f2e-44b5-9cfa-b519c1493599> |
10 Fascinating Artisan Crafts
Artisan Craft is the creation of an item made to serve one or more practical functions and be influential as an artistic work. However, some of the entries on this list serve no practical purpose other than artistic merit and aesthetics, but they are all the more welcomed as they borrow fr... | <urn:uuid:39813c27-10bb-4dfe-8bbc-2a60648ff8a2> |
England, Australia 1912-1981
Drysdale created a new vision of Australia. Influenced by European modernism, his work made a radical break from the prevailing Heidelberg school. He was the first artist to take as his primary subject the complex relationships between the land and people of the Australian interior. His lan... | <urn:uuid:65ff5cd7-a4b1-4d46-b57a-3018c9b05f00> |
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Tools, documents, and paintings from the collections of the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) in Cleveland and the Cleveland Museum of ... | <urn:uuid:94bc4916-a177-42c8-b2e5-bea991649a80> |
While Iraq has about the same population as Afghanistan (26 million), experts say its people may be more vulnerable to the hardships of war. Many more are concentrated in urban areas and therefore less used to surviving in a rough environment. They may have had access to modern water, sewer, and power facilities, but t... | <urn:uuid:3248ba8d-7a72-4a8c-9f57-8c65c781cf12> |
Forty percent of all food produced in the US goes to waste. Boulder (Colo.) Food Rescue picks up food, primarily fresh fruits and vegetables, from local grocers and transports it by bike to groups that serve hungry, homeless, and low-income people.
A group of three impassioned friends, all under the age of 30, started ... | <urn:uuid:ed738a4d-5b52-4879-a1d8-5567f915d0db> |
PATHARGHATA—Patharghata sits on the frontline of the battle against climate change and recurring natural disasters, its inhabitants living in a constant state of preparedness for the weather fronts that wreak havoc as they roll in destructively off the Bay of Bengal.
Cyclones, flooding, salt water intrusion into agricu... | <urn:uuid:dff6b786-ed85-465f-bbd6-9ec87a0c575b> |
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